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Practical Ministry

Practical Ministry materials
This selection of blogs and the Ministry Miscellany podcast was created to pass on tips, strategies, advice, and resources from my past ministries.

This is a new section for the Bible805 ministry, and the Ministry Miscellany Podcast goes along with it. It consists of tips, strategies, and resources for people who teach the Bible.

I'm doing it because, 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.

I'll post the availability of new material here along with the podcast and on this website, and to keep informed and inspired, on postings, CLICK HERE to sign up for the Bible805 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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Bible805 videos—for personal learning and teaching

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Videos from Bible805 are available at www.Youtube.com/Bible805
You can watch lessons from Bible805 on your phone, TV, computer, wherever you get YouTube, just go to YouTube.com/Bible805

There are two sources for videos of the Bible805 content, one is Youtube and the second is the Bible805 Academy, a source that allows you unlimited rights to show the videos in your church, homeschool, small group, Bible class or any other way you want to use them. More details on both sources follow:

Bible805 YouTube channel

Bible805 Shorts
One of the most popular sections on the YouTube channel are my Shorts, appox. 60 seconds of Bible encouragement, challenges, and teaching from the longer lessons. I’ve been able to do at least one a day (Now 2-3) and hope to keep that up. You can link to them directly HERE. 

Bible805 Bible Teaching Lessons
The majority of the Bible805 YouTube channel consists of the full-length PowerPoint lessons of all the Bible classes I teach. The majority of the videos there are also available on the Bible805 Academy, discussed more in that section, where you can show them for free and without any advertisements. [Read more…]

Updated for 2026–Tools to help you and your people read through the Bible in the coming year

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Tools to help your people get into the Bible in the coming year.
Tools to help your people get into the Bible in the coming year.

Quick links to tools to help you read thru the Bible in the coming year

Through the Bible in Chronological Order Reading Plan, schedules, and journal pages: https://bible805.com/through-the-bible-in-chronological-order-schedules-and-journal-pages/

Free eBook, Not Safe, But Good, with additional motivation for reading in Chronological Order and Reading Schedules:

New Book–START HERE, a plan for curious people to begin reading the Bible, a new paperback book with a shorter reading plan, 11 books in the New Testament to introduce you to the Bible and the Christian faith: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4W9YW5Z?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

FREE downloads (no ads, all legal, I give you permission to show them) of the videos mentioned below:
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A free and easy way to share the Gospel message this Christmas season

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A Christmas letter that explains the true meaning of Christmas is an essential outreach tool for your Christmas events.

We want our people to share their faith and this communication gives them an easy and non-threatening way to do it. One year, I posted the material below on our Adult Sunday School Class website and gave out a sample to our adult class. I printed the black and white image on a blue parchment-type paper. I encouraged them to go to the website and print it out for their Christmas letters and to share with friends. You are welcome to copy any or all of it and you can put them on your church or class website for your people to share.

Below the sample that I shared with my class are some color versions, spot-color separations, and versions that are in a tri-fold brochure format. All of these are available in two ZIP files at the end of this article. This letter/brochure or any other piece that clearly explains the reason for Christmas and the meaning of salvation in Jesus is essential for your church to share at all your holiday outreach events. Jesus came to save us from our sins, not to give us reasons to buy stuff or even so we can have wonderful family celebrations. We need to be clear about the true Christmas message to people who may only come to our church at this time of year–this piece gives you an easy and effective way to do it. [Read more…]

ALL RESOURCES, EVERYTHING on this SITE is FREE!

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Bible805 logoThe Bible805 ministry has evolved over the years and in case you find posts that say otherwise, as of 2026–

#1 EVERYTHING, every resource from Bible805, the Bible805 Academy, and Bible805 Images is FREE ! The only things that have a charge are my books on Amazon.com.

I may have missed correcting all the details of the current free status of items that previously had a change—but be assured if you go to the following sites—EVERYTHING is free.

www.Bible805.com
www.Bible805Academy.com
www.Bible805images.com

The exciting news is that in the short time I’ve made them free, there have been hundreds of downloads of these Bible-teaching materials by people all over the world including downloading from South Africa, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Hungary, the UK, France, Canada, and lots from the U.S.

My prayer has been for these resources to equip those who need them, especially under-resourced, new churches, missionaries, church plants, and anyone else who can benefit from them. God is gracious as I’ve had various challenges and haven’t been able to do anything to advertise these resources—I have no idea how people found them, though I know the Lord can work in amazing ways!

The NEWSLETTER is now coming from a new host and is being posted weekly–to sign up for it, CLICK HERE.

Teaching tip: Be careful of personal illustrations—keep the focus on Jesus and the Word

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Child and Bible
Your family may be a wonderful source of illustrations, but the best source is the Bible itself.

Popular advice on preaching and teaching advises that the teacher scatter into their lesson illustrations from their lives to make their message more relatable.

Doing that may have some value, but it also has some pitfalls that may lessen the impact of your message or lesson. Following are three reasons why this might be the case and some advice on what to use instead of personal illustrations. [Read more…]

A short lesson on Typology from the Book of Hebrews

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Typology explains in the Book of HebrewsTypology, the teaching that the Old Testament prefigured events in the New Testament is an important concept to understand as you read your Bible. It’s important because when we see how God has worked out the same plan for salvation history over thousands of years it can give us hope and confidence in our faith and trust in the future God has prepared for us. He did that by showing a type (a preview) of an important truth in the past, that was later fulfilled in reality in the future.

For example, one of the most well-known examples of typology is that in the Old Testament, they sacrificed lambs because of people’s sins. But offering them only covered up their sin until Jesus came to be the final sacrifice and eternally took away our sins. The video that follows will help explain this in more detail.

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