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Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

Israel, Athens and Corinth for Diggers!…Next May!

Posted on August 13, 2026

I’ve been so excited to invite all Diggers, past and present, to travel with us to the Bible lands again next Spring.  This time, we will see many faith-building sites in Israel, including Shiloh and Jericho, Nazareth. the Galilee region and the beautiful City of David; but we will also see the cities of Athens and Corinth in Greece. If you’ve been on a Bible Lands Passages tour before, I don’t have to convince you. If you haven’t, you have no idea how it will change your life, for the better. As we have done in the past, we will have some special Digging Deep sessions together as we travel and we will try to broadcast one of our monthly podcasts from one of the Biblical sites we visit. I hope lots of you can plan to come. These 12 days will be some of the most memorable of your lives in Him. Few sermons you will hear in the future will fail to bring vivid memories of this trip. and the fellowship is some of the warmest that Glenn and I have ever experienced.

John and Carla Moore are imminently qualified to lead us through any part of the Bible Lands, but especially the places where our Lord walked. I did not even know how much I wanted to know the history and geography (even archaeology)  that are behind so many Biblical accounts that I’d heard all my life. John truly makes us see Biblical events and their accompanying applications more vividly than we could have imagined. Seeing the Bible lands is just infinitely better when you are doing it with Christians, especially when led by those who know so much about those places and the people who inhabited them in Bible times.

Until December 1st, 2026, we will reserve all spots for those who have been Diggers at any point in the history of Digging Deep  and their spouses or “plus ones”. After the first of December, we will open remaining spots to other Christians who would like to come. The trip will be meaningful for the faith of everyone who comes, but I believe it will be especially impactful to those of us who are digging together in the coming year. In short, I’m excited!

So look at the  brochure and make your plans. I know this is something not all of us can do. But, if you can, you will be glad for the chance! Click here to reserve your spot. Registration link is included in the brochure.

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Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

One Week! You better finish up, because I’m gonna turn this shirt around!

Posted on August 8, 2026

…I transitioned the shipping department into the modeling department this morning. The shipping department is overpaid anyway. 

The reveal for the 2026-27 study is just one week away! The gathering happens next Saturday at 12:30 EST in Sevierville PTP Ballroom B. It’s good that it’s in the ballroom, since we are going to have a ball together! I’m always excited when the reveal happens, firstly because it’s the time when we can all start inviting friends in earnest. (Inviting friends to a “topicless” Bible  Study is great, but it’s even more effective if we know what we are studying!)

Secondly, at the 12:30 Saturday session, we will also be recognizing the finishers (who are present) of the previous study. To be an official finisher, you need to have completed all the lessons through chapter eleven, completing all the questions, all the reading , and all the “Practically Speaking” segments. You also need to have EITHER completed all the monthly video  podcasts OR all of the Dig-a-Bits through month eleven.  All the “things” will be available at 1:05 EST both online at www.thecolleyhouse.org and in the Sevierville exhibit hall. Here are prices, once again.But remember there’s also a free download of the study. No one has to pay to study along…ever!

Books will be $23.00.

T-shirts will be $21.00 (any size)

Hoodies will be $38.00

One book with one t-shirt will be $38.00

In bundles of six or more books, the books will be $20.00 each

Cardigans (Black with gold) will be $40.00

Other generic digging items will be on the site as well.

Download of study will be free of charge, as always.

This new mug with the theme on the front (in a tiny white font) will be $12.00

And there will a  new themed keychain. It will be $6.50

So just get ready. It’s coming. I’ve got to finish up MORE (and that’s a big privilege to be in the Word. I’ve loved it MORE than I could have asked or imagined!) And then, so help me, I’m going to turn this shirt around! But really, it’s God who helps me every single day to keep getting excited about the Word, because it IS the most exciting thing about our lives here in the testing ground! I can’t wait to finally get there, to see the Word who became flesh and the Father who favors me with life in Him! And I am so thankful for the Spirit who lets me dig into the Word. Without them I would be nothing!

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

What would I do without Digging Deep?

Posted on July 29, 2026

Yesterday was a pretty prayerful day. They were short prayers. There was somebody I love and am trying to help through an illness, and I cried about the prognosis and the direction the illness is taking.  A family that’s dear to me had their whole worlds rocked by the actions of one of their children. Another dear friend has come right up to finding out there’s adultery in her marriage. My crown popped off my tooth and had to be replaced yesterday and I visited the chiropractor yesterday, as well, because I have a lingering “crick” in my left neck and shoulder. I took one of the grands with me and another one cried and cried because I could not take her, too.

It sounds crazy, but I’m so thankful it was podcast day! In between all the big and little challenges, there was a faith-building theme going through my mind and before me on the pages in the waiting spaces. It was the theme of a Holy God. It was that I’m going to a throne room that is Holy, in which the title Holy, in triplicate, was shouted, in vision, to Isaiah, as one seraphim cried to another “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts and the whole earth is full of His glory!”(Isaiah 6:3ff). 

It was the knowledge that He shakes out from His garment those who fail to keep covenant and trample His courts (Is. 1:12-15) but that He has saved His ultimate Holy place, the church, for me today through the One whose lips knew no guile (Is. 53); that Holiness, personified and incarnate, dwelled among men and became the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world. It was that He sees the tears of every person with whom I spoke yesterday and, if he can move the sundial, He can move the things in my world that are obstructing His glory (Is. 38). 

It is also that, as late 2009, the bulla (seals) of someone named Hezekiah, the king, and someone named Isaiah, prophet, were found only 10-15 feet from each other just off the temple mount in Jerusalem. Throughout the day, I just kept thinking about this Holy God and how the external evidence just keeps coming in—that His Word is authentic, preserved and potent. 

It was thinking about the rigorous details of dress and washing and service of the high priests of history from passages like Leviticus 16, when the animals were offered for cleansing and the scapegoat was sent away for atonement; and then suddenly realizing that it was Caiaphas, the high priest, who handed them over to those who spat on the Lamb, mocked Him and slapped His face. They slapped the face of the Holy One. It was the high priest who facilitated the suffering and death of THE lamb of God. 

What would I do without Digging Deep? On days like yesterday, I’d probably lose the focus that keeps me going through the challenging stuff. Oh, I know I could dig into the Word without the organization and accountability that the study gives me, but would I? And would I remember that I am undone and of unclean lips before His holiness? Digging Deep constantly makes me see my need before Him. 

I didn’t intentionally launch the Digging Deep study, but I’m so glad God has let me be a little part of the applications of His holiness through the wonderful blessing that is Digging Deep. I hope you will joins as the brand new study begins on September 1st. I hope you will invite someone else who needs the Word. (That’s any woman you know who is not intentionally in it, already!)

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

Notice! Color Change for Shirts and Hoodies

Posted on July 25, 2026

Shirt colors for 2026-27

I hope you’re praying. I hope you’re inviting. I can’t wait till August 15th, when, from Sevierville, we will announce the topic for next year’s Digging Deep study. It’s what I’ve spent the last week doing…from the book cover to the t-shirt order to the power point for the actual reveal. Everything, this year, seems to have an extra complication. But that’s okay. We are going to be kick-off ready by September 1st. Lord willing, all materials will be at Sevierville and we already know the fellowship around our study will be sweet. If you are joining us on the 15th via the Digging Deep Facebook page for the reveal, we are trying to post within a very short time for you!

I needed to make this color change, so I wanted to let you know, in case you are getting orders together (that include shirts and hoodies) prior to traveling. 

The shirts and hoodies will NOT be navy as I had posted earlier. The color scheme will be very close to the color you see on this swatch. The shirt (and hoodie) will be (at least close to) hydrangea blue with a khaki print on the front only. 

I hope this pre-Sevierville change doesn’t cause any angst for anyone. Thanks for always being so very patient with this old woman, who often seems to fly by the seat of her pants! The main thing (study of the Word) will keep being the main thing and will NOT change!

Some have contacted about pricing, so repeating here the prices posted earlier: 

Here are the prices:

Books will be $23.00.

T-shirts will be $21.00 (any size)

Hoodies will be $38.00

One book with one t-shirt will be $38.00.

Cardigans (Black with gold) will be $40.00.

Other generic digging items will be on the site as well.

Download of study will be free of charge, as always.

This new mug with the theme on the front (in a tiny white font) will be $12.00. 

Topic will be revealed in Sevierville just after noon on August 15th and all items will appear on the website (www.thecolleyhouse.org) within a few moments of that time.

Finish up that “More” study. I’m believing He is THAT God!

We’ll cheer on the Finishers at Sevierville on Saturday. Some are asking what it takes to be a Finisher. For Sevierville, Finishers are those who have completed everything through chapter 11–all the questions, all the “Practically Speaking” segments and either the Podcasts in total OR the Dig-a-Bits in total. You’ve got this! You’ll be MORE equipped for His glory!

 

 

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

Branson Diggers…Yes! You can pre-order…(sort of).

Posted on July 10, 2026

Some Branson diggers have requested that they be able to pre-order the books and shirts. It’s a little hard for me to see how you would want to order a book when you don’t know what it’s about, but I want to accommodate. (And I guess you do know it’s about the Bible.) I sure love the Branson diggers and, in view of the fact that you will not be able to  get the materials at PTP, we’d like to give you the faster shipping edge.

Let’s try this. If you are one of those who would like to pre-order:

  1. See Glenn or me (in person) at Branson and hand one of us a note with your clearly written name and address on it. (It doesn’t have to have the items you want listed.)
  2. Be sure you place your complete order on August 15th before midnight (when the materials become available on the site.)
  3. When the orders are filled, those folks who gave us their address in Branson will be first on the mail-out list, IF they order on August 15th.

I don’t have the books in hand. I do know they contain about 130 pages. I don’t have the shirts or hoodies in hand. I do know they will be navy with a tan design. I do have the mugs and you can see here the back of the mug. The front of the mug has this year’s theme in a tiny white font. I love the mug. (I have already had coffee in one and it “felt” right. =)

All of the 2026-27 Digging Deep materials will be ready for shipping on August 15th. They will be available, as they last, at the Sevierville PTP convention, as well.

Here are the prices:

Books will be $23.00.

T-shirts will be $21.00 (any size)

Hoodies will be $38.00

One book with one t-shirt will be $38.00.

Hoodies will be $38.00.

Cardigans (Black with gold) will be $40.00.

Other generic digging items will be on the site as well.

Download of study will be free of charge, as always.

Topic will be revealed in Sevierville just after noon on August 15th and all items will appear on the website (www.thecolleyhouse.org) within a few moments of that time.

Finish up that “More” study. I’m believing He is THAT God!

 

 

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

Digging Deep ’26-’27… Not Long Now!

Posted on June 17, 2026

As I am hard at work on these lessons for both Branson PTP and Sevierville PTP, it occurs to me that, when I finish presenting some of these, you will know all about next year’s Digging Deep topic and we will be very busy getting the study materials in your hands. While my mind is very cluttered and “The God of More” is still a big piece of that good clutter, I’m also thinking about the new study we will kick off on September 1st. 

Leading up to that day, we will review and recognize the finishers in Branson on July 16th and July 18th, respectively. I’m excited to see you “westerners” there. Then on July 17th, we will review “The God of More” in Sevierville. We will post this review on the Digging Deep Facebook page. But the BIG date is Saturday, August 15th, when we will, at 12:30, come together in Sevierville to reveal the topic of the upcoming study. We will immediately get that one to you via the FB page. I am praying you can love it as much as I do. He is so, so good! 

Then we will have two short weeks to try and get hard copies to those who want them for the new study. There will be some swag….that’s just fun. But remember, no one has to pay to study. There will, as always, be a free download of the study posted the same day as the announcement is made. I am very blessed that Hannah Colley is helping me get the materials ready and Lindsey VanHook is uploading them to the site: www.thecolleyhouse.org. 

Yesterday, I stumbled on a little group, online, of folks who call themselves “deconstructionists”. What they mean by that is that they have abandoned the faith they had once built. They have walked proudly away from the church. It was the saddest part of my day. This particular page had several mentions of Digging Deep  and the comments, of course, were extremely critical. Someone on the page asked exactly “What do you mean? What are Diggers?” 

The answer was there, too. “They send cards, prolifically.” 

I’m surely happy that we do sometimes send cards, when a digger is gravely ill or to a family of a digger who has gone on to glory. But how very sad to be so bitter about some entity like Digging Deep when one doesn’t even know what we primarily do, In fact, if one decided to be a part of DD, for just one month, perhaps the antidote for such bitterness and vitriol might be ingested and life might be better. As I said, It was sad for me to see such uninformed hate being spewed, when the very object of that hate could very well be the cure for it. Bible study fosters both righteousness and unity in that holiness. I’m sad for people who have walked away from truth in bitterness. They are generally very unhappy. And, without repentance, they are lost. 

Let’s stay in the book. What do you say? If you’re a digger, I know you attribute growth to the Holy Spirit through the Book of books! If you are not a digger, but a faithful student of the Bible, you are, likewise, full of hope. He is the God of More! 

From chapter 10 of the current study:

Seeking the direct Word of the Lord is always the thing to do in times of decision. Today, it is
getting out the Book—the Book that is the result of all of the combined miracles that occurred from
Genesis to Revelation—that is the solution. The Book is valuable and relevant and speaks to all of
our needs, decisions, and adverse situations. People do not come to counselors and say, “My marriage
is a mess because I have followed the Word in every decision.” They come, with sorrowful problems,
because someone (or both) in the marriage has strayed from the teachings of the Word. It is the same way in all areas of our lives and relationships.