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 was 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.

It’s now 2020, and I’m not sure exactly what direction this site and the podcast is going to take. But one thing I wanted to share, the most important message to share is to define and introduce visitors to this site to salvation in Jesus.

We are in the midst of a pandemic and one inescapable truth of the pandemic people that no matter what our efforts, people are dying.

We are confronted with our mortality in a way that is easy to ignore in our contemporary world. As Christians, we claim to know what happens after death and I wanted to clarify that belief, not only because it is the key message of the Bible, but it is also the most important one people need today.

Go to the category Christian Salvation & Discipleship defined for the podcasts on this topic. Sign up for the newsletter and I’ll let you know what direction the podcast will take in the coming months. I promise you aren’t going to be bombarded every day with email blather about how essential this site is.

One more thing, though I’m not sure when I will have the spiritual energy to start regularly podcasting again, I am creating Instagram illustrations of verses and micro-blog commentary on them. Check it out at www.Instagram.com/yvonprehn.

The Bible is our lifeline to all that is good and true and can be trusted—and a bite-sized way to get more into your life

September 8, 2020 by bible805

We’d think someone was incredibly foolish if they were drowning and they wouldn’t grab hold of a lifeline that was within their grasp.

But we do the same thing when we ignore the Bible.

It is literally a lifeline to all that is good and true and that can be trusted.

Our world today is scary and sadly many respond with lies and bad behavior. We think we don’t know where to turn, but we do.

We have the Bible and my goal on this site is to help you know it better and in more depth so that it becomes in reality, not just your lifeline when you feel you are drowning, but the anchor to every challenge in life and guide for living all of life.

Something new for you

Today is 9-8-2020 and I am still recovering from major surgery and moving much more slowly than I’d like. I want to redo the basic lessons here on Truth & History on why we can trust our Bible and have them available as downloadable PowerPoint lessons. In addition, I want to get going again on the weekly podcasts.

But that will take time.

As I work up to larger projects, while being bed-bound, I discovered Instagram in a new way and have been doing sayings and Bible verses, plus micro-blog commentary to go with them. I will be publishing these on Instagram every Tuesday and Thursday.

Check them out at www.Instagram.com/yvonprehn

If you find the short teachings on it useful, please tell your friends about it.

Please pray for me for strength, wisdom, and the ability to do all possible to help people learn God’s Word, trust it, and live it as confident, at peace, disciples of Jesus.

We could all use good news now and here is the best news—all about salvation in Jesus

August 31, 2020 by bible805

An explanation of the good news of salvation in Jesus — C.S. Lewis said that one of the reasons he believed the Christian gospel is that it didn’t make human sense but that it was not something a man could have made up was precisely why he believed it. I’m not sure if I made sense of it or not, but here is an attempt that may be useful.

We could all use good news…..

Pandemic, crazy weather, racial injustice, and political turmoil—wherever we turn, bad news fills our world.

But there is one place the news is good—and that’s in the good news about Jesus. Many call this good news the gospel and that’s what our podcast is about today.

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

Below is the podcast and below that are the notes from it.

Let’s talk about Why the gospel is GOOD NEWS

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

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