Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Colossians 3:13

The following reading plan will take you deeper into the three concepts of Spirit, Soul, and Body at a steady pace, building on the message of Jesus' finished work. It will stretch, challenge, and grow you as his follower. Make sure to allow the Holy Spirit space to work in you and to shape you. See the impact for yourself. This is the last of four plans.

Jesus is worthy of a love that burns in the likeness of His love for us. But threats to our passion for Him come with the storms and setbacks we face. In this five-day reading plan, discover how to overcome the enemies of holy passion, and tangibly experience His love. Jesus invites you to sustained and unquenchable love.

Every believer's great calling is to look after and love one another. This 5-day reading plan demonstrates how to accomplish this from a biblical perspective. Put on love, be a light, console, and pray for one another. Continue reading to learn how you can care for others and lead them to God.

Building friendships as adults can be challenging. Past hurts, rejections, and failures can cause us to feel insecure and alone. Still, the yearning for relationships remains. What’s a woman to do? In this plan, Cheri Strange, mom to six daughters, author, encourager to women, and Ph.D., shares five faith-building principles for cultivating the courage to experience the biblical model of friendship for which you long.

If you feel overwhelmed by your mental health, you’re not alone. Mental health challenges can feel chaotic. One day you may feel fine, but then you wake up the next day feeling anxious, depressed, or burned out. This 5-day Plan can help you find hope, healing, and peace through wisdom from Scripture.

Dating can be fun and fulfilling, but it also can get complicated. Thankfully, there’s wisdom and encouragement in Scripture to guide us toward healthy dating relationships. Whether you’re dating, you want to date, or you’re ready to talk to your kids about dating, this 5-day Bible Plan is for you.

During the early days of the Passion Movement, God connected our story to the confession found in Isaiah 26:8, specifically the last phrase, which says, "For your name and renown are the desire of our souls." The heart of Passion is God's glory, and God is most glorified in us when we live lives that are fully satisfied in Him. We pray that this scripture journey through Passion's five core statements and prayers will encourage a posture of gratitude for what He has done and increase expectancy for what He will do in the future.

This 5-day plan is here to equip, empower and inspire you to move with God and make an impact, the same way God empowered Esther to move and save the Jews. God desires to use you to save and impact a generation.

Men and women are both made in God’s image. But why do we behave so differently then? Could it be that our differences are just a kaleidoscope of different reflections of God’s image? In this Plan, we will explore how to recognize God’s image through our differences in marriage.

The Church is more than a building—it’s people following Jesus together. So we don’t go to church, we are the Church and we exist for the world. Over the next five days, we’ll discover what it means to be the Church in our communities all over the world.

Giving up your “right” to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things you can do. Being "unoffendable" helps lift religious burdens from our backs and allows us to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of our lives—flourishing the way God intended.

Our world pushes a seductive lie: you can achieve any goal through positive thinking, organization, and determination. But anyone who's tried to white-knuckle their way to self-fulfillment is only left with frustration, disappointment, and exhaustion. Inspired by Tara Sun's book, this plan shows that there’s a better way: surrender to the God who cares for us and has an infinitely better blueprint for a life filled with joy, peace, and meaning.

Sometimes it's easier to explore a deep subject when we can see it through the lens of a film we love. This 5-Day plan pairs biblical truths on forgiveness with the stories from popular movies to give you a new perspective on the importance of understanding forgiveness, accepting forgiveness, and offering forgiveness.

Sometimes it feels like we're losing an uphill battle when training children to be more like Christ. But as Jesus models grace and forgiveness on the cross, we must also forgive our own mistakes and the growing pains in our children's progress toward maturity. This five-day devotional teaches parents how to extend grace to themselves, their children, and their spouses alike so that children can learn by example.

The kids are melting down, life keeps throwing curveballs, and you are simply overwhelmed. When family life is harder to cope with, God offers strength, compassion, and tender mercy. This 5-day devotional teaches parents how to cope with the hard things in life by putting on the armor of God, so kids, in turn, can learn by example to deal with emotions in a healthy way.

Forgiveness may be the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood quality in our culture. But what is real forgiveness? In this series, Pastor Rick looks to the Bible to see what God says about it. You'll discover what real forgiveness looks like, and three things God says are essential for resuming a relationship that's been broken.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches about prayer and about the Father. We learn about the importance of beginning and ending with PRAISE. We see that the Father has a PROMISE for the world and a PURPOSE for his children. And we see that the Father both PROVIDES and PROTECTS. This 5-day plan will look closely at how Jesus responds when people say, "Teach us to pray."

Caregivers often run low on time, energy, and ideas to navigate the grind of daily life, so focusing on friendships isn't a priority. But as God draws us closer to himself, he wants to move us into authentic connections with others. In this 5-day study, we dive into why we need relationships, what the Bible says about friendship, and how to strengthen relationships by building them on Jesus Christ.

We all are influenced by the boxes we check, whether it’s our incomes, religious affiliations, politics, or something else. In this five-day devotional, pastor Eli Bonilla Jr., author of Mixed, shows us how to navigate our groups with compassion, authenticity, and growth-mindedness by staying rooted in our higher God-given identity.

It can be hard to apologize well in marriage. Your spouse sees you at your best and your worst, on good days and bad. It’s inevitable you will let them down at times. Apologizing well facilitates confession and forgiveness, and helps us and our marriage better reflect Christ. This 5-day plan by Lindsay Few digs into how to apologize well.

Moms sometimes find themselves trying to encourage their kids to have patience while their own patience has run out as they await God’s perfect timing. Brooke McGlothlin invites you to consider that patience is getting to know Jesus, loving through the hard, and trusting God with the fight. She suggests prayers to help you seek God’s heart to discover surer ways to have patience with yourself and your children.

Wouldn't it be great if you could have conflict in your marriage that led to resolution and connection instead of anxiety, stress, and disconnection? Conflict in marriage isn't bad, but there is a healthy way to have it. This five-day plan will help you learn what God's word says about conflict and share ways to apply those truths in your life today.

We are not meant to live life alone. But how do we prepare ourselves to live in community? Henri Nouwen’s teachings on communion, community, and ministry show us how Jesus lived this out. When we prioritize communion with God, community with others, and ministry to the world, community happens in a healthy way. Explore what healthy community looks like in your life with this 5-day plan.

Sometimes the hardest time to pray is when life is hard, but that's the most important time to pray. What do we say when we don't understand our circumstances? These are the times we should pray God's Word and let God speak truth into our life.

Through a lens of sports and Biblical truth, this 5-day reading plan unpacks how God graciously forgives us...and helps us to forgive others.