Day 281: Good and Evil (2025)

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

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike summarizes the final moments of the book of Nehemiah, when Nehemiah returns to find the people of Israel being unfaithful to God’s commandments and marrying foreign wives. Fr. Mike connects this to our lives, as we too often confuse God’s unending love for us to mean that he always wants what we want.Today’s readings are Nehemiah 13, Malachi 1-4, and Proverbs 21: 25-28.

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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,
0:07.6	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.7	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.3	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:16.7	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.5	Speaking of that story today, today is day 281, and we are at the conclusion of the return.
0:27.4	We have the final chapter in Nehemiah.
0:29.3	We also have four chapters of the prophet Malachi, who is the last prophet, essentially, when it comes to the return, when it comes to the people of Israel,
0:36.6	the next prophet that come after Malachi is a young man named John the Baptist, when it comes to the people of Israel, the next prophet to come after Malachi
0:38.1	is a young man named John the Baptist, who's related to someone that you and I both know.
0:43.4	We also have Proverbs chapter 21 versus 25 through 28.
0:47.1	We also are reading today from the Bible translation known as the revised standard version,
0:51.6	second Catholic edition.
0:52.5	I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:57.6	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 and receive daily episodes and daily
1:02.3	updates just in time for the conclusion of the return and the beginning tomorrow of the maccabia
1:07.1	revolt and also not only the first book of maccabees, but, ha ha, there are some wisdom books.
1:12.7	We're kicking off tomorrow.
1:14.0	The first one of those is Syrac that we're going to be reading.
1:16.9	So Syrac, you might not have ever read Syrac.
1:19.4	I've got to tell you, I have a sense.
1:21.3	And the sentence is you're going to love it.
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