The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Messianic Checkpoint: The Gospel of John (2025)
09 Apr 2025
You've made it to the first Messianic Checkpoint! Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to introduce the Gospel of John. They discuss the structure of this Gospel and what makes it so different from the other three Gospels. We learn that the Gospel of John doesn't just tell us what Jesus did, but most importantly who he is. 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. Speaking of today and speaking of Genesis to Revelation, We are now launching ahead. We just are in the midst of this time period, but we are jumping all the way to the Gospel of John in the New Testament.
It's our first of four messianic checkpoints. One of the things that this comes out of is the idea or the reality, essentially, that as we're going through the Bible timeline, following these 14 narrative books, we recognized that if we just kept going through from beginning to
to the end we wouldn't be reading any of the new testament until roughly november and so we thought wow it would be very very important to introduce to all of us in the midst of this year a number of times where we get to take a step back and actually kind of launch forward and see okay now how has all of this been leading to christ because all the old testament is pointing to the New Testament.
All the Old Testament is pointing to Jesus, who is the fulfillment of everything. And so for the next seven days, we are going to be walking through the gospel of John. And in order to introduce the gospel of John, so we can get kind of an understanding, once again, of John and of the structure of John's gospel and how unique John's gospel is.
Once again, we're joined by Jeff Cavins, which we're super grateful to talk with Jeff about John.
Hey, Father. Good to join you. And what a treat it is to look at a gospel at this point. It's like a little bit of a reprieve, isn't it? You're going through all this history and, yeah, but what about Jesus? But what about Jesus? And here we are. We're going to jump ahead for the Gospel of John. So this is going to be great.
So good. Yeah. I'm so grateful for the opportunity even just to see here is where the whole thing points. As I know, I think you might've even been the first person to point out this quote from St. Augustine. I think it's St. Augustine, right? You can correct me on this one, is that the Old Testament is revealed in the new and the New Testament is hidden in the old.
And that's one of the things that I love about, well, all of the New Testament and Old Testament, but when it specifically comes to the gospel of John, there's a number of like just really critical connections that are fulfillments in John's gospel of all the stuff that we've been reading and some things we'll be reading in the future. But there are so many
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