Father Mike Schmitz

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, 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.

Welcome to the official start of the Bible in a Year podcast.

Today, this is the day that we begin our journey.

where we read through the entire Bible in 365 days.

But before we begin with day one, we have to first introduce the very first time period of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.

So as you probably already know, what we'll be following over the course of this entire year, 365 days, is the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.

And the person who created this

is the renowned Catholic Bible teacher, Mr. Jeff Cavins, to give you an introduction to the early world.

This is gonna be so important.

Like this episode is gonna be very important as we launch into the early world, which is the very first time period of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.

So as you know, the reading plan that we're using, it's inspired by this Great Adventure Bible Timeline, which divides the Bible into 12 time periods.

And if you have the Great Adventure Bible, those time periods are identified by different colors and that would serve kind of like as chapters in salvation history.

So every time we arrive at a new time period in the Bible, we're going to be able to have Jeff on this podcast to give you an introduction to that period.

So my hope is that these episodes, these like beginning launching a new time period episodes will give you a deeper understanding of the biblical context of

as we read through the Bible, because that's one of the goals we want to have.

We want to be able to understand the context as well as the stories.

We're not just getting a collection of stories.

We're also getting like the big story.