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Bible805 LIVE In-person teaching a series “Why We can Trust the Bible”

May 14, 2022 by bible805

It is with great joy and excitement, I’m announcing LIVE teaching classes from Bible805 (basically me, Yvon) at my home church! For many years I’ve taught Bible classes, but needless to say live teaching was greatly cut back during the pandemic.

Many of you continued to listen to Bible805 teachings through the podcast and videos and I’ve loved producing them, but teaching in person is the best of all.

If you are in the area, please join us. Though the lessons are part of a series, they are also all self-contained, so you can drop in at any time.

Below is a little more information about it.

Bible805 Live Class: Why We Can Trust the Bible

Samuel & Saul The importance of listening to God & how to do it

May 9, 2022 by bible805

How’s your hearing these days?

Have you recently had someone say to you,
“You aren’t listening to me?”

Most of us have.

Maybe we weren’t paying attention, or maybe we didn’t want to hear what we knew someone was going to say.

Whatever the reason, not listening can get us into a lot of trouble.

The trouble is especially serious if we aren’t listening to God

Before we go on in this lesson, it’s important to establish the fact that God does want us to listen to him.

Dallas Willard says:

Hearing God? A daring idea, some would say—presumptuous and even dangerous. But what if we were made for it? What if the human system simply will not function properly without it? [without listening to God] There are good reasons to think it will not. (from Hearing God).

To live for what we were made for, to help us function properly, to help us listen to God, and for some practical tips on how to do it better is what we want to learn in this lesson as the lives of Samuel and Saul show us the contrast of one life spent listening to God and one that didn’t.

Below is a podcast and then a video of the lesson and below them, the notes for it.

The dangers of predicting when Jesus will return

May 4, 2022 by bible805

One thing we know for certain is that Jesus is coming back. Just as we anticipate the arrival of a dearly-loved family member who has been away and is coming home, we eagerly look forward to His return and so it is only natural that we want to know when it will take place.

That desire however can take an unfortunate turn if we try to set a date.

As has always been throughout human history since Jesus left and promised His return, when especially traumatic world-wide events take place there is renewed interest in His return. That is all well and good in that anything that causes us to focus on Jesus and living for Him is a good thing.

However, it can become unhealthy for our spiritual growth and witness if we focus on “signs” or date setting and not on our calling here and now for our Lord. This morning read one of the best summaries of the dangers of this in an article by Clarence L. Hayes, Jr., “Why It’s Dangerous to Guess Rapture Predictions.” I highly recommend you read the entire article, available HERE.

In summary, following are his four cautions and conclusion about trying to predict the rapture:

Tetelestai, If the battle is finished, why is life so hard?

April 20, 2022 by bible805

“Tetelestai!” was the final cry of Jesus from the cross and it means, “it is finished.”

It is an extraordinary cry of victory and hope.

Though it is a part of sermons on the Easter message of salvation, there are many questions about it that we will explore in what follows including:

Did Jesus really say “tetelestai”?
What does it mean?
What is finished?
If the victory is won and the battle over, why is life so hard?
And how should we live in this challenging time, considering what He said?

My prayer is that in the following material you will find encouragement and hope in your life battles while we wait for the finished work of our Lord on the cross to be the overwhelming reality of our forever with Him.

Below is the podcast and the video of this lesson. Instead of doing notes for this lesson, I’ve put together an eBook of the content.

It is available through the Bible805 Academy at this link: https://payhip.com/b/oQj7Z

Judges & Ruth, My Way or God’s Way, which is the better way to live?

April 12, 2022 by bible805

From our earliest days, we want to do things our way.

We don’t want anyone else to tell us what to do.

Though we may appear to go along with rules as we get older, in our heart of hearts we often think we know what’s best for us.

But do we?

The books of Judges and Ruth give us interesting pictures from Old Testament history on what happens to individuals and people when they either—

Do what they want to do regardless of what God wants
Or trust Him no matter how difficult it might be.

Judges is a little-studied book in its entirety, but as you’ll see it’s a very relevant one for our world today as you’ll see in our lesson.

Below is a copy of the podcast, video, and notes.

The Book of Joshua, 9 Lessons on how to fight and win in the battles of life

April 11, 2022 by bible805

How is life going for you now?

Are you struggling, under pressure, afraid? Feel like you fight one battle after another?

In today’s lesson, I’ve got some encouragement for you as we look at…..

Book of Joshua 9 Lessons on how to fight and win in the battles of life

As we start, the first step to winning the battles of life

Realize you are in a battle!

The Bible describes the Christian life in this way:

This is no afternoon athletic contest that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels. Eph. 6:12(MSG)

Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, just as I do; and as Christ’s soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in worldly affairs, for then you cannot satisfy the one who has enlisted you in his army. 2 Timothy 2:3-7 Living Bible (TLB)

This view is very different than many contemporary ideas of the Christian life today that tell people to not only expect heaven after they die, but heaven on earth. The reality of the Christian life and what we see in the book of Joshua is very different.

Below is the podcast and video of the lesson, and the notes are below them.

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