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 we fit into that story today.

We've just concluded the gospel of Luke and now today we're heading into that last, the last age, last stage, last time period known as the church.

But before we get to that, I want to let you know that there is a gifting campaign happening when it comes to the Bible in a year.

The Bible in a year has brought the Word of God to so many people, as you know, you're part of this community, changing lives in so many incredible ways.

We're humbled to play this role in God's plan and consider it our ongoing mission to keep bringing the Word of God to as many people as possible.

So what I'm saying is the end of this year is not going to be the end of Bible in a year.

So far Ascension has been able to add the podcast to YouTube, you might have found it that way, maybe you're watching right now on YouTube.

And also we're working on translating it into different languages so you could have the Bible in a year and other languages than English.

But of course this takes a significant investment to bring projects like these free of cost to our listening communities.

And we want to keep them free of cost to all those people who will participate because we want to get towards God out there.

And because of that, we have to rely on generous contributions from listeners like you to help to free these costs and to enable us to continually provide new audiences with this life changing content.

So if you would like to help support the Bible in a year on mission, you can go to ascensionpress.com slash support.

So that helps us move forward helps us keep the Bible in here online in perpetuity as well as developing those new programs and those new initiatives to bring the Bible in a year to more people.

If you want to support that, you can go to ascensionpress.com slash support. Not only that, but also Jeff's joining us today as you know.

And Jeff also wants to introduce another thing. It's a companion essentially to the Bible in here.

That's right, Father. We have been working all this time on developing a book that we call the Bible in a year companion.

You know, so many people throughout the year have been so blessed. And one of the comments is, man, I wish I had all of that in one place.

I could go back, you know, and I could just look at it like kind of a devotion and you know, go deeper.

So that's what this is. The Bible in a year companion is a book and it has wonderful descriptions of every day, you know, kind of the essence of that day that from your teaching.

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