Fr. Mike Schmitz

And he'd just read the Bible.

I remember being so struck by a couple of things.

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

One was years later.

He's a senior this year.

So a couple of years ago, one of his cousins, one of my nieces, second grade, got the Action Bible.

Is it not you?

For you are our glory and joy.

And then her parents got her like a pack of trivia cards based off the Action Bible, just kind of like and it was.

Chapter three.

Therefore, when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone.

And we sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the gospel of Christ to establish you in your faith and to exhort you that no one be moved by these afflictions.

Things like this.

The first question was, who am I?

And it had a list of identifiers.

And the first identifier of this person, guess who I am, was son of Cush.

you yourselves know that this is to be our lot for when we were with you we told you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction just as it has come to pass and as you know for this reason when i could bear it no longer i sent that i might know your faith for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and that our labor would be in vain

And Max, here he is as a, probably at that point, maybe 15 or 14 year old, maybe 15 year old.

He was like, oh, King Saul.

I'm like, what?