Day 328: Stephen Is Martyred (2025)

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

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike reflects on Stephen's heroic martyrdom and points out how those around him refused to hear him and hardened their hearts, something we too can do with the Word of God. In the book of Romans, Fr. Mike also highlights the importance of offering our bodies as a living sacrifice, responding to the call to love and to not be conformed to this world, and remembering that Christians have been grafted onto the tree of Israel. Today we read Acts 7, Romans 11-12, and Proverbs 27:13-14.

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0:53.3	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 unfolds and how we fit. And of that story today, it is day 328. We are reading from the Acts of the Apostles chapter 7, all about Stephen and Romans, St. Paul's letter to the Romans, chapters 11 and 12, as well as Proverbs chapter 27, verses 13 and 14. Only two verses for those of you who know that you like the slow drip of the Proverbs, as opposed to having entire chapters of Proverbs. We just get, you know, little verses here and there. The Bible translation 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 the year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates and every single day delivered to your place where you listen to
1:49.6	podcasts. You get the podcast. Ha, here we are. Day 328, we're reading Acts chapter 7,
1:55.4	Romans chapter 11 and 12, and Proverbs chapter 27 versus 13 and 14.
2:02.0	The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 7.
2:05.1	Stephen's speech to the council.
2:07.5	And the high priest said, is this so?
2:10.8	And Stephen said, brethren and fathers, hear me.
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