• StartsTuesday, October 20, 2026
• Time7:00 – 8:30 pm
• Where«ADDRESS — tell me what to put here»
• CadenceFirst and third Tuesdays
• HostsBill and Perky Fredricks

What a night looks like

Ninety minutes, and the shape of it is the point. The group speaks before I do.

• 7:00Open
  Prayer, and a Psalm read aloud.
• 7:05What the week surfaced
  Whoever has something. The group speaks first, before any teaching — because things saved for the end of a meeting tend not to happen. Several voices, not one.
• 7:30Map and word
  A place goes on the wall map. A Hebrew word goes on a card and joins the wall.
• 7:38The ground
  A short stretch where Bill fills in what is underneath, shaped by what has already been said. One video clip — one, not three.
• 7:58Open the books
  A short passage read aloud and argued with, from a real Bible on the table.
• 8:08Where this lands in us
  From what it meant there, to what the Spirit of Christ makes of it here, in us. Never skipped, never rushed.
• 8:20The stone
  One picture. What we uncovered tonight, set in place against everything uncovered so far.
• 8:25Pray
  We pray the text we have just studied.

Why it is built this way

Everything we are going to cover is published on this site in advance. That means I do not have to spend the evening delivering it, and you do not have to sit still while I do. The reading is the lecture. The room is for discovery.

It also means we can move quickly, because nobody is being ambushed. If you want to know exactly where a night is going, it is all there. If you would rather be surprised, a few of the pages have the payoff behind a closed door with a note on it, so you can choose.

What I most want is the thing I cannot produce on my own: several people arriving with something God gave them during the week, and the rest of us weighing it together.

Within the week’s subject, though. The topic is a guard rail, and a valid one. We are not waiting to be taken somewhere else — we are asking the Spirit to open the ground we are already standing on, and to open it through more than one voice.

What to bring

A Bible you are willing to write in, if you have one. That is genuinely it.

What if I miss a night?

Come to the next one. Every session page on this site stands on its own, and the room itself is the review — the map, the word wall, and the covenant timeline all stay up all year.

Do I need to do the reading?

No. Each session page has a short passage and a thought to carry, for anyone who wants it. It is there to be useful, not to be homework. Come either way.

All eighteen dates

1. 1A Small Place in a Big WorldTuesday, October 20, 2026
2. 2Five Things That Unlock the MapTuesday, November 3, 2026
3. 3Reading the LandTuesday, November 17, 2026
4. 4Thinking DifferentlyTuesday, December 1, 2026
5. 5Letters, Roots, and a Few Good WordsTuesday, December 15, 2026
6. 6Little Words, Big DifferenceTuesday, January 5, 2027
7. 7Genesis 1–11: The World Behind the StoryTuesday, January 19, 2027
8. 8Abraham: A Man Called Out of UrTuesday, February 2, 2027
9. 9Household, Land, and the RedeemerTuesday, February 16, 2027
10. 10Egypt, Exodus, and a Firstborn SonTuesday, March 2, 2027
11. 11Sacred TimeTuesday, March 16, 2027
12. 12From Tent to Temple to ExileTuesday, April 6, 2027
13. 13Between the TestamentsTuesday, April 20, 2027
14. 14Rome, Herod, and the World of JesusTuesday, May 4, 2027
15. 15The Rabbi from NazarethTuesday, May 18, 2027
16. 16Feast, Cross, and CovenantTuesday, June 1, 2027
17. 17Pentecost: Babel UndoneTuesday, June 15, 2027
18. 18Reading the Bible AgainTuesday, July 6, 2027