The Bible ... it can be intimidating, overwhelming, ancient, irrelevant, boring, unending and a whole host of other negatively-inclined adjectives. And even though I've been getting at this reading the Bible thing for quite a number of years now, I found it refreshing to hear some thoughts about starting to read the Bible.
RealLivePreacher is in the midst of a video series on "How to Read the Bible". (At the time of this post, there were five videos posted ... more promised and on the way.)
There's also a book that looks rather fascinating: Ryken's Bible Handbook (read the first chapter)