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.

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Using the great Adventure Bible timeline will read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds in our Weep It into that story today.

It is day 350. You know what that means. You can do math. There's only 365 days in the year.

And so that means we're a few days away from the conclusion of this. We're actually,

we've departed from the historical books. Now we've concluded the Acts of the Apostles yesterday.

And today we're starting exclusively, essentially letters and then the Book of Revelation

and at the end in a little over a week from now. But today we're reading James chapter 1 and 2,

as well as Philippians, chapters 3 and 4. That's a conclusion of the letter of St Paul to the

Philippians. And Proverbs, chapter 30 verses 1 through 6, 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 in a Year reading plan,

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If you like, if you don't, that is just finding this day 350. We're reading from James chapter 1 and

2, Philippians, chapters 3 and 4 and Proverbs, chapter 30 verses 1 through 6.

The Letter of James chapter 1, Salutation James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

to the 12 tribes in the dispersion, greeting. Faith and wisdom

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials. For you know that the testing of your

faith produces steadfastness and let steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and

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