What is the purpose of the stories in the Bible? If someone does something that seems a bit odd like Gideon setting out a fleece to determine God’s will or the Children of Israel walking around the walls of Jericho to conquer it. [Read more…]
Bible Lessons
The Bible lessons on this site are the core, heart, and foundation of the Bible805 teaching ministry, whose purpose is to help you to know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible.
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There are hundreds of resources available here and are organized into topic areas with overview videos HERE. In addition, the drop-down menu above has topic areas you can click on for the individual lessons in them.
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Two illustrations of the Trinity for you to freely download
Under
standing the Trinity is a challenge for everyone, but I hope these illustrations and the videos that go with them help explain them. You can click on the images to download a PDF of the illustration and you have permission to make as many copies as you want. [Read more…]
Understanding the Trinity, It’s not as difficult as you might think!
Many people believe that the idea of the Trinity is one of the most difficult to understand in the Christian faith.
I very much disagree—and I’ll share the details of why in this lesson. [Read more…]
Don’t Bail out! How to understand the Old Testament Laws using Historical Context and Typology
When most people get into the parts of the Bible were about to read now—especially in Leviticus and Numbers, with all the odd and obscure laws and regulations, they bail out.
And why shouldn’t they? [Read more…]
Not Safe but Good, a free eBook to encourage you to read through the Bible in Chronological Order
This eBook is the printed version of 3 earlier podcasts on why to read your Bible in Chronological order. To save you time, I condensed the material into this one book and into a shorter podcast and video.
The podcast and video here will give you an EASY way to read through your Bible in Chronological order and encourage you as to WHY you should do it. There is a copy of the notes below the video.
Click on the link or the image of the book to download the book: Not Safe but Good by Yvon Prehn [Read more…]
The Story of the Bible is Good News ….the good news of salvation in Jesus
I did a similar podcast previously, but it is such an important topic (nothing more important than how to find salvation in Jesus) I wanted to redo, update it, and made a video to go along with it. [Read more…]
Why the Bible is more like a novel than a collection of short stories—and why it matters
Our presuppositions matter!
In a past lesson, I shared how the Bible has the same structure as a novel but as I was preparing for going through the Bible in the coming year, I realized that a more detailed look at how the Bible is like a novel as opposed to a collection of short stories has important implications for how we read and apply it. [Read more…]