Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Luke 15:26

We experience love in all kinds of ways! We may encounter romantic love with a boyfriend or girlfriend, but what about the love we share with our friends? It’s also different from the love we have for our siblings or parents. How can one word express such a broad range of emotions? It can’t. In this Bible Reading Plan, we’ll look at 4 words from the Greek language that represent different types of love and how the Bible encourages us to express it.

For the next couple of days we'll dive deep into different types of love. Love that's enduring, unconditional, deep, and immeasurable. The greatest love you and I could ever receive, the love of God.

He is the hero we need, not the one we deserve… And NO, we aren’t talking about Batman! In this plan, we are digging into the GRACE God has shown us and how it is made possible through our hero… JESUS.

A moment of gratitude each day can make a big difference in our attitude, outlook, and state of mind. This devotional helps us focus on Christ-centered reasons to be thankful every day.

Many Christians, often without even realizing it, struggle with a type of Christian perfectionism. In this devotional plan, Faith Chang speaks into feelings of guilt, fear, or anxiety in our walk with the Lord through rich meditations on God’s character: his peace, patience, providence, and love.

Struggling as your adult child drifts away from the faith you raised them in? This 4-day devotional series offers honest, biblical guidance for parents wrestling with worry, conflict, and unanswered prayers. Learn how to release control, live out love, and be the powerful witness your child needs most—because sometimes, your life speaks louder than words. Find peace and purpose in loving well, even when faith feels distant.

Many women live under the weight of doing more, being more, and achieving more, even in their walk with God. We try to understand His love as if it must be earned or explained, yet His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. This 4-day devotional invites the multi-responsible, high-achieving woman to step out of striving and into surrender. Through reflections and Scripture, you'll move from head knowledge to heart acceptance, living as God’s friend in gratitude, honesty, and trust.

At the core of it, discipleship is taking care of and tending all the things Jesus commanded us. Yet how can we know what to do if we don't know His words? That is why we're exploring all of Jesus' words across the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Each day includes a Bible narration from Ps Mark Varughese of the words of Jesus. NOTE: the translation used in the narration is the New King James Version.

Forgiveness is a process. It takes time, costly and hard. It is restoring of relationships by releasing a painful past with an attitude of love. Nothing keeps us in bondage to the past as much as our unwillingness to forgive. Refusal to forgive leads to bitterness of the soul. Forgiveness is freedom from bitterness and the propensity to get even. It reopens the future of new beginnings – a restart.

All believers were once lost and then found through Jesus, and God celebrates each and every one of his children. He also gives us opportunities to share that love and grace with others so that more lost can be found.

Sin is intertwined in our daily lives. It’s deeper and darker than we fully realize, but we don’t have to hide behind our shame. Jesus Christ has died on the cross and risen again so that we can find our true selves in a sinful world. Uncommen men learn to cry out for the courage to reveal themselves and receive healing and forgiveness.

The late Brennan Manning wrote his classic The Ragamuffin Gospel for the “bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out,” for “anyone who has grown weary and discouraged along the Way.” If that includes you, take a journey toward the grace-filled life with these five daily devotionals.

Winnie the Pooh has delighted children since the 1920s, and Pooh’s author, A.A. Milne, based it on the imagination of his son, Christopher Robin. But the idyllic world of Pooh stands in contrast to their real family life. Is your family similar – fictional perfection on the outside; a scrambled mess behind closed doors?  This fact/fiction chasm makes this the perfect plan for those needing healing from complicated family relationships.

Acquiring a complete identity as CHILDREN OF GOD can and will change our lives. Being a child of God implies initiating a different relationship with a good Father Who wants the best for His children. Pastor Christian Beck exposes it with precision, and above all, with simplicity.

This 5-day devotional is based on the new EP from Bryan and Katie Torwalt (of Jesus Culture), Praise Before My Breakthrough.

It can be easy to miss the story of God's grace when we are too familiar with the parables of the Bible. It becomes well-worn "doctrine" -- especially when retold to your children. The Kingdom of Marvin is a retelling of the “prodigal son” set in a world of cuddly monsters, an ancient prophecy, and the emergence of a once-defeated enemy. Learn how to tell the Gospel in new, fresh ways with this devotional.

We know God tells us that we are new creations, and yet so often it doesn’t feel like it. We end up pretending to have everything together, while inside we are in deep pain. The first step is to stop the pretence, which is where this study starts. It then encourages you to continually go to the source in order to learn more about, and embrace, who you truly are.

When it comes to life, no one likes to lose. Circumstances conspire against us. Our actions drag us down. A few good shots to the chin, and before you know it, it can feel like life just knocked us out. But listen to the wisdom of Tony Evans as he reminds us that in our darkest hour, we have a Savior in our corner equipping us to turn things around.

Do you struggle with control, comparison and impossible expectations? Do you always fall short of your standards, yet fear lowering them will mean mediocrity? In this five-day plan, award-winning author Colleen Carroll Campbell shows that the biblical solution to the perfectionist trap is not to squelch our hard-wired desires for excellence but to allow God to purify and redirect them to His dream of perfect for us: freedom in Christ.

Do you ever wonder if God's grace is for you? This video series explains the extremely important truth of God's grace--his unconditional and undeserved love for you--by looking at the story from the Bible of two sons and their father.

Loving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey filled with fear, worry, anger, and self-doubt. You spend hours waiting, praying, and pleading. You search for help. You feel shame. You cry out to God, "How long, Lord?" This five-day audio study will feature conversations with Judy Douglass. An author and mother of a prodigal who speaks from experience, she offers hope to help others see God's grace and love.

As a worship pastor, I have a front row seat to all the beautiful and redemptive qualities of the church. Today it’s pretty vogue for Christians to distance themselves from it in order to be relevant, but the church is God’s design to spread truth and love. We should be lifting 'Her' up and talking about how beautiful it is when the 'church' is being the church.

The Essential 100® Bible Challenge is a simple tool to read through the Big Story of God's Word. The reading plan is based on 50 Old Testament and 50 New Testament passages. Continue with the twelfth part "The Teachings of Jesus." ®Produced by American Bible Society in partnership with Scripture Union, Inc.

Psalm 119:89-90 reminds us that the Word of the Lord is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. God’s faithfulness continues through all time; it endures. When we’re looking for sure footing in the shaking and answers in the questions, we can turn to His enduring faithfulness, His enduring Word.

Join Terry Wardle on the ways God meets us in the hardest parts of our lives—whether we experienced great brokenness in childhood, struggle in dark valleys today, or simply need to remember that we can never earn God’s love. At the end of the next five days, you’ll know what it means to know that God is for you, no matter what.