Leaven Archives - The Colley House

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

For the Diggers: Get the Leaven Out!

Posted on December 1, 2016

As we finish the study of the Passover, it’s obvious that the original Passover’s significance in foreshadowing our salvation is multidimensional. The Lamb is Jesus. The leaven is sin. The bondage is sin’s enslavement. The haste of the exodus is the urgency of escaping sin. The deliverance is redemption and all of this is remembered in our weekly memorial, the supper of the unleavened bread and fruit of the vine instituted by Christ in Matthew 26. As we eat the bread which contains no leaven, we examine our lives to be sure there is no leaven of sin present in them (I Corinthians 11:28).

First, let me share the requested list of scriptures containing the word leaven. Those with a positive connotation are only four. They are Leviticus 23:17; Amos 4:5; Matthew 13:33 and Luke 13:31. The verses with a negative connotation are as follows:

Exodus 12:15,19

Exodus 13:7

Exodus34:25

Leviticus 2:11

Leviticus 6:17

Leviticus 10,12

Matthew 16:6,11,12

Mark 8:15

Luke 12:11

I Corinthians 5:6-8

Galatians 5:9

In our study, we’ve come to the realization that the absence of leaven in the bread of the Passover symbolizes both the absence of sin in the Bread of Life (John 6:33) and, also, the sin we acknowledge and cast from our spiritual houses as we examine ourselves each Lord’s Day. This is both sobering and motivating. I hope it will make the supper even more precious and useful to your spiritual well-being. After all, if we do not take this self-examination seriously, we eat and drink damnation to ourselves and we leave the feast sicker, spiritually, than we were when we arrived to eat the supper (I Corinthians 11:27-30).

As we leave November’s study and begin a new one, I hope you can take the time to listen to this lesson about the Passover lamb. It will make you thankful for the precious unspotted Lamb that rescues the souls of men. Here’s the link:

http://www.westhuntsville.org/Audio/Uploaded/Sunday_am_032110.mp3