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Why the Bible805 Chronological Bible reading schedule is in the order it is in and FREE copies of it for you to share

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Why this schedule for reading the Bible in Chronological Order
Though there are many fine schedules available, after lengthy prayerful consideration and study, I believe this schedule will be helpful to you as a tool to help you and those you teach to enable you to grow in your Christian discipleship.

Committing to reading the Bible in the coming year in chronological order is a significant time-consuming and spiritual decision. There are many schedules available for you to do that and I encourage you to make the most of any and all of them. However, the one I created for you from Bible805 is the result of much time, prayer, study, and revision from both the perspective of a Bible teacher and a trained historian. Following are a podcast, video, and a written transcript of the specific reasons why I organized the readings into the order that I did.

For a copy of the schedules themselves in dated and undated formats in a variety of sizes and also free journaling pages you can copy, click on the PDF below. You have permission to copy, share, do whatever you want with them in as many ways as you want. PLEASE do pass them on. Also, please subscribe to the Bible805 newsletter HERE as in the coming year I’ll be sharing weekly lessons as we go through the Bible in chronological order. It will be a life-changing experience.

Schduels to read through the Bible in Chronological Order

Below is a Podcast on why I put the books into the order I put them in.

Click on the image below to go to a video that explains why I put them in the order I did. After the video is a transcript of the podcast and video if you prefer to read the reasons for the schedule being in the way it is.

Why a New Schedule for Reading the Bible in Chronological Order

 

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Why I came up with a new schedule for reading or listening to the Bible in Chronological Order
Yvon Prehn, www.Bible805.com

Would you like to read or listen to the Bible in a way that makes sense?

Experiencing it in Chronological Order, in the order events happened will do that.

I came up with a new schedule to do that and I can’t wait to share it with you!

If you’ve decided you want to read or listen to the Bible in Chronological, Historical order, you need to decide—
• Which schedule, what order of reading through the Bible to use?
• LOTS of them out there and they are all very good, so why should I create a new one?
• I’ve been reading through the Bible every year and teaching it.
• And from that experience there were adjustments I wanted to make to the schedules I’d tried—some big, some smaller. I’ve got a new one for you—you can download it at www.Bible805.com.
• Now I want to share why I did what I did! [Read more…]

The Complete & Extraordinary Advent Story 7 Miraculous Preparations God Made for Jesus’ Birth & Beyond

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The Complete and Extraordinary Advent StoryThe word “advent” means arrival or coming, referring to the coming of Jesus to be born as a baby.

Traditionally, we celebrate it by lighting candles, reading devotions, and preparing our hearts for Christmas. That’s all wonderful, but I there’s much more to the totality of Advent—when we look a little more closely at it—we find that the coming of Jesus, to save and dwell with his people, expands out both backwards and forwards from the beginning of time until the end of time.

That’s what this lesson is about—Seven Miraculous Preparations for Jesus’ Birth and Beyond that took, not 5 weeks, but thousands of years and that all came together in the birth of Jesus that happened, as the Bible says in “the fullness of time” (Gal. 4:4). It’s a fascinating lesson where we look at the history of the Jewish people and how God used their scattering throughout the world, the development of the Old Testament, of the Greek language, the Roman Roads and peace to prepare our world for Jesus.

From looking at how did all these things we see how we can trust Him to care for us now and forever.

*****PLEASE NOTE****If nothing else, PLEASE check out the Map Tour video below–it is fascinating how God worked through millennia to prepare the world for Jesus.

Below is the podcast and video for this lesson and a bonus video of the maps that were talked about in the lesson.


Click on the image below or the link to download a handout of the maps that show the extraordinary preparations God made for Christmas–it is a fascinating study–please share with others!

Maps for AdventMaps of God’s Preparation for the Birth of Jesus
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Free Instagram-size Images You can use to promote Bible Reading and classes in your church

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I put together the collection of images here that you can download to use however you want to promote Bible reading and study in your church. Below are small images of them. The ones in the Zip file, are Instagram size, png format that you can use in both print and digital media.

The images are copyright free and so are the completed images.

CLICK the following link to download the ZIP file of the images:  Verses about reading the Bible, brown images

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A Free Christmas flyer you can use for Christmas letters, flyers, however you want

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Free story that shares Jesus at Christmas
An easy way to share our most important message at Christmas about Jesus. Click the image to download the Zip file, click to open, and SHARE!

Note: I created this initially for my Effective Church Communications ministry (one of the associated ministries of the Bibleverse), but then I realized that it would be important to share with my Bible805 ministry because for all of us sharing the good news about Jesus is the most important thing we can do at this time of year and always.

This way of sharing the gospel has been used by thousands of churches through the years and I created 4 new designs this year, that you can download as PDFs, plus an MS Word file, and use in any way you want to share the Gospel of Jesus at Christmas. You can use them in these ways:

  • Personalize from your church with invitations to specific events on the back or links to more information about what it means to follow Jesus.
  • Print and give as a gift to members to share in Christmas letters, give to friends, and encourage them to use them.
  • Upload to your church or ministry website and freely share the link and encourage members to download and share either in print or in their own social media.
  • Use in your social media, newsletters, and anything that the church sends out.

Below are images of the PDFs and below that is a ZIP file that has the PDFs and the MS Word file. The text copy is also below the images if you want to copy and use it from there. Click on the images to see a larger version.

To download a PDF of the images above, plus an MS Word file of the content CLICK the following link: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Christmas-Flyer-to-Share-Jesus.zip

To go to additional FREE Christmas Templates and past versions of this Christmas Letter: CLICK HERE

Here is a short motivational video–share it from YouTube to motivate others to use the flyer:

To download a PDF of the story to share Jesus, shown above, plus an MS Word file of the content CLICK the following link: https://www.effectivechurchcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Christmas-Flyer-to-Share-Jesus.zip
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A gift for you–free copy of Tetelestai, if the battle is finished, why is life so hard?

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Tetetelesti“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 and this eBook (CLICK HERE or on the image to download it) will give you strength and encouragement to fight the battles of life. You have permission to make as many copies of the book as you want to share with others.

Though the word is often a part of sermons on the Easter message of salvation, there are many questions about it that this book explores and that are useful for any time of the year.

    • Did Jesus really say “tetelestai”? (spoiler alert…He didn’t)
    • What did he really say and 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, between His resurrection and return considering what He said?

Download NOW, be strong, and continue to fight the daily spiritual battles we all face until our time on earth is finished.