Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 8, 2024 Genesis 16-17, Job 5-6, and Proverbs 1:20-33 Genesis 16 Abram takes Sarai’s advice and takes their Egyptian maid-servent, Hagar, to have a child by her as Sarai is barren. This inevitably caused jealousy when Hagar became pregnant, and Hagar looked at Sarai contemptuously. Sarai tries to …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 7, 2024 Genesis 14-15, Job 3-4, and Proverbs 1:8-19. Genesis 14-15 Abram joins the battle of the kings adn sets out on a recue mission to recover Lot. Afterwards, the priest King Melchizedek blesses Abram and offers up bread and wine on a high place. Later on Jesus …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 6, 2024 Genesis 12-13, Job 1-2, and Proverbs 1:1-7 ~~~ Additional information about the Bible books that refer to the time period of the early patriarchs, and how the themes of Genesis 12-50, differ from Genesis 1-11 (Hebrew Poetry/pre-history/early world) can be found here. ~~~ Reflection: Genesis 12 …
In this blog section I am reviewing my learning diary notes and the resource materials provided by Barry Wall of ‘The Winning Mindset— Warrior Teachers Program’. This is an online learning group aimed at developing better ways to engage with the current cultural and technological milieu we find ourselves in. My upcoming Year Two Learning …
An online learning group was hosted by Barry Wall to help understand the current cultural milieu at this point in human history. Many of the models presented were new to me, but others I was familiar with. On re looking. at the hitherto unknown models, I realise that I have actually encountered some of the …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 5, 2024 Genesis 10-11 and Psalm 2 Back on track 🙂 Genesis 10 and 11 are the last two chapters on the early world. Genesis 10 lists the genealogies of Noah’s sons and describes how these families spread out across the middle east. Nimrod is a grandson of Ham, and …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 4, 2024 Genesis 7-9 and Psalm 1 Genesis 7 describes the directives to Noah to fill the ark with pairs of clean and unclean animals while God blotted out all other living things on the earth with a great flood— forty days and forty nights. The language is reminiscent of …
Guttenberg Press Online Free Image. Illustration by F. H. Townsend from the 1897 imprint of Jane Eyre (1947) by Charlotte Bronte. ~~~ Another essay from my early days at university. I am still quite proud of this one. I have excised two uses of the word ‘patriarchy’ from the original submission as I think I …
~~~ In an effort to get the different sections of my Blog up and running, I was digging up some old work I did at university in my B.A. English Literature degree. I recall I did quite well in this assessment piece. Given that it was the first time I had ever really formulated an …
Poem Analysis—’O, where are you going’ (W. H. Auden) Read More »
This Bible in a Year blog thread is a space where I will explore whether I have a firm belief in the existence of God based on reasoned arguments. Some of these posts will also cross over into Learning Diary entries under the Philosophy page. As a cradle Catholic (baptised and confirmed, but poorly catechised …
