Bible Podcast and Commentary from Yvon Prehn

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn, this podcast and website are my latest efforts in a lifetime of teaching and writing about my faith in Jesus. The name Bible 805 comes from my belief that the Bible, Jesus, and the Christian faith is as real as the place I live in (area code 805)—Ventura, California. The palm tree image here is a picture of a palm tree in my front yard.

If you are new to this site, I’d encourage you to listen first to the Truth and History Series that talks about how we got the Bible and why we can trust it. For 2019 my big project is teaching through the Bible in Chronological Order. Don’t let that intimidate you—the lessons are self-contained and you can jump in any time or listen to the stand-alone lessons. If you’ve never read through the Bible like this before, listen to these Six Benefits for what it will do for you.

I’ll also do stand-alone podcasts like, Why Jesus Wasn’t a Zombie and Life After Death—God’s Gift or Man’s Wishful Thinking.

Wherever you start, Welcome to Bible 805!

What manner of people ought we to be? As we end our year-long read-through of the Bible?

December 28, 2019 by bible805

What’s the most important thing we need to think about as we wrap up our year-long journey through the Bible?

We started with Paradise lost in Genesis and we will end with Paradise restored in Revelation, so should we focus on end-time prophecy? Figuring out when Jesus will return?

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and welcome to Bible 805!

There are many things we could focus on as we wrap up this year, but) what I decided to talk about as we look back on what we’ve read and look forward to God’s plans for us is to answer the question taken from a passage in 2^nd Peter where in light of Jesus coming, he doesn’t focus on the newspaper sensational details of it, but asks:

What manner of people ought we to be?

Below the podcast are the notes for it.

To download a PDF of the notes, CLICK the following link: NOTES What manner of people ought we to be

Paul’s Prison letters Pity party or prayer?

December 22, 2019 by bible805

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

No one or no circumstance ever forces us to act in a way God doesn’t want us to. In our podcast today we’ll look at how the Apostle Paul responded in a very difficult situation.

Below the podcast is a copy of the notes.

CLICK the following link to go to a PDF of the notes: NOTES for PRISON LETTER and PRAYERSContinue Reading

Romans Road, part 2 The rest of the journey home

December 7, 2019 by bible805

If you invited someone to your home for dinner and they stopped halfway there, what would you think? That they didn’t care? Didn’t really want to be with you?
Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and Welcome to Bible 805!

In our podcast today we’ll see how that is a little like what it is like if we accept Jesus to be our Savior, but then we quit God’s plans for us only halfway to where He wants us to be.

Click the following link for a download of the PDF of the notes: NOTES Romans Road, part 2, the rest of the journey home

#57 The Romans Road, part one—The Road to Salvation

December 7, 2019 by bible805

Podcast on Romans, The Roman Road, part 1

Christians often refer to themselves as “saved”, but what does it mean to be “saved”? Saved from what?

In today’s podcast we’ll talk about the meaning of salvation and how to get from wherever we are to this spiritual destination. Our roadmap for this journey is found in the book of Romans.

Click the following link to download the notes: NOTES The Romans Road, part 1—the plan of salvation

The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

November 25, 2019 by bible805

As we read Acts and the early letters of Paul, we see the people of the early church selling everything, constantly in worship, doing miracles. Does that mean we should do these things also?

The history of the early church is no doubt exciting, as they worked miracles, held everything in common and lived a life of continual worship.

However, a key question for us living today is which of their actions should we follow as a normative command for the church today—meaning we should keep doing it because they did it and what should we understand simply as a history of the birth of the church, something to learn from in principle, but not necessarily a practice to precisely follow?

That’s what this podcast is about. Below you can listen and below that is a PDF of the notes.

To download a copy of the PDF of the notes, Click the following link: NOTES for The Early Church—what to learn from, what to follow

Changed lives and a world turned upside down Acts, James, Galatians

November 20, 2019 by bible805

What does it take to change a habit?

We’ve all struggled to lose weight or exercise or get up earlier or all sorts of things we wish we’d do differently.

But it’s never easy to change something we’ve been doing for many years, is it?

It’s never easy to change even the most simple of habits, but in our podcast today we’ll see that the followers of Jesus not only changed their personal behavior from that of fearful cowards to fearless leaders, but that thousands of Jewish believers totally changed the faith practices that had been the core of their identity since the time of Abraham.

In our podcast, we’ll look at the history of the incredible changes that took place after Jesus Resurrection that we read about in the book of Acts and then we’ll look at two of the earliest books that were written to the early church, James and Galatians.

CLICK the following link to download the PDF of the notes for the podcast and then below the podcast is a print out of the notes: Notes Birth of the Christian Church, Acts, James, Galatians