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from Yvon Prehn to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible
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.
This site and ministry was designed to help both individuals do that and to equip and train those who want to teach the Bible.
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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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. [Read more…]
Many Christians are confused about how the Holy Spirit works in the life of a Christian and this infographic and short video may help. [Read more…]
In our previous lesson, we looked at the big, theological word “Hermeneutics” that in summary means the guidelines we use to properly understand the Bible so that we can apply it in the way God wants it applied. [Read more…]
Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpreting the Bible—in other words helping us understand what it means for our everyday lives. [Read more…]
After the decision was made as to which books would go into our Bibles, it was still a long, complex, and difficult time before most people had what we take for granted—our own Bibles in the language we speak. [Read more…]
Who decided what books are in the Bible?
Many have heard the term “Canonicity” used with this topic—what does it mean? [Read more…]
A primary criticism of the New Testament is that critics say that Christians intentionally left out and/or suppressed certain writings, primarily what we call the Gnostic Gospels and that they should be part of our New Testament and aren’t. [Read more…]
Many people assume the New Testament was written hundreds of years after the life of Christ. If that was true, how then do we know that what was talked about in the Bible, His miracles and especially His resurrection from the dead, how do we know those aren’t real, but myths and legends that developed many years after He lived? [Read more…]
In the previous lesson in our series on How We Got Our Bibles, we looked at the Apocrypha, the series of books written between the Old and New Testaments, and the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible done at that time. [Read more…]
Getting to know, trust, and apply the Bible is one of the most important things you need to do to grow as a follower of Jesus.
One of the most important things to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible is to read through the Bible in Chronological order, where you see God’s entire redemptive story of salvation from beginning to end. [Read more…]
Many people are familiar with the books that are placed in some Bibles between the Old Testament and the New Testament, also known as the Apocrypha, but what are they, and are they important for us to read to learn about God and to grow in our Christian lives are questions, not many take the time to answer. [Read more…]
The Old Testament makes up a large section of our Bibles, but though many people are familiar with the first part of it with the stories of Creation and the early characters in Biblical history, many people stop there.
Unfortunately also is the idea many people have of the Old Testament is that it is a collection of ancient stories and fables and not something based on true history that can be objectively verified. [Read more…]