“Hi everyone, my name is Scott Fox. I am the illustrator/co-creator of Coloring The Bible. 

I have to say “co-creator” because honestly this idea was not all mine. The idea for this creative way of exploring Gods Word started all the way back when I was a child . As a child, I always wanted to be a cartoonist. I spent most days at school doodling and drawing cartoons, and I would continue to draw into the night with a flashlight. I was vibrant, full of joy, and always eager to do my best - especially when it came to art. From all this, I had just assumed that i would being doing something with art when I grew up. Then, tragedy struck our household. 

The day my mom died suddenly from a brain aneurysm, all of that came to a sharp halt. My desire for art did not disappear, it just changed. It was not long after her passing that I gave up on school and started hanging out with other kids who were dealing with their own hurts int he wrong way. By the time I was 18 years old I totally given up on art as a future and it turned into a hobby that often teased me with my past dreams of doing something great with a gift I’d been given. Things kept getting worse in my life, I was an angry young man. I was angry at God, my dad, the world and my self. Drugs and alcohol took ahold of all my ambitions in my life. I tried to turn from them numerous times but the claws of addiction where deep into my heart; fueled by all my regret and shame of the bad choices I kept making. One of them that continually haunted me with regret was my ability to draw and the love I had for it at one time. All I had show for this dream was a criminal record, a drug addiction, and unstable job history. 

But God had a different plan for me. I decided to get my life right. I took a job across the country, one in a place where I could start over. Little did i know the problem I was running from met me in each state i moved to - me. I found the same solutions I always found to deal with me. My drug addiction was not left in the last place, my anger was not left in the last place, my shame was not left in the last place - it all came with me. One night, while laying in bed, I had had enough of me and my addiction. I heard about Jesus being real and able to save, and at this point, I was willing to do anything. I cried out to Jesus, telling him I would do what ever he asked if He would just take these addictions away. 

The next day I went to work, not having put any thought into my prayer the night before. As I was cutting concrete, I set my saw up and turned the water on, and unexpectedly, I began to weep uncontrollably. The men all around me were looking at me crying - but I had no idea what was going on! Then, I heard this alarm go off in my head, and this voice kept saying, over and over, “go turn yourself in.” Now, at this time in my life, I had been on the run for five years with three warrants out for my arrest, and no intention of turning myself in. Yet this voice in my head unmistakably kept saying , “go turn yourself in,” I couldn’t explain it at the time, but I just knew I trusted this voice. So that was what I did. I packed my tools, went to my boss, and told him I had go home. On my way home I realized this voice was Jesus - and I knew my life was about change. 

I ended up doing eight months of jail time, and that eight months was the best eight months I’d ever experienced up to that point. While being in jail, I just hung out with Jesus and the Bible. People thought I was crazy in there, but I didn’t care. As I kept hanging with Jesus, something started to happen - I began to draw again! My favorite thing to draw was, and still is, scripture. That drawing eventually led me back to drawing cartoons, and evolved into Coloring the Bible  - which started out as a verse-by-verse comic book.

My first one I completed was the story of when Jesus calms the storm. Remember all the anger I talked about having? This story in the Bible, along with some other scriptures, helped me believe Jesus was in my angry storms, would calm the waters for me, and someday teach me how to keep control of them myself. It was an extremely powerful time in my life. 

After my release, my fire for Jesus never went away - it actually has only gotten bigger year by year! As far as the drawing went, thanks be to God I never gave up on a dream I thought was impossible - even when my fear was telling me to. Throughout the years, we have slowly been working on these coloring books, while He has been working in me to slowly build my courage and confidence in both His ability, and in mine. Now, here we are! Releasing to you a dream that I believe can change the world, starting with each child.”

~Scott Fox, Co-Creator of Coloring the Bible