Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a Year Podcast,

where we encounter God's voice in live life through the lens of Scripture.

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Using the great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

we're almost there, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

Today is day 349, we're reading the last chapter of the book of Acts of the Apostles,

that's chapter 28 as well as beginning the first two chapters of St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians,

chapters 1 and 2. We're also reading Proverbs, chapter 29, verses 25 to 27.

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For you, it is day 349, we're reading Acts of the Apostles, chapter 28, the final chapter,

as well as Philippians, chapters 1 and 2, Proverbs, chapter 29, verses 25 to 27.

The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 28, Paul on the Island of Malta.

After we had escaped, we then learned that the island was called Malta,

and the natives showed us unusual kindness for the Kindle to Fire and welcomed us all,

because it had begun to rain and was cold. Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on

the fire when a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand. When the natives

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