Holy Week

In Holy Week, we encounter a God who moves ever closer to us, even in our brokenness and shame. Yet what lies before us is a question: will we return to the Lord? This year, through repentance and renewal, let us be ready to greet the Lord at his Resurrection.

This plan is an excerpt from Dwell's Lenten devotional, "Return," available in its entirety within the Dwell Bible App.

Dwell | Holy Week and Easter

"Our Hearts Burn Within Us" explores the final week of Jesus’ pre-resurrection life as seen in the Gospel of Luke. This 8-day devotional starts on Palm Sunday and ends on Resurrection Sunday. Join Regent University School of Divinity faculty as our hearts - just as the disciples on the Emmaus Road experienced - burn within us! 

Our Hearts Burn Within Us

What do we do when our expectations for life do not match the realities we face? Matthew 21-28 encourages overwhelmed people with the simple reminder of an iron-clad truth: Jesus wins! In the darkness of whatever valley you may be walking through, the journey of Jesus’ last week reminds us that the kingdom Jesus established plays by different rules. In this eight day series, experience Holy Week on Jesus' terms.

Jesus Wins! A Holy Week Devotional

Mama, do you need encouragement? Would you like to go deeper in your relationship with Jesus this Easter season? Join the Help Club for Moms as we focus our eyes on Jesus and center our lives on His Word. This devotional plan will help you awaken this Resurrection Sunday with a heart full of joy and a deeper understanding of our Savior's love.

Preparing Your Heart for Easter

Walk step-by-step with Jesus in the events, places, and emotions He felt each day leading up to Easter, and beyond.

Step by Step: Walk With Jesus on Holy Week

Lent is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and turn your heart fully toward God. It’s a 40-day period leading up to Easter spent reflecting on Jesus' journey to the cross and preparing our hearts for the celebration of his resurrection. Ultimately, Lent begins with an invitation from God: Return to me. Spend this Lenten season diving into our 6-part Bible Reading Plan designed to help you set aside distractions and refocus on how God is moving in your life. 

Lent | Week 1: Turning Back to God

We hear about the resurrection of Jesus every year at Easter, but have you ever considered what it was like to have experienced it firsthand, face-to-face, as his friends did? Learn from Mary Magdalene, Thomas, and Peter as we look at the hope Jesus brought them after that first Easter and the hope he still offers you today. 

Three Lives Changed by the Resurrection

Come along with Anne Wilson as she explores the meaning of The Cross and the days of Passion Week leading up to the Crucifixion and Resurrection. Let The Cross minister to your soul as she highlights Scriptures that inspired the lyrics of her song and unpacks the truth of Jesus' love during this 5-day study where she meditates on how the love and blood of Christ canceled our sin debt.

Come Home to the Cross by Anne Wilson

Have you ever reflected on the hours before Jesus’ crucifixion on the cross?  The knowledge that He was experiencing all this pain and suffering for you and me. This is part two of a three-part series that we hope creates a create space for you to reflect and feel the weight of the sacrifice made for us so we could receive the gifts of grace, mercy, forgiveness and eternal life.

Real Hope: The Passion - Week 2

Early in the final week of Christ, the props and players for Friday's drama are in position. Only this is no play: it's a divine plan. All heaven waits and watches. All eyes are on the Nazarene. Draw near to the Savior and prepare to celebrate the greatest miracle ever conceived.

Feel the passion. Sense the truth. Hear the promise.

Death has no power.

On Calvary's Hill

Pause and pray as you prepare your heart for Easter. Be guided by Pete Greig, as you join Jesus on His journey to the cross, through the tomb, and into resurrection life. 

Journey to the Cross

In the second week of Lent, we’ll see how God met the needs of his people in the Bible - whether through manna in the wilderness, provision in scarcity, or strength in weakness. As we reflect on these stories, we’ll be challenged to trust that he is faithful to provide everything we truly need as we focus our attention back on him.

📖 This is part 2 of a 6-part Bible Reading Plan series! Part 1 is "Lent Week 1: Turning Back to God"

Lent | Week 2: Trusting God for What You Need

The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are described in each of the four gospels. This Easter, read about how Jesus endured betrayal, suffering, and humiliation on the cross before changing the world through the hope offered by His resurrection. A short video illustrates part of the story for each day of this plan.

Lent/Easter: Jesus Suffers, Dies, & Overcomes

Every Easter we go to church, take communion, hear the songs and sermons. But are we living out the new life God intended for us? In his new devotional series, Pastor Jim Cymbala reminds us that Christianity is a new creation. It's Jesus living inside us by His Spirit, filling us with victory, joy, and peace. This Easter don't stay in the same old routine. Let Jesus make everything new.

Easter Makes Everything New

1600 years ago Christians began calling the last days of Jesus’ life “Holy Week.” This eight-day reading plan will explain what happened on each of Jesus' final days and why those events, while often tragic, are ultimately good news. Each day there will be a short reading from a psalm, one of the Old Testament prophets, and a few verses from the New Testament. There will also be a short devotional to guide you through those passages and see the significance of Jesus' last days on earth.

Easter Explained: An 8-Day Guide to Celebrating Holy Week

Nearly everyone agrees that this world is broken. But what if there’s a solution? This seven-day Easter plan begins with the unique experience of the thief on the cross and considers why the only real answer to brokenness is found in the execution of an innocent man: Jesus, the Son of God.

The Man on the Middle Cross: A 7-Day Easter Reading Plan

In this Easter series, Major Brenda Allen reminds us that Christ the Lord has risen, and as followers of Jesus we have the opportunity to demonstrate our relationship with the risen Christ in our daily lives.

Raise!

You are beginning a journey through the most important week in history.  Come along with us and recline with Jesus at the Passover table, linger in the silence of Holy Saturday, and experience the joy of Jesus’ Resurrection. 

Each day, we’ll look at what the gospels say about the events of Holy Week and walk through a simple prayer. We’ll follow the S.O.A.P. study method: Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer. 

Holy Week: A Journey From Jesus’ Death to Resurrection

Resurrection Sunday delves into more than just the historical event of the cross—it’s a powerful reminder that God’s love conquers all, even death itself. Through Jesus’ we see a story of true sacrifice, and the ultimate victory of his death, burial, and resurrection. On this journey we will help you experience the transforming power of love at the cross, the purpose in the waiting season, and the hope of resurrection in your own life.

Resurrection Sunday: The Transforming Power of the Cross

After being mocked and tortured on the cross, Jesus spoke his final words and took his last breath, fulfilling the purpose and promise of His Father. These final words continue to live on. But why do the matter? How does it affect your everyday life? This Easter, journey through each of Jesus' seven statements spoken from the cross and meditate on what they reveal about who our Savior is—who died and uttered His last words specifically for you.

Messiah’s Last Words: Easter Reflections

The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are described in each of the four gospels. This Easter read about how Jesus endured betrayal, suffering, and humiliation on the cross before changing the world through the hope offered by his resurrection. A short video illustrates part of the story for each day of this plan.

Lent/Easter: Jesus Boldly Faces Death

This 7-day plan guides you through scripture and reflections on the Holy Week, preparing your heart to worship God in a fresh way on Resurrection Sunday.

It is Finished

Holy Week is the most important time of the year for Christians. It’s when we remember Jesus’ last days on earth—His suffering, death, and resurrection. This week is a chance to slow down, reflect, and focus on what Jesus did for us.

Join our 8-day journey through Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter! Experience the triumphal entry of Jesus, intimacy of Mary's anointing, the last Supper and so much more. Find hope in the silence of Holy Saturday, leading to the joy of Easter Sunday. Prepare your heart to encounter Jesus in a powerful way this Holy Week!

Inside the Tomb: A Holy Week Devotional

Lent & Easter

Since the Fall, humanity’s story has been saddled with sorrow. Yet at the end of the Book, we’re told that love will triumph.

Fall and Redemption

Advent Study going through: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.

Advent Study

This Advent, spend time in the opening verses of John’s Gospel reflecting on what these verses reveal to us about who Jesus is. 

Who Is Jesus?

One of the things that is vital for us during the Christmas season is to make sure we really understand the impact of Jesus' coming, His advent in our lives. This devotional will help you to focus on God’s greatest gift of all, Jesus, and the true meaning of His birth for our present lives and for all eternity. Walk with us through this 14-Day Christmas Devotional and experience your best Christmas yet!

14 Days Christmas Devotional

In all the holiday hustle and bustle, it can be easy to lose sight of why we’re celebrating. In this 5-day advent plan, we’ll dive into the promises fulfilled by the birth of Jesus and the hope we have for the future. As we learn more about who God is, we’ll discover how to live through the holiday season with hope, faith, joy, and peace.

Finding Freedom: At Christmas

This Advent reading plan guides you through the key themes of hope, love, joy, and peace, helping them connect God’s promises to their everyday lives. Each day includes a scripture passage, a brief reflection, and practical application, encouraging deeper faith and meaningful moments of reflection. As you prepare for Christmas, you will grow in understanding and experience the Advent season in a personal and impactful way.

Radiant YTH Advent

The Greatest Gift will take you through the Christmas story in ten days, reminding you of the reason why you can have hope, joy, and peace in a world filled with turmoil and despair. 

The Greatest Gift

In a brand new devotional series titled, The Reason for the Season, Pastor Jim Cymbala provides fresh insight into the Christmas story. As he addresses the unspoken sadness that many carry at this time of the year, Pastor Jim Cymbala challenges us to think about what would mean the most to Jesus this holiday season.

The Reason for the Season

No trips on donkeys. No angels singing. Not even a baby in a manger. Yet, there are still 25 gifts God wants to give you for Christmas. We can find them in a little, six-chapter book halfway through the New Testament. These are The Greatest Gifts, as revealed in Ephesians. Along the way, you'll find the gift of love, the gift of salvation, the gift of unity, and many more. Prepare your heart in a special way this Christmas season by receiving, and giving, God's greatest gifts.

The Greatest Gifts

This Christmas season, let the Advent candles remind you of the hope, love, joy, and peace that are ours in Christ. Join author Lynn Austin as she reflects on the season of Advent in these devotionals and invites you to pray for those who need to come home to Him. 

Praying and Waiting for Christmas: A 7 Day Advent Devotional

What if this Christmas, we were to remember the miracles that Jesus performed in the lives of those who came to Him? This Advent season, I pray you enjoy these 25 compelling stories based on the New Testament characters from The Chosen series. May their diverse, powerful testimonies inspire you to experience and become a miracle of God for others! Are you ready? You are a Miracle! Christian Misch

Chosen to Be a Miracle! Advent Plan Based on “The Chosen"

Advent is a church tradition to help believers across the globe prepare their hearts for the arrival of Jesus. Over four weeks, we’ll look at themes of hope, peace, joy, and love in the biblical narrative leading up to Jesus’ birth, and how these themes can be applied to our Christmas season this year.

Advent: A 25-Day Countdown to Christmas

One Baby For The World takes you on an unforgettable Advent journey seen through the eyes of missions. Author Shari Tvrdik offers a unique perspective through Advent. She connects the powerful story of the nativity to her experiences with life among the suffering poor of Mongolia's ger district. Adapted from the book, One Baby For The World.


One Baby for the World: 24 Days of Advent From a Missions Perspective 

The music we sing at Christmas helps us to remember the story of Jesus and fills our hearts with hope, peace, love, and joy. This 5-day plan will encourage your heart as you learn inspiring stories behind some of our most beloved Christmas songs, including O Holy Night, Joy to the World, and Silent Night.


Songs of Advent

Spark awe and recapture the wonder of Christ’s birth in this 4-day Plan. Join Bible teacher Jen Weaver and explore Isaiah’s ancient prophecies, revealing the beauty and majesty of Jesus nearly 700 years before His arrival. Let these timeless truths inspire worship in your heart and draw you closer to Christ.

In Awe of Jesus: Christmas Foretold in Isaiah

All is Calm, All is Bright focuses on the Prince of Peace and celebrates the Light of the World.  Short devotionals take you from the Old Testament longing for the Messiah through the fulfillment of God's promise in the story of Jesus' birth found in the gospels. Each day's reading brings you one step nearer the heart of Christmas: Immanuel, God with us. 

All Is Calm All Is Bright

Forgiveness is a big word, but what exactly does forgiveness mean? And what are the consequences if we don't forgive? And what is the difference between forgiving, pardoning and reconciling? This reading plan is structured like an Advent calendar: 24 “doors” and behind each one a little treasure awaits you about the incredible gift that Jesus gave you for Christmas.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Discover the wonder and purpose behind Jesus' miraculous birth as told in Matthew 1. From Joseph’s courage to the fulfillment of ancient prophecies, these devotionals invite you to embrace the depth of God’s love, the reality of Emmanuel (God with us), and the ultimate gift of salvation. Rediscover Christ’s story and its life-changing significance.

Born to Save: The Christmas Story of Jesus

Seven hundred years before Christ was born, Isaiah prophesied the Messiah would be called a Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. Only in the divine foreknowledge of God could all of these titles be perfectly fulfilled in the person and work of Jesus Christ. This Advent, be awed and amazed at the Wonderful Counselor who’s a wonder of a counselor. Oh, come, let us adore him! 


He Shall Be Called

Living Changed: At Christmas

With all that noise telling us what Christmas should be about, it can be difficult to get to the point—to the heart of Christmas. That’s why, in this devotional, we’ll work to cut through the noise and discover the real meaning behind the season. We’ll look at what brings real joy and purpose in this holiday. We’ll unpack the incredible story behind the birth of Jesus Himself to understand what the purpose of Christmas really is.

The Purpose of Christmas

Do you feel like you're sitting in a waiting room waiting for a door to open? All of us are going to end up in a waiting room at some point. The problem is very few of us wait well. After all, waiting can make us feel powerless or even hopeless. However, the Advent season reminds us that God does some of His best work in the waiting room. Learn how to wait with God today!

The Waiting Room

Exploring the four angelic appearances found in the Christmas story and what they can teach us about our own call this Advent season.

Angels We Have Heard on High

Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture & the Arts is pleased to share the 2024 Advent Project, a daily devotional series celebrating the beauty and meaning of the Advent season through art, music, poetry, prayer, Scripture, and written devotions. The project starts on the first day of Advent and continues through Epiphany. Our goal is to help individuals quiet their hearts and enter into a daily routine of worship and reflection during this meaningful but often hectic season. Our prayer is that the project will help ground you in the unsurpassable beauty, mystery and miracle of the Word made flesh.

The Advent Project: Week 4

Immanuel, Prince of Peace, The Humble Servant, Promised Messiah, Our Coming King – Jesus!

Join us in this 7-day series as we explore the uniqueness of Jesus’s character as revealed through the Christmas narrative. Let us give Him glory and praise this Christmas!

The Uniqueness of Jesus

Advent

The goal of this track is to take you through 7 days of thankfulness. We want to help you explore different aspects of thankfulness and help make you aware of the need for being more thankful every single day.

7 Days of Thanksgiving

This plan is designed for you to engage with passages in God's Word that either express true thankfulness, or highlight stories of thankful people. May this plan encourage you to be thankful, and inspire you to give praise to God for all He has done!

A Plan Of Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving holiday is the perfect opportunity for your family to reflect on God’s abundant blessings and express your thankfulness to Him and to the people around you. Buck Denver & Friends bring a fun spin to your Thanksgiving week, with short devotionals for each day – Sunday through Thursday – to help you understand the history of the holiday, read verses that express gratitude to God, and reflect on what you are thankful for this time of year.  Each day includes a short video, verse and reflection.

Thanksgiving Family Reading Plan

Joyce Meyer believes that giving thanks to God daily will positively impact our lives. When we pause to acknowledge His blessings it restores  us to a state of spiritual peace. In this reading plan you'll find fourteen inspiring messages that will spark an attitude of gratitude in our hearts. Through uplifting Scripture, she illustrates God's never-ending love, inexhaustible grace, and always-accessible presence in our lives. As we develop a renewed outlook, we will better recognize and be further blessed by God's abundant goodness.

The Power Of Being Thankful

These Thanksgiving videos help us look back at the amazing things we can be thankful to God for, as well as look to him with eyes of faith for our future.

Giving Thanks

Gratitude turns what we have into enough. This four-day Bible Plan from Life.Church will help you discover a more grateful perspective. Start reading part two of the six-part Stay Positive series.

I'm Grateful

As God's children, we have much to be thankful for. This reading plan will help you think more deeply about who to thank for all good things--your God.

Think About Thank: Devotions From Time of Grace

As we enter into a season of thanksgiving may we find time to pray to God for His goodness. Having gratitude is good for our mental health and overall well-being. Join us for 5 days of prayer.

So Much to Be Thankful for 

In this practical and powerful three-day devotional, you will learn how to believe God's promises and see them come to pass in your life through the power of being thankful for what He has already done for you. You will also learn how to experience three specific blessings that are released in your life when you practice thankfulness and gratitude.

The Most Powerful Words On Earth

Thanksgiving is a way of life that Christ commands of his followers. This study will explore thanksgiving as the mode through which Christ defeats sin and preserves good through us. 

A Heart Full Of Thanksgiving

The apostle Paul wrote that Christians are to be “abounding in thanksgiving.” But how can anyone achieve that in the face of life’s battles? In this plan, Alistair Begg teaches that there is but one lasting foundation for unwavering gratitude. Are you building upon it?

A Call to Thanksgiving

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage and key verse for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, a prayer and prayer concern to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme “God’s Word of Praise and Thanksgiving.”

Daily Bible Reading: November 2021, God’s Word of Praise and Thanksgiving

Giving thanks for God's good gifts seems like a natural choice for Christians. But there are many times in life when it is hard to be thankful - times of disappointment, grief, and spiritual drought. The book of Philippians guides us towards habits of thanksgiving that can last through our whole lives, despite our circumstances. This 15 day series invites you to develop these habits of a thankful heart.

Habits of a Thankful Heart

Bible Reading Plan to Celebrate Thanksgiving!  Thanksgiving Day is almost here! It all started in the 17th century among Christian families in the USA. They chose the fourth Thursday in November to thank God for his blessings on each and every day. Thanksgiving celebrations are spreading to other countries. Christians in general, families, churches and Christian organizations get together to thank God for his blessings. God’s Word teaches us and encourages us to be grateful. So, get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, and follow this Bible reading plan. May the Lord be with you along the way! 

Let's Be Thankful!

Prayer helps us find the words to ask for His blessings.  Meditation helps us remember to give thanks for He is the source of our blessings.  What are you most grateful for today?  This plan will help you stop and remember what you have and what you’ve been given.  Today is about remembering to express thanks.

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