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

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The Truth About Trials and why we need the Bible more than ever to get through them

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The Truth About Trials
Though never pleasant, trials can be times that God can do a great work in our lives, but we’ll only know that if we believe what the Bible says about trials. Take time to listen or watch this lesson, it will encourage you.

2020 has been an incredibly difficult year with the horrors of the Covid pandemic but every year of our earthly lives has its share of trials and challenges.

With that reality, how do we cope? How do we get through them?

The good news is that the Bible not only gives us comfort and strength to get through them, but when we view trials correctly from a Biblical viewpoint, we can grow spiritually from them.

This Bible805 Lesson will show you how.

Following is a podcast and link to a YouTub video on the topic. If you would like a PDF transcript, discussion questions, permission to download and use the video in your small groups or Bible classes, and more, sign up for the Bible805 Academy Click on the “View All Courses” link to go to the specifics about this lesson.

NEW Schedule for Reading or Listening to The Bible in Chronological Order, plus downloadable journal pages

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Chronological Bible Reading plan, undated, start any timePLEASE NOTE: If you downloaded a schedule BEFORE 1-2-2021—there are some mistakes on it. I have corrected them and please redownload the copies here. I do apologize!!!

I have 3 versions of a NEW Schedule for Reading or Listening to the Bible in Chronological Order, plus 2 versions of a blank journal page you can download to make notes, record responses for your journey through the Bible. CLICK the link HERE to download them: Reading Plans and Bible Reading Journals in PDF format

There are schedules that are numbered and not dated, ones dated that you can use any year, and then one specifically for 2021 that has the Sundays marked. You can make copies of any you’d like and share them.

Below is a podcast and links to a video of the reasons why I put the books in the order I did. Below them is a copy of the text for both.

Below is a Podcast on why I put the books into the order I put them in.

Click on the image below to go to a video that explains why I put them in the order I did. After the video is a transcript of the podcast and video if you prefer to read the reasons for the schedule being in the way it is.

Why a New Schedule for Reading the Bible in Chronological Order

 

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6 Ways Christmas Shows Us How God Works In Historical Events

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6 Ways Christmas Shows us How God Works in Historical Events
For any time of year this is a historically fascinating lesson on how God worked through hundreds of years to prepare for the birth of Jesus.

When we see how God has worked in and through history it is incredibly exciting! A number of years ago I was looking at maps of the ancient world and realized starting putting together how God used the exile of the Jews, the spread of Alexander the Great’s empire, and the Roman Roads so everything fit together for the coming of Jesus. I dug a bit deeper and found how even more. I created a Sunday School class with this content and this year, put it together in a podcast and videos for you.

For Christmas or any time of year, this is a great example of how God works in history, check them out!
Podcast:

6 Ways Christmas Shows us How God Works in Historical Events

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.

We could all use good news now and here is the best news—all about salvation in Jesus

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An explanation of the good news of salvation in Jesus
C.S. Lewis said that one of the reasons he believed the Christian gospel is that it didn’t make human sense but that it was not something a man could have made up was precisely why he believed it. I’m not sure if I made sense of it or not, but here is an attempt that may be useful.

We could all use good news…..

Pandemic, crazy weather, racial injustice, and political turmoil—wherever we turn, bad news fills our world.

But there is one place the news is good—and that’s in the good news about Jesus. Many call this good news the gospel and that’s what our podcast is about today.

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and welcome to Bible 805!

Below is the podcast and below that are the notes from it.

Let’s talk about Why the gospel is GOOD NEWS

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What manner of people ought we to be? As we end our year-long read-through of the Bible?

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Final podcast on through the Bible in a yearWhat’s the most important thing we need to think about as we wrap up our year-long journey through the Bible?

We started with Paradise lost in Genesis and we will end with Paradise restored in Revelation, so should we focus on end-time prophecy? Figuring out when Jesus will return?

Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and welcome to Bible 805!

There are many things we could focus on as we wrap up this year, but) what I decided to talk about as we look back on what we’ve read and look forward to God’s plans for us is to answer the question taken from a passage in 2nd Peter where in light of Jesus coming, he doesn’t focus on the newspaper sensational details of it, but asks:

What manner of people ought we to be?

Below the podcast are the notes for it.

To download a PDF of the notes, CLICK the following link: NOTES What manner of people ought we to be

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