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.

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FREE, in-depth teaching resources for missionaries, small church leaders, anyone else with limited time to study–modify and make into your own lessons!

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FREE resources for any Bible teacher anywhere from the Bible805 Academy.
FREE resources for any Bible teacher anywhere from the Bible805 Academy.

It takes a tremendous amount of time to study and prepare lessons to teach the Bible. For pastors, and particularly missionaries and leaders of small churches, who must also do administrative, counseling, and financial tasks, carving out time to study is difficult.

With these groups in mind, I’ve made all the resources of the Bible805 Academy (www.Bible805Academy.com) completely FREE. In addition, you may edit the original PowerPoint files, the notes, questions, other parts of it. AND you can take off any attribution to me or Bible805. The only limitation is that you may not redo the materials and sell them.

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The antidote to becoming monstrous—God’s Word, plus challenges from the movie, Zone of Interest

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Read the Bible in Chronological Order
The most important thing to build into your life is God’s Word. Here are resources to help you do that.

Intro note: The content here may seem an overly intense way to encourage you to read through the Bible in Chronological Order, which Bible805 (https://wp.me/pazrJD-OO) has a variety of ways for you to do but we are living in a time when truth seems to have lost its connection with objective reality in the minds of many and a simple encouragement to read through your Bible didn’t seem like enough.

 Times are tragic when now truth for many is defined by whatever social media we follow or whatever we tell ourselves is true.

Jesus succinctly summed up our situation when he said, “You are in error, because you don’t know the Scriptures.” Truth, goodness, and beauty, the truly good life, and salvation are all found in the Scriptures, in God’s Word. Truth is not humanly generated and when we forget that, when we listen to an authority other than God’s Word to guide our lives, life does not go well. The following example, inspired by the movie, Zone of Interest, though extreme, I pray will be instructive and motivating for you to consider. A PODCAST and VIDEO follow, then the text of them, and recommended resource links are at the end of this article. 

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The challenging faith of Alexi Navalny, who “did as required by the instructions and did not betray the commandment”

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Alexei Navalny marching in 2017 Watching the final events of Alexi Navalny’s life, I couldn’t help but wonder why he did what he did and how he had such obvious peace and courage as he did it.

Russel Moore quoted him in a recent article and in it, Moore emphasized Navalny’s courage to stand alone.

Though admirable, I found another aspect of the quote, which I’ll discuss following it more challenging to me and to all who read and take to heart the values emphasized here on Bible805, which are to know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible.

Following is the quote and my comments. [Read more…]

How to Support Bible805

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Support Bible805If you know you want to give financially to Bible805 without further explanation, you can give through either a one-time gift or a monthly commitment that you can stop at any time. Click on the link that follows to do that. https://www.ko-fi.com/Bible805\

or read on……

Thousands of people all over the world have downloaded and used the materials provided by Bible805 and I am amazed and praise God for the outreach it has. For all the years of doing this, I’ve never taken advertising or participated in any affiliate marketing links or schemes and with the exception of books that are sold on Amazon, all materials I create are free.

It has been gratifying to see the response of the many downloads from all over the world, I believe in large measure because they are free, however, they are not free to create. Software and hardware costs as well are greatly increasing as have hosting and online services costs. In addition, I personally need your support because what supported the ministry for over 20 years is no longer doing that.

Up until August 2024, the site was supported by a business (the rennovation of older mobile homes and putting in new ones for an investor) that my bi-vocational pastor husband and I had. It was incredibly hard work, but it paid the ministry bills and supported us.

Then the Lord took my husband home to heaven by a sudden heart attack, August 11, 2024. I could not do the business by myself and had to shut it down, finish the remodeling of our 50-year-old mobile home, which had recently been totally torn apart, and build a totally reorganized life.

I knew God wasn’t finished with me, that He gave me a “future and a hope” and there was much for me to do and finally, now I’m doing it. I’ve significantly reorganized the materials in the Bible805 ministry, am on a regular production schedule once again of podcasts, videos, and other resources. I teach live Bible classes also.

I had long dreamed of a focus only on the Bible805 ministry without having to do the other job–but I never imagined this would be the way it would come about.

During all this, I used my savings to pay the ministry bills up to this point because I didn’t feel I could ask for anything when I was not putting up new material. I now am creating many new materials, along with a very exciting new podcast host and new podcasts and I need your help. Below are ways you can help me.

Bible805 is not currently a nonprofit, though in the coming year or so, I want to explore that option. But bills must be paid until then. I am close to the end of the residual savings from the business that supported me and the ministry.

Personally, I own my truly adorable mobile home, my car is paid off, I have no credit card or any other debt, and I live very modestly. My social security covers about half my living expenses. I also must pay the monthly ministry bills of website hosting, podcast hosting, and the host of online video production, editing services, image creation, and various software products I use to create the materials. If the ministry has been a blessing to you and if you would like to support the gift of free resources to churches around the world, please consider supporting Bible805.

To help do that, here are FIVE ways to support Bible805

#1, Pray for Bible805 and for me for strength, wisdom, and insight to create all God wants me to develop and to get it out to all the people He wants to reach with these materials. Please also pray for health, strength, and protection to do all I’m called to do. I work many, many hours each week and do all my own not only materials creation, but I produce all the videos, podcasts, and website updates.

#2, Give direct financial support to Bible805 & Yvon Prehn. I need your help. As stated previously at this time, Bible805 is not a non-profit and there is no tax deduction for your donation. Your support is needed now for me and for the significant costs of ministry production in software, hardware, and online fees associated with the creation and distribution of the materials. This is my full-time work. I would greatly appreciate your help.

To do that, you can give through either a one-time gift or a monthly commitment that you can stop at any time. Click on the link that follows to do that at:  https://www.ko-fi.com/Bible805

#3 Buy Yvon Prehn books on Amazon, Review them, and ask a friend to do the same.

I’ve started writing books again and have several currently for sale as I update this (I just added a Lenten Book and Journal) and hope to have lots more soon. The MOST IMPORTANT one that I would like everyone to get and share with their churches is START HERE! a plan for curious people to begin reading the Bible. The second one is a collection of images of quotes on the Trinity, entitled, The Trinity, an invitation to love, a pictorial quote collection. I priced these books as reasonably as I could, for example, the START HERE book, which is a great resource for getting people to begin reading the Bible and includes journaling pages, can be ordered for $9.99 from Amazon and it cost me $18 to print at FedX copies for my class before I published it online. PLEASE leave a review if you order a book and tell others about them–this is one of the MOST important things you can do to support the ministry. FYI, I only make a little over $1.00 for each book that is sold–I felt that it’s much more important to get the material out there. Help me sell lots of books and please consider financial support also.

#4, Watch the Bible805 YouTube channel–at www.YouTube.com/Bible805. At this time, if enough people watch your channel for enough hours, YouTube will pay the creator (me and the ministry). Realistically, this takes many, many thousands of subscribers (actually it seems millions these days….really…. I have almost 9,000 views of my shorts over the last 90 days, but it takes a minimum of 3 MILLION for them to pay the creator anything–but God can do it!) and many more thousands of hours watched for them to pay, but I am praying lots because not only would this supply needed monthly income for me, but those thousands of watch hours mean thousands of people are getting God’s Word taught to them! What a great Win/Win! I am extremely excited about the “shorts” I’ve been creating–do check them out!

To do that, you can give through either a one-time gift or a monthly commitment that you can stop at any time. Click on the link that follows to do that. https://www.ko-fi.com/Bible805

#4, PLEASE tell people about the resources from Bible805. I am not able to afford any kind of paid marketing at this time, and even if I could, I know the very best way to get out the word about the resources of Bible805 is for people to tell their friends. The podcasts, videos on YouTube, and a rotating selection of items in the other parts of the Bibleverse are free and provide in-depth resources to help people get God’s Word into all of life. Your help in letting people know what is available is a great help to me and I pray a blessing to all you share with.

Regardless of if you choose to or are able to support the ministry or not, I cannot thank God enough for the opportunity to serve you! Thank you for your caring and prayers and God’s great blessings to you.

Clean Monday, a challenge to recommit to Lent and a focus on becoming like Jesus

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Clean Monday is a time to recommit to Lenten practices“Clean Monday” is an intriguing label isn’t it?

I thought so when it came across my internet feeds. I like the idea of starting the week, clean and right before God and people. That’s a useful thought anytime but I was ignorant that today is Clean Monday, the first day of Great Lent, as Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox refer to the Lenten season. For those of you who have been observing Lent in various ways in the Western church, you are a little over halfway through your Lenten observation this year–following is some encouragement to get you through it. [Read more…]

FREE, downloadable Lenten Journal with short inspiring quotes, verses, and a place for you to record your thoughts and prayers

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Cover image of Lenten Journal
Download the free PDF by clicking on the image.

To go along with the series of daily, less than 60-second videos that I’m posting on TikTok, YouTube, the Bible 805 Facebook page (and possibly some other places), here is a free, PDF that has the quotes and verses shared, plus a place for you to record your thoughts and prayers.

Lent is a great time to reset our lives, to focus our prayers and life on becoming more and more what the Lord wants us to be.

My prayer is that it will be a life-changing and growing time for us all. Please use this PDF to make the most of it in your time with the Lord.

Download the free PDF by clicking on the image.

What manner of people ought we to be? the pastoral epistles—1,2 Timothy, Titus, 1,2 Peter, Jude

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What manner of people ought we to be? the Pastoral Epistles— 1,2 Timothy, Titus, 1,2 Peter, JudeOur study of the New Testament is about so much more than an overview of books, or a historical tour. It is the culmination of God’s rescue plan for the people He created.

The development God’s changed, redeemed people is what we’ve been learning about.

All else will fade (churches, buildings, denominations); God’s people will not. And it is those people (you) who will reach the world with God’s message of salvation.
How we become that, the spiritual formation of God’s people is what these “Pastoral Epistles” are about. [Read more…]

Paul’s Prison Letters, Pity party or extraordinary focused witness? Lesson on Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Philemon

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Paul’s Prison Letters Pity party or extraordinary focused witness?How do we act when bad things happen to us?

We always have a choice—we can retaliate; we can throw a pity party; we can blame others. Or we can trust God no matter what and try to respond in a way He wants us to.

In what are called the “Prison Epistles,” Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon, we’ll look at how the Apostle Paul responded in a very difficult situation. This lesson about them is much more than a history lesson about Paul because what we do, how we respond to challenging situations is the clearest evidence possible of what we truly believe and WHO we truly believe in. [Read more…]

The book of Romans, saved by grace alone; challenged to walk worthy 

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Romans is one of the most significant books in the Bible because it is a complete and systematic explanation of the Christian faith.

It is different than the other letters of the New Testament that were written to address specific problems in specific churches.

The focus in this book was to clarify the Christian faith and our salvation—to show from start to finish that it is by grace alone through faith alone, not adherence to Jewish laws, or human effort, that salvation is possible.

At the same time, it also clarifies God’s continuing expectations for those who have accepted His gift of salvation and challenges them to walk worthy. [Read more…]

What if the answer to exhaustion is not self-care? a challenge as we begin the New Year

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All eternity to celebrate what we do now for the Lord
Click on the image to download a FREE printable of this quote.

I recently read an overview of books entitled “How Christians are prioritizing faith and rest.” On the first reading, on the surface, it was a well-written, thoughtful article on the need for rest and reflection amid the currently busy and overburdened, frantic, and frustrating lives many of us live.

Who can argue with a need for that? [Read more…]

Make the Bible805 Academy Lessons Your Own! How to edit the PowerPoints

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Please note: EVERYTHING on the Bible805 Academy is FREE. I used to charge in the past, but no longer do, so if you see something that says there is a charge, just ignore it–ALL IS FREE and many, many people from around the world have taken advantage of this–that’s why it was created and I pray many more will use the materials also!

ONE MORE THING, 2-21-2026–I need to update this video, but most of it is still useful, so I’m keep it up here until I get a chance to do a newer one.

The Bible805 Academy was created so that YOU can have the resources needed to teach the Bible and this video shows you one way to do that. To help you teach in whatever way works for you, the Bible805 Academy (https://www.Bible805Academy.com) has the video and audio versions of the lesson without ads or distractions, plus the original PowerPoint files that you can edit, plus notes, questions, and infographics that go with the various lessons. Following is a video that shows you briefly how to edit the PowerPoints. Below it more information on how to make the materials your own.

You can also remove my name from the lessons. I do not need you to credit me–my goal is to give you quality, well-researched, and tested resources to help you teach the Word of God.

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