Behold, I Will Do A New Thing
"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” - Isaiah 43:19
If you have visited Lyric and Letter Studios recently you may have noticed some things look a little different. We have been doing some work behind the scenes — reorganizing, building, adding new resources — and today we want to walk you through everything that is new and what is coming.
The Site Has a New Shape
We reorganized the navigation to better reflect how we actually want you to move through this space. The site now flows through three movements — Prepare, Study, and Abide — because that is the order that matters.
You cannot study well what you have not prepared for. You cannot abide in what you have not studied. So we built the site to reflect that rhythm.
Here is what lives where now:
Prepare is where you get equipped before you ever open your Bible. You will find our new Study Method page, Bible Reviews with Charles, the Prayer and Intercession guide, and our full Resources page.
Study is where the work happens. The Community Bible Study Plan lives here, along with Devotionals and Verse Mapping.
Abide is your sanctuary. The Quiet Table, the Podcast, and the Blog.
Take a few minutes to explore. Everything has a home now and it is easier to find.
A New Prayer and Intercession Page
One of the questions we hear most often — especially from newer believers — is how to actually pray. Not the formal language, not the performance of it, but the real conversation of it.
We built a page for that. It covers what prayer actually is, how intercession works, how to pray before and during your Bible reading, and a simple step-by-step pattern that works whether you have been walking with Jesus for six months or sixty years.
You can find it here
The Lyric and Letter Study Method
This one has been a long time coming.
People have asked how we study the way we do — why we go so deep, how we find the threads that connect Genesis to Revelation, what it actually looks like to sit down with a passage and not just read it but inhabit it.
The answer is a seven-step inductive approach that grew out of years of communal Scripture study, a filmmaker's eye for narrative, and a hunger for the Word that surface reading could never satisfy. It is grounded in Sola Scriptura, oriented toward Christ, and built around a simple truth — the Word of God is living and active, and you can learn to read it that way.
The method walks you through praying first, reading cold, studying the narrative, asking the journalist questions — Who, What, When, Where, Why — going deep on the original languages, asking the How questions that move the study from your head into your heart, and finally surrendering what the Spirit surfaces to the Lord.
The full page is here. and the complete nine-page guide — with worked examples from Genesis 1, a full resource list, and the story of how this method came to be — is free to download.
The Community Study Plan Has a New Dashboard
If you have been following our chronological study plan you already know we moved from a spreadsheet to a full dashboard that shows our total progress, Old and New Testament reading percentages, daily focus, and full schedule at a glance.
The updated overview video is embedded on the Bible Study Plan page and walks you through exactly how to navigate it, how to find your current week, how to access the Joshua Bible Study we built, and how The Quiet Table and Monday night Zoom group work.
Everything you need to follow along — whether you study with us live or on your own — is here or you can watch the video below.
A Few Updates to The Quiet Table
We have also been quietly refreshing The Quiet Table experience and it is all live now.
New thumbnails — cleaner, clearer, easier to find when you are scrolling through the channel looking for a place to settle in.
New camera angles — we added an overhead shot and a side angle of the table so the visual feels more like pulling up a chair in a real room rather than watching a screen.
New session format — we have moved to Pomodoro style timing. Fifty minutes of focused study followed by a ten minute break. It is a simple rhythm but it makes a real difference over a two to three hour session. Your brain gets to breathe and then you go back in.
And new music. We just released The Letting Go — original ambient instrumental worship recorded for exactly this kind of space. You can hear it in today's session and it will be woven through The Quiet Table going forward.
If you have never joined us — Wednesdays 7–9 PM, Saturdays 9 AM–12 PM, and Sundays 6–9 PM on YouTube — today is actually a perfect day to start (see embedded video below).
Thank you for being here. Whether you have been with us since the beginning, found us somewhere along the way, or are stepping in for the first time today — you are not an accident. This community exists because God keeps bringing the right people to the table at the right time.
Everything you see here is a labor of love. The study method, the pages, the music, the dashboard, the thumbnails — none of it happened overnight and none of it happened alone. It grew out of years of studying together, asking hard questions of the text, and believing that the Word of God is worth every hour we give it.
We are glad you are here. We cannot wait to see what God does in Joshua.
In Christ Alone, Rebecca
