Hi friends, I am Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. The Gospels are the first four

books of the New Testament in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These are the stories

of Jesus Christ's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the

miracles. If you are joining us for the first time, welcome, welcome, welcome. We're so glad

you're here. Each month we read all four of those books. It's about three chapters a day,

20-ish minutes. Go ahead and subscribe and join us as we read the Gospels together.

Commit to just this month with us, just 30 days, and I wonder how your life might be different

by May 1st. No matter what you already know or think about Jesus, where your faith journey has

led you so far, could this simple new rhythm at some point in your day actually shape your life

for the better? I can't wait to find out. We have two resources for you besides this daily

podcast. One is an April reading plan that will outline for you what we are reading each day.

The other is a Let's Read the Gospels guidebook that has a lot of additional studies, some notes

for me, and we release new pages each month actually. So when you purchase it today for April,

you'll get PDFs to download all for January, February, March, and April and every month for

the rest of the year coming to those are all at anyfdowns.com slash Gospels. So here is how this

works. I will read three chapters to you. You can listen or read along in your own Bible and

then I'll pray. And that's it. So today is April 1st, day one, and I will be reading Luke chapters

one through three. And this month, I'm reading from the message. Luke one. So many others have

tried their hand at putting together a story of the wonderful harvest of scripture and history

that took place among us using reports handed down by the original eyewitnesses who served this word

with their very lives. Since I have investigated all the reports in close detail, starting from the

stories beginning, I decided to write it all out for you, most honorable theophilus, so you can

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