Day 93: Strengths and Weaknesses (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today, Fr. Mike begins to read Samson's story and points out that Samson, despite his physical strength, has a lot of weaknesses. The readings are Judges 12-15 and Psalm 146.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,
0:07.6	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lands of Scripture.
0:11.0	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:14.0	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:18.0	discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into
0:21.5	that story today. Today is day 93. We're reading from Judges Chapter 12, 13, 14, and 15.
0:27.8	There's no secondary book except for the book of Psalms, which we're praying Psalm 146 today.
0:33.2	Kind of jumping ahead to Psalm 146, as always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the
0:38.0	revised standard version, second Catholic edition.
0:40.3	I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:42.4	If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit
0:45.5	ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year.
0:48.0	You can also subscribe in your podcast app.
0:50.1	If you did not yet done that, that would be a nice thing to do. Anyways, day 93, today,
0:55.0	Judges 12, 13, 14, and 15, praying Psalm 14 and 46. The book of judges, chapter 12, intertribal
1:05.1	fighting. The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaffon and said to
1:10.3	Jephtha,
1:15.2	Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you?
1:17.6	We will burn your house over you with fire.
1:23.0	And Jephthah said to them, I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand. And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my
1:28.3	life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand.
1:33.8	Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me? Then Jephthah gathered all the men of
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