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

Joshua: How to fight and win in the battles of life

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Joshua, How to fight and win in the battles of lifeAfter 40 years of wandering, Israel finally gets to enter the Promised Land. God was giving it to them, but they still had to fight for it. Join us to learn about how to fight the battles of life successfully and the warnings of incomplete obedience.

In this podcast, you’ll see how even though we may be doing exactly what God wants us to do, we can still have challenges, but with God’s help, not in our own strength, we can overcome them. We can learn encouraging, positive applications from that.

We also need to look carefully at the book of Joshua for what happens when we don’t completely obey God. Because some of the tribes did not totally destroy the people and idol worship God told them to, they suffered because of it for the rest of their history.

We’ll look at both the positive and negative ways Joshua teaches us to fight and win the spiritual battles of life.

Below the podcast is both a PDF of the notes and the text.
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Deuteronomy: God’s love and how we should live in response

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Bible805.com podcast on Deuteronomy

Moses knows he will shortly die and after 40 years in the desert, the now formed nation Israel will go into the Promised Land.  The book of Deuteronomy contains Moses’ final words to his people.

The book is a series of sermons where he restates and summarizes much of the content of the previous books of the Law.

The tone of the book is more pastoral and less thundering than his previous messages. It is the first book that God declares His Love for His people. Earlier in the Bible

He commanded love for others, but this is the first book that explicitly states his love for us.

In the light of that love, Moses show obeying his commands is for the good and happiness of his people then and for us now.

There is so much in this book that Jesus quoted in his temptation and still speaks to us today! Listen now!

Below the podast that follows is a print out of the notes and a downloadable PDF of them.

Click the following link to download the PDF of the notes for this lesson: Deuteronomy, Class Notes

The print out of the notes follows….

Deuteronomy:
God’s love and how we should live in response

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It’s not always about you— How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories

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How to correctly Read Bible StoriesWe love reading the stories in the Bible, but we can be disappointed if God doesn’t do for us what He did for the Bible characters. Though we didn’t have a live class this week, I recorded a podcast on the topic of How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories.

This is a challenging topic for our Bible study because the stories are often our favorite parts of the Bible and what we remember. But valid application of what we read can be difficult.

For example, in the story of Gideon putting out a fleece for God’s guidance, does that mean that we should come up with seemingly impossible tests to determine God’s will? We will discuss the answer to that question and have additional guidelines on how to correctly read, interpret and apply Bible Stories/Biblical Narratives in this podcast. The podcast notes are below the audio you can download to keep in mind as you read your Bible.

Click on the following link to download the PDF of the notes: How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories

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