Fr. Mike Schmitz repeatedly highlighted the book as his primary Bible for the series, praising its integrated timeline, color‑coded periods, maps and extensive notes that helped visualize and contextualize each reading. He and Jeff Cavins recommended it as an essential resource for both the standard and Spanish reading plans, noting that it made the scriptural narrative clear and engaging. The overall tone was strongly positive, presenting the book as an awesome, indispensable tool for listeners.
Episode: BONUS: Preparing for the Bible in a Year Journey (...
It's the same Great Adventure Bible content but translated into Spanish, offering the same reading plan and timeline in a different language.
It's the same reading plan. It's the same great adventure Bible timeline. It's the same great adventure Bible, but everything's in Spanish, different narrator, which is great different insights, which is even better to be able to have the Bible in a year in Spanish is an incredible gift.
If you want to subscribe to that or you just find out more information about the great adventure Bible in Spanish, you can go to ascensionpress.com slash la biblia.
Episode: Day 331: Peter Preaches to the Gentiles (2023)
Fr. Mike Schmitz used this particular edition of the Bible while reading from the book of Acts and 1 Corinthians, also available online as a daily reading plan.
As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
Episode: Day 317: Persistence in Prayer (2023)
It was mentioned that the speaker used this Bible, presumably in paperback or hardcover format, to read through the Bible in a Year plan.
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
Episode: Messianic Checkpoint: The Gospel of Luke (with Jef...
It was described as a class that helped make sense of theology, philosophy, and scripture after years of studying them separately. It was said to be the one resource that helped everything click into place.
I did the Great Adventure Bible Timeline that you had created, and I'm so grateful for that.
When I went through your Great Adventure Bible Timeline, that was the one class, essentially like a class, where I finally was--I thought, oh my gosh, that makes sense now.
And so today when we're hitting the Gospel of Luke, this is the gospel that you use when it comes to the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.
And it's a great thing to do after Bible in a year. If people are looking to go deeper, then start a group.
It comes in an eight-part version and a 24-week version, which is the long kind of journey through the entire Bible.
Episode: Day 179: Blinded by Comfort (2023)
It was mentioned as an incredible Bible that is included in the Ascension app, making it easier to read and understand.
In this app you get the entire text of the Great Adventure Bible. Just incredible.
Episode: Day 87: God Keeps His Promises (2023)
It was recommended for its inclusion of a timeline and maps that could help visualise the land divisions described in the Book of Joshua, particularly in Chapters 19, 20, and 21.
So if you want to pick one of those up, they're really great, especially as I mentioned yesterday, when I'll be reading from Joshua 19, 20, 21.
They have maps or even just pull up on your phone or on whatever it is. If you're not driving somewhere, you can look to see what would that map possibly look like? That could be really helpful today for the reading today.
Episode: Day 85: Fighting for Each Other (2023)
It was described as a gift, especially useful during the period of conquest and judges in the Bible. It provides background information and summaries of the time periods, offering orientation to the reader.
It gives some backstory, it gives a great summary at the beginning of every one of these time periods and kind of gives us an orientation of here's where we are, here's where we're going.
Episode: Day 63: Israel's Rebellion (2023)
It was described as phenomenal and helpful, featuring a Bible timeline from Genesis to Revelation. It was recommended for its division of periods and helpful notes.
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.
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is phenomenal because it has all of the periods divided. It has some notes there that are incredibly helpful.
Episode: Day 39: Slavery in the Old Testament (2023)
It was mentioned as a Bible used by the speaker, and was recommended as an awesome resource that can be found online or at Amazon.
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is awesome.
Episode: START HERE: Introduction to the Early World (with...
It was described as a tool to help people understand the Bible by breaking it down into 12 time periods, each with a different color, and highlighting 14 narrative books within the 73 total books of the Bible.
And the person who created this is the renowned Catholic Bible teacher, Mr. Jeff Cavins, to give you an introduction to the early world.
And if you have the Great Adventure Bible, those time periods are identified by different colors and that would serve kind of like as chapters in salvation history.
And I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension because it has all those, the color coding, it has all the timeline in it. You can follow along super easily.
That's why I think it's so important to have a guide like the great adventure Bible study and the great adventure Bible timeline is so, so powerful.
And so what we did is we divided the Bible up, as you said, into 12 periods.
Episode: Messianic Checkpoint: The Gospel of Luke (with Jef...
It was described as a class that finally made sense of scripture, combining all the individual pieces from other theology and philosophy classes the speaker had previously taken. The speaker also mentioned that it's used in an 8-part and 24-week format.
I did the Great Adventure Bible timeline that you had created, and I'm so grateful for that.
When I went through your Great Adventure Bible timeline, that was the one class, essentially like a class where I finally thought, oh my gosh, that makes sense now.
And so today when we're hitting the Gospel of Luke, this is the gospel that you use when it comes to the Great Adventure Bible timeline.
And it's a great thing to do after Bible in a year if people are looking to go deeper, then start a group, you know, start a group in your church, in your home and go deep into scripture.
And it comes in an eight-part version and a 24-week version, which is the long kind of journey through the entire Bible.
Episode: Day 86: The Real Presence of God (2022)
It was described as helpful because of the maps included in the back, helping to visualize the places and people discussed in the book of Joshua, providing a context to the historical aspect of the Bible.
one of the reasons why and this is not a commercial but it is definitely a reason why the great adventure bible is so helpful because in the back there are these things called maps and those maps you can look and see okay this is my invitation
I love the fact that since I'm reading this out loud and you're listening to this you could go back to say for example page 1595 in your great adventure bible and you can actually follow with your eyes what you're hearing with your ears
it's not just kind of this okay here's some names and they're going southward toward the desert and over this to the river and over to this to this city instead you can see it with your eyes and see that oh no this is a real place it was in a real time divided among these real people
Episode: Day 63: Israel's Rebellion (2022)
It was described as phenomenal for having all of the periods divided and incredibly helpful notes, making it an excellent resource.
It has all of the periods divided. It has some notes there that are incredibly helpful.
Episode: Day 40: Laws of Justice (2022)
It was described as 'awesome' and a helpful tool with extra notes and timelines, specifically for understanding the Egypt and Exodus periods in the Bible.
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. It's awesome. It works really, really well at helping us with those notes.
Episode: Day 35: Crossing the Red Sea (2022)
It was described as being helpful due to the extra details, notes, maps, and other elements included within the book, in addition to the Bible text itself.
the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is so good, so helpful for us because it has the periods, it has like the extra details, we've got some notes, got some maps, got all good things in there
Episode: Day 31: Frogs, Gnats, and Flies (2022)
It was mentioned as the Bible Fr. Mike was using for the podcast, and listeners were encouraged to purchase it from AscensionPress.com or wherever books are sold.
In fact, I'm reading The Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
You can get that at AscensionPress.com or wherever fine books are sold.
Episode: Day 23: Judah Changes (2022)
Fr. Mike Schmitz mentioned using this Bible for its helpful notes and maps. He described it as "super good" and "super handy".
I'm using the actual great adventure Bible from Ascension, which is super good.
Super handy to have because of all the notes, the maps, everything it's in there.
Episode: Day 10: Hagar and Ishmael (2022)
It was described as fantastic, particularly helpful for its notes, especially while reading narrative books and understanding how everything fits together.
It's just fantastic. Well, all the notes especially as we journey through like the narrative books and like how everything fits together. There's some fantastic notes in the great adventure Bible from Ascension that that is just super helpful.
Episode: Day 39: Slavery in the Old Testament (2026)
The speaker mentioned using this Bible, noting that it is available for purchase at ascensionpress.com or amazon.com.
I'm reading from the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, and I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension, which is awesome.