I want to tell you about our final two months reading the Gospels together and how we even got here. There isn't anyone or anything

that has changed my life the way Jesus has. It's part of why when I started to

experiment to find a rhythm of reading the Bible that I would actually stick with.

The Gospels seemed like a great place to camp out.

See, the Gospels are the first four books in 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, and the miracles. So in 2019 I read three

chapters a day for 30 days looping through the Gospels. I shared about it and

friends jumped in. We loved it so much that we started the Let's Read the Gospels

podcast at the beginning of 2023 with that goal in mind read four books each month.

We slowed it down to one chapter a day the first three months of 2024 which has been really special in its own way. Reading the

Gospels together has been such a beautiful practice and we absolutely love

hearing from our friends who are listening about the new things you've noticed

the questions you've wondered about the ways that this rhythm has deepened your connection with Jesus.

We just keep finding that it is true what we have been saying from the start.

You don't have to be in the Gospels every day to be changed, but every day you're in the

Gospels will change you. It's something that our publishing partners at Ravel believe

too, so much so that they not only were willing, they initiated a

conversation about creating the Let's Read the Gospel's Guided Journal. It

follows that three chapters a day plan, but in a new order that we've never read through on the podcast,

John, Luke, Mark, Matthew. It includes prompts we're going to read that order on the Let's Read the Gospels podcast so that we can all

go through the guided journal together for the first time. You can listen or you can

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