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.

Remember, there is a free reading plan for these three months you can grab at anti-F Downs.com slash Gospels.

So here is how this works. I'm going to read one chapter to

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

mention the verse or idea that stood out to me and then I'll pray and that's it.

We'd love to hear what's standing out to you.

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over on Instagram at Let's Read the Gospel.

So join us and hear what your friends are thinking

about as we are reading the same chapter together today.

So today is January 25th and I'll be reading Mark 4 from the new international version.

Mark 4. Again, Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so

large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge.

He taught them many things by parables and in his teaching said, listen, a farmer went out to

sew his seed.

As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path and the birds came and

ate it up. Some fell on rocky places where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because

the soil was shallow.

But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched

and they withered because they had no root.

Other seed fell among thorns which grew up

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