I'm 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 we've been into that story today. It is date 337. That's pretty phenomenal. And we're reading Acts of the Apostles chapter 16, St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13 and 14. Ah, a love letter. And Proverbs chapter 28 versus 13 through 15. As always, 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

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and daily updates. It is day 337. We're reading Acts chapter 16, 1st Corinthians

chapters 13 and 14 and Proverbs chapter 28

verses 13 through 15.

The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 16.

Timothy accompanies Paul and Silas.

And he came also to Derby and to Leicra.

A disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brethren at Leistra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.

Paul's vision of the man of Macedonia.

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the

word in Asia. And when they had come opposite Meja, they attempted to go in Bithynia, but the

spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So passing by Mijia, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared

to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia was standing pleading with him and saying, come over to

Macedonia and help us.

And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia,

concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

The conversion of Lydia and her household.

Setting sail, therefore, from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace,

and the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is the leading city of the district of Macedonia

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