Bible805 Podcast

Have you recently had someone say to you, “You aren’t listening to me?” Most of us have. Maybe we weren’t paying attention, or maybe we didn’t want to hear what we knew someone was going to say. Whatever the reason, not listening can get us into a lot of trouble. The trouble is especially serious if we aren’t listening to God. If we aren’t hearing what He has to say to us. First, in this lesson, w...

There is a popular song that boasts “I did it my way!” Though it sounds appealing, is this really the best way to live? We’re going to look at around 400 years of history when an entire nation decided to do it their way in this podcast. From our earliest days, we want to do things our way; we don’t want anyone else to tell us what to do. Though we may appear to go along with rules as we get older,...

What is the purpose of the stories in the Bible? If someone does something that seems a bit odd, like Gideon setting out a fleece to determine God’s will or the Children of Israel walking around the walls of Jericho to conquer it— Does that mean I should do similar things to please God? We’ll answer these questions and more in this lesson on How to Correctly Understand & Apply Bible Stories &a...

If you are having a hard time in your Christian life, this lesson will teach you 9 lessons on how to fight and win, and the first step to winning the battles of life is to realize you are in a battle! Many Christians today are surprised when bad things happen because they thought it was going to be easy and an unending series of blessings when they became a Christian. But the reality is very diffe...

In the book of Deuteronomy, the last of the five books of Moses that make up the Pentateuch, Moses preaches a final series of sermons to the people about to enter the Promised Land. There is a lot to talk about, but in this lesson, we’ll discuss three areas: 1. How we should love 2.How we should give 3.How we should define ourselves and how it influences all we do A few thoughts from the lesson in...

We’re in the book of Numbers as we read through the Bible and it is a pivotal book we can learn from, not only in what happened to the Children of Israel in this book but also what we can learn from it on how to deal with challenging situations. Ray Steadman said about Numbers: “If you read the Old Testament as nothing but a history of ancient events concerning people who have long since disappear...

Every sport, hobby, or special interest has insider terms and history and the more you know the back story of them the more you’ll understand and enjoy the activity. The Bible is no different—the more you understand the foundational items in the first 5 books of the Bible, what we call the Pentateuch, the more the rest of the Bible will make sense. This is especially true in what you’ll see about...

When most people get into the books of Old Testament Law, especially in Leviticus and Numbers, with all the odd and obscure laws and regulations, they bail out. And why shouldn’t they? What do these laws and regulations have to do with us today? We will answer all these questions and more in this lesson as we consider the importance of the messages in them and deal honestly with the reality that a...

Have you ever felt stuck, trapped, not where you want to be or expected you’d be at this time in your life? The last few years for many have been times of lockdowns, isolation, disruptions of all sorts. Current challenges aside, at any time of life we can become trapped, emotionally, physically, or spiritually. The book of Exodus and the life of Moses can encourage, inspire, and give us freedom an...

With this week’s lesson we move from studying one person’s life, Abraham, to how God transforms his people into the nation of Israel, who God will use as His representatives on earth, the ones who will write His Word, demonstrate His worship, and eventually be the family that bears the Savior of the world, Jesus. The Patriarchs of this family, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, along with Joseph had a hug...

In Genesis, with the life of Abraham, we have a big shift, where God moves from working with all of humanity to a focus on ONE man, who will become the founder of the Jewish nation. Ultimately three major religions in our world today claim him as their founder: the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions. As such, he is held in great veneration by all and in Christianity referred to as one of the...

One of the great answers we discovered the first video of this series is the assurance that Life after death is a great promise to those who believe in Jesus. Yet that assurance brings up another question that we will answer in this lesson which is: “What about those who have never heard of Jesus?” We have two more questions in this series,  “Why do innocent people suffer?” And along with tha...

With this lesson we start the adventure of reading through the Bible in Chronological Order. It begins by reading Genesis and three days into it, we jump to the book of Job. We will talk about why we read these two books together and you’ll see how Genesis and Job lay the foundation for much of what we will read in the rest of the Bible by starting out with answers to the Big Questions of life— •...

I truly believe that getting to know your Bible well by reading it in Chronological Order is THE MOST important thing you can do in the coming year and every year, not only for yourself, but for those you care for in your small groups, classes, or other ministry groups. However, even though I feel deeply about this and have created many resources for it, I realized I hadn’t been very clear on exac...

We need a GPS, a global positioning system to help us live a life that pleases God. A GPS in our car or phone can give us directions because it is linked to a system of satellites orbiting the earth that can pinpoint where we are within 1 centimeter of accuracy. We might be lost or not know how to get from place to place where we are on earth. But a GPS system, far above us, can see the big pictur...

We may not think of Psalms as a book of the Bible about discipleship, but in reality, it is one of the most instructive books in the Bible to help us follow Jesus in all areas of life, which is the essence of being a disciple. Dallas Willard described discipleship in this way, We need to be clear in our heads about what discipleship is. My definition: A disciple is a person who has decided that th...

On the Bible805 Bible Reading Schedule we are going through the Bible in Chronological order. You’ll notice that along with the longer passage each day is a Psalm or a chapter in Proverbs. In this short lesson, I’d like to take a few minutes to explain why we’re doing this. I’ll first explain how we are organizing the books of history and the prophets, and then why these books are different than t...

Reading the Bible in Chronological Order is one of the most life-changing things you can do. It will strengthen your faith and help you grow as a disciple of Jesus. This lesson is an overview of the reasons why people don't read the Bible in chronological order and the benefits of reading it in chronological order. Go to the following link for the notes and link to the video on the lesson: https:/...

The word “advent” means arrival or coming, referring to the coming of Jesus to be born as a baby. Traditionally, we celebrate it by lighting candles, reading devotions, and preparing our hearts for Christmas. That’s all wonderful, but I there’s much more to the totality of Advent—when we look a little more closely at it—we find that the coming of Jesus, to save and dwell with his people, expands o...

Like many of you, I feel like I never have enough time to do all the study and preparation I would like for the Bible classes I teach. There is always one more resource, one more commentary, one more word study I wish I had time to look at. Though that frustration will most likely never totally go away in this earthly life, I have found some tools that enable me to do a much greater depth of study...

In this lesson, here are THREE Hermeneutical tools that will help us properly interpret the Bible 1. Understand genre—is it a comic book or a cookbook? 2. Beware of the hapax—passages or words mentioned only once 3. Embrace humility—we know so little and so many have gone before us, not one of us is the final authority or expert and so we apply this by using the tools given to us by others in the...

Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpreting the Bible—in other words helping us understand what it means for our everyday lives. Instead of a list of rules that are hard to tie to actual verses and even more to life application, this lesson takes the popular verse of Jeremiah 29: 11 that says, For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm yo...

After the decision was made as to which books would go into our Bibles , i t was still a long, complex, and difficult time before most people had what we take for granted—our own Bibles in the language we speak. When we see staid, serious, old-fashioned pictures of Bible translators we have no idea of their sacrifices and heroics involved in bringing us God’s Word as we have it today. In this less...

Who decided what books are in the Bible?  Many have heard the term, "Canonicity" used with this topic, what does it mean? How did they or whoever was responsible, decide? These are incredibly important questions for us to answer because if the books that make up our Bibles, the “canon” of Scripture are merely the result of human effort and decision, it doesn’t matter if we read them or what w...

A primary criticism of the New Testament is that critics say that Christians intentionally left out and/or suppressed certain writings, primarily what we call the Gnostic Gospels and that they should be part of our New Testament and aren’t. It isn't just scholars who are affected by these views. Consider this quote: “It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believed in s...