The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Introduction to the Church (with Jeff Cavins) (2024)
17 Nov 2024
Welcome to The Church period! Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to discuss the final time period of the Bible Timeline. They discuss the historical context of the early Church, why Rome and the early martyrs are so significant, and how the Holy Spirit takes on a major role. They also explain the differences between Acts, the epistles, and the book of Revelation. 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 now we fit into that story today. We've just concluded the Gospel of Luke. And now today we're heading into that last age, last stage, last time period known as the church. But before we get to that, I want to let you know that there is a gifting campaign happening when it comes to the Bible in a Year. The Bible in a year has brought the word of God to so many people.
As you know, you're part of this community, changing lives in so many incredible ways. 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. So what I'm saying is the end of this year is not going to be the end of Bible in a year. So far, Ascension has been able to add the podcast to YouTube.
You might have found it that way. 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. 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.
So if you would like to help support the Bible in a year on mission, you can go to ascensionpress.com support. So that helps us move forward, helps us keep the Bible in the Year online in perpetuity, as well as developing those new programs and those new initiatives to bring the Bible in the Year to more people. If you want to support that, you can go to ascensionpress.com slash support.
Not only that, but also Jeff's joining us today, as you know. And Jeff also wants to introduce another thing. It's a companion, essentially, to the Bible in the Year.
That's right, Father. We have been working all this time on developing a book that we call the Bible in a Year Companion. You know, so many people throughout the year have been so blessed, and one of the comments is, man, I wish I had all of that in one place. I could go back, you know, and I could just look at it like kind of a devotion and go deeper. So that's what this is.
The Bible in a Year Companion is a book, and it has wonderful descriptions of every day, kind of the essence of that day from your teaching, and it has frequently asked questions. And we, as you know, we have been on Thursdays at two o'clock Eastern on Facebook, Ascension's Bible Study Facebook page, answering a lot of these questions that people are coming up with. And so
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