Bible805 Podcast

 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...

What do the Lord of the Rings, the movie Aquaman , and the book of 1 Samuel have in common? The answer to the question I just asked, is that in all of them a key theme is that people want a King. But not just any King, they want a King who is strong, good and just, and who will conquer evil enemies.  You may be familiar with the stories of how Arthur Curry became Aquaman and Strider became Ar...

There is a very popular song boasts “I did it my way!”  Though it sounds so appealing, to live our lives exactly how we want, is this really the best way to live? Today we’ll look at what the book of Judges that show us about 300 years of Israel’s history and what happened when they did exactly that. That events are told honestly in that story, as that is what the Bible does, and these events...

After 40 years of wandering, Israel finally gets to enter the Promised Land. God was giving it to them, but they still had to fight for it. Join us to learn about how to fight the battles of life successfully and the warnings of incomplete obedience. In this podcast, you’ll see how even though we may be doing exactly what God wants us to do, we can still have challenges, but with God’s help, not i...

 Moses knows he will shortly die and after 40 years in the desert, the now formed nation Israel will go into the Promised Land. The book of Deuteronomy contains Moses’ final words to his people.  The book is a series of sermons where he restates and summarizes much of the content of the previous books of the Law.  The tone of the book is more pastoral and less thundering than his pr...

 We love reading the stories in the Bible, but we can be disappointed if God doesn’t do for us what He did for the Bible characters.  To help us understand what we can legitimately apply to our lives and avoid being disappointed with God, I put together this podcast on the topic of How to Correctly Read and Apply Bible Stories.  This is a challenging topic for our Bible study becaus...

How can we find out what God expects of us? After someone decides to follow Jesus, do they need to live any differently than they did before?  Those are the questions we'll answer in our lesson today.  After the Children of Israel were miraculously brought out of Egypt, God didn’t turn them loose in the desert to do whatever they wanted and it’s the same for us today. Once we become a be...

 The story of the Exodus is one of the most well-known of all the Bible stories, partly because of the movie and partly because it is the historical history of the beginning of the Jewish nation. But that doesn’t mean it’s without controversy—not only about the dates it occurred, but if it really happened at all and if it did, how does it apply to us today?  Today we’ll look at an introd...

Genesis and the first part of Exodus were interesting to read, but now it’s getting a bit strange….. What do all these laws about what to eat, sacrifices, and how to build the Tabernacle have to do with us today? Why should we bother reading them? The answer is SO much more than you can imagine! Not in that we should follow the laws and regulations in the same way the Children of Israel did, but i...

How did the Jewish people become a nation? Did Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph have any say in being the founding fathers or were they predestined to do all they did? And what about us? What is God in control of and what are we responsible for? Today we are going to answer these questions and more in our Podcast.  As we look at the lives of these founders of our faith, we can see God faithfu...

 “Did angels (or as some have said, extra-terrestrials) have children with humans?”  “How do you explain fossils of humans 30,000 to 40,000 years old?”  “If the Bible says you can’t see God, how could people see him in Genesis?” “What about the curses in Genesis?, e.g. Cain and Lamech, Canaan and Ham?”  "Is Jesus the only way to heaven and what does reading the Bible in Chronol...

 •When did people start to believe in life after death? •Some say that the people in the Old Testament didn’t really believe in it like we do. Is that true? •Why does it matter? Does it matter to me? •We’ll answer these questions and more in today’s Podcast! This is an incredibly important topic and one where there is a lot of confusion even among people who believe in God, especially regardi...

Why do Christians call Abraham the "Father of their Faith?" Isn't he also the Father of the faith for Jews and Muslims? And didn't he write an important book for the Mormons? Do I have to be a person of great faith like Abraham for God to accept me? These questions and much more are what we will cover in this podcast on Abraham. I'll start with an overview of the incredible archeological finds tha...

Most people have heard about Job, the character in the Bible who went through the loss of everything in his life. It's a classic story of pain and loss with a great ending.  What this podcast will show you is that the book is much more than a story, but the true story of a man who went through unbelievable pain for no apparent reason, who endured the accusations and tormenting from his friend...

How did we get here? Is God real and what is He like? What messed things up? Who is Satan and what power does he have? Why do innocent people suffer? Not just Job, all Genesis characters. Why me? What does God want from us ? That's what we are going to start to cover in this series, but before that in the podcast below we are going to go over the presuppositions that undergird the teaching for thi...

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 t to talk about….. The Six Benefits of reading (or listening...

 Church Councils formalized the Canon of the 66 books of scripture but the CANON had been determined by God and accepted by the people of God long before Councils. But just because the canon was decided that didn’t mean ordinary people could read it.  The Primary Bible for centuries was Jerome’s Latin Vulgate Most people couldn’t read and even if they did, fewer and fewer spoke Latin. Be...

 Even Bible scholars admit lots of other books were written at the time the Bible documents were written, how do we know we have the right ones in our Bible? Didn’t a group of church leaders get together at a council or something and just make a decision on that? To answer, first let’s review what we’ve done so far. We started with looking at ancient manuscripts, dating them—the foundation fo...

   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...

   After listening to our last podcast on the historical uniqueness of the Christian Bible….you may be thinking….. BIG CLAIMS there, but can you prove your theory? Does secular history REALLY anchor the stories in the Bible in real history? Not only does secular history anchor the stories in real history, but we have many exciting examples to share as I answer those questions today with...

 In our last podcast we talked about how history helps us determine the truth of Biblical documents. And if that’s so doesn’t history do the same for all religions? • Why do Christians think their sacred books are any different than the sacred scripture of other religion? • Aren’t they all the same anyway, slightly different messages, but all leading to the same God? • Hi, I’m Yvon Prehn and...

Isn’t the Bible full of errors? Hasn’t it been copied so many times nobody has any idea what the original was? HOW can history help us decide what’s true and what isn’t? Answering those questions is what this podcast is about. As I was thinking about it, I realized history is like an anchor. Just as an anchor keeps a ship from floating off in any direction, so too, history can help tie what we bel...

Was Jesus a zombie? Welcome to Bible 805 and this special podcast in honor of the Halloween season. Please understand, there is no irreverence or shock value intended with this question. It was an honestly asked question from someone who was totally unfamiliar with church and we’ll answer it today. When you think about it calmly, with the viewpoint of someone outside the church,"Was Jesus a Zombie...

How do we know what’s True? More than ever it’s an important question. Fake news, conflicting viewpoints, how do we know what to believe? On one level if the confusion over truth were just confined to the political realm, one option would be to block the media noise, wait for the next election cycle, and hope things will get better. But we can’t do that in all of life. Our individual lives, those...