As some of you may remember, our small group is reading The Bible in a Year. We are nearing the half-way point and in a few days will meet for our first discussion of Psalms. Everybody probably has a favorite Psalm, maybe 23, or 51, or 139 (you’ll have to look them up), but how do we study them? How do we get through the book? There are 150! Our journey, and in order to reach our goal of getting through The Bible in a year, requires five chapters a day; that’s 35 in a week. From there, pick a favorite Psalm or verse? Be ready to share? ...can we go any deeper than that?

We’ve been trying to get a bible study group going for 2025. We’d been at it for months. We thought it would be a great way to reach out to our neighbors; my wife had even started some early recruiting of those whom I never thought would be interested. Then two couples, one from our neighborhood and the other from our previous small group, expressed interest. We got together to outline a plan. We agreed to pray about it for the month of December. And then all hell broke loose.