The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Start Here: Introduction to the Early World (with Jeff Cavins) (2025)
01 Jan 2025
Welcome to the official start of the Bible in a Year Podcast! We'll begin reading the Bible in the episode "Day 1: In the Beginning", but before we dig into scripture, Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike Schmitz to lay out the context for the Early World period (Genesis 1-11). They discuss the type of scripture we'll encounter (Hebrew poetry) and how that affects our understanding of the Word. This episode is not part of the 365 day reading plan, but is important to help understand the readings from this period. 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. Welcome to the official start of the Bible in a Year podcast. Today, this is the day that we begin our journey. where we read through the entire Bible in 365 days.
But before we begin with day one, we have to first introduce the very first time period of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline. So as you probably already know, what we'll be following over the course of this entire year, 365 days, is the Great Adventure Bible Timeline. And the person who created this
is the renowned Catholic Bible teacher, Mr. Jeff Cavins, to give you an introduction to the early world. This is gonna be so important. Like this episode is gonna be very important as we launch into the early world, which is the very first time period of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.
So as you know, the reading plan that we're using, it's inspired by this Great Adventure Bible Timeline, which divides the Bible into 12 time periods. And if you have the Great Adventure Bible, those time periods are identified by different colors and that would serve kind of like as chapters in salvation history.
So every time we arrive at a new time period in the Bible, we're going to be able to have Jeff on this podcast to give you an introduction to that period. So my hope is that these episodes, these like beginning launching a new time period episodes will give you a deeper understanding of the biblical context and as we read through the Bible, because that's one of the goals we want to have.
We want to be able to understand the context as well as the stories. We're not just getting a collection of stories. We're also getting like the big story. And Jeff is here to do that. Before we begin, however, the Bible translation that I'm using, quick reminder, It is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition.
And I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension because it has all the color coding. It has all the timeline in it. You can follow along super easily. If you want to follow along, not only in your own Bible, but also know what's coming, we have a downloadable PDF that's the Bible in a Year Reading Plan. You can get it for free just by going to ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year.
So if you want to get your Bible in a Year reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You also can sign up for our email list and get the updates and text messages, whatever, and probably not text messages, but the email list by texting the word Catholic Bible. I know that's two words, but we're combining them together. Catholic Bible to the number 33777. Again, just text
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