Day 158: The Reality of Sin (2025)

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

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🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike highlights the reality of sin and our capacity to choose hell as we read about Jesus' teachings on temptations, divorce, and wealth. Jesus' teachings can be challenging, but following him is the path to true holiness. Today we read Mark 9-10 and Psalm 29.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.8	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is
0:12.0	brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:15.7	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story
0:19.9	today. It is day 158.
0:21.9	We have four more days left, including today.
0:23.9	In our second messianic checkpoint, we're reading today from the Gospel of St. Mark,
0:27.6	chapters 9 and 10.
0:28.9	We're also praying Psalm 29.
0:30.4	As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version,
0:33.6	the second Catholic edition.
0:34.8	I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com
0:40.8	slash Bible in a year. And you can also subscribe to this podcast if the app in which you listen to
0:44.4	this podcast allows you to subscribe. You can. You're invited to. You're also invited to share it and
0:50.3	like it and rate it and all those things if you like. And if you don't, that's okay.
0:55.8	No big deal. Because you are on day 158. Incredible. We're reading from Mark chapter 9 and
1:01.6	chapter 10 and praying Psalm 29. The Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 9. And Jesus said to them,
1:09.7	Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will
1:12.9	not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power. The transfiguration. And after six
1:19.8	days, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves,
1:25.3	and he was transfigured before them, and his garments became
1:27.9	glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them,
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