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Hi, my name is 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.

The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

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

It is day 240.

Congratulations for making it this far. We're reading today, Jeremiah 23, as well as Daniel chapters four and five. We're also

reading Proverbs chapter 16, new chapter for Proverbs, verses 1 through 4. As always, the Bible

translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. 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 slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast

by clicking on and subscribing daily episodes and receiving daily updates as it is today,

day 240. That means you have 125. 365. Yep, 125 more days left. But gosh, I think this is two-thirds-ish,

two-thirds-ish of the way through. And just imagine the gift. I just even realize just for right now,

not only the gift of being able to journey as part of this community through the Bible in the year, but also the gift of being able to every day whenever you've pressed play to be able to just hear God's word in your ear and in our hearts.

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