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 to help you know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible. For FREE downloadable, editable, no attribution required teaching resources based on the content of this site, go to www.Bible805Academy.com.

One Mother’s Prayer, an inspiration and challenge for Mother’s Day and anytime

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One of the most important things anyone can do is to pray for another and the story in this handout is the true story of one of the most significant prayers in church history. HERE is a link to download preprinted PDFs of it as well as the text https://wp.me/pDky9-8TI

This brief piece has probably been reprinted and shared more than anything I’ve written. It first appeared in Today’s Christian Woman, a magazine that was reprinted in their Best of 10 Years of Writing issue, has been used and reprinted all over the world (I’ve even got a copy of a German magazine that featured it).

I’ll read it to you.

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Know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible—what it means to Bible805 and to you, an UPDATE for the Bible805 Ministry as of 3-30-2026,

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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.

Though some parts of the ministry are still in the process of being tidied up, revised, and updated, the core of the ministry has thousands of resources that have helped people all over the world know, trust, apply and teach the Bible. I’ve worked hard to create some new resources and to clearly organize past ones. Though this process continues, I wanted to remind everyone of the resources that are available to you. Below is the Ministry Miscellany podcast of the content and below that a transcript of it with links to many useful and free resources.

The meaning of “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: [Read more…]

Make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at Easter

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What are your expectations for Easter at your church? Especially for those who are visiting for the first time and who may be totally unfamiliar with the Christian faith?

In answer to that question, I’d like to propose that you make it OK for visitors to reject Jesus at your Easter Service and in our podcast today I’ll tell you why (and of course I’ll include how to start then on a path to accepting Jesus in the future).

Following are five realities to keep in mind–

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A really funny story about what happened after an Easter Service, or What can happen if you if you work hard on your Seasonal event, but forget everything after that?

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This is a true story. Though the specific event discussed is Easter, the lessons learned from it can apply to any event. In addition to applying to any event, we can all identify with the situation here. The challenges of ministry are so huge it is very easy to get overwhelmed in one area and totally forget another one. May the Lord have mercy and help us all.

Here’s the story–in one of my church communication seminars, at the break, a woman literally came running up the aisle to talk to me.

“Oh, thank you, thank you,” she said, “Now I understand what went wrong.”

I had just been talking about the importance of letting people know what you did on a regular basis (and maybe even where you regularly meet) when you hold a special event if you want positive results from your holiday outreach. The advice had been helpful to churches in the past, but her response was more excited than most, so I asked her to tell me more about her experience.

She then told me about a special Easter service her church put on that was a huge amount of work and an equally huge disappointment in results. Here were the details:

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Speed dating or relationship building? How do you treat visitors?

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What kind of relationship do you have with someone, if you meet them, have a great time, and then walk away, never to call, talk, or see the person again? Not much of one is it?

In contrast, what about a relationship where two people meet briefly but then keep in touch through letters, emails, phone calls, and other get-togethers? What if they take time to interact and get to know each other? We’d label that a meaningful relationship.

If we want any kind of relationship, friendship, or romance to progress, we know we’ve got to expend some effort to grow the relationship.

As a church, we begin relationships with the people in our communities when we host outreach or holiday events. Sometimes they develop into a meaningful, long-term relationship with visitors, but in the majority of cases, they don’t. Take time to consider some of the following thoughts and evaluate how your interactions with visitors.

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

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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.

Here’s why–following is the podcast and then the rest of the text that goes along with it.

How A.I. works

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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 on the Lion’s Voice, the Bible805 Ministry newsletter.

 

Practical Ministry–Lent, a powerful time for personal and corporate spiritual growth

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Lent isn't just a time for monks, but for all
Lent isn’t just a time for monks, but for all of us to grow in our spiritual lives.

Observing Lent isn’t about a denomination, or whether your church is liturgical or not. Lent helps us to put the Christian life into a biblical perspective. It’s a time to practice saying “no” to ourselves in little things so we can say a bigger “yes” to God in the bigger decisions of life. It can truly be a time for significant spiritual growth for the individuals in your church as well the church as a whole.

Following is motivation for celebrating Lent and descriptions of resources, including free handouts and a Lenten Devotional and Journal. If you are in a hurry and don’t want to bother listening to all, go to www.Bible805.com and the resource links will all be on the home page.

Text and resources for Lenten resources follow. You can listen to a podcast of the content below or read the text that follows it. The Resource links are at the end of the article.

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