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This New Studio

Posted on September 26, 2025

I know if you’re a podcast viewer (and we have lots), you noticed that we have a beautiful new studio from which to discuss our monthly Digging Deep lessons. I LOVE it!

While I know that this beautiful space in the West Huntsville church building was not created just for Digging Deep, I’m profoundly thankful that we have it and that Digging Deep gets to use it.

Today, I’m thankful to the West Huntsville church and elders for the funding and decisions behind the beautiful new studio. I’m very grateful to the Gospel Broadcasting Network for the installation of both the set and the equipment that now lives in Room 117 of our local building. James McKinney made multiple trips from Olive Branch, MS to Huntsville, AL to install this studio. Jennifer and Louis Benavides worked tirelessly, both in design and in making sure we purchased what we needed for all technical aspects. They planned and tested and budgeted and…just in general…have their fingerprints all over this project. Ruth Soli and Jennifer excitedly worked last week behind the desk, during the actual podcast, to bring it to every woman who is studying along. Leslie Hamby drove from Pulaski, TN to co-host for us. I’m thankful, from a deep place, for all these people! Let me just tell you, my heart is filled with both excitement and gratitude for this tool that our God has given. We pledge to give Him glory and honor in every segment that comes from this studio.

I hope you will keep inviting. We have had over 500 women to join the group since the topic for this year was announced. Many are seeking for the Savior. Many are being exposed to truth through the Word that they have never heard before. Matthew 13:33 says the kingdom is like leaven, that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour. I’ve already baked four loaves of bread this morning. My house “smells” of this verse! My leaven was hidden in some little lumps of flour and water. Those lumps have turned into big loaves of bread. What started small, on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, has saved millions of people in the years between that day and this morning, as I write. We are still hiding leaven in 2025. Are you watching the kingdom grow in those measures. Are you hiding leaven in your little world?

Keep praying. Keep inviting. Our God can do MORE with Digging Deep than we can ask or imagine. He already has!

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

GBN…Praying it’s the Next Right Thing!

Posted on January 21, 2025

For the past 22 years, my husband, Glenn, has preached from the pulpit of the West Huntsville church in Huntsville, Alabama. For ten of those years, he had the great blessing of serving as one of her shepherds. I don’t know, for sure, how many classes he’s taught there and how many lessons he’s preached, but, conservatively, we would have to know it’s been well over a thousand messages—maybe two thousand, all told. That’s a bunch of his life’s words that have been spoken as a part of the work of this great church.

The work he has agreed to take now is full-time work with the Gospel Broadcasting Network. We do not believe he will preach less (probably more), but he will preach in a different and broader venue. He will continue to hold seminars and gospel meetings around the nation, but he, along with other men, will also be developing tools for use in churches around the English-speaking world. His first two projects will be developing an elders’ seminar to be presented both live-and-in-person, and digitally for churches to use to strengthen leadership; and, a digital series for congregations to use to teach and nurture new converts. Glenn will get to do Q&A sessions for the network. He’s excited about these and other projects that will follow, Lord willing. Maybe best of all is the fact that GBN now has many people at any given time, who request Bible study as they search for the path to knowing God and salvation. Glenn will get to study with lots of those people. He will potentially get to lead more people to the Lord than he ever has before. We are already praying about these souls.

With GBN director Don Blackwell (center) and Alan Highers

We both believe in the work of GBN. We already love her director, Don Blackwell, and have enjoyed a long and effectual relationship with the board of directors of GBN and those faithful people who make up its staff. We are amazed at the great work done by GBN and at the fact that it is funded entirely by donations from the people of God. On top of this, the programming of the network never contains advertising of any sort or solicitation of funds. There are lots of GBN products—digital books, commentaries, podcasts, etc…from which people benefit, but they are almost always free products and they are never sold sold by GBN. (The GBN digital commentaries are sold by Logos, by agreement, but the monies collected from those goes to the writers; not to GBN.) GBN is completely supported by contributions and there is never any pitch made to those who are not members of the church of Christ! The available free GBN resources are found here: https://gbntv.org/ This is amazing evidence of the generosity of Christians. We are excited that the network is blessed to be stronger today and to reach more people than ever before. Many have been led to obey the gospel and claim the hope of an eternal inheritance as a result of the work of GBN. The work is phenomenal in lots of ways. Glenn will continue to serve on its board of directors. That board is under the guidance of the elders at the Southaven church near Memphis, Tennessee.

We are thankful that we will get to keep working, as members, with our family at West Huntsville. We would have had a very hard time taking this new job with GBN, had the West Huntsville elders thought it best for us to worship elsewhere. We love them and we think it’s important for our grandchildren to be a part of the West Huntsville church. We know of no greater eldership to be watching for the souls our family. I’m especially grateful that our Digging Deep podcasts will continue to come to you from West Huntsville. I hope you will keep thanking the elders at West Huntsville as you have opportunity.

SO, here are the short answers to the questions folks have wondered and/or asked me in the last few days. These are pending, as always, that our Lord is willing.

No. We are not moving from the red house on Powell Street.

Yes. The GBN work is a full-time job.

Yes. Glenn will still travel and hold seminars and meetings, and I will get to do ladies days and PTP and camps, etc…as the schedule allows

No. We will not be leaving the West Huntsville church. We will be active and working.

No. Glenn will no longer be filling the local pulpit at West Huntsville. We are praying for the best man God has for that pulpit!

Yes. The new edition of Digging Deep will be coming out next summer.

Yes. The podcasts will still be coming from West Huntsville.

Yes. I hope Jennifer Benavides will keep helping me for as long as we both shall dig and we hope to dig for a long time to come!

Yes! I hope to get to travel some with Glenn in this new job. I love getting to be with sisters, and I may have a grandchild or two along for some of the adventures.

Please keep us in your prayers. We want to “do good and no harm” as Glenn often admonishes his friends as he tells them good-bye. The good we crave in our lives is for heaven and His glory.