Bible Podcast and Commentary from Yvon Prehn

Bible Podcast and Commentary from Yvon Prehn

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

The Bible is our lifeline to all that is good and true and can be trusted—and a bite-sized way to get more into your life

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The Bible is our lifeline
The Bible is literally our lifeline for all that is good and true. Take time to learn it well.

We’d think someone was incredibly foolish if they were drowning and they wouldn’t grab hold of a lifeline that was within their grasp.

But we do the same thing when we ignore the Bible.

It is literally a lifeline to all that is good and true and that can be trusted.

Our world today is scary and sadly many respond with lies and bad behavior. We think we don’t know where to turn, but we do.

We have the Bible and my goal on this site is to help you know it better and in more depth so that it becomes in reality, not just your lifeline when you feel you are drowning, but the anchor to every challenge in life and guide for living all of life.

Something new for you

Today is 9-8-2020 and I am still recovering from major surgery and moving much more slowly than I’d like. I want to redo the basic lessons here on Truth & History on why we can trust our Bible and have them available as downloadable PowerPoint lessons. In addition, I want to get going again on the weekly podcasts.

But that will take time.

As I work up to larger projects, while being bed-bound, I discovered Instagram in a new way and have been doing sayings and Bible verses, plus micro-blog commentary to go with them. I will be publishing these on Instagram every Tuesday and Thursday.

Check them out at www.Instagram.com/yvonprehn

If you find the short teachings on it useful, please tell your friends about it.

Please pray for me for strength, wisdom, and the ability to do all possible to help people learn God’s Word, trust it, and live it as confident, at peace, disciples of Jesus.

Jesus response to betrayal and death prompts us to ask: How do we respond to challenges and disasters?

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Jesus cares for us
We love this picture of Jesus carrying a sheep because it reminds us of the reality that he will love, protect, and carry us forever.

In our podcast on How to Love Jesus, we look at his response to the final hours of his earthly life. Even though betrayal by friends, a brutal beating, and a horrible death awaited him, his focus was not on himself. He begins his final hour with his disciples by washing their feet and he will end it by praying for them. In between, he comforts them, promises them the help of the Holy Spirit, and reminds them he is preparing an eternal home for them. He commands them to love each other and reminds them that loving him is expressed in keeping his commands. He reviews, reminds, encourages this group of disciples and friends even though he knows they will soon all run from him in fear for their lives.

We are not facing what Jesus and the disciples did, but we have our own disasters

In addition to the interpersonal challenges of life, many would say that the potential for global disasters—war, climate catastrophe, pandemics, civil unrest is growing. How will we respond?

For the larger, news-worthy disasters, there is one group that not only knows how they will respond but is planning to profit massively in the process. How they do that—not how will they do it, but how they do it now because their services are already in great demand, was detailed in an article in the New York Times, “Climate Chaos is Coming and the Pinkertons are Ready”.

Read the article if you don’t get easily frightened and I won’t detail it here, but in brief, Pinkerton is the legendary group who provided what amounted to a private army for those wealthy enough to pay for it in the frontier days, through early labor strikes, to recently providing protection and escape for corporate clients from natural disasters such as the recent hurricane in Puerto Rico.

Pinkerton believes chaos in our present world will only increase and they are training and planning to profit from it. They believe and know from experience that very wealthy corporate clients do and will pay handsomely for their services.

I read the article with a mixture of horror and fascination. Here was a company intentionally writing scripts for scenes out of science fiction where the world falls apart and only the super wealthy with their private armies are saved from the chaos. As I was thinking about that, I remembered the verse:

“But what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? (Mark 8:36)”Continue Reading