from Yvon Prehn to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible
The Bible805 ministry has a variety of podcasts that include everything from short, daily challenges from the Bible to lengthy through the Bible lessons, and topical Bible teaching series and a ministry miscellany of advice on ministry and Bile teaching.
QUICK LINKS to the podcasts follow and below them is an overall description of how to listen and then detailed descriptions of each one.
This lesson explores how the tabernacle, sacrifices, and festivals in the Old Testament form the foundation for understanding Jesus and the rest of the Bible.
Beginning with the Road to Emmaus, we are reminded that Jesus Himself explained how Moses and the Prophets pointed to Him. The New Testament repeatedly shows that what happened in the life of Jesus was the fulfillment of promises, pictures, and patterns given centuries earlier.
The lesson emphasizes that the Bible is one unified story with one ultimate Author. When read in fragments, its unity can be missed. But when viewed as a whole, the tabernacle, sacrificial system, priesthood, and festivals reveal a coherent plan of redemption pointing forward to Christ.
Each element of Israel’s worship—the altar, laver, lampstand, showbread, veil, ark, and annual feasts—served as a picture of what Jesus would ultimately fulfill. These were not random rituals, but carefully designed illustrations of cleansing, sacrifice, fellowship, intercession, rest, and final redemption. Together they form the backstory of Jesus and deepen our understanding of His life, death, resurrection, and promised return.
Following is the podcast, video, and handouts for the lesson.
I’m finally launching something I’ve wanted to for a long time—the Hobo Soul Podcast. I’ve wanted to do this because I truly believe from the core of my soul that following Jesus, knowing Him as Savior, and living according to His Word is the MOST important thing you can do for a good life now and a joyful forever.
I’ve wanted to share that reality and many of the things I’ve learned in my many years of walking with Him, especially to those younger than I am, who are incredibly important to me personally (you know who you are). Telling them to read my books or watch on YouTube my 30-minute Bible-teaching lessons, I didn’t imagine would be their first choice. I wanted to sit them down and talk at them; but that wasn’t very realistic either.
And so I decided on a podcast. I love doing podcasts, and for years I had the idea for the name of what I wanted to call this one—the Hobo Soul Podcast. My dearly loved nephew Jesse came up with this name years ago and gave me his permission to use it.
Following is the intro podcast, then a sample one from a series I’m doing during Lent, and after that, the transcripts of both. For the Lent ones especially, listen past the intro–I get much more upbeat as I get into them. The podcasts don’t have to be listened to in any order, they are stand-alone encouragements.
You can listen regularly at this link, on my Youtube.com/Bible805 channel, and most all other podcast channels, including iTunes, Spotify, and many others. Just go to your favorite and enter “Hobo Soul Podcast” by Yvon Prehn.
Observing Lent isn’t about a denomination, or whether your church is liturgical or not. Lent helps us to put the Christian life into a biblical perspective. It’s a time to practice saying “no” to ourselves in little things so we can say a bigger “yes” to God in the bigger decisions of life. It can truly be a time for significant spiritual growth for the individuals in your church as well the church as a whole.
Following is motivation for celebrating Lent and descriptions of resources, including free handouts and a Lenten Devotional and Journal. If you are in a hurry and don’t want to bother listening to all, go to www.Bible805.com and the resource links will all be on the home page.
Text and resources for Lenten resources follow. You can listen to a podcast of the content below or read the text that follows it. The Resource links are at the end of the article.
PDF, Lesson #5 Person to a People DISCUSSION GUIDE From a Person to a People 
This lesson completes Genesis by showing how God narrowed His focus from all humanity to one family that would become the nation of Israel. It reviews Genesis as four major events (creation, the fall, the flood, Babel) followed by four major people (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph). The lesson explains that God’s focus on Israel does not mean He stopped caring about the rest of humanity, but that through Israel God would preserve His Word, model worship, and serve as witnesses so that all nations would ultimately be blessed through the coming Savior, Jesus.
The lesson also explores the relationship between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility. God’s plan of salvation is certain, like a ship with a set destination, yet individual choices still matter and shape a person’s experience and consequences along the journey.
Through the lives of the patriarchs, we see both faith and failure: Abraham’s obedience and trust, Isaac’s quiet endurance and repeated missteps, Jacob’s scheming and God’s steady covenant promises, and Joseph’s suffering that God used to preserve many lives. The lesson closes by emphasizing that God can be trusted as the captain of the journey, even when life is unsettling, and that His promises will be fulfilled in His timing.
Following, is the podcast and the video on the lesson. NOTES, and an all new DISCUSSION Guide that can also be used as a journal are below the podcast and video. Click on the cover images to download the handouts.
For FREE, editable source material to teach the lesson yourself, go to the Bible805 Academy, where you can also download all the resources you need to teach the lesson.
This lesson introduces Abraham as a central figure in Genesis and a key example of how God chooses and shapes His people. While Abraham is often called a hero of the faith, the lesson makes clear that the true hero throughout the Bible is God Himself. Abraham’s story is not primarily about human greatness, but about God’s grace, initiative, patience, and faithfulness in working through imperfect people.
The lesson traces Abraham’s journey from the sophisticated city of Ur to the promised land of Canaan, highlighting the radical nature of God’s call. Abraham is invited into a new kind of relationship with God, not one defined by fear or ritual, but by trust and friendship. Along the way, Abraham shows both faith and failure, reminding us that God’s purposes are not undone by human weakness.
Finally, the lesson emphasizes the balance between grace and effort. Abraham is chosen by grace, yet his faith is demonstrated through obedience, perseverance, and costly trust. His life shows that faith is not merely belief, but belief woven together with action, as God continues to shape His people for His purposes.
Following, is the podcast and the video on the lesson. NOTES, and an all new DISCUSSION Guide that can also be used as a journal are below the podcast and video. Click on the cover images to download the handouts.
For FREE, editable source material to teach the lesson yourself, go to the Bible805 Academy, where you can also download all the resources you need to teach the lesson.
This lesson addresses three difficult questions: what happens to people who have never heard of Jesus, why innocent people suffer, and how believers can help those who are suffering.
Using Job as a key example, the lesson explains that God’s work and revelation extend beyond what we can see, and that we often do not know what God has made known to people in places and situations unfamiliar to us. Job also helps correct an unbiblical, transactional view of God that assumes obedience guarantees earthly prosperity and disobedience guarantees suffering.
The lesson shows that suffering can involve spiritual warfare, growth through pruning, and purposes beyond our understanding. It encourages believers to respond to suffering with kindness, honesty, prayer, and an eternal perspective, trusting that God is good, present, and in control even when outcomes do not improve in this life.
Following is the podcast and the video on the lesson. NOTES, and an all new DISCUSSION Guide that can also be used as a journal are below the podcast and video. Click on the cover images to download the handouts.
For FREE, editable source material to teach the lesson yourself, go to the Bible805 Academy, where you can also download all the resources you need to teach the lesson.
This lesson introduces three foundational questions that shape the entire story of the Bible: Why we are here, what went wrong, and whether this life is all there is. Using the books of Genesis and Job, the lesson begins with God as Creator, establishing that human life is intentional, dependent, and designed for meaning and purpose. Job reinforces this truth when God speaks of creation as the basis of His authority and wisdom.
The lesson then turns to what went wrong. Genesis introduces Satan as the antagonist who challenges God’s goodness and invites humanity to trust an alternative to relationship with God. Job expands our understanding by revealing Satan’s limited power, his role as accuser, and his subordination to God. While Satan can cause real harm, his actions are always under God’s control.
Finally, the lesson addresses the question of life after death. Job provides one of the earliest and clearest affirmations of bodily resurrection in the Bible. Job’s confidence that he will see God in his own flesh shows that suffering and death are not the end of the story. This hope places all human suffering into an eternal perspective and anchors faith in God’s ultimate redemption.
Following is the podcast and the video on the lesson. NOTES, and an all new DISCUSSION Guide that can also be used as a journal are below the podcast and video. Click on the cover images to download the handouts.
For FREE, editable source material to teach the lesson yourself, go to the Bible805 Academy, where you can also download all the resources you need to teach the lesson.
This lesson introduces the opening of the Bible’s storyline: “In the beginning, God” (Genesis 1:1). From start to finish, the Bible is God’s story—His creation, His purposes, and His redemptive plan after humanity turns away from Him and believes Satan’s lie.
The lesson also explains why Job is read very early in chronological Bible reading plans, even though it appears near the middle of most Bibles. Reading Job early gives foundational truths that shape how we understand God, suffering, and spiritual reality.
A key emphasis is that Genesis and Job are best understood as true historical accounts, not fictional stories. The lesson argues Moses authored (or more precisely, edited) both books using God’s revelation and available records. Job’s reality is confirmed by later biblical references (Ezekiel 14:14 and James 5:11).
The lesson concludes by introducing several major “Big Questions of Life” that Genesis and Job help answer, while also reminding us that the Bible may not give every answer we want—but it gives something better: God Himself shows up.
Following is the podcast and the video on the lesson. For NOTES, and an all new DISCUSSION Guide that can also be used as a journal are below the podcast and video. Click on the cover images to download the handouts.
For FREE, editable source material to teach the lesson yourself, go to the Bible805 Academy, where you can also download all the resources you need to teach the lesson.
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Through the Bible in Chronological Order Reading Plan, schedules and journal pages: https://bible805.com/through-the-bible-in-chronological-order-schedules-and-journal-pages/
Free eBook, Not Safe, But Good, with additional motivation for reading in Chronological Order and Reading Schedules:
ALL NEW–START HERE, a plan for curious people to begin reading the Bible, a new paperback book with a shorter reading plan, 11 books in the New Testament to introduce you to the Bible and the Christian faith: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4W9YW5Z?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
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This series of lessons in both Podcast and video format of PowerPoint presentations goes along with the Through the Bible in Chronological Order Reading plan from Bible805. Please go to the website, www.Bible805.com for a download (or CLICK here for a copy) of the reading schedule in various formats as well as reproducible journaling pages.
To clarify what makes this Read through the Bible Chronologically a bit different than some others you might be familiar with following you’ll find a podcast on it and after that the text version of the clarifications.
Click HERE or on the image to get a copy of the schedule to read through your Bible in the coming year with this plan.
Try it this year and learn more about the Bible than you can imagine!