Hi, my name's 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

into that story today. Speaking of today and speaking of

Genesis to revelation, we are now launching ahead. We just are in the midst of this

time period, but we are jumping all the way to the Gospel of John in the New Testament.

It's our first of four messianic checkpoints.

So one of the things that this comes out of

is the idea or the realities essentially

that as we're going through the Bible timeline right following

these 14 narrative books we recognized that if we just kept going through from

beginning to the end we wouldn't be reading any of the New Testament until roughly November and so we thought

wow it would be very very important to introduce to all of us in the midst of this year a number of times where we get to take a step back and actually kind of launch forward and see,

now how has all of this been leading to Christ?

Because all the Old Testament is pointing to the New Testament, all the Old Testament is pointing to the New Testament all the Old Testament is

pointing to Jesus who is the fulfillment of everything and so for the next seven

days we are going to be walking through the Gospel of John and in order to introduce the Gospel of John so we can get kind of an understanding once again of John and of the structure of John's Gospel and how unique John's Gospel is. Once again, we're joined by Jeff Kavans which were super

grateful to talk with Jeff about John.

Hey Father, good, good to join you and what a treat it is to look at a gospel at this at this point it's like a it's a little bit of a

reprieve isn't it you're going through all this history and yeah but what about Jesus but what about

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