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On this site you’ll find Bible podcasts, videos, blogs, printables, and more of Basic Bible Teaching that will help make difficult subjects in the Bible easy to understand and apply. For FREE teaching resources based on the content of this site, go to www.Bible805Academy.com.

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The Bible805 ministry has evolved over the years and in case you find posts that say otherwise, as of 2026–

#1 EVERYTHING, every resource from Bible805, the Bible805 Academy, and Bible805 Images is now FREE !

I may have missed updating the current free status of items that previously had a change—but be assured if you go to the following sites—EVERYTHING is free on the following sites. The only things that have a charge are my books on Amazon.com.

www.Bible805.com
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The exciting news is that in the short time I’ve made them free, there have been hundreds of downloads of these Bible-teaching materials by people all over the world including downloading from South Africa, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Hungary, the UK, France, Canada, and lots from the U.S.

My prayer has been for these resources to equip those who need them, especially under-resourced, new churches, missionaries, church plants, and anyone else who can benefit from them. God is gracious as I’ve had various challenges and haven’t been able to do anything to advertise these resources—I have no idea how people found them, though I know the Lord can work in amazing ways!

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Episode #18, Clarifying the purpose of Bible805 and its part in the Great Conversation

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The Great Conversation is my term for the combined teachings of all followers of Jesus as we attempt to share Him with our world. I believe it’s important to clarify the place of Bible805 in all the other options you have for learning the Bible, for those of you using my resources so there are no unrealistic expectations.

To do that, I’ll first clarify what I mean by the Great Conversation and then what I believe is my part and the part of Bible805 in it. Below is the podcast and then the text of it.

The importance of understanding the Great Conversation                                     

No one of us has the final and complete, first and last word on our infinite God and His ways and no audience we’re sent to share with has the same needs or hears in a similar way because of their various backgrounds and cultures.

And so a symphony of voices and viewpoints is needed. How do these come about?

First, we listen to the Lord to discover our particular voice, the part we are to play. We spend time in His Word to make certain that at its core our message is always a reflection of His message. After we learn our message, we craft its presentation to meet the needs of the particular audience we’ve been called to serve.

The Great Conversation is also like a symphony

— in that we each work to perfect our instrument for getting out the message we’ve been given. The messages are very different, assigned by the Lord appropriate to the audience we’ve been given and tailored to the gifts we possess.

God has made some of His instruments loud and vigorous like kettle drums beating truths home, some are like a gentle violin melody, slowly sinking into the heart and mind, some a steady rythm but all needed for the song to be complete.

We aren’t called to tell others how to play the instrument assigned to them; to master our own takes all our focus and energy if we are to play our part well.

Instead of critiquing other symphony members, above all we must keep our eyes on the Conductor, not assuming the job of conductor for anyone else’s work. Our job is to trust the Conductor to guide us all to work in harmony, to let us know when to practice more, when to play loudly, when to be softer, when to rest.

The place of Bible805 in the Great Conversation

I hope that made sense.

I was attempting to put into context what I believe is the part the Lord wants me and Bible805 to play in the Great Conversation. The ministry of Bible805 is only a part and a far from a perfect, complete, or commanding part.

The usefulness of the message of Bible805 does not come from the authority of an institution or a list of my personal credentials.

It is a part played by, as C.S. Lewis put it, “a mere Christian.”

The place of Bible805 in the Great Conversation

To help me define the part I play, I asked my students (as none of us ever see ourselves correctly) what made my teaching different and when they had choices, what made it something they wanted to take time to listen to or attend a class or what a video I produced.

The answer I got repeatedly, stated in similar ways was that I “make hard stuff [in and about the Bible] easy to understand.”

Though I hadn’t really thought about it or summarized my teaching in that way, I realized that is what I feel called to do. I love to explain the Bible, to help people truly understand it. I get great joy and satisfaction from seeing that sudden look of understanding in someone’s eyes and even greater joy seeing lives changed from repeated study of and time in God’s Word.

As I thought about it, I realized this approach to teaching the Bible is founded on my firm conviction that our God wants to be known, to be understood. Immediately after creating humanity, God talked and walked with His people—intimate, sharing, day-to-day familiarity was His initial design. When that bond was broken by His dearly loved creation to a degree beyond our comprehension in its cosmic consequences, God didn’t abandon us.

God pursued His rebellious and wandering creation. He spent millennia in preparation that culminated with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus to heal the breach, and the Holy Spirit was sent to indwell God’s people as a guarantee and foretaste of the future wherein once again, in the Kingdom, humanity will walk face-to-face in risen and redeemed bodies, in intimate conversational love forever with the God who created them for this purpose.

How that applies to our purpose, here and now, day-to-day

It follows then that I believe God’s intention for us isn’t solely to ultimately save us from eternal death and separation from Him, (though of course that is of incredible importance) but His intention is to have a day-by-day conversational relationship with us now and that He’s told us how to have that sort of relationship with Him in the Bible.

The Bible is God’s Word to us, literally His words for all we need to know and how to live a life of fulfilment, joy and peace; walking with our God now and forever. But not everyone knows these truths and that’s what I want to share, as simply and clearly as possible.

In God’s mercy He let me learn the Bible from early childhood with the influence of a godly grandmother and a mother took us to church and read my sister and I Bible stories every night. I loved everything about the Bible and Jesus and church for as long as I can remember.

I started to share what I learned when as a third grader I helped teaching the kindergarteners in Sunday School, I got my own little class when I was in sixth grade, I took over the high school group (our leaders left the church and no one else wanted to do it) when I was a sophomore in high school and I haven’t quit teaching the Bible in one way or another since then.

I love the Bible and teaching the Bible to people, helping them to know, trust, apply and teach the Bible is my place in the Great Conversation. My constant prayer as I create materials is that the Lord help me to be clear, never confusing or simply clever, but clear—to truly make hard stuff in the Bible easy to understand.

The particular methods that I use to do that have come from much study, and experience and they will be the topic of another podcast and blog.

For now, I want to be the simple explainer of difficult things in the Bible, to help others know, trust, apply and teach it and in all to develop a conversational relationship with Jesus.

That is the purpose of Bible805. I hope you’ll join me it.

Genesis & Job, Answers to the Big Questions of Life, Part Two

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Answers to the Big Questions of life PART TWO This lesson continues our study of the Big Questions of Life by examining answers found in Genesis and Job. We learn that God is our Creator and therefore the foundation for our purpose and meaning in life. We also gain a clearer understanding of Satan—his origin, limitations, and methods of deception. Finally, Job provides one of the Bible’s earliest and clearest affirmations of life after death and bodily resurrection, giving believers hope that extends beyond this life. Through Job’s experiences, we are reminded that God remains sovereign, even in suffering, and that our ultimate future is secure in Him.

Following is the podcast, video, and below them a PDF copy of the class handouts that includes the Notes, Discussion Guide, and the infographic on Old Testament Lifespans.

If you would like the original, editable files for this lesson to use freely in your teaching, go to the following link from the Bible805 Academy: https://bible805academy.com/b/8QuYG

 

Lesson Handouts

Motivation to teach the foundational truths of the Christian life to your people

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I just finished teaching a series on Ancient Prophets, Modern Messages, and two passages stood out to and convicted me as a Bible teacher. They are:

Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

Malachi 2:7-8 “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. 8 But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; 

We don’t need to go back to the Old Testament prophets to see evidence of what happens to the people of God when they aren’t taught the foundational truths of the Christian faith, when they are not grounded in God’s Word and are taught primarily to go it to feel better and be more positive about life.

That doesn’t last much beyond the last praise song.

You can either listen to the podcast of this content or read the rest of  the post below it–

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Remainder of 2026 Bible805 Schedule, June 12 through Jan.1, and reasons for the topics chosen

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Theme of this schedule of classes:
The Biblical Foundation and knowledge needed for a growing disciple of Jesus

I’m currently finishing a series on Ancient Prophets, Modern Messages; lessons on the series and links to all resources on it can be found on the www.Bible805.com site. The modern messages from these ancient prophets are many and challenging, but one that has come up again and again in these books is that the people were in the disobedient, sad, and sinful conditions they were in because of a lack of clear teaching, of God’s Word in their lives and the fault is most often laid at the feet of the priests, of those who should be teaching.

In all that follows, though we are all responsible for our personal intake of God’s Word and application of it, the Bible consistently reminds teachers of their responsibility to be teachers of God’s Word. I’ll lay the foundation for that in the verses and content that follows, but this is not to make you feel guilty if you are a teacher!

Bible805 exists to give you the resources you need to correct this lack in teaching God’s Word!

I have a series of classes for the next 7 months (schedule below) and you can use ALL the content from them to teach your people. I’ve made the original PowerPoints files, notes, discussion guides, video and audio files all available for you to edit and use without attribution from the www.Bible805Academy.com site. You can preview the content by listening to the podcast or watching the videos. [Read more…]

Wrapped up in love, three of the most important foundational truths for a realistic life with God

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Check out the lessons on Answers to the Big Questions of Life, from Genesis and Job for answers to the tough challenges of life.

This post is from Answers to the Big Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, Part One

Key verse: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.” Job 38:4, TLB

One of the worst things in life is being deceived about something important—if we think someone loves us and we find out they don’t; if we think a job we love isn’t what thought it would be; if we find out we aren’t the person we thought we were—believing something important and then finding out we were wrong can be devastating.

That reality is vitally true with our relationship to God. We must believe the correct things about Him for our walk with Him to make sense and for us to make the right decisions in how we follow Him. Sadly, many of the teachings today, even in the church, focus on simply what will make us feel good and if God doesn’t make us feel good or do what we want Him to do, many get mad and walk away.

Our lesson series on Genesis and Job was created to help you gain a clearer picture of what to expect in your relationship with Him. The three foundational truths I’m about to share, if looked at alone, can appear harsh and even cruel at times. But it is important to remember that wrapped up in every hard concept of God, everything that is difficult to understand, or a trial we are given to endure, comes from a God who is, above all things LOVE. [Read more…]

Answers to the Big Questions of Life from Genesis and Job – Part One: Introduction, Overview, Authorship and Dating of Both Books

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Gen & Job, Part OneThis lesson introduces the foundational questions that will be explored throughout the Genesis and Job series. It begins with the central truth that the Bible is God’s story, revealing His creation, His purposes, and His answers to life’s most important questions. The lesson explains why Genesis and Job are placed together in a chronological study of the Bible and why understanding them correctly provides an essential foundation for understanding both the Bible and life.

Special attention is given to the authorship and dating of Genesis and Job. The lesson presents historical, geographical, traditional, and biblical evidence supporting Moses as the author or compiler of both books and affirms that Job was a real historical person. Throughout the lesson, three foundational truths emerge: God’s sovereignty over all things, the non-transactional nature of our relationship with God, and the reality of an unseen spiritual world.

Following is the podcast, video, and below them a PDF copy of the class handouts that includes the Notes, Discussion Guide, and the infographic on Old Testament Lifespans.

If you would like the original, editable files for this lesson to use freely in your teaching, go to the following link from the Bible805 Academy: https://bible805academy.com/b/Wpg1y

Lesson Handouts

Haggai and Zechariah, God Never Forgets Dreams or Promises

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Haggai and Zechariah ministered after the Jewish people returned from the Babylonian exile. Although God had opened the way for them to rebuild the Temple, they became distracted by their own priorities and stopped the work. Haggai challenged them with practical obedience, while Zechariah encouraged them through visions that reminded them of God’s eternal purposes. Together, their messages teach that God keeps His promises, calls His people to faithful service, and asks them to live with both present obedience and future hope.

Lesson HandoutsAll notes, discussion guide and added charts included in the LESSON HANDOUTS.

The Prophets Ezekiel and Daniel, whiner, worker, witness, wonder

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Ezekiel and Daniel LessonThis lesson examines the lives of Daniel and Ezekiel during the Babylonian captivity and highlights four possible responses to difficult circumstances: whining, working, witnessing, and experiencing the wonder of God. Though both men faced exile, uncertainty, and enormous challenges, they chose faithfulness instead of complaint. Daniel faithfully served in government leadership while Ezekiel ministered among the captives as a prophet and watchman. Their obedience and trust in God became a powerful witness to kings, nations, and fellow exiles. Through their faithfulness, God revealed extraordinary visions and promises that remind us He is sovereign over history and present with His people.

Following is the podcast, video, and below them a PDF copy of the Notes and Discussion Guide.

If you would like the original, editable files for this lesson to use freely in your teaching, go to the following link from the Bible805 Academy: https://bible805academy.com/b/kKY6B

Lesson Handouts

The Prophet Habakkuk,

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Prophet HabakkukIn this lesson on the prophet Habakkuk, we see a man who honestly questioned God about evil, suffering, and injustice. Rather than rebuking Habakkuk, God engaged him in conversation. Habakkuk struggled to understand why God would allow wickedness and why He would use Babylon, an even more evil nation, as part of His judgment. Through this dialogue, Habakkuk learned that God’s plans are larger than human understanding and that the righteous are called to live by faith. The lesson also emphasizes the importance of developing a continual conversational relationship with God through prayer, Scripture, listening, reflection, and trust.

Following is the podcast, video, and below them a PDF copy of the Notes and Discussion Guide.

If you would like the original, editable files for this lesson to use freely in your teaching, go to the following link from the Bible805 Academy: https://bible805academy.com/b/8n1we

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5-23-2026 UPDATE on and Bible805–a consistent plan going forward!

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The purpose of Bible805 is to help you know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible.

Review of the purpose and work of Bible805

The purpose of Bible805 is to help people know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible. All the materials (with the exception of  Yvon Prehn books sold on Amazon.com) to help people throughout the world do this are FREE to end users.

The free resources not only include the finished lessons, but through the Bible805 Academy, people have access to the raw materials in editable format of the PowerPoints of each lesson, the Notes, and Discussion Guides, plus the videos and audio versions without ads. These can be used however desired to create lessons or other materials for teaching the Bible and no attribution is required. The only limitation is that they cannot be repurposed and sold, though I encourage sharing.

I have been sharing Bible training and teaching materials for many years through the Bible805 website, podcast, and YouTube channel. About two years ago, I decided to organize all I had for others to use and make it available—which was the birth of the Bible805 Academy. After months of work, planning, and prayer, it was organized and many materials uploaded to it.

Then, with no warning, my husband, my partner in life and ministry for 30 years, had a massive heart attack and went home to Jesus. I deleted the additional details of my life difficulties in a previous version of this update and will skip ahead to what is going on now because…… [Read more…]

There are NO advertising or Affiliate links on this website and here’s why (this is very important)

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Please note, this is a reprint from my previous ministry Effective Church Communications, but the opinions here are the same for this site and my ministries, on the www.effectivechurchcom.com site, there were more considerations as the possible recommendations were larger, but this content is updated for Bible805.

It is important to clarify the stand of Bible805 (and previously of my ministry Effective Church Communications) on recommendations, advertising, and affiliate marketing, in part because my position in these areas is very different from most websites, including Christian ones. Please know I am not judging the practices and motives of other sites by what follows. We all serve the same Lord, and He has many ways to work and we are all accountable to our Lord for our decisions.

That being said, though there are many ways to interact with vendors and ministries, the following is what I feel the Lord wants for my ministries, and here is the summary statement.

Bible805 and all associated ministries, past and present does not take any paid advertising, nor do I swap advertising, take free products for review, or take part in any affiliate programs. The only items advertised and sold on our sites are those I produce, and at present, the only ones I sell are books by me, Yvon Prehn. Any recommendations given or lists of or links to useful resources are totally at my discretion, based on what I’ve found personally useful, and may be modified or removed at any time.

To clarify and expand this position please read the following materials. [Read more…]

Hosea, When God Uses Your Life as a Lesson

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Hosea, lesson, notes, links to videoThe book of Hosea reveals both the heartbreak and the faithful love of God. Through Hosea’s difficult marriage to Gomer, God gave Israel—and us—a living picture of His relationship with His people. Though Israel repeatedly turned away from Him, God continued to pursue them with love, discipline, mercy, and restoration. The lesson also reminds us that God may use our lives, especially difficult seasons, as testimonies to others of His faithfulness and sustaining grace.

Following is the podcast, video, and below them a PDF copy of the Notes and Discussion Guide.

If you would like the original, editable files for this lesson to use freely in your teaching, go to the following link from the Bible805 Academy: https://bible805academy.com/b/K6rNZ

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