Holt Helps Readers and More

08/22/2026

You teach the Bible to others every week...
but have you ever privately wondered if you really understand it yourself?

You know the stories.
You know the verses.
But could you explain how the whole Bible actually fits together —
Literary structures
from Genesis to Revelation?

That's not a knowledge problem.
It's a literacy problem
— and it's fixable.

BL:100 Biblical Literacy teaches you (and the people you lead) HOW TO READ the Bible

as a complete, structured literary text — NOT what to believe about it.

We don't tell you what the Bible means. We teach you how to read it.

Using our SAFE Framework
(Scan, Ask, Focus, Explore)

you'll build the kind of structural, independent understanding
you can actually teach from

— with confidence, not just borrowed notes.

If you lead a small group,
a Bible study, or
a discipleship class, or
a seeker yourself

and want a stronger foundation under your own feet first,

this was built for you.

👉 Comment "READ" or DM me and I'll send you more info.

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08/22/2026

School has begun!
Do you have a literacy curriculum?

BL:100 Biblical Literacy

A Note to Parents and Homeschool Educators

This curriculum teaches them how to READ.
We don't tell your child what the Bible means.

What This Curriculum Is

- literacy (reading, writing, thinking)
- not a devotional,
- not a commentary
- not a theology course

It treats the Bible the way a strong English or literature class treats any great text:
- as a work with structure, genre, and internal logic that a trained reader can learn to navigate independently.

Your child will not be told what to believe about any passage.

They will be taught how to read —
- how to recognize structure,
- follow an argument or story,
- spot literary patterns, and
- draw their own conclusions from the text itself.

What they come to believe about what they read remains entirely their own.

That's not a gap in this curriculum; it's the point of it.

Why This Matters

Most Bible resources do one of two things:
- they interpret the text for the reader, or
- they schedule when to read it.

Almost none teach a student to approach Scripture the way they'd approach Homer or Shakespeare in an English class —

- reading closely,
- asking real questions, and
- following the text's own structure to its own meaning.

That gap is a literacy gap, not a spiritual one, and it's entirely correctable with the right tools.

How It Works: The SAFE Framework

Every lesson trains students in a four-step reading process they'll carry into ANY TEXT FOR LIFE:

Scan — Survey the structure before reading for meaning.

Ask — Raise genuine questions about patterns, not quiz-style questions with a predetermined answer.

Focus — Track characters, conflict, and structure closely as they read.

Explore — Connect the passage to the larger story and to what they already know.

What's Included:

- A structured, sequential course of 15 phases, moving from short, accessible books to the most complex texts in Scripture — organized by reading difficulty, not by canonical order

- A reading plan with approximate time intervals, teaching slides, and notes for every book of the Bible

- Comprehension and critical-thinking quizzes for each lesson

- Timeless Treasures: A Bible Outline as a supporting reference text

The course is designed to be flexible to your needs. It can be:

- completed over one school year,
- spread across two years, or
- worked through book-by-book or
- worked through phase-by-phase at your family's own pace.

Who It's For:

- middle-school students through adults, and
- fits public school, private school, and homeschool settings
- students preparing for college-level literary analysis.

Because it makes no denominational or doctrinal claims, it is equally suited to family study, co-ops, and classroom use.

THE BEST PART

What Your Child Will Be Able to Do
By the end of the course, students can:
- open any book of the Bible and
- independently recognize its structure,
- follow its argument or story,
- identify its literary genre and devices,
- connect it to the larger narrative of Scripture, and
- discuss it with real textual evidence
- apply what they have learned to any other text they tackle

confidently, and on their own terms.

BL:100 Biblical Literacy — Written by Diane Holt, M.Ed., Curriculum and Instructional Design, in partnership with Timothy Holt, Teaching Pastor and Founder of 90&Out.

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08/17/2026

"What I Wish Someone Had Said to Me

the Day I Became a Christian"

The day I became a Christian, someone handed me a Bible and walked away.

They meant well.
The Bible is the gift.
I understand that now.

But what I wish someone had said to me in that moment was this:

"What you are holding is sixty-six books written across fifteen centuries in multiple languages by dozens of authors in six completely different literary styles — all woven into one unified story. It is the most complex and the most rewarding text you will ever read. And I am going to teach you how to read it."

Nobody said that.

What I got instead — for years — was fragments.

Sermon excerpts.
Highlighted verses.
Devotional applications.
Other people's frameworks layered over a text.
I had never been given the tools to read myself.

I am a reading teacher.
A curriculum designer.

Someone who has spent thirty years building bridges between struggling readers and complex texts.

And I could not navigate my own Bible independently.

Not because it was too hard.

Because I was never given the map,
even though there is a multitude of resources out there.

I want to be the person who hands someone a Bible and then actually teaches them HOW to read it as a well-written literacy text.

That is all BL:100: Biblical Literacy is.

"I don't tell you what the Bible means. You can read it for yourself and decide. I will teach you how to read it." 📖

If that story is yours too — I am glad you found this page.

💙 Tell me in the comments: when did you first open a Bible and what did you feel in that moment?

08/17/2026

08/17/2026

"The Difference Between Bible Knowledge and Bible Literacy —

And Why Literacy Changes Everything"

Most people in the church have Bible knowledge.

They know the stories.
They recognize the famous verses.
They can tell you about David and Goliath, Noah and the ark, the Sermon on the Mount.

Yet, very few people have Bible literacy.

And those two things are not the same.

Bible knowledge is the collection of fragments you have gathered over years of sermons, devotionals, and Bible studies.

It is disconnected.
It is someone else's selection of what matters.
It sits in your memory as isolated pieces that do not connect to each other.

Bible literacy is the ability to open any book of the Bible,

recognize what kind of text you are reading, follow its structure and argument from beginning to end,

and arrive at your own genuine understanding of what it says.

Knowledge is what others gave you.

Literacy is what you can do yourself.

Here is the test:
Can you explain — without looking anything up — how the book of Ruth connects to the book of Genesis?

Can you tell me what literary genre the book of Amos belongs to and how that changes the way you read it?

Can you describe the structural difference between the way Matthew tells the story of Jesus and the way John does — and why that difference matters?

If those questions make you uncomfortable,
you have Bible knowledge.

You have not yet been given the tools for Bible literacy.

That is not your fault.
No one that I know of teaches this.
Not in Sunday School.
Not in most Bible studies.
Not in most churches.
Maybe in seminaries.

The solution is called BL:100 Biblical Literacy™.

"We don't tell you what the Bible means.

We will teach you how to read it." 📖

Drop 📖 in the comments if you have been sitting with Bible knowledge your whole life and are ready to build literacy.

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08/16/2026

"The Difference Between Bible Knowledge and Bible Literacy —
And Why Literacy Changes Everything"

08/16/2026

Biblical Literacy curriculum. Read and Think through the text independently without pressure to believe one way or another.

08/16/2026

Introduction to the BL: Biblical Literacy curriculum. Read and Think through the text independently without pressure to believe one way or another.

08/09/2026

STOP!

Do you want to think for yourself with confidence?

Do you want to be able to read a difficult text?
Any text?

and understand it without anyone else telling you what it means?

Here are 3 reasons why we believe that literacy matters more than ever right now:

#1 — Biblical literacy helps students stop depending on someone else to explain it.

Most people have heard the Bible their whole lives.

But hearing is not reading.

When you can read it yourself — really read it — you do not need someone else to tell you what it means.

You know.

Because you were there on the page.

#2 — Biblical literacy helps students think more clearly about any text they ever have or will read.

The tools we teach are not just Bible tools.

They work on every book, every article, every document your student will ever face.

Genre recognition. Text structure. Literary elements.
These are lifetime reading skills.

The Bible is just the best possible training ground for building them.

#3 — Biblical literacy helps students own their faith — instead of borrowing someone else's.

There is a big difference between knowing what your pastor believes about the Bible and knowing what the Bible actually says.

One is borrowed.

The other is yours.

We teach students to read the text for themselves —
before anyone tells them what to think about it.

That kind of confidence does not come from a sermon, commentary, or youtube video.

It comes from literacy.

Are you ready to help your student
— or yourself
— finally read the Bible with real understanding and confidence?

We start where every great reader starts.

With the right tools.

In the right order.

One literary skill at a time.

📩 Message me directly

to learn more about how BL:100 Biblical Literacy can help you or your student read, understand, and

navigate the most extraordinary book ever written —

independently.

"We don't tell you what the Bible means. We will teach you how to read it." 📖