Day 176: Choosing Eternal Life (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 176. We're reading from 2 Kings 8, from Hosea 8, 9, and 10, and we're also praying Psalm 108. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and I am 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. You can also subscribe to this podcast if you'd like. But as I said yesterday, I'm not a pusher. In fact, I think I said yesterday you don't even have to... I don't even want you to do that anymore. So, [laughs] oh, brother. Day 176 getting to me. Here we are reading 2 Kings 8, Hosea 8, 9, and 10, and praying Psalm 108. The Second Book of Kings chapter eight. The Shunammite woman's land restored. "Now Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, 'Arise and depart with your household and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.' So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went forth to appeal to the king for her house