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Hobo Soul Podcast, road advice from the Bible and someone a few steps ahead — For 5-10 minutes each weekday, for upbeat advice from the Bible, check out the Hobo Soul podcast!

I’m finally launching something I’ve wanted to for a long time—the Hobo Soul Podcast. I’ve wanted to do this because I truly believe from the core of my soul that following Jesus, knowing Him as Savior, and living according to His Word is the MOST important thing you can do for a good life now and a joyful forever.

I’ve wanted to share that reality and many of the things I’ve learned in my many years of walking with Him, especially to those younger than I am, who are incredibly important to me personally (you know who you are). Telling them to read my books or watch on YouTube my 30-minute Bible-teaching lessons, I didn’t imagine would be their first choice. I wanted to sit them down and talk at them; but that wasn’t very realistic either.

And so I decided on a podcast. I love doing podcasts, and for years I had the idea for the name of what I wanted to call this one—the Hobo Soul Podcast. My dearly loved nephew Jesse came up with this name years ago and gave me his permission to use it.

Following is the intro podcast, then a sample one from a series I’m doing during Lent, and after that, the transcripts of both. For the Lent ones especially, listen past the intro–I get much more upbeat as I get into them. The podcasts don’t have to be listened to in any order, they are stand-alone encouragements.

You can listen regularly at this link, on my Youtube.com/Bible805 channel, and most all other podcast channels, including iTunes, Spotify, and many others. Just go to your favorite and enter “Hobo Soul Podcast” by Yvon Prehn.

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This lesson addresses three difficult questions: what happens to people who have never heard of Jesus, why innocent people suffer, and how believers can help those who are suffering.

Using Job as a key example, the lesson explains that God’s work and revelation extend beyond what we can see, and that we often do not know what God has made known to people in places and situations unfamiliar to us. Job also helps correct an unbiblical, transactional view of God that assumes obedience guarantees earthly prosperity and disobedience guarantees suffering.

The lesson shows that suffering can involve spiritual warfare, growth through pruning, and purposes beyond our understanding. It encourages believers to respond to suffering with kindness, honesty, prayer, and an eternal perspective, trusting that God is good, present, and in control even when outcomes do not improve in this life.

Following is the podcast and the video on the lesson. NOTES, and an all new DISCUSSION Guide that can also be used as a journal are below the podcast and video. Click on the cover images to download the handouts.

For FREE, editable source material to teach the lesson yourself, go to the Bible805 Academy, where you can also download all the resources you need to teach the lesson.