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 …
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 …
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 …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 3, 2024 Genesis 5-6 and Psalm 136 Catching up now! Genesis 5 goes into the generations of Adam and his third son, Seth, born after Cain. The genealogical verses are difficult to take. I have to think that the somewhat tedious descriptions of these family lines meant a …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube. Day 2, 2024 Genesis 3-4 and Psalm 104 Well, not a particularly auspicious start. I am a day late listening to the Day 2 readings as I was busy fiddling about with the settings on this new website. It has been a learning curve, and I have managed …
Ascension Presents with Fr. Mike Schmitz- YouTube Day 1, 2024 Genesis 1-2 and Psalm 19 ~~~ Additional context on the different areas of the Bible and how to understand the different eras and genres of books in the Bible can be found here. For example, what is the context for the Early World period (Genesis …
