Bible podcasts, videos, blogs, printables, and more to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible.

from Yvon Prehn to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible

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.

You become what you think about—carefully plan your mental munching

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junk food, not good for body or souls
Eating foods like these won’t nourish our bodies, and we need to take equal care to not feed our souls junk.

We all know that if we eat a constant diet of junk food, candy, and honestly delicious fast food, we probably won’t have a healthy body. We’ve got to eat a healthy diet and exercise if we want to all we can be to do all God wants us to do. And even more importantly to experience joy and peace in our lives that’s hard to do if we’re abusing our bodies.

The challenge is that to eat the right things isn’t nearly as easy as reaching for those little packets of cookies and chips and swinging through the drive-through. It takes work and planning for a consistently healthy diet and workout plan.

It’s no different with our souls—

What we take in mentally and how we exercise it by putting what we learn into consistent practice makes a huge difference in our mental and spiritual health. [Read more…]

ALL RESOURCES, EVERYTHING on this SITE is FREE!

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Bible805 logoThe 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 FREE ! The only things that have a charge are my books on Amazon.com.

I may have missed correcting all the details of the current free status of items that previously had a change—but be assured if you go to the following sites—EVERYTHING is free.

www.Bible805.com
www.Bible805Academy.com
www.Bible805images.com

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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Teaching tip: Be careful of personal illustrations—keep the focus on Jesus and the Word

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Child and Bible
Your family may be a wonderful source of illustrations, but the best source is the Bible itself.

Popular advice on preaching and teaching advises that the teacher scatter into their lesson illustrations from their lives to make their message more relatable.

Doing that may have some value, but it also has some pitfalls that may lessen the impact of your message or lesson. Following are three reasons why this might be the case and some advice on what to use instead of personal illustrations. [Read more…]

“Pastors are tired” – a help for that and yet, what do you expect?

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Dog-tired in ministry
Are you tired in ministry? Here is a resource that will help.

“Pastors are tired” has been a recent headline in several ministry communications. When I read it, I had two conflicting thoughts that I’ll share. Be warned, the first is a bit grumpy, but it is followed by what I hope is a compassionate and helpful resource (stick around for that, it’s worth it). [Read more…]

Through the Bible in Chronological Order, schedules and journal pages

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Reading through the Bible in Chronological Order is one of the best ways to understand it and to help you grow in your Christian life.

Included in the downloadable eBook here (just click on the image to download it) are schedules in both dated and numbered formats in both full-page formats (for you to use in a notebook) and ones that you can print front and back-sided on one-page that you can fold in half and fit easily in your Bible. [Read more…]

FREE, in-depth teaching resources for missionaries, small church leaders, anyone else with limited time to study–modify and make into your own lessons!

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FREE resources for any Bible teacher anywhere from the Bible805 Academy.
FREE resources for any Bible teacher anywhere from the Bible805 Academy.

It takes a tremendous amount of time to study and prepare lessons to teach the Bible. For pastors, and particularly missionaries and leaders of small churches, who must also do administrative, counseling, and financial tasks, carving out time to study is difficult.

With these groups in mind, I’ve made all the resources of the Bible805 Academy (www.Bible805Academy.com) completely FREE. In addition, you may edit the original PowerPoint files, the notes, questions, other parts of it. AND you can take off any attribution to me or Bible805. The only limitation is that you may not redo the materials and sell them.

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The antidote to becoming monstrous—God’s Word, plus challenges from the movie, Zone of Interest

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Read the Bible in Chronological Order
The most important thing to build into your life is God’s Word. Here are resources to help you do that.

Intro note: 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 minds of many and a simple encouragement to read through your Bible didn’t seem like enough.

 Times are tragic when now truth for many is defined by whatever social media we follow or whatever we tell ourselves is true.

Jesus succinctly summed up our situation when he said, “You are in error, because you don’t know the Scriptures.” Truth, goodness, and beauty, the truly good life, and salvation are all found in the Scriptures, in God’s Word. Truth is not humanly generated and when we forget that, when we listen to an authority other than God’s Word to guide our lives, life does not go well. The following example, inspired by the movie, Zone of Interest, though extreme, I pray will be instructive and motivating for you to consider. A PODCAST and VIDEO follow, then the text of them, and recommended resource links are at the end of this article. 

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