Day 109: A Heart of Obedience (2026)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 19 April 2026

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Summary

As we continue to read about Saul's vanity and disobedience, Fr. Mike emphasizes the importance of the virtue of obedience in our relationship with God. He also points out how God chose David to be anointed as king because David was a man after God's own heart. Today's readings are 1 Samuel 15-16 and Psalm 61.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:08.2	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:11.3	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:14.1	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:18.8	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit
0:21.1	into that story today. It is day 109. We were reading from 1st Samuel chapter 15 and 16.
0:27.0	We're also praying Psalm 61. As always, the Bible translation that I am using and reading from
0:31.6	is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I am actually reading from the
0:35.3	Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to get that, you can track it down at ascensionpress.com or at Amazon.com or whatever Bibles are sold. Maybe Bible.com. I don't even know. Buy a Bible.com. Slaped on there. I don't know. If you want to download your Bible in a year reading plan, you can also visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You also, if you have not yet
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1:00.4	for the better, I think. I mean, I'm not making any promises. I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
1:04.5	As I said, today is 109 and we are reading from 1st Samuel, chapter 15 and 16 and praying
1:10.7	Psalm 61. 1 Samuel, Chapter 15 and 16, and praying Psalm 61.
1:13.6	1 Samuel 15. Saul defeats the Amalekites, but disobeys.
1:19.5	And Samuel said to Saul, the Lord sent me to anoint you king over this people Israel.
1:24.4	Now therefore, listen to the words of the Lord.
1:27.2	Thus says the Lord of hosts, I will punish what Amalek did to Israel. Now therefore, listen to the words of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, I will
1:29.9	punish what Amalek did to Israel and opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
1:34.8	Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both
1:40.2	man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. So Saul summoned the
1:45.9	people, and numbered them in Talim, 200,000 men on foot, 10,000 men of Judah. And Saul came to the
1:52.8	city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley. And Saul said to the Kenites, go, depart, go down from
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