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 read all four books. Make sure you subscribe, join us and invite

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about the Gospels or of the podcast or anything that's really been on your mind as we've

been going through the Gospels together. Head to the link in the show notes and there's

a form where you can drop in your questions. So here's how this works. I'm going to read

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

write, and that's it. So today is July 12th, day 12, and I'll be reading Matthew chapters

13 through 15. And this month, I'm reading from the CSB. Matthew 13, on that day Jesus went

out of the house and was sitting by the sea, such large crowds gathered around him that

he got into a boat and sat down while the whole crowd stood on the shore. Then he told

them many things in parables saying, consider the sower who went out to sow. As he sowed,

some seed fell along the path and the birds came and devoured them. Other seed fell on

rocky ground where it didn't have much soil and it grew up quickly since the soil wasn't

deep. But when the sun came up, it was scorched. And since it had no root, it withered away.

Other seed fell among thorns and the thorns came up and choked it. Still other seed fell

on good ground and produced fruit, some 100, some 60, and some 30 times what was sewn.

But anyone who has ears, listen, then the disciples came up and asked him, why are you speaking

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