Bible 805 Podcast

David—great sins and great mercy but always a heart in the right place, part 2

May 17, 2019 by bible805

Have you ever felt you can’t forgive yourself or that you’ve don’t things so that God can never use you for anything significant?

If so I have great news for you!

We will continue our look at King David in today’s lesson. His sin with Bathsheba was only one of the serious sins in his life and yet, he ended his life forgiven and greatly used by God.

We’ll learn about God’s great forgiveness and love in our lesson today and how we can learn to forgive ourselves and press ahead to do things that will give our lives meaning and joy no matter what we’ve done.

Below the podcast is a PDF of the notes and following that the notes are printed out.

Click the following link to download the PDF of the notes: Notes for David, Part 2

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

The Six Benefits of reading (or listening to) the Bible in Chronological order, and probably why you haven’t done it

January 1, 2019 by Yvon Prehn

9 Benefits of Reading Your Bible in Chronological Order — Check out these 9 ways the Bible will come alive and real to you in a new way when you read it in Chronological Order. In the blog are free, downloadable schedules for your reading.

Editor’s Update: I updated this entry to now 9 Benefits of reading or listening to the Bible in Chronological order and why you probably haven’t done it. Below is the updated version with downloadable schedules and blank journal pages.

Along with losing weight, getting more done, simplifying your life and other commendable goals, is reading through the Bible one of your resolutions for the year?

If so, I’d like to share a way for you to do it that will change your life more significantly than any diet will!

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

Today we’re going to talk about…..(the podcast continues below these downloads–I didn’t want you to have to wait for them).

PLEASE 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!!!

Following are 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.

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Truth and History Series: How we got our Bible and why we can trust it

December 30, 2018 by Yvon Prehn

Truth & History, Lesson 1 what is truth — This series of podcasts is an important foundation for continuing podcasts about the Bible as it shows how we can trust it based on historical truth.

I did this series as a start to the podcast and as a foundation for the Bible 805. In it, we look at how we determine truth in a world where the term no longer has a firm foundation. But truth is essential for us to know how to live today and for our eternal future.

I believe the Christian Bible is a source of truth, but I didn’t want you to believe that just because it’s my opinion. Based on the results of many years of spiritual study and searching, I’m sharing what I learned. I’m not a professional theologian or historian (though I’ve had graduate training and studied widely in both areas), but a fellow traveler and pilgrim, a writer and teacher for Jesus who wants to share what I think are some exciting realities about why we can trust the Bible.

I also wanted to give you this background before we start the year’s study of reading through the Bible in Chronological order. It isn’t essential that you listen to these before we start, but I do recommend it (if not before, at some time) because I think when you see how the Bible is based on objective truth, verified by secular history, you’ll be motivated to read the whole book.Continue Reading

Truth and History, Lesson Six: The New Testament and Historical Anchors, plus the Gnostic Gospels

December 30, 2018 by Yvon Prehn

The New Testament is a reliable historical record of Jesus and the early Christian church.

For purposes of our time and study, we will focus primarily on what these documents tell us about Jesus—we don’t have time to do more and honestly, if what they tell us about Jesus can’t be trusted, the rest really doesn’t matter.

To do that we will first establish the historical reliability of New Testament documents, then we ’ll look at New Testament non-canonical writings, particularly the Gnostic “gospels.” These documents are much more dangerous than OT Apocrypha which was not inspired scripture, but still talked about the same God—these documents present a distorted image of the Jesus of history, far from the real Jesus who is the only Savior.

Below is more material than in the other podcasts–I have a complete PowerPoint lesson and below it the PDFs of the Gnostic Gospels. My long-term goal is to create more complete teaching materials—join me in praying it will be possible.Continue Reading

Truth and History, Lesson Five: The Apocrypha: Overview and Historical Anchors (or in this case, lack thereof)

December 30, 2018 by Yvon Prehn

If the Bible is supposed to be historically accurate, What about the books some Bibles have inbetween the Old Testament and New Testament?

Are they historically reliable? Why aren’t they in all Bibles?

Today we’ll answer those questions in: Truth and History, Lesson Five: The Apocrypha: Overview and Historical Anchors (or in this case, lack thereof)

In our last lesson we looked at how the Old Testament is tied to real history and real geography.

This week we’ll look at the Apocrypha to see if it meets the same tests. We’ll look at what it is and how it came about.

As you’ll see it’s part of a bigger story that includes a history of the Septuagint—more than a scholarly term, this was the Bible of Jesus and Paul—a Greek translation of the Old Testament that was translated about the same time as the Apocrypha. But we can’t confuse the two because the Septuagint is a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek and the books of the Apocrypha are not considered divinely inspired because the reasons we cover in the podcast.

Following are some slides that may help explain some of harder to understand terms in the podcast.