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.

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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.

It is time for our second messianic checkpoint. And it is with the gospel of Mark.

Last Messianic checkpoint, or the first one, we went to the gospel of St. John, which was the

longest gospel. Now we are going down to Mark. I don't know, down to Mark is the best way to

we're going to Mark, which is the

shortest of all four Gospels. And again, joining us so grateful, as always is Jeff Kavans,

who's going to give us an intro to this second messianic checkpoint to this gospel of St. Mark.

So Jeff, thank you so much for being here and welcome. Well, it's a privilege to join you on this,

on this journey. And it's beautiful how people can

go through the Bible and then every once in a while jump forward a little bit to see the

fruit of what this whole story is about. And with four Gospels, each one of them has a little bit

different emphasis. And together, you, you know, you get a full

look at Jesus. But we don't just blend them together because each one of them is unique.

They are. And it's one of the reasons why I love the fact that how we're doing this in this Bible

in the year is we had all of John at once, you know, maybe I think a little over a week, seven or eight

days. And then we have all of Mark now, you know, maybe I think a little over a week, seven or eight days.

And then we have all of Mark now, you know, a number of a month and a half later.

And I think that there's something really powerful about that, that over the course of these next, I think it's eight days.

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