Day 189: Follow the Lord (2025)

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

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike explains why it's important to focus on our own journey with the Lord over those around us while highlighting the leadership of king Josiah. He also reminds us how the mistakes of past kings had led Israel down a dark path. Today's readings are 2 Kings 23, 2 Chronicles 34, and Proverbs 8:1-21.

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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
0:07.8	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by
0:12.6	Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.2	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:22.4	It is day 189.
0:26.1	It's the last day on this whatever number of page this is, maybe page three.
0:27.2	Gosh, for crying out loud.
0:31.3	Day 189, we're reading 2nd Kings 23, Second Chronicles 34. We're also reading the Proverbs chapter 8 versus 1 through 21, as always the Bible translation that I'm using,
0:37.1	is the revised standard
0:38.2	version, the second Catholic edition.
0:39.6	I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:41.6	If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plans, you can visit ascensionpress.com
0:45.5	slash Bible in a year.
0:46.7	If you want to subscribe to this podcast, you can.
0:49.0	And if you don't, you don't have to.
0:50.7	But I'm going to keep reminding you because that's my job. That's one of the things
0:54.3	that I've been told to do, so I'd do it. Okay, here we are. We are at Josiah. We got introduced to him
1:00.5	yesterday and just phenomenal, really great king. And yet, every good thing comes to an end. Every good
1:07.2	king comes to an end. Every good kingdom comes to an end. And we are getting closer and closer to the end of Second Kings and Second Chronicles, which means we're getting
1:15.1	closer and closer to the end of this time of Israel. They're gone. The kingdom of Israel,
1:20.9	nation of Israel, that is gone. Also, the kingdom of Judah is about to be put into spoiler alert,
1:26.4	into exile coming up soon.
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