Day 154: The Baptism of Jesus (2026)

Father Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name's 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 is day 154. It is our second Messianic checkpoint. We begin today. We're reading Mark chapters one and chapter two. We're also praying Psalm 11. One little note about the Gospel of Mark, after these words, [laughs] the words that you've always heard, you hear every single day, um, we are reading, I am reading from the Bible translation known as the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you wanna download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear, and you can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and receive daily episodes every single day, approximately up to this point, roughly 154 of those days, episodes just delivered to your inbox or wherever you listen to podcasts. As I said, today we are starting the second Messianic checkpoint, Mark's Gospel. Now, Mark is the shortest gospel, and so this is gonna be a great experience. I just... I'm so excited. Um, when we went through the Gospel of John, the Gospel of John is the, one of the longer gospels, and we're going to the opposite, Mark, the shortest gospel. Now, not only are we kind of going to the opposite gospel, Mark, Matthew, and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels, and that means that they... well, they're very, very similar. In fact, Saint John