Bible 805

If you invited someone to your home for dinner and they stopped halfway there, what would you think? That they didn’t care? Didn’t really want to be with you? In our podcast today we’ll see how that is a little like what it is like if we accept Jesus to be our Savior, but then we quit God’s plans for us only halfway to where He wants us to be. For notes from the podcast and more, go to www.bible80...

Christians often refer to themselves as "saved", but what does it mean to be "saved"? Saved from what? In today’s podcast we’ll talk about the meaning of salvation and how to get from wherever we are to this spiritual destination. Our roadmap for this journey is found in the book of Romans. For notes and more, go to: www.bible805.com .

As we read Acts and the early letters of Paul, we see the people of the early church selling everything, constantly in worship, doing miracles. Does that mean we should do these things also? The history of the early church is no doubt exciting, as they worked miracles, held everything in common and lived a life of continual worship.  However, a key question for us living today is which of the...

What does it take to change a habit? We’ve all struggled to lose weight or exercise or get up earlier or all sorts of things we wish we’d do differently and it's hard to do! It’s never easy to change even the most simple of habits, but in our podcast today we’ll see that the followers of Jesus not only changed their personal behavior from that of fearful cowards to fearless leaders but that thousa...

Who is Jesus? Secular history and all the major religions of the world agree He existed, but they have very different answers as to who He is In our podcast today we’ll look at the history that verifies His existence, the beliefs about Him that have no basis in history all to help us answer the most important question of time and eternity—Who do you think Jesus is? For a copy of the notes that go...

What is the most important thing about the Christian faith? How does it claim to connect you with God, forgive your sins, and give you eternal life? • Is it knowing all the things you learned about the Old Testament if you’ve been listening to this podcast the last few months? • Is it holding to certain beliefs like a 6-day Creation theory or 5-point Calvinism? • Or is it what you do like being su...

What kind of a relationship do you have with someone if you never talk to them? OR if they talk to you and you ignore them? In our podcast today we’ll review God’s conversations with His people throughout the Old Testament and what he finally had to say to them before becoming silent for 400 years. Along the way, we’ll talk about how we ought to respond when we read his messages today. For notes a...

If you want to describe the perfect super-hero, a sterling example of strength, integrity, leadership, and self-giving, you could list these characteristics in minute dictionary detail or you could simply say, “Captain America.” An image can contain volumes of backstory and meaning in a few words—the challenge is you need to understand the meaning of the image. The books of the Old Testament and Z...

What makes you truly happy and satisfied?  Is its financial security? A loving family or relationship? A beautiful home? Though all of these things, financial security, loving family, beautiful home are what most of us want, we’ll see in our podcast today that these are not what creates true happiness and inner satisfaction and peace—but we won’t stop with being negative, but will talk about...

When someone makes a promise to you, do they always keep it? What about God? Does He always keep his promises? In our podcast today we’ll see how God kept his promise to return people to their homeland after they’d been taken captive for 70 years. But as for the people of God, we’ll see how well they kept their promises to God and then we’ll end with some applications on how we might all get bette...

We know hard times will come The question is, How do we respond? Two characters in the Old Testament, Ezekiel and Daniel, whose stories started when they were teenagers give us some encouraging examples In the midst of unimaginable challenges, we’ll see how….. They didn’t whine; they faithfully worked, their lives became a witness, the wonder of God was then revealed to and through them. Our podca...

Is it OK to ask God “why?” Why do you allow evil? Why do evil people get away with things? Why do good people get caught up in the mess others make? In this podcast we’ll look at the prophet Habakkuk and what happened when he not only asked God “Why?” but when he kept asking God when he didn’t like how God answered him the first time. Go to www.bible805.com to download PDFs of the lesson.

The bestselling book the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People totally revolutionized the lives of millions of people and one of the habits Steven Covey, the author, talked about is a great summary of our podcast today. The habit I’m talking about is Habit #2—Begin With the End in Mind  Join me as we look at the challenge of how to Begin with the End in Mind in the books of Zephaniah and Jo...

People ask, if it really matter if the events talked about in the Old Testament took place in the times and ways that are described in the Bible? And some wonder if it isn’t the spiritual message of these stories that is most important? In this podcast, we are going to talk about how it does matter tremendously that the Old Testament describes true stories that took place in recognizable places th...

How can we please God? How can we know if we are doing enough in our Christian lives? Fortunately God doesn’t play games with us and doesn’t leave us guessing as to what he wants us to do. We’ll talk about that today in our lesson. We've been looking a lot at the history of what has happened to Israel and though that is important, what is even more important is how we apply the lessons we learn fr...

Does it matter if the stories in the Bible really happened? Isn’t the important thing the spiritual truth taught in them? It seems to be a common belief today that objective facts aren't nearly as important as how we feel about our spiritual beliefs, but as you'll learn today our Bible is based on historical realities and God cares very much about how we live our lives based on those realities. Fo...

 How are we supposed to live our daily lives if our faith in Jesus is real?  If God saves us as a free gift of grace, dependent on Jesus death on the cross, does he really care what we do after we accept him? Can we do whatever we want, knowing we’ll be forgiven? On a more serious note, what if, after we have trusted Jesus as Savior, we truly want to live a life that pleases Him—how do w...

Do you have trouble believing that God loves you? That he forgives you no matter what your sins? Many of us have problems believing God really loves us, but with the prophet Hosea in the podcast today we will see an incredible example of God’s love that not only applied to Israel when it was going through a very hard time, but that applies to us today also. For notes and other materials related to...

  Do you ever wonder what God wants you to do?   In Dallas Willard’s book, Hearing God , he says that one of most frequently asked questions of Christians is “What is God’s will for my life?” It’s a question I’m sure many of us have asked. In today’s podcast we’ll be looking at the book of Amos, one of the Old Testament prophets for help in answering this question. We'll see that God is...

Most people have heard about the story of Jonah and the whale, but did you know that the book also answers some big questions about the Christian life? Some of the questions Jonah answers include: What about people who haven’t heard the gospel if Jesus is the only way to God? What are the consequence of sin in the life of a believer? What do we do about bad people, or when people treat us badly? W...

Would you like to know God better? Not just about God—but learning about the One with whom you will walk throughout eternity? One of the best ways to get to know someone is find out about their past—who were their friends, what was important to them, what moves them to tears or gives them joy.  Our God shows us all these things in the history of the kings after Solomon and in the messages of...

If someone insults you how do you answer? Does the way people treat us determine how we should treat them?  In our podcast today we’ll look at Proverbs and get some advice on how we can respond no matter how difficult people might be in ways that please God and ultimately help us live a more peaceful and productive life. We laid the philosophical groundwork for this podcast in the last one. P...

Why do you act the way you do? Talk the way you do? Are these conscious decisions or simply a reflection of whatever everyone else in your world says and does? We don’t often give everyday actions or words much thought, but in our podcast today we’re going to look at the book of Proverbs and WHY we need it in a post-Christian, post-Biblical world. This is an important podcast for you to listen to...

When you hear the term prophecy, what do you think of? For many people we think of dire warnings of end-time apocalypse, with images of our favorite sci-fi movie dancing in our heads. But is that what prophecy, specifically prophecy in the Bible is all about? In our podcast today we’ll see that that the books of the Bible after the poetic books we just studied, that we call the Prophetic books and...

 What if you had EVERYTHING? Money, power, romance? What would you do with it? Today we’ll talk about Solomon, a man who had everything We’ll look at his life, but more than that, we’ll end with a challenge that You can make a more eternally significant impact with your life than he did with all the wisdom, wealth, power and riches he had. For a PDF of lesson notes, go to www.bible805.com .