Bible 805
197 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsI believe the Bible is as true and real as this palm tree in my front yard and the area code (805) I live in. In this podcast, my goal is to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible. Doing that isn't always simple or easy and the podcasts provide in-depth studies, historical background, and challenging applications, all from me, Yvon Prehn, a lay teacher and a writer for Jesus. Go to www.Bible805.com for show notes, commentary, and resource links to videos, charts, teaching resources, and printables to help you bring God's Word into every part of your life.
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#181 How Historians Determine Truth, Part TWO of our series on how truth and history confirm we can trust the Bible
January 22, 2024 22:28 - 36 minutes - 66.4 MBWhy does it matter how historians determine what is true? (QUICK NOTE: this is a lesson that is especially good to look at the PowerPoint video of it, here is the link: https://youtu.be/gvTRyfFtujU The Bible805 site https://www.Bible805.com, has links to all the videos of the podcasts) In the previous lesson, we talked about the importance of truth and how truth is that which corresponds to reality. We then talked about how history is a useful way to determine what corresponds to reality...
#180, What is Truth? Part One of How Truth & History confirm that we can trust the Christian Bible
January 12, 2024 19:35 - 29 minutes - 53.4 MBBefore we begin, this lesson is part of a 4-part foundational series: How Truth & History confirm that we can trust the Christian Bible Though each lesson is useful on its own, all four lessons in this series go together for a complete understanding of the topic The 4 lessons in this series are: • #1 What is Truth?. . . and how historical truth relates to religious truth • #2 How do historians determine Truth?. . . why geography, archeology, artifacts, and documents matter •...
#179 The Book of John and the Revelation of Jesus, the end that is a beginning
January 12, 2024 19:30 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBAs you have read through the Bible from first to last, it’s all been about Jesus. He created a perfect world for humanity to enjoy and to walk with Him. When they disobeyed, He promised a Redeemer. The entire Old Testament talks about this future Redeemer, the importance of salvation by faith, and how the sacrificial system was a picture of what was coming. The prophets continually reminded the people that the Redeemer, the Messiah was coming. And the New Testament records the life, deat...
#178 What manner of people ought we to be? the Pastoral Epistles—1,2 Timothy, Titus, 1,2 Peter, Jude
January 10, 2024 22:44 - 24 minutes - 44.6 MBOur study of the New Testament is about so much more than an overview of books, or a historical tour. It is the culmination of God’s rescue plan for the people He created. The development of God’s changed, redeemed people is what we’ve been learning about. All else will fade (churches, buildings, denominations); God’s people will not. And it is those people (you) who will reach the world with God’s message of salvation. How we become that, the spiritual formation of God’s people is what ...
#177 Paul's Prison Letters, Eph., Phil., Col., and Philemon
January 09, 2024 20:20 - 31 minutes - 57.6 MBHow do we act when bad things happen to us? We always have a choice—we can retaliate; we can throw a pity party; we can blame others. Or we can trust God no matter what and try to respond in a way He wants us to. In what are called the “Prison Epistles” Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon we’ll look at how the Apostle Paul responded in a very difficult situation. This lesson about them is much more than a history lesson about Paul because what we do, how we respond to challe...
The Book of John and the Revelation of Jesus, the end that is a beginning
January 09, 2024 20:10 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBAs you have read through the Bible from first to last, it’s all been about Jesus. He created a perfect world for humanity to enjoy and to walk with Him. When they disobeyed, He promised a Redeemer. The entire Old Testament talks about this future Redeemer, the importance of salvation by faith, and how the sacrificial system was a picture of what was coming. The prophets continually reminded the people that the Redeemer, the Messiah was coming. And the New Testament records the life, deat...
#176 -- The antidote to becoming monstrous—God's Word; challenges from Zone of Interest
December 30, 2023 01:28 - 18 minutes - 34.1 MBThe content here may seem an overly intense way to encourage you to read through the Bible in Chronological Order, which Bible805 (https://wp.me/pazrJD-OO) has a variety of ways for you to do, but we are living in a time when truth seems to have lost its connection with objective reality in the minds of many and a simple encouragement to read through your Bible in the coming year didn't seem like enough. Times are tragic when now truth for many is defined by whatever social media we follow ...
#175 Romans, saved by grace alone; challenged to walk worthy
December 26, 2023 00:05 - 23 minutes - 42.9 MBRomans is one of the most significant books in the Bible because it is a complete and systematic explanation of the Christian faith. It is different than the other letters of the New Testament that were written to address specific problems in specific churches. The focus of this book was to clarify the Christian faith and our salvation—to show from start to finish that it is by grace alone through faith alone, not adherence to Jewish laws, or human effort, that salvation is possible. At ...
#174 1 & 2 Corinthians, saints in God's eyes, sinners in process
November 19, 2023 02:11 - 34 minutes - 63.3 MBA struggle for most of us who follow Jesus is that we know we should be better than we are. We know God called us to live lives that reflect our Savior, but far too often our lives reflect our world instead. As we learn in reading Paul's letters to the Corinthians, this struggle is nothing new. We can grow and become all God wants us to be, and these books and this lesson about them will help us do that. Paul begins by reminding the Corinthians of their high calling as believers and then c...
#173 1 & 2 Thessalonians, caring advice for young Christians and a reminder that all will be well
November 13, 2023 22:00 - 25 minutes - 46.5 MBAs we learned in our previous lesson on Acts and Hebrews, when Paul first began preaching this new message of salvation in Jesus, he began by showing how Jesus was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. As he moves further away from Jerusalem and begins to preach to people who aren’t as familiar with the Bible, he runs into both new questions and new challenges. Many of these are specific to the particular location he writes to and these letters to the Thessalonians are a good example ...
#172 The Book of Hebrews, God’s eternal plans made real in the church and in us
November 02, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBHebrews has a reputation for being a difficult book to understand and it is if you simply pull it out of context and without at least some knowledge of the Old Testament that it is based on, try to figure out what it is talking about. This is sad because Hebrews was intended to be a book of explanation—of how Jesus fulfilled all that was pictured in the Old Testament, how His life was the reality of what was promised before. But if you don’t know what the Old Testament promised and pictur...
#171 Discipleship, what it means to follow Jesus
October 25, 2023 20:00 - 30 minutes - 56.2 MBWhat is the point of being a disciple? We certainly don't hear a lot about it in churches today with the emphasis from many pulpits is a combination of happy life promises, and moral outrage over whatever the latest conservative news channel is reporting, mixed in with pleas for money. What an extraordinary shift that is from the message of Jesus, from the first of his ministry when he called followers beyond merely attending his sermons, to joining with him in his life, to one of his final...
#170 What the Gospels Tell Us About the Trinity
October 21, 2023 22:27 - 27 minutes - 50.7 MBIt's common to hear, even from those who seem very knowledgeable about the Christian faith and the Bible that "the Trinity is very hard to understand" or that "the Trinity is a mystery," or a similar statement. I STRONGLY disagree! Our God wants us to know Him and understand Him and I don't believe the essential doctrine of the Trinity is difficult when it is explained correctly and supported from what the Bible clearly teaches. That's what this lesson attempts to do. I don't claim credit ...
#169 What isn't in the New Testament, Gnostic Gospels then, deconstruction and progressive Christianity today
October 04, 2023 20:24 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MBA 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. We need to take their challenges seriously because our New Testament contains both how to be saved by faith in Jesus AND how to live our lives after we accept Him as Savior in ways that are pleasing to Him. But there are always alternative voices, ways...
What isn't in the New Testament, Gnostic Gospels then, deconstruction and progressive Christianity today
October 04, 2023 20:24 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MBA 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. We need to take their challenges seriously because our New Testament contains both how to be saved by faith in Jesus AND how to live our lives after we accept Him as Savior in ways that are pleasing to Him. But there are always alternative voices, ways...
#168 Overview of the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew, Mark & Luke and the coming of the Kingdom of God
September 24, 2023 01:24 - 33 minutes - 61.4 MBHow do we know what we’re told about Jesus is true? Wasn’t the New Testament written hundreds of years after He lived? How do we know it isn’t just legends about a good teacher? And why did some books get included and others didn’t? In addition to that, from the start, John the Baptist and Jesus both talked about the importance of the Kingdom of God—that with Jesus the Kingdom was now present. The whole idea of the Kingdom can be challenging to understand and though we won’t attempt to ...
#167 Introduction to the New Testament, the critical importance of correct dating
September 19, 2023 00:38 - 30 minutes - 56.5 MBThe New Testament makes some extraordinary claims including that the long-prophesied Messiah came into the world, lived, taught, died, and rose again to offer a restored relationship to God to all who believe in Him. For claims of such importance, naturally, not everyone believed them then or now and questions like these come up: Wasn’t the New Testament written hundreds of years after the events recorded in them? In the time between the events and the recording of them, did myth and lege...
#166 Time Between the Testaments, how to live when in the in-between times & when it seems God is silent
September 09, 2023 03:55 - 35 minutes - 65.1 MBFrom the close of the Old Testament to the start of the New Testament, it is a VERY different world—so many things had changed. There is a an infographic that goes through the changes that goes with the lesson. In this lesson, we’ll go over how the changes came to be. We’ll also look at the various groups that emerged during this time, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and others we find in the New Testament. The lesson ends with some thoughts on the description of this time as the “400 Sil...
#166 Time Between the Testaments, how to live when in the in-between times & when it seems God is silent
September 09, 2023 03:55 - 35 minutes - 65.1 MBFrom the close of the Old Testament to the start of the New Testament, it is a VERY different world—so many things had changed. There is a an infographic that goes through the changes that goes with the lesson. In this lesson, we’ll go over how the changes came to be. We’ll also look at the various groups that emerged during this time, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and others we find in the New Testament. The lesson ends with some thoughts on the description of this time as the “400 Sil...
#165 Book of Malachi, Conversations with God, past, now & forever
September 04, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 67.5 MBThe book of Malachi begins… with God saying, “I have always loved you, but you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?” Malachi 1:2 In some ways, these brief statements sum up the entire history of the Old Testament. God again and again both shows and declares His love for His people. And His people again and again, don’t believe Him, go their own ways, reap the punishment from it, repent, God loves and forgives them, and they do it all over again. In this lesson, we’ll first look at the...
#164, Haggai and Zechariah, Finish what you start, God always does
August 26, 2023 23:13 - 36 minutes - 66 MBThese books were written 14‐16 years after the Jews returned to the land after their captivity. The return itself was a glorious work of God. Once in the land, there were challenges when the surrounding people tried to stop them, but God intervened there also. The Israelites had seen God conquer and give victory in much greater problems and He took care of this situation also and they got permission from the king to continue building. But they didn’t—even though God miraculously provided...
#163 History of the Return, God keeps His promises and so should we
August 21, 2023 21:47 - 32 minutes - 59.8 MBThough God had to punish the Children of Israel for their many sins by sending them into exile in Babylon, the punishment had a promised limit of 70 years and at the end of the 70 years, He miraculously returned them to their land. In this lesson we’ll go over the return and the leadership God used to make it possible. This is a lesson where knowing the correct chronology is especially important (and of course this lesson will teach it to you) because the books of the Bible that talk abou...
#162 Ezekiel & Daniel, whiner, worker, witness, wonder
August 10, 2023 23:54 - 32 minutes - 59.9 MBThe setting for this episode is that time has run out. After hundreds of years of warnings and challenges, it’s over for Judah. Daniel and Ezekiel are in Babylon taken there in an early deportation before the end came in Jerusalem. What seemed horrible to them at the time was a great blessing in disguise— they were kept from the horrors of the siege, the total destruction of Jerusalem, and final deportation. Daniel and his 3 friends were taken to the palace; Ezekiel was relocated with th...
Special-- Keep Your Eyes Open for a Burning Bush
August 05, 2023 22:58 - 6 minutes - 14.2 MBThis is a special podcast inspired by the Global Leadership Summit we recently attended. You are never too old, too young, too anything to not follow God's leading in your life and the dreams He gives you!
#161 How to Understand Apocalyptic Passages in the Bible
July 27, 2023 21:16 - 40 minutes - 74.3 MBWhen we read through the Prophets in the Old Testament, particularly when we get to Ezekiel and Daniel we are introduced to fantastic images, whirling wheels, fantastic beasts, and world-shaking prophecies. This type of writing is what is known as “apocalyptic” and it’s useful to take some time to understand this type of writing, this genre in the Bible to understand the books that contain it. There is a lot of confusion around the word “apocalyptic.” In the secular world, this term has ...
#160 What to Do When Your World is Falling Apart, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Obediah
July 24, 2023 22:16 - 42 minutes - 77.5 MBHow are we supposed to act when things go wrong? Especially if we had nothing to do to cause the problems that plague us? How can we help others who are going through a hard time? I have answers to these questions and more in this lesson. First, the lesson goes into a little bit of history to set the stage. For centuries God has been patient, but now things are falling apart. After repeatedly sending prophets to His people to remind them of the covenant He made with them where they accept...
#159 Habakkuk, his Questions and why it is OK to ask God, WHY?
July 14, 2023 18:05 - 37 minutes - 68 MBIs it really OK to ask God “why?” We all have questions like these: Why does God allow evil? Why do evil people get away with things? Why do good people get caught up in the mess others make? In this lesson 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. In addition to the basic and yet challenging content of the book, we also look at the book's form, which is a C...
#158 Live With the End in Mind, Hopeful, joyful reminders from Micah, Isaiah, and Zephaniah
July 10, 2023 22:03 - 33 minutes - 62.2 MBThe best-selling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People totally revolutionized the lives of millions of people and one of the habits he talked about is a great summary of our lesson today. The habit I’m talking about is Habit #2—Begin With the End in Mind The prophets who preached after the fall of Israel and before Judah was conquered by Babylon preached to challenge people to do this. We will briefly talk about 3 prophets Micah, Isaiah, and Zephaniah, and how they encouraged ...
#157, How falling is never final with our God, the Fall of Israel
June 24, 2023 03:37 - 29 minutes - 53.5 MBWhen God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, they met God at Mt. Sinai and there God not only gave them the 10 Commandments and His other laws for how to live, but He offered them a covenant, an agreement with Him that if they would obey and follow His commands, they would be His people, His treasured possession who He would bless. He also told them that if they did not follow His laws and worship Him only that God would discipline them, life would not go well for them, and if they pers...
#156 Hosea, How God uses human lives as lessons, be sure your's is a good one
June 09, 2023 02:57 - 26 minutes - 47.7 MBJust before Hosea appears, God sent the prophet Amos to condemn the sins of Israel. Amos preached forceful, harsh messages for about 3 years. With Hosea God gives his people a similar message that they have violated his covenant and judgment is coming, but in a very different way. In Hosea, his overall message is of God’s incredible love for His people, no matter how badly they treated him. The book is an excellent rebuttal to those who say that the Old Testament God is one of vengeance and...
Two Key Characteristics of Prophetic Books--essential to understand as you read them
June 05, 2023 04:25 - 15 minutes - 28.7 MBReading the prophets can be confusing and to help, and Bible805 did a preliminary lesson to help you understand them, CLICK HERE to go to it. As I was preparing this section on the prophets, especially as you start to read Isaiah, I realized that an explanation of two more things are very important to keep in mind as we study the prophets as we go through the Bible. They are: The prophet’s expansive view of time The prophet’s expansive view of God’s sovereignty, His requirements, love, an...
#155 Two Key Characteristics of Prophetic Books--essential to understand as you read them
June 05, 2023 04:25 - 15 minutes - 28.7 MBReading the prophets can be confusing and to help, and Bible805 did a preliminary lesson to help you understand them, CLICK HERE to go to it. As I was preparing this section on the prophets, especially as you start to read Isaiah, I realized that an explanation of two more things are very important to keep in mind as we study the prophets as we go through the Bible. They are: The prophet’s expansive view of time The prophet’s expansive view of God’s sovereignty, His requirements, love, an...
#154 The Prophet Amos, when religion isn’t enough and the importance of justice in serving God
June 04, 2023 22:20 - 26 minutes - 48.1 MBThe prophet Amos and his message has captivated preachers, reformers, and Christian leaders from the earliest days it was preached until today, particularly with its emphasis on justice. Martin Luther King used it in his I Have a Dream speech where he quoted the verse “Let justice roll down…” from Amos 5:24. And in June 2023 Pope Francis chose “Let justice and peace flow” (citing the book of Amos) as the theme for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which will be on Sept. 1. ...
#153 Jonah, about so much more than a fish and the imperative of follow-up for new Christians
May 29, 2023 00:29 - 32 minutes - 60.3 MBWe all know about the fish swallowing Jonah, but there is more in the book including the answers to these questions: What about people who haven’t heard the gospel if Jesus is the only way to God What do we do about bad people, or when people treat us badly? What does God expect from us as His followers? How should we respond to continuing trials? Answers to these questions and other elated applications are what we will cover in our lesson on Jonah. In addition, we’ll look at the import...
#152 The Prophetic Books, little understood, incredibly important, an introduction
May 11, 2023 19:40 - 28 minutes - 52.7 MBWhen people think of the Old Testament prophets, most often two areas come to mind: First, most people think of the prophecies of Jesus’ coming, and though that is important and a significant validation of the truth of the Christian faith, only 2% of prophecies are about the coming of Jesus. Second, many think of the Old Testament prophets as a group of angry old guys railing against evil and the coming final judgment. Though they were frequently angry and did rail against evil, only about...
The Prophetic Books, little understood, incredibly important, an introduction
May 11, 2023 19:40 - 28 minutes - 52.7 MBWhen people think of the Old Testament prophets, most often two areas come to mind: First, most people think of the prophecies of Jesus’ coming, and though that is important and a significant validation of the truth of the Christian faith, only 2% of prophecies are about the coming of Jesus. Second, many think of the Old Testament prophets as a group of angry old guys railing against evil and the coming final judgment. Though they were frequently angry and did rail against evil, only about...
#151, Solomon, lessons from a wasted life and how to not make the same mistakes
May 05, 2023 22:31 - 34 minutes - 62.5 MBAfter studying the life of David, we couldn’t have a greater contrast between his life as a man “after God’s own heart,” than what we find in his son Solomon. This lesson will show you the solid foundation of Biblical instruction he had, how he started well, but progressively deteriorated into self-indulgent sins that destroyed not only his life but split his nation and condemned it to continual war and trouble throughout Old Testament history. We’ll overview the books he wrote, Song of So...
#150 David, great goodness and great sins, but always a man after God's own heart
April 30, 2023 16:20 - 30 minutes - 54.9 MBThe Bible calls David, a man “after God’s own heart.” Thisphrase is part of a sermon of Paul’s in the NT Acts 13:22—where he is talking about the history of Israel, and Paul says, “After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’” It’s a goal I think we’d like to describe all our lives and how to do that is what we will cover in this lesson. The most encouragi...
#149, Samuel and Saul, the importance of listening to God & how to do it
April 23, 2023 20:29 - 25 minutes - 47 MBHave 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, we’ll establish the fact that God does want us to hear Him. Dallas Willard says: Hearing God...
#148, Judges and Ruth, My Way or God’s Way, how to live the best way.
April 15, 2023 23:22 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBThere 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, in our heart of hearts we often think we know what’s best for us. But do we? The books of...
#147, How to Correctly Understand & Apply Bible Stories & Biblical Narratives
April 07, 2023 00:22 - 33 minutes - 62 MBWhat 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 & Biblical Narratives. We will do this first by defining and understanding genre in the Bible and ...
#146, Joshua, 9 ways to fight and win the battles of life
April 04, 2023 22:08 - 28 minutes - 52.5 MBIf 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 different. Once you realize you are in a battle, this lesson will give you 9 ways to fight and w...
#145, Deuteronomy, where rules become joyful reality in our lives
March 27, 2023 06:07 - 29 minutes - 54.3 MBIn 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 include that we should love as a reflection of God’s love for us; that love results in extravag...
#144--Numbers, Bad Choices and how Spiritual Disciplines Can Help Avoid Them
March 19, 2023 00:08 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MBWe’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 disappeared, it will be the dullest, most boring reading you can find. However, if you read it as a pict...
#143--The Backstory of Jesus, and the Old Testament tabernacle, sacrifices, and festivals
March 09, 2023 02:28 - 35 minutes - 65.8 MBEvery 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 what it will tell you about the foreshadowing of Jesus’ life and completion of our salvation i...
#142 The Old Testament Laws, Why read them, How to understand them, and Apply them today
March 09, 2023 02:28 - 31 minutes - 57.7 MBWhen 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 anything that is worth learning often involves challenging times to do that well. We will the...
#142--The Backstory of Jesus, and the Old Testament tabernacle, sacrifices, and festivals
March 07, 2023 04:49 - 35 minutes - 65.8 MBEvery 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 what it will tell you about the foreshadowing of Jesus’ life and completion of our salvation i...
The Old Testament Laws, Why read them, How to understand them, and Apply them today
February 18, 2023 23:17 - 31 minutes - 57.7 MBWhen 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 anything that is worth learning often involves challenging times to do that well. We will the...
#141 Exodus, a New Begining for Moses, Israel, and Us
February 07, 2023 01:34 - 25 minutes - 46.8 MBHave 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 and hope as we’ll see in our lesson today, EXODUS, A new beginning for Moses, Israel, and us. ...
#140 From a Person to a People, and the balance between God’s Sovereignty and Personal Responsibility
January 28, 2023 20:03 - 34 minutes - 63.4 MBWith 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 huge responsibility and as we look at their lives it is a good opportunity to consider questions a...