Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.

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Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

It is day 154. It is our second messianic checkpoint. We begin today. We're reading Mark

chapters 1 and chapter 2. We're also praying Psalm 11. One little note about the gospel of Mark

after these words, the words that you always heard, you hear every single day.

We are reading, I am reading from the Bible translation known as the revised standard version,

the second Catholic edition.

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approximately up to this point, roughly 154 of those days episodes, just delivered to your

inbox or wherever you listen to podcast. As I said, today we are starting the second

messianic checkpoint, Mark's Gospel. Now, Mark is the shortest gospel. And so this is going to be

a great experience. I'm so excited. When we went

through with Gospel John, the Gospel of John is one of the longer Gospels, and we're going to

the opposite. Mark, the shortest gospel. Now, not only are we kind of going to the opposite gospel.

Mark, Matthew, and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels, and that means that they will, they're very, very similar.

In fact, St. John in the Gospel of John

is completely unique from the other three Gospels.

But Mark, Matthew, and Luke are very similar to each other.

One of the things that we note about this

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