The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Day 332: Barnabas and Paul On Mission (2024)
27 Nov 2024
Fr. Mike begins by explaining the confusion experienced by the early Christians as they struggled to integrate the Gentiles into the Church. We also hear more about Barnabas, missionary companion of St. Paul, who was named by God as the "Son of Encouragement." Lastly, Fr. Mike delves into the history surrounding paganism and hedonism in pre-Christian Corinth and the need to encourage the Greeks to leave their old ways of worship. Today's readings are Acts 11, 1 Corinthians 3-4, Proverbs 27:23-27. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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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. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. 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 day 332. If you are following along with the Great Adventure Bible timeline, year-to-year reading plan, you would know that this is the second-to-last day on the second-to-last page of the year, which is pretty phenomenal if you ask me.
We're reading on day 332, Acts of the Apostles, chapter 11, 1 Corinthians, chapters 3 and 4, as well as Proverbs, chapter 27, verses 23 through 27. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
And also, you can download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, in which case you would know that we are on the second to last day, on the second to last page of this entire Bible in a Year reading plan. If you had it in your hand, you'd be able to check it off and say, oh my goodness, all these dates, all these readings are checked off, except for one last, you know, I'm getting that.
As I said, you can download your own Bible in a Year reading plan at ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates. It is day 332. We're reading Acts of the Apostles, chapter 11, St.
Paul's letter to the Corinthians, his first one, chapters 3 and 4, and Proverbs chapter 27, verses 23 through 27. The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 11, Peter's report to the church at Jerusalem. Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them? But Peter began and explained to them in order. I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something descending like a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners, and it came down to me.
Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air, and I heard a voice saying to me, Rise, Peter, kill and eat. But I said, No, Lord, for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth. But the voice answered a second time from heaven, What God has cleansed you must not call common. This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.
At that very moment, three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea. And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brethren also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house. And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, Send to Joppa, and bring Simon called Peter.
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