Single Topic Podcasts

How to love Jesus, part 2—growing, pruning, being fruitful, trusting Jesus for now and forever

April 21, 2019 by bible805

When you think of the time Jesus had with his disciples just before his trial and crucifixion, what is it you think about?

To answer my question, I know I think about the Last Supper—that’s what has been memorialized in great art throughout the centuries and in the services before Easter and that’s often our focus on Maundy Thursday or Good Friday services.

This podcast will be heavy on application because in our previous special Easter lesson we learned that the primary way to love Jesus is to OBEY HIS COMMANDS. It isn’t just knowing about them that pleases him but obeying them.

In this podcast, I’ll talk about ways to love Jesus by trusting him to prune our lives to make us more fruitful in both our personal lives and in how we impact the world for him. Below the podcast are images I talked about in the podcast: a picture of how I have verses by my computer and two of my favorite inspirational sayings. If you click on the first one, you can then see larger copies of all, and below that a copy of the notes for the podcast.

PDF of NOTES NOTES for How to Love Jesus, Part Two, growing, pruning, being fruitful, trusting Jesus for now and forever

How to love Jesus, how his last words in John 13-17 can help us

April 13, 2019 by bible805

In both the Old and New Testaments, (Deut. 6:5 and Luke 10:27) we are told the greatest commandment is to “Love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength.” But what does that mean?

Does it mean we work up warm fuzzy feelings for God? Or does it mean something more practical? Something we could do and do well?

In our lesson today, we’ll answer the question of how to love God, how to love Jesus as we look at where Jesus gives us specific answers and examples to follow in John 13-17. These chapters record the last time Jesus was with his disciples before he was crucified.

We’ will talk about them in this lesson and our next one, so let’s get started on —How to Love Jesus, part one.

The notes on this lesson, in PDF and online form are below the podcast.

For a PDF of the notes for this lesson, click the following link: How to love Jesus, part one

It’s not always about you— How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories

March 10, 2019 by bible805

We love reading the stories in the Bible, but we can be disappointed if God doesn’t do for us what He did for the Bible characters. Though we didn’t have a live class this week, I recorded a podcast on the topic of How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories.

This is a challenging topic for our Bible study because the stories are often our favorite parts of the Bible and what we remember. But valid application of what we read can be difficult.

For example, in the story of Gideon putting out a fleece for God’s guidance, does that mean that we should come up with seemingly impossible tests to determine God’s will? We will discuss the answer to that question and have additional guidelines on how to correctly read, interpret and apply Bible Stories/Biblical Narratives in this podcast. The podcast notes are below the audio you can download to keep in mind as you read your Bible.

Click on the following link to download the PDF of the notes: How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories

I realized that not everyone wants to download a PDF, so I printed them out below:Continue Reading

What do the Old Testament Laws & Odd Regulations have to do with us today?

February 17, 2019 by Yvon Prehn

Genesis and the first part of Exodus were interesting to read, but now it’s getting a bit strange…..

What do all these laws about what to eat, sacrifices, and how to build the Tabernacle have to do with us today?

Why should we bother reading them?

The answer is SO much more interesting and helpful than you can imagine! Not in that we should follow the laws and regulations in the same way the Children of Israel did, but in what these things foreshadowed in what was coming.

The study of this foreshadowing of what was coming is called “Typology.” The podcast not only discusses this topic but gives you reasons and encouragements why you should read these books that most people skip. From the middle of Exodus through Leviticus and Numbers, it can be hard to read and even harder to understand, but God put this material in our Bibles for a reason and this podcast will help you understand how much it will help you grow in your faith even if it doesn’t seem like it when you start.

Below the podcast are the notes from the podcast and a link I promised I’d give that has an excellent article on typology.

Did Angels or extraterrestrials really have children with humans and other Q & A about Genesis

February 3, 2019 by Yvon Prehn

“Did angels (or as some have said, extra-terrestrials) have children with humans?”

“How do you explain fossils of humans 30,000 to 40,000 years old?”

“If the Bible says you can’t see God, how could people see him in Genesis?”

“What about the curses in Genesis?, e.g. Cain and Lamech, Canaan and Ham?”

“Is Jesus the only way to heaven and what does reading the Bible in Chronological order have to do with it?”

These are some of the questions I’ll answer in this Podcast on Questions & Answers about the book of Genesis.

For this podcast, there is a lot more I covered in the live class, and to give you the information on that, CLICK on the following link for the notes from it that will give you the content of those topics: NOTES on Did Angels or extraterrestrials really have children with humans and other Q & A about Genesis

Life after Death—God’s gift or man’s wishful thinking?

January 27, 2019 by Yvon Prehn

•When did people start to believe in life after death?

•Some say that the people in the Old Testament didn’t really believe in it as we do. Is that true?

•Why does it matter? Does it matter to me?

•We’ll answer these questions and more in today’s Podcast!

This is an incredibly important topic and one where there is a lot of confusion even among people who believe in God, especially regarding what people believed in the Old Testament. Many say that people in the Old Testament didn’t believe in an afterlife or if they did that it was very vague. But the reality from studying the Bible itself and the views of respected scholars shows is that the Old Testament believers had a firm and full view of bodily resurrection.

Do take time to listen, as this podcast will encourage you and give you peace and hope about the assurance of the bodily resurrection.

Also, below are the notes from the Podcast. A bit of a warning on them, they are rather rough notes, so there may be some typos, etc. However, the quotes and many of the verses from this podcast are so important, I wanted you to have a copy of them.

Click the following link to download a PDF of the Notes: Life After Death in OT NOTES

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