Hi, friends. I'm Annie F. Downs. Let's read the Gospels. And on the best day of them all, happy Easter, friends.

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 were invited today to join us by a friend welcome, today is the perfect day to start listening with us.

No matter what you already know or think about Jesus, where your faith journey has led you, so far I encourage you to stick with us this week as we read through the book of John.

And then I hope you'll stick around for Matthew and Mark to each month we read all four books.

So go ahead and subscribe today and join us as we read the Gospels together.

So here's 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.

We also have two additional resources for you besides this daily podcast.

One is the April reading plan that will outline for you what we read each day if you're a visual learner like me.

And 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.

So when you purchase it today for April, you'll get the PDFs to download all the January, February, and March pages as well.

And every month for the rest of the year, too, those are all for you at any fdowns.com slash Gospels.

But let's jump into the best part of today.

Today is April 9th, day nine Easter Sunday. He is risen indeed.

And I will be reading John chapters one through three.

And this month I'm reading from the message.

John one.

The word was first, the word present to God.

God present to the word. The word was God in readiness for God from day one.

Everything was created through him. Nothing, not one thing came into being without him.

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