Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 25:42

As we lean into this season of celebration with the intention of tuning into the heart of God, join us for four weeks as we: Behold Beauty, Break Barriers, Make Room, and are Surprised by God. Like all the best stuff in life, this journey is best taken with others—so grab a friend or two and your sense of wonder and roll into the Advent Season.

Only God can change hearts and bring about life transformation, but we definitely play a part in the process. In An Alphabet for Change, Steve Hallblade provides 26 attributes and practices that we can all learn to mature in our lives. This reading plan will introduce you to the first five and hopefully encourage you to grow and deepen your relationship with Jesus.

How do overwhelmed parents nourish their souls so they can help their families live out a flourishing faith? In the overwhelm of raising kids, it can be difficult to feel present. These reflections, questions, and breath prayers will help you slow down, receive God’s love, and notice the sacred in your real, messy, holy life.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re born again and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to different values about right and wrong, and a different lifestyle to match it. This series of 5-day plans uses the 10 Commandments (following the classic Augustinian ordering) as a vehicle for an alternative, Christ-like morality and Jesus-way of living.

In a 5-day devotional, we explore the timeless lessons from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol about choosing joy, finding contentment, and extending mercy during the holiday season. It's a reminder that Christmas offers a second chance for all, just as it did for Ebenezer Scrooge in the past and for us today.

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’ eyes.

We have poor people all around us. God is serious about the fact that the church needs to care for the poor - and we neglect it. This reading plan addresses that need.

Discover how God’s love can rewrite your story in this 5-day plan from Matthew West. Each day is designed to help you focus on the good news of your story as a follower of Jesus. You’ll be challenged to consider the truth of what God is doing and has done in your life and focus on allowing God to be reflected in your story. My story, Your Glory!

Salvation is a free gift of God, and we can accept it just by believing that Jesus is the Son of God, who came to earth to die for our sins and rise again. Salvation is for everyone who believes, but is believing enough? Join us as we uncover 4 checks from the Bible to be sure that your salvation is real, and can never be taken away.

The Bible has a lot to say about the poor. In fact, Jesus has clear instructions for Christians as He reminds us that the poor will always be among us. This 5-day plan will help readers gain a biblical understanding and perspective on the poor, apply it to their lives, and prepare them to share this learning with others.

God wants us to experience heaven before leaving earth. When Jesus talks about the sheep and the goats, we don’t get a leave pass because we are Christians. This short plan from Joel A’Bell looks at what it means to live like Jesus.

In a world rushing to find themselves and comparing themselves amongst themselves, the desperate cry of the human heart remains - Closeness with God. In this thought provoking 5 day Plan, Joel A’Bell poses the simplicity of helping us progress in our relationship with Jesus. Devekut is a Hebrew expression that means to cling to God. This Study Plan will be good for anyone who wants to get closer to God and live a more meaningful Christian life.

Spend time in intentional preparation as Easter draws near. Walk through each day of Holy Week in this 5-day devotional and discover what Jesus taught and did the week before his death and resurrection.

When you serve more, you take less. When you give more, you need less. When you thank more, you want less. When there’s more of God, you’re selfless. If you’re ready for more of God, start this new Life.Church Bible Plan to accompany Pastor Craig Groeschel’s series, Selfless. 

C.S. Lewis said, “Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in.’ Aim at earth and you get neither.” In other words, what you do today because of what you believe about what happens after you die could change everything, forever. Start this Life.Church Bible Plan today to accompany Pastor Craig Groeschel’s new series, One Minute After You Die.

Night is a special time of day. Not it's active part, but the time when we move from all our meetings, conversations, and business – to sleep. There were some special nights in the lives of Jesus' disciples. A few nights before Christ’s Resurrection. Let’s take a look at them.

Feeling like your life is stuck on autopilot? It’s time to recenter on the things that matter most. In this 6-day Bible Plan accompanying Pastor Craig Groeschel’s message series, True Virtue, we’ll discover how to move beyond empty virtue signaling into real living that honors God and inspires others.

This six day devotional is geared towards helping you to engage with scripture in quiet reflection. This series offers a guided experience that is broken up in four parts: prepare, read, reflect, breathe. These can be used in facilitating group/family engagement or for your personal time of devotion. We would like to invite you to engage with this written meditation and the accompanying audio.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re born again and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to different values about right and wrong, and a different lifestyle to match it. This series of 5-day plans uses the 10 Commandments (following the classic Augustinian ordering) as a vehicle for an alternative, Christ-like morality and Jesus-way of living.

In this 6-day reading plan, Rabbi Schneider provides clarity on God’s unfolding plan for the end times, unraveling the meaning behind the three types of judgments in the Book of Revelation: the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls. As the world grows closer to impending judgment, we, as believers, must prepare for the coming days and stay awake for Christ’s return.

Taken from his New York Times bestselling book "Erasing Hell," Francis Chan takes on the one topic Christians shy away from most: hell. Francis asks the questions you've always wondered yourself, with scriptural backing for his conclusions, and an honest "We can't be sure" when needed.

Eternity. The Bible clearly teaches there are two different states where all people ever born will live forever based on the choices they make in this life. But what does the Bible clearly show us on the best ways to prepare for eternity? In this seven day devotional study, Heaven expert and best-selling author Randy Alcorn takes us on a Scriptural and visually stunning tour of eternity.

The Bible speaks repeatedly to God’s heart for those who are refugees—individuals who have been forced by persecution to flee their country of origin and take up residence in a new land. This reading plan is adapted from Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis.

 As children of God, we have been given a new home and a new hope. And when we learn to live for heaven, the cares and weights of this world fall off our shoulders in light of our place in God’s advancing Kingdom. In this 7-day plan, you’ll create space every day to cast your burdens at the feet of Jesus, and rejoice in the hope of the eternal life you’re already living in God. 

Weakness does not disqualify you from inclusion in the kingdom of God—instead, it is your invitation to enter. Our week together of studying God’s Word will also serve as a personal exploration of what it means to be “poor in spirit.” I believe that sharing vulnerability in a safe place allows communion to happen and hope to grow again. What if weakness is one of our greatest strengths?