Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 16:17

If you feel stressed, disconnected from God, and disenchanted with life, these refreshing devotions will help you find solace for your scattered soul. Laurie Kehler offers you a trail guide to finding God in the heart of nature. As you connect with the natural world, you will find rest from the stress of everyday life when you learn to delight in God and his creation.

It’s time to trade in fear, anxiety, and pressure for a life of peace, promise, and purpose. Far too often we carry the lies of the world on our backs. It weighs us down, births doubt, and keeps us from our God-given potential. Instead, let’s ask the Father, “who do you say that I am?” Join us as we uncover, embrace, and proclaim our true identity. It’s time.

Read through God’s Word, within each devotional, and reflect through guided questions for both individual consideration or group discussion. We pray it encourages you to reframe your reality.

From threats to religious liberty and redefinitions of marriage and family to attacks on the sacredness and dignity of human life, the perils faced by the West and the church are unprecedented. How should Christians respond to this challenge? This 5-day devotional by R. Albert Mohler Jr., reveals how Christians, equipped with the gospel of Jesus Christ, can meet it head on with hope, confidence, and steadfast conviction.

We’ve all got em’. Whether it's looking at things we shouldn’t, comparing ourselves to others, or not seeing God as he truly is. We seem to have a mean case of MAN EYES. Join us as we try to take these crazy glasses off!

In a defensive and divided era, how can followers of Jesus reveal a better way of living, one that loves others as God loves us? How can Christians be the kind of people who are known, as Proverbs puts it, to "turn away wrath"?

You are designed to live a life of success by God's standard. In a world where all that glitters purports to be gold, you need to stand out and live a life which both honors God and attracts others to Him. In this devotional, you will learn biblical strategies for successful living with God, which in turn encourages you to leave a fruitful legacy for generations to come.

Do science and history refute the validity of the Bible and the Christian worldview? Take this journey as we seek to find God in an age of science. See Against The Tide in theaters November 19th

Join Hillsong East Coast’s online experience and walk through this corresponding plan based on Pastor Dani Jeyaratnam April 2021 message, "Out of the Boat”. Read through God’s Word within each devotional and reflect through guided questions for both individual consideration and group discussion. We pray it encourages you to reframe your reality.

Next-level believers are anointed to influence every sphere of society and represent God on the earth. Passionate and proactive rather than passive, they engage the surrounding culture in their cities, regions and nations and push back darkness with the Kingdom of God’s light. With God-given power and authority, next-level believers arise as the Church and enforce the victories Christ won at Calvary, setting the enemy’s captives free along the way.

We have all failed in various ways at one point or another. Failure is not something you can always avoid. It can happen in relationships, where you work, and in everyday life. How we respond to it can help us move forward. This devotion seeks to help those who have failed and how to overcome it.

Our total ability to live the Christian life is only found in Christ. It is not our ability that makes us strong, but our availability to Christ that enables us. Focus on Jesus.

There is a truth that changes everything: Jesus is King. It’s the destiny of the universe for all to see His kingship. But how might we see and experience Jesus as King right now when so much in our world doesn’t seem to line up with His reign? This 5-day bible plan is a journey through the Scriptures to encounter the kingship of Jesus Christ.

Jesus was and is divine, always aware of the thoughts of others. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus used questions to help listeners understand their own hearts. This video-based reading plan helps you dive into the basic beliefs of the gospel to understand the core beliefs of Jesus Christ, and answer the questions He asked.

What do you do when it feels like God isn’t there—when the state of the world, our own suffering, or the struggles of those we know suggest that God is absent? In this devotional plan, Adam Mabry examines the art of lament—how to cry out to God in desperation from a place of faith and hope. He encourages readers to trust God even in times of darkness and doubt.

What do Christians believe? Division and controversy seem to be rampant today, but for 2,000 years, Christ-followers have been unified in belief. The oldest confession of faith, the Apostles’ Creed, reminds and teaches us what we believe. In this reading plan, take a fresh look at the Apostles Creed, discovering the major beliefs of Christianity and how the Creed prepares us to share what we believe.

Many Christians get caught up in debates around the question “What is the role of a woman?” But what if God wants to love us far more than He wants to use us? These powerful devotionals aren’t so much about what women should do or not do as they are about God’s marvelous design for each one of us.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to weird ideas and alternate beliefs about reality. This series of 5-day plans uses classic Christian Creeds as a vehicle to explain the Christian worldview compared to the world’s, and help us see reality through Jesus’s eyes.

What a difference a name makes! Names identify and acknowledge things. They reveal, express, and exercise purpose. And the name of Jesus–name above all names–can transform our lives. Join Hassan Boyle for this five-day plan to discover what the Bible says about names. When we grasp their spiritual origin and significance, we’ll grow in wisdom and begin to understand what it means to live an abundant life.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to weird ideas and alternate beliefs about reality. This series of 5-day plans uses classic Christian Creeds as a vehicle to explain the Christian worldview compared to the world’s, and help us see reality through Jesus’s eyes.

Have you ever realized that after knowing someone for a while, you still learn new things about them? Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Yet, as we get to know Him more, we are changed. Join us on a five-day journey of change, discovering who Jesus is to you.

Forgiveness is the core of the Gospel, the Lord’s Prayer, healthy relationships, salvation, and the Church.

Sometimes the line between fear and faith is razor thin. A moment, a decision, or a split-second choice can demonstrate whether we are living in fear or acting in faith. In the midst of difficulty, how do we ensure our faith remains in God and no other source? This devotional covers how to remain in faith or return if we’ve left.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to strange expectations. It’s a different kind of hope flowing from Christ’s perspective on things. This is the eighth and final in a series of 5-day plans that uses the Lord’s Prayer to show how Jesus invites us to approach life and the future.

Acts is a call to salvation through the work of King Jesus pouring out his Spirit. This 5-day plan continues a journey through the book of Acts, the Bible’s gripping sequel of Jesus at work in the life of his followers as he expands his kingdom to the ends of the earth. It’s a journey on what it means to be a Christian. It’s a story in which you have a role to play.