Father Mike Schmitz

As you know, you're part of this community, changing lives in so many incredible ways.

This is not a day in which we are going to be reading from Scripture, but it's a day we're going to be talking about Scripture.

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.

In fact, we're going to be looking at how do I hear God's voice in Scripture?

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

What are the ways in which any person can actually pick up the Bible and not just get the story,

So far, Ascension has been able to add the podcast to YouTube.

You might have found it that way.

not just understand the stories, but really hear God's voice, like really know what it is we're listening to, who it is that we're listening to, because the Bible is not only a document, the Bible is a living thing, and it's God's living voice continuing to speak to us now.

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 in 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 participate because we want to get the Word of God out there.

Here's some tips.

Three, five little tips, five tips on how to hear God's voice.

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

And I want to start out with the first one.

The first one is know what you're reading.

What I mean by know what you're reading is a couple of things.

First thing is know that the Bible is not necessarily sometimes we approach the Bible like it's a magic eight ball, right?