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.

Confusion about Bible Stories, from series, HAPPY CORRECTIONS, because the Bible doesn’t say what you think it says

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Many Christians become confused or disappointed when they expect God to act toward them exactly as He did in the lives of biblical characters. While God’s nature never changes, His actions in specific historical situations often served unique purposes in His redemptive plan.

This lesson clarifies how to properly understand and apply the story or narrative sections of the Bible—stories that reveal God’s character and work through human lives yet were not written as direct promises or commands to us.

Using Gideon’s “fleece” as a case study, the lesson teaches that not every biblical story gives us a pattern to imitate. Instead, narratives show what God did, not necessarily what we should do. Proper application requires understanding genre, context, and the larger story of Scripture—from Genesis to Revelation—where God alone is always the hero. Following is the podcast, video, NOTES, and Discussion Guide for the lesson.

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Know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible—what it means from Bible805 and to help, equip, and encourage you

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Tools to help your people get into the Bible in the coming year.
The parts of Bible805 that will help you know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible.

I use these four terms, know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible to describe the ministry of Bible805. I’d now like to share what I mean by them in terms of what is available for you in the Bible805 ministry based on each term:

KNOW the Bible

I want to help you simply get to know the content of the Bible and from that the God of the Bible. It all starts there.

Because knowing is foundational to everything else, I emphasize again and again reading the Bible and specifically reading through the Bible in chronological order, and doing it every year.

There are many negative voices against that, even in church today—that people already know what’s in the Bible (few actually do), that reading frequently is legalistic, that too frequent reading leads to it being done without thinking about it, on and on. I do not think these objections are valid, and my recommendation is to read your Bible or listen to it; the point being to get its content inside you every day. [Read more…]

God doesn’t forget your dreams–it’s maybe time for a reset in life

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Hi, welcome to the Hobo Soul Podcast of road advice from the Bible and from me, Yvon Prehn, someone who’s a little further down the road of life. I’ll talk to you every weekday for about five to 10 minutes, with periodic longer talks on serious Saturdays.

In my devotional reading this morning, I read one of my favorite stories and I’m going to share what I think is a really life changing message from it for all of us.

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All about A.I. and how YOU can make a difference in how it responds

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AI IN MINISTRY

A.I. is not a dark force to be afraid of, it is a tool and like any other tool, it can be used to help or to hurt.

But it is very different in one way that is incredibly important for anyone in ministry and that is for you to understand that YOU can make a difference, a BIG difference to the content served up by A.I on the web.

Please bear with me for a few minutes while I explain this because if you understand what I’m saying and will encourage you to do, it can make a huge difference in the lives of untold multitudes around the world now and into the future.

I am not exaggerating.

First of all, a very quick and extremely brief review of how A.I. works.

A.I. is not original; the answers it provides in whatever form are based on what it has learned from the collective wisdom of what it has found online. [Read more…]

Practical Ministry tips, tools, strategy, resources, and challenges for Bible teachers and ministry leaders

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Ministry Miscellany Podcast
A collection of tools, strategies, and challenges for Bible teachers. The Ministry Miscellany Podcast goes along with this content.

I praise God that, though a few detours have taken place, the primary activities of my life have been teaching the Bible, involvement with my church, and Christian ministries. I am incredibly, humbly, and joyfully grateful for the life and many, many ministry experiences the Lord has given me, and though I hope the Lord gives me many more years to serve Him (my grandmother taught Sunday School class into her 90s), I have already been at this long enough that I have some suggestions that might be helpful, some ministry advice that might be encouraging, and some resources that I’ve found helpful.

I feel the Lord wants me to pass them on. They are humbly offered with no claim of expertise or guarantee of success. Most is offered for free–only my personally authored books have a cost. Also, the Bible805 ministry takes no advertising, nor do I participate in any affiliate marketing schemes where I would get paid for promoting something. There are no hidden agendas for anything I tell you about.

This is a new section for the Bible805 ministry, and the Ministry Miscellany Podcast goes along with it.

I’ll post the availability of new material here and on the podcast and on the Bible805 Newsletter, CLICK HERE to sign up for it.

Bible-reading Schedules, in Chronological Order, the New Testament only, a starter plan

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The Bible805 ministry is founded on the belief that getting to know God’s Word WELL, trusting it as the very words of God, and applying it to your life is one of the most important things you can do as a follower of Jesus. To do any of that you first need to simply read or listen to it–get the content in to your mind and heart. Following are Bible reading schedules to help you do this.

An ebook of schedules and journal pages to help you read thru the Bible in Chronological Order
An ebook of schedules and journal pages to help you read thru the Bible in Chronological Order

Through the Bible in Chronological Order, schedules and journal pages

This is our most frequently downloaded schedule for reading through the Bible in Chronological order, just click on the image to download it.
The Bible805 ministry has a series of videos and lessons to motivate you or the people in your church to do this.
To go to an overview and links to the lessons on this, CLICK HERE. ****THERE is a lot of good material at this link, do check it out.
If you want to then teach lessons on this using any and all the materials from Bible805, go to the https://www.Bible805Academy.com  and specifically to the following link https://bible805academy.com/collection/read-your-bible-in-chronological-order [Read more…]