Holland and Barrett's big payday event has landed. So now's a good time to check in with your body. Low on energy. Tummy gurgling. Struggling to focus. Maybe your body's asking for a little more support. This payday, give it what it needs. With buy one, get one free and offers on over 1,000 favourites online, plus hundreds of can't miss offers in store shop now in store online and on the app back

your body holland and barrett selected lines only subject to availability range varies online and in store

ends 5th of may see website for details 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's life on earth, the friendships, the parables, the sacrifices, the meals, the miracles. So here is how it works. I'll read three chapters to you. You can listen or read along in your own Bible or online, and then I'll pray. And that's it. So today is day five this

month and I'll be reading Matthew chapters 13 through 15. And this month I'm reading from the CSB version.

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 sown. Let anyone who has ears listen. Then the

disciples came up and asked him, why are you speaking to them in parables? He answered, because the

secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know,

but it has not been given to them. For whoever has, more will be given to him and he will have

more than enough, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled in them which says, you will listen and listen but never understand.

You will look and look but never perceive.

For this people's heart has grown callous.

Their ears are hard of hearing and they have shut their eyes. Otherwise,

...