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Bible 805
by Yvon Prehn
I believe the Bible is as true and real as this palm tree in my front yard and the area code (805) I live in. In this podcast, my goal is to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible. Doing that isn't always simple or easy and the podcasts provide in-depth studies, historical background, and challenging applications, all from me, Yvon Prehn, a lay teacher and a writer for Jesus. Go to www.Bible805.com for show notes, commentary, and resource links to videos, charts, teaching resources, and printables to help you bring God's Word into every part of your life.
Episodes
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#181 How Historians Determine Truth, Part TWO of our series on how truth and history confirm we can trust the Bible
Why does it matter how historians determine what is true? (QUICK NOTE: this is a lesson that is especially good to look at the PowerPoint video of it, here is the link: https://youtu.be/gvTRyfFtujU The Bible805 site https://www.Bible805.com, has links to all the videos of the podcasts) In the...
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#180, What is Truth? Part One of How Truth & History confirm that we can trust the Christian Bible
Before we begin, this lesson is part of a 4-part foundational series: How Truth & History confirm that we can trust the Christian Bible Though each lesson is useful on its own, all four lessons in this series go together for a complete understanding of the topic The 4 lessons in this series are…
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#179 The Book of John and the Revelation of Jesus, the end that is a beginning
As you have read through the Bible from first to last, it’s all been about Jesus. He created a perfect world for humanity to enjoy and to walk with Him. When they disobeyed, He promised a Redeemer. The entire Old Testament talks about this future Redeemer, the importance of salvation by faith…
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#178 What manner of people ought we to be? the Pastoral Epistles—1,2 Timothy, Titus, 1,2 Peter, Jude
Our study of the New Testament is about so much more than an overview of books, or a historical tour. It is the culmination of God’s rescue plan for the people He created. The development of God’s changed, redeemed people is what we’ve been learning about. All else will fade (churches, buildings,...
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#177 Paul's Prison Letters, Eph., Phil., Col., and Philemon
How do we act when bad things happen to us? We always have a choice—we can retaliate; we can throw a pity party; we can blame others. Or we can trust God no matter what and try to respond in a way He wants us to. In what are called the “Prison Epistles” Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and...
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#176 -- The antidote to becoming monstrous—God's Word; challenges from Zone of Interest
The content here may seem an overly intense way to encourage you to read through the Bible in Chronological Order, which Bible805 (https://wp.me/pazrJD-OO) has a variety of ways for you to do, but we are living in a time when truth seems to have lost its connection with objective reality in the...
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#175 Romans, saved by grace alone; challenged to walk worthy
Romans is one of the most significant books in the Bible because it is a complete and systematic explanation of the Christian faith. It is different than the other letters of the New Testament that were written to address specific problems in specific churches. The focus of this book was to…
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#174 1 & 2 Corinthians, saints in God's eyes, sinners in process
A struggle for most of us who follow Jesus is that we know we should be better than we are. We know God called us to live lives that reflect our Savior, but far too often our lives reflect our world instead. As we learn in reading Paul's letters to the Corinthians, this struggle is nothing new.…
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#173 1 & 2 Thessalonians, caring advice for young Christians and a reminder that all will be well
As we learned in our previous lesson on Acts and Hebrews, when Paul first began preaching this new message of salvation in Jesus, he began by showing how Jesus was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. As he moves further away from Jerusalem and begins to preach to people who aren’t as...
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#172 The Book of Hebrews, God’s eternal plans made real in the church and in us
Hebrews has a reputation for being a difficult book to understand and it is if you simply pull it out of context and without at least some knowledge of the Old Testament that it is based on, try to figure out what it is talking about. This is sad because Hebrews was intended to be a book of...
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#171 Discipleship, what it means to follow Jesus
What is the point of being a disciple? We certainly don't hear a lot about it in churches today with the emphasis from many pulpits is a combination of happy life promises, and moral outrage over whatever the latest conservative news channel is reporting, mixed in with pleas for money. What an...
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#170 What the Gospels Tell Us About the Trinity
It's common to hear, even from those who seem very knowledgeable about the Christian faith and the Bible that "the Trinity is very hard to understand" or that "the Trinity is a mystery," or a similar statement. I STRONGLY disagree! Our God wants us to know Him and understand Him and I don't…
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#169 What isn't in the New Testament, Gnostic Gospels then, deconstruction and progressive Christianity today
A primary criticism of the New Testament is that critics say that Christians intentionally left out and/or suppressed certain writings, primarily what we call the Gnostic Gospels, and that they should be part of our New Testament and aren’t. We need to take their challenges seriously because our...
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#168 Overview of the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark & Luke and the coming of the Kingdom of God
How do we know what we’re told about Jesus is true? Wasn’t the New Testament written hundreds of years after He lived? How do we know it isn’t just legends about a good teacher? And why did some books get included and others didn’t? In addition to that, from the start, John the Baptist and Jesus...
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#167 Introduction to the New Testament, the critical importance of correct dating
The New Testament makes some extraordinary claims including that the long-prophesied Messiah came into the world, lived, taught, died, and rose again to offer a restored relationship to God to all who believe in Him. For claims of such importance, naturally, not everyone believed them then or now...
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#166 Time Between the Testaments, how to live when in the in-between times & when it seems God is silent
From the close of the Old Testament to the start of the New Testament, it is a VERY different world—so many things had changed. There is a an infographic that goes through the changes that goes with the lesson. In this lesson, we’ll go over how the changes came to be. We’ll also look at the…
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#166 Time Between the Testaments, how to live when in the in-between times & when it seems God is silent
From the close of the Old Testament to the start of the New Testament, it is a VERY different world—so many things had changed. There is a an infographic that goes through the changes that goes with the lesson. In this lesson, we’ll go over how the changes came to be. We’ll also look at the…
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#165 Book of Malachi, Conversations with God, past, now & forever
The book of Malachi begins… with God saying, “I have always loved you, but you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” Malachi 1:2 In some ways, these brief statements sum up the entire history of the Old Testament. God again and again both shows and declares His love for His people. And His...
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#164, Haggai and Zechariah, Finish what you start, God always does
These books were written 14‐16 years after the Jews returned to the land after their captivity. The return itself was a glorious work of God. Once in the land, there were challenges when the surrounding people tried to stop them, but God intervened there also. The Israelites had seen God conquer...
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#163 History of the Return, God keeps His promises and so should we
Though God had to punish the Children of Israel for their many sins by sending them into exile in Babylon, the punishment had a promised limit of 70 years and at the end of the 70 years, He miraculously returned them to their land. In this lesson we’ll go over the return and the leadership God…
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#162 Ezekiel & Daniel, whiner, worker, witness, wonder
The setting for this episode is that time has run out. After hundreds of years of warnings and challenges, it’s over for Judah. Daniel and Ezekiel are in Babylon taken there in an early deportation before the end came in Jerusalem. What seemed horrible to them at the time was a great blessing in...
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Special-- Keep Your Eyes Open for a Burning Bush
This is a special podcast inspired by the Global Leadership Summit we recently attended. You are never too old, too young, too anything to not follow God's leading in your life and the dreams He gives you!
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#161 How to Understand Apocalyptic Passages in the Bible
When we read through the Prophets in the Old Testament, particularly when we get to Ezekiel and Daniel we are introduced to fantastic images, whirling wheels, fantastic beasts, and world-shaking prophecies. This type of writing is what is known as “apocalyptic” and it’s useful to take some time…
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#160 What to Do When Your World is Falling Apart, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Obediah
How are we supposed to act when things go wrong? Especially if we had nothing to do to cause the problems that plague us? How can we help others who are going through a hard time? I have answers to these questions and more in this lesson. First, the lesson goes into a little bit of history to set...
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#159 Habakkuk, his Questions and why it is OK to ask God, WHY?
Is it really OK to ask God “why?” We all have questions like these: Why does God allow evil? Why do evil people get away with things? Why do good people get caught up in the mess others make? In this lesson we’ll look at the prophet Habakkuk and what happened when he not only asked God “Why?” but...
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#158 Live With the End in Mind, Hopeful, joyful reminders from Micah, Isaiah, and Zephaniah
The best-selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People totally revolutionized the lives of millions of people and one of the habits he talked about is a great summary of our lesson today. The habit I’m talking about is Habit #2—Begin With the End in Mind The prophets who preached after...
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#157, How falling is never final with our God, the Fall of Israel
When God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, they met God at Mt. Sinai and there God not only gave them the 10 Commandments and His other laws for how to live, but He offered them a covenant, an agreement with Him that if they would obey and follow His commands, they would be His people, His...
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#156 Hosea, How God uses human lives as lessons, be sure your's is a good one
Just before Hosea appears, God sent the prophet Amos to condemn the sins of Israel. Amos preached forceful, harsh messages for about 3 years. With Hosea God gives his people a similar message that they have violated his covenant and judgment is coming, but in a very different way. In Hosea, his...
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#155 Two Key Characteristics of Prophetic Books--essential to understand as you read them
Reading the prophets can be confusing and to help, and Bible805 did a preliminary lesson to help you understand them, CLICK HERE to go to it. As I was preparing this section on the prophets, especially as you start to read Isaiah, I realized that an explanation of two more things are very…
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#154 The Prophet Amos, when religion isn’t enough and the importance of justice in serving God
The prophet Amos and his message has captivated preachers, reformers, and Christian leaders from the earliest days it was preached until today, particularly with its emphasis on justice. Martin Luther King used it in his I Have a Dream speech where he quoted the verse “Let justice roll down…”…
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#153 Jonah, about so much more than a fish and the imperative of follow-up for new Christians
We all know about the fish swallowing Jonah, but there is more in the book including the answers to these questions: What about people who haven’t heard the gospel if Jesus is the only way to God What do we do about bad people, or when people treat us badly? What does God expect from us as His...
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#152 The Prophetic Books, little understood, incredibly important, an introduction
When people think of the Old Testament prophets, most often two areas come to mind: First, most people think of the prophecies of Jesus’ coming, and though that is important and a significant validation of the truth of the Christian faith, only 2% of prophecies are about the coming of Jesus....
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#151, Solomon, lessons from a wasted life and how to not make the same mistakes
After studying the life of David, we couldn’t have a greater contrast between his life as a man “after God’s own heart,” than what we find in his son Solomon. This lesson will show you the solid foundation of Biblical instruction he had, how he started well, but progressively deteriorated into...
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#150 David, great goodness and great sins, but always a man after God's own heart
The Bible calls David, a man “after God’s own heart.” Thisphrase is part of a sermon of Paul’s in the NT Acts 13:22—where he is talking about the history of Israel, and Paul says, “After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man...
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#149, Samuel and Saul, the importance of listening to God & how to do it
Have you recently had someone say to you, “You aren’t listening to me?” Most of us have. Maybe we weren’t paying attention, or maybe we didn’t want to hear what we knew someone was going to say. Whatever the reason, not listening can get us into a lot of trouble. The trouble is especially serious...
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#148, Judges and Ruth, My Way or God’s Way, how to live the best way.
There is a popular song that boasts “I did it my way!” Though it sounds appealing, is this really the best way to live? We’re going to look at around 400 years of history when an entire nation decided to do it their way in this podcast. From our earliest days, we want to do things our way; we…
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#147, How to Correctly Understand & Apply Bible Stories & Biblical Narratives
What is the purpose of the stories in the Bible? If someone does something that seems a bit odd, like Gideon setting out a fleece to determine God’s will or the Children of Israel walking around the walls of Jericho to conquer it— Does that mean I should do similar things to please God? We’ll...
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#146, Joshua, 9 ways to fight and win the battles of life
If you are having a hard time in your Christian life, this lesson will teach you 9 lessons on how to fight and win, and the first step to winning the battles of life is to realize you are in a battle! Many Christians today are surprised when bad things happen because they thought it was going to…
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#145, Deuteronomy, where rules become joyful reality in our lives
In the book of Deuteronomy, the last of the five books of Moses that make up the Pentateuch, Moses preaches a final series of sermons to the people about to enter the Promised Land. There is a lot to talk about, but in this lesson, we’ll discuss three areas: 1. How we should love 2.How we should...
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#144--Numbers, Bad Choices and how Spiritual Disciplines Can Help Avoid Them
We’re in the book of Numbers as we read through the Bible and it is a pivotal book we can learn from, not only in what happened to the Children of Israel in this book but also what we can learn from it on how to deal with challenging situations. Ray Steadman said about Numbers: “If you read the…
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#143--The Backstory of Jesus, and the Old Testament tabernacle, sacrifices, and festivals
Every sport, hobby, or special interest has insider terms and history and the more you know the back story of them the more you’ll understand and enjoy the activity. The Bible is no different—the more you understand the foundational items in the first 5 books of the Bible, what we call the...
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#142 The Old Testament Laws, Why read them, How to understand them, and Apply them today
When most people get into the books of Old Testament Law, especially in Leviticus and Numbers, with all the odd and obscure laws and regulations, they bail out. And why shouldn’t they? What do these laws and regulations have to do with us today? We will answer all these questions and more in this...
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#141 Exodus, a New Begining for Moses, Israel, and Us
Have you ever felt stuck, trapped, not where you want to be or expected you’d be at this time in your life? The last few years for many have been times of lockdowns, isolation, disruptions of all sorts. Current challenges aside, at any time of life we can become trapped, emotionally, physically…
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#140 From a Person to a People, and the balance between God’s Sovereignty and Personal Responsibility
With this week’s lesson we move from studying one person’s life, Abraham, to how God transforms his people into the nation of Israel, who God will use as His representatives on earth, the ones who will write His Word, demonstrate His worship, and eventually be the family that bears the Savior of...
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# 139 Abraham, Hero of the Faith, How God chooses and crafts his people
In Genesis, with the life of Abraham, we have a big shift, where God moves from working with all of humanity to a focus on ONE man, who will become the founder of the Jewish nation. Ultimately three major religions in our world today claim him as their founder: the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim...
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#138 Genesis and Job, answers to the big questions of life, part two and lesson #2 of through the Bible in Chronological Order
One of the great answers we discovered the first video of this series is the assurance that Life after death is a great promise to those who believe in Jesus. Yet that assurance brings up another question that we will answer in this lesson which is: “What about those who have never heard of…
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#137 Genesis and Job, answers to the big questions of life, part one and lesson #1 of through the Bible in Chronological Order
With this lesson we start the adventure of reading through the Bible in Chronological Order. It begins by reading Genesis and three days into it, we jump to the book of Job. We will talk about why we read these two books together and you’ll see how Genesis and Job lay the foundation for much of...
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#136 Resources to help you to read, listen to, and TEACH OTHERS through the Bible in the coming year
I truly believe that getting to know your Bible well by reading it in Chronological Order is THE MOST important thing you can do in the coming year and every year, not only for yourself, but for those you care for in your small groups, classes, or other ministry groups. However, even though I…
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#135 Proverbs, a reliable GPS for a disciple of Jesus
We need a GPS, a global positioning system to help us live a life that pleases God. A GPS in our car or phone can give us directions because it is linked to a system of satellites orbiting the earth that can pinpoint where we are within 1 centimeter of accuracy. We might be lost or not know how…
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#134 Psalms, How to walk with Jesus in every part of life
We may not think of Psalms as a book of the Bible about discipleship, but in reality, it is one of the most instructive books in the Bible to help us follow Jesus in all areas of life, which is the essence of being a disciple. Dallas Willard described discipleship in this way, We need to be clear...
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I believe the Bible is as true and real as this palm tree in my front yard and the area code (805) I live in. In this podcast, my goal is to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible. Doing that isn't always simple or easy and the podcasts provide in-depth studies, historical background, and challenging applications, all from me, Yvon Prehn, a lay teacher and a writer for Jesus. Go to www.Bible805.com for show notes, commentary, and resource links to videos, charts, teaching resources, and printables to help you bring God's Word into every part of your life.
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