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. Each month we get to read all four books. So go ahead, subscribe today.

Join us as we read the Gospels together.

Now, normally, y'all know we read three chapters a day to get through the whole four books

in 30 days. But this month is a little different. We are mixing it up and reading the Gospels

chronologically from the new international version or the NIV. So we read stories in the order in which they took place,

usually getting something from all four books.

So I'll share the references with you here at the beginning,

and you can find them in the show notes as well.

You can listen or read along in your own Bible, and then I'll pray.

And that's it.

Luke 16, Luke 17, 1 through 10, John 11, Luke 17 11 through 37, and Luke 18 1 through 8.

Story of the shrewd manager from Luke.

Jesus told his disciples, there was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.

So he called him in and asked him, what is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management

because you cannot be manager any longer. The manager said to himself, what shall I do now? My master is

taking away my job. I'm not strong enough to dig and I'm ashamed to beg. I know what I'll do

so that when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses. So he called in each one

of his master's debtors. He asked the first, how much do you owe my master? Nine hundred gallons of

olive oil, he replied. The manager told him, take your bill, sit down quickly and make it

450. Then he asked the second, and how much do you owe? A thousand bushels of wheat, he replied. He told him,

take your bill and make it 800. The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly.

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