Day 158: The Reality of Sin (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] 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 one hundred and fifty-eight. We have four more days left, including today. In our second Messianic checkpoint, we're reading today from the Gospel of Saint Mark, chapters nine and ten. We're also praying Psalm twenty-nine. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear, and you can also subscribe to this podcast if the app in which you listen to this podcast allows you to subscribe. You can. You're invited to. You're also invited to share it and like it and rate it and all those things if you would like. And if you don't, that's okay. No big deal. Because you are on day one hundred and fifty-eight. [laughs] Incredible. Uh, we're reading from Mark chapter nine and chapter ten and praying Psalm twenty-nine. The Gospel of Saint Mark, chapter nine. "And Jesus said to them, 'Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.'" The Transfiguration. "And after six days, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain, apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no