[Albion Wilde]

I’d like to...study the Word.

That has been the very best thing about retirement for me. Don't know where you live, but try to find an organized group that is well-experienced. The group called Community Bible Study in this area is excellent, with multiple locations in various towns. Cannot say enough good about our C.B.S. group of 300 who meet each week. We have an opening session, then break into small groups, then a lecture, and daily home study in a printed workbook or online (there's a small tuition).

I have also heard good things about Cornerstone Bible Studies.

For the first three years of retirement, I traveled 70 miles each way every week to study with a pastor who came recommended (as a Bible-believing political conservative) at his weekly Bible study at his church.

It's important to get with a group where people participate seminar-style, asking questions and not just sitting there. Such a blessing to study the Word. Only wish I had done it in my teens.

[EliRoom8]

I appreciate your recommendations, especially in light of the frequency of those Bible study gatherings. AndI will try to follow-up. But I won't be around or have anything to do with the worldly, apostate, so-called contemporary worship. If I see a drum set or amplifiers on stage I'm making an immediate U-turn and leaving quickly. Gone!!! I'm now way, way beyond patience with this hip, jazzy, cool "praise team"/Hillsong music junk. And It's probably the main reason I'm leaving the missionary site I've been at for four years.

There is a church in Kalamazoo, Mi that touts and follows "Reverent worship and Expository teaching." I plan to visit there from SoCal. I've already listened via internet and found it to be Very good stuff. Excellent teaching. "