Lee C. Camp here. If you've been enjoying this show, I think you might enjoy my podcast, No Small

Endeavor, produced by Great Feeling Studios and PRX. No Small Endeavor explores what it means to live a good

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endeavor and we would love to help. 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 18, 9 through 14, Mark 10, 1 through 12, Matthew 19, 1 through 12, Mark 10, 13 through 16, Matthew 19, 13

through 15, Luke 18, 15 through 17, Mark 10, 17 to 31, Matthew 19, 16 to 30, Luke 18, 18,

to 30, Matthew 20, 1 through 16, Mark 10, 32 to 34, Matthew 20, 17 to 19, Luke 18, 31 to 34, Mark 10, 35 to 45, and Matthew 20, 20 to 28 in the NIV.

Story of the Pharisee and Tax Collector from Luke.

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and look down on everyone else,

Jesus told this parable.

Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, God, I thank you that I'm not like other people, robbers, evildoers, adulterers,

or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. But the tax

collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,

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