Hi, friends. I'm 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

life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the miracles. Since it's the

first day of the month, it may be your first day joining us. Welcome. We are so glad you're here.

Each month we read all four books. So go ahead and subscribe today. Join us as we read the

Gospels together and invite your friends to join us as well. Maybe you're getting in a

back to school rhythm or maybe one of your friends invited you to read the Gospels along with them.

Let's just try it for 30 days and see how your life may be different at the end. And if you've

been with us for multiple months now, today is the perfect time to invite someone to join you.

If you're the box checking type or you're more visual and want a way to follow along, we've

actually got two resources available for you besides the daily podcast. One is the August

Reading Plan that outlines what we are reading each day. The other is a Let's Read the Gospels

Guidebook that has some extras in it. Notes for me, journal prompts and some questions to take the

experience a little deeper. And we release new pages each month. So when you purchase the August

Guidebook, you'll get the PDFs for all the previous months and you'll get the pages for the rest

of the year as they are released. You can find those at any fdowns.com slash Gospels. So here's how

this works. I'll read three chapters to you today. You can listen or read along in your Bible

or online. And then I'll write and that's it. So today is August 1st, day one of this month.

And I'll be reading Matthew chapters one through three. And this month, I'm reading from the message.

Matthew one, the family tree of Jesus Christ, David's son, Abraham's son. Abraham had Isaac, Isaac

had Jacob, Jacob had Judah and his brothers. Judah had Perez and Zara. The mother was Timar. Perez

had Hezran. Hezran had Aram. Aram had a minidab. A minidab had Nashon. Nashon had Salman. Salman

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