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Don’t Miss This Bundle! $25 for 2025!

Last minute Christmas or gifts for giving throughout 2025! Choose any four of the following books and get them all for $25.00 just in time for ’25!  We hope something in this stack can encourage someone you know in a heavenward direction. So pick any four of the following–any combination–and get them–ALL FOUR– for just $25.00 plus shipping. Offer is good while supplies last or through January 31, 2025. Go ahead while we have them! You can do it multiple times over for a super-reduced price for a digging deep class! Or you can hand-pick 4 gifts for giving throughout the year. These will not be this inexpensive again in ’25! We hope your ’25 is blessed and all for His glory!

Poems, Prayers and Promises Daily Planner

The Ten ( Digging Deep study)

The Hour has Come (Digging Deep study)

GUARD (teen and college boys’ study)

Cindy Colley on Homeschooling

The Crown (Digging Deep study)

Depending on what you choose, the prices reflect varying substantial savings off of original prices. Some combinations are, in the bundle, almost 2/3 off of original prices! Click here to order.

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100% Encouraging: 100 Bible Verses to Grow Your Faith by Gary Bond

Help for the hurting. Aid for the anxious. Strength for the suffering. This collection of 100 passages of uplifting Scripture, categorized by 10 different topics, helps shine sunlight into dark days. Each page has a specially selected positive Bible verse as word art with additional text to give context or point the way into God’s word for a deeper study. Perfect for daily devotionals to encourage yourself or as a gift to family, friends or neighbors going through hard times.

God’s love is vast and He cares for you – be encouraged and strengthened by these verses from His word!

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.” Proverbs 16:24 (NKJV)

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How to Begin the Digging Deep Study

Several first-timers are asking for details about exactly how to do the Digging Deep study. Some have invited others (yay!) and these very significant “others” are needing the format for the study so they can begin with confidence. (Please do invite friends, especially your friends who are not Christians!) It’s so easy that it’s hardly worth a post, but, just in case you are overwhelmed with back-to-school, home-schooling or, better yet, congregational involvement overload, here it is: the study in a nutshell.


1. Every first day of every month beginning now, a new portion of the study will appear on the Digging Deep in God’s Word facebook group. That’s the place to find a concise copy of the current month’s study and the place to discuss the dig with others all over the world. Go there and see the discussion already happening! This year’s study has also been made available in a free download and in a printed workbook called Conversations is also available in the store. 

2. Be sure and join the Digging Deep for Encouragement Facebook group as well. That’s the place for any prayer requests that are unrelated to the study.

3. Try your best to pace yourself throughout the month so that you can finish each month’s study by month’s end.

4. Keep your notes digitally or get the Digging Deep workbook. Either works fine. You just need some place for notes!

5. Near the end of each month, there will be a live podcast discussing the month’s study. You will be able to type in your comments and questions in this chatroom and we will discuss them together: https://thecolleyhouse.org/live-digging-deep-video-podcastAll podcasts are archived on our YouTube channel, as well, so if you can’t listen live, you can listen later. Video podcasts generally occur on the last Tuesday of each month, but we will let you know the exact schedule well in advance on the podcast and on both of the Facebook pages. (If you want to go and listen to podcasts from other years, you may do that, too.)

6. You may optionally subscribe to this blog which will often, but not always, be an addendum to the study. It generally posts twice a week, usually on Mondays and Thursdays: https://thecolleyhouse.org/category/bless-your-heart.

7. The last podcast of the year will come to you live from ‘Polishing the Pulpit” during that annual conference that occurs each August. Those present who have completed the entire study (all reading, questions, podcasts, and challenges) will be recognized there.

8. Anyone who wants a Digging Deep t-shirt, be sure and order here. We have to have the shirt orders quickly so as to get them back from the company and get them in the packages with the books in time for you to do the September study!

We are always indebted to the elders at the West Huntsville church for their support and oversight. We are thankful for Jennifer Benavides for tech support and for every woman who co-hosts on our monthly podcast. But we are especially thankful for those of you who are committing to, persevering in and inviting to this year’s study. It’s not too late to invite friends. Most of all, we thank the Father through the Son for this great study from the Holy Spirit!

Free PDF Study Guides for previous years:

The Crown 2023-2024
God of All Comfort 2022-2023
The Hour Has Come 2021-2022
The Ten 2020-2021
Glory 2019-2020
Authority 2018-2019
Great Escapes 2017-2018
In the Shadows 2016-2017
Persecution: For Righteousness’ Sake 2015-2016
Unto Thee O Lord Study 2014-2015
Knowing God Study 2013-2014
Sanctified Study 2012-2013
Bible Study 2011-2012

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Digging Deep 2024-2025: Conversations

Digging Deep 2024-2025 is all about the up-close and personal conversations in which God spoke with women throughout Scripture. It begins in the garden of Eden when we hear God asking Eve, “What have you done?” The study continues to unpack conversations through the Old Testament and on beyond the open tomb when Jesus said, “Woman, why are you weeping?” It’s a year-long study that will show you His peace, protection and permanence. It will be deeply personal and convicting.

Access this year’s book and merchandise below.

Deluxe Study Book

Deluxe Study Book Bundle (discount for orders of 6+)

Shirt

Deluxe Study Book + Shirt Bundle

Hoodie

Free Study Download

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Family Bible Curriculum

It’s finally time to roll this out! This is the most exciting thing I’ve seen in a while for congregational or family Bible study. 

“That We May Have HOPE,” authored by Caleb and Rebekah Colley and illustrated by Julia Tesh, is a tried and true method of synchronizing your congregation’s Bible study with your own family Bible times at home. I know your congregation could benefit from this year-long study. But I am most excited about the knowledge and faith it can put in the hearts of the children in your little family at home.

But it’s both. It’s for churches and families! In fact, it’s even a great year-long homeschool curriculum for all preschool and  elementary ages.

It’s a book!…that will carry you through 52 character studies of the Scriptures. At the end of the year your family will be able to tell the stories of major Bible heroes and villains and how to emulate the positive and eliminate the negative spiritual characteristics of each person. This material is sound, practical and convicting. If you’re using the book at home, there’s a flexible schedule for incorporating the material into your Bible time on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. In a year, your children will know the stories of 52 important Bible characters and four important facts to remember about each of them. The book is spiral bound, sturdy, and chock-full of the Word. Caleb Colley authored the study book.

But it’s also a memorization flash card system that will allow even the youngest of Bible learners to know the accounts of these 52 characters. The cards come on a binder ring that makes them easy for kids of all ages to carry. This also facilitates easily flipping though the characters at Bible time each night. The cards are both sturdy and beautiful. These memorization cards are authored by Rebekah Colley and illustrated by Julia Tesh.

Finally, it’s also a timeline. This is my favorite part. Each of the 52 Bible characters is placed on a sturdy hang-able timeline (that also lays flat on your table or desk), so that your children can easily see exactly where these heroes and villains fit into the Bible’s chronology and how their lives coincide with well-known Biblical events. Assembled by Rebekah and illustrated by Julia, this tool will help your children see the “big picture” of how each person fits into the story of redemption that is the centerpiece and purpose of divine revelation.

You can complete the study using the book only. But using  all three resources together is something that I cannot wait to do at our house. (I’m thinking, we may have a black cape that we wear when we’re studying a villain and a white one when we’re studying the heroes.)  I just think our grandchildren will be able to conceptualize these accounts more deeply as they use the tools of story-telling, memorization and chronological placement all at once. I can’t wait!

Here’s what Caleb says about how the idea is used in the local church:

“Here is how I have administered the Bible learning initiative: On the first Sunday of every year, I announce to the congregation the theme of the new year’s study. On one occasion I introduced the Bible Characters Study with a sermon on the value of studying Bible characters. Material is distributed to the congregation.

Then, I periodically preach on topics related to the particular week’s study. For example, on the week when the congregation was studying “Cain,” I preached about Cain and Abel. At the end of the year, every family or member has reviewed a 52 week study of Bible characters and has a handbook. I anticipate publishing other studies we have done, including a chronological study of the life of Christ, a study of the biblical doctrine of prayer, etc. I have found that many members of the church welcome the structure of the study and appreciate having the completed book at the end of the year. While this book is just a springboard to one’s own pursuit of Biblical knowledge (2 Peter 1:5-9; 3:18), nonetheless, it is a tool to prompt and deepen that pursuit.”

I hope there are elders who decide to feed the flock using this material. These churches will be blessed. But, even if you are just using it in your own home, exclusively, the growing faith in your home will be well worth your family’s efforts. Nothing is more important than planting the Word in tender hearts!

That We May Have Hope Book

That We May Have Hope Memorization Cards

That We May Have Hope Timeline

That We May Have Hope Discount Bundle