Fr. Mike Schmitz

So she and her husband,

started it and I was over at their house a couple days ago and I picked up her Great Adventure Bible and I saw that that ribbon was still somewhere in the book of Genesis and I'm like, oh, I'm so grateful because the podcast is gonna help people who are trying to get through, who just like, you know, you kind of bottom out sometimes or you just kind of get...

Yet do it with gentleness and reverence, and keep your conscience clear so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison who formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons were saved through water.

the log jam becomes so much that it's like, oh, how do I break through to the next book and keep on moving?

Because that's one of the things that I found when it came to reading the Bible and when it came to doing the Great Adventure Bible timeline is that sometimes it was like, oh, shoot, I can't sit down right now or I'm not finding the time or making the time to sit down and reading through the next section.

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

That the whole idea behind the podcast is like, okay, no, you just get to let the word of God like kind of wash over you in a different way.

Um, and to be able to not just get through it, that's not the point, but the, to allow it to get through to you really, uh, by the word of God being proclaimed.

Chapter 4 Good Stewards of God's Grace

So, so not only for the people who will be listening, but also for my family members who, um, you know, all of us at times can struggle to like, let's keep on going.

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same thought.

Let's keep on moving through the word of God and let it keep changing us.

For whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions, but by the will of God.

Um, and let it keep shaping our lens.

Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild debauchery, and they abuse you.

but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, that though judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the spirit like God.