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🗓️ 1 June 2025
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Fr. Mike reminds us that, eventually, the world will forget us. He encourages us to keep our eyes fixed on heaven, focusing on surrender and trust in God rather than control. Today's readings are 1 Kings 10, Ecclesiastes 8-9, and Psalm 8.
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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 |
0:07.7 | encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by |
0:12.5 | Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
0:17.4 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
0:21.0 | Today is day 152, and we are reading from First Kings chapter 10, Ecclesiastes, |
0:26.3 | chapters 8 and 9 in Psalm 8. |
0:28.3 | As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, |
0:31.8 | the second Catholic edition, and I am using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. |
0:35.2 | If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit |
0:38.0 | ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year, and you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking |
0:41.7 | on subscribe and that you know the drill. |
0:45.5 | As I said, it's First Kings chapter 10 today. |
0:47.8 | So we're getting closer and closer to the end of King Solomon's reign. |
0:51.9 | We're going to see the queen of Shiba,ba and we're gonna see how everyone's coming to see Solomon |
0:56.5 | because of all of his wisdom and because of how he's just, |
0:59.4 | man, the guys, the guys are wealthy. |
1:01.3 | He is rich, he's super rich. |
1:04.4 | We're also coming closer and closer. |
1:06.3 | The day after tomorrow, we're encountering |
1:08.6 | our second messianic checkpoint. |
1:10.2 | So just the day after tomorrow, we're gonna begin Mark second messianic checkpoint. So just the day after tomorrow, |
1:11.6 | we're going to begin Mark chapters one and two. So excited to go back to the Gospels after it's been |
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