Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 5:13

For those looking to find purpose and meaning as a Christian, this study delves into what authentic discipleship really means today. It explores learning, loving, living, and looking like Jesus, highlighting how being a follower of Christ provides a powerful means of fulfillment beyond the religious treadmill. By walking parallel alongside others on their faith journey, anyone can fulfill their purpose by embodying Jesus’ love for the world.

The Chosen and BibleProject designed this plan to help people reflect on the countercultural, loving words and actions of Jesus during his public ministry. This six-day plan incorporates clips from season 2 of The Chosen, BibleProject animated videos, summaries, reflection questions, and Scripture readings. Choose this plan to experience how Jesus loves, serves, and thinks differently than our culture and invites us to do the same.

Despite all the world’s connectivity and social media, studies reveal that isolation and loneliness have become an epidemic. Moreover, we can believe that we are invisible even to God. This devotional centers around four “invisibles” that were visible to God and the lessons we learn from them when we feel invisible and forgotten.

Good Works is a devotional exploring a Biblical perspective on good works and their significance in the life of a believer. Over six days we will be inspired to embrace and engage in good works, bringing glory to God and impacting those around us.

The church is rapidly expanding across Africa and beyond. The challenge associated with this unprecedented growth is that many people are being drawn into church leadership out of necessity and without much experience or training. In this six-day reading plan, Conrad Mbewe shares fundamental truths about God’s design for the local church, equipping pastors and ministry leaders to serve their communities with excellence.

Sharing Jesus doesn’t have to feel intimidating! This 6-day journey is designed to help you step into evangelism with confidence and authenticity. You’ll explore what it means to be ready, push past fear, embrace your role, handle rejection, and trust God in the process. Through Scripture, reflection, and practical challenges, you’ll grow in boldness and take real steps toward making Jesus known. Because together, we’re helping the world know Jesus—one conversation at a time.

Jesus calls us to go and make disciples (Matthew 28:18-20), but how do we start? 123Go! is a simple, practical guide to ignite your heart for evangelism. Over six days, you’ll reflect, adjust, and take action.

Easter is more than a historical event—it is the great exchange, the ultimate revelation of God’s love and grace through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Through this plan, take time to reflect on the depth of Christ’s love and what it truly means to walk in the fullness of his salvation in our daily lives.

It’s not time to blend in. In a world that’s been overtaken and spiritually kidnapped, bland Christianity just won’t cut it. Jesus didn't live a safe, forgettable life — and neither should we. This Bible plan is a call to re-establish your identity, reignite your boldness, and live a faith that looks, sounds, and feels different. The world doesn’t need more lukewarm believers — it needs people who reflect Jesus so clearly that it stirs hearts

As we enter the season of Lent, the 40 days of spiritual preparation leading up to Easter, let's sit with Jesus on the mountainside and listen with open hearts to His teaching found in Matthew chapters 5-7.

The nations are no longer far away. They’re in your school, your church, and the house next door. We live in a generation where God is moving people, and cultures meet every day. This 6-day plan invites you to live on mission right where you are, developing holy curiosity, practical compassion, and active faith. You don’t need a passport to obey Jesus. You just need to open your eyes.

What does Jesus say about love, truth, righteousness, and more? We will examine His own words in the Sermon on the Mount. This is Part One of the eight-part "Jesus, I Want to Love You" series! These plans can be done in any order. See also "Jesus, I Want to Love You" (companion prayer) by Thistlebend.

Are we more in love with the idea of changing the world than actually changing it? Journey with One Day's Wages founder Eugene Cho and delve into the Biblical topics of social justice, compassion, and true sacrifice. This reading plan is taken from Eugene's challenging yet uplifting book Overrated.

The parents of Jon and Tim Foreman of Switchfoot rethink the process of raising kids, inspiring creative character in a culture of self-centered mediocrity.

It's through our RIDICULOUS attention to everything Jesus said and did that we discover the truth about God, and the truth about ourselves. We learn everything about God we need to know by slowing WAY down to consider WHAT Jesus actually said and did, WHO He said and did it to, and WHAT the impact of His words and actions had on people. When we let our pursuit of Jesus guide our understanding of God and His story, we are transformed by what we discover.

Taking a look at the evidence that supports the existence of Jesus as the Messiah using Biblical references and clips from God’s Not Dead 2, the film. Always be able to give an answer for what you believe. This study will aid you in learning the factual support of Biblical truths and encourage you to live out that truth in your life.

This 7-Day devotional plan helps you take hold of God’s call in your life. Find and fulfill your calling as you establish your identity as someone known, loved, and called by God. Readings are drawn from the book Know Your Why by Ken Costa.

Much of what Jesus taught and stood for clashes with popular politically correct notions that want to redefine and reinterpret the person and teachings of Jesus—and ultimately the Christian faith—so that neither step on anyone’s sensitivities. Jesus, however, calls us to be salt and light, not chameleons. If we are Christ’s representatives, changing colors may allow us to blend in, but it will be at the expense of our integrity and Jesus’ admonition for us to follow his words, which are life. We need to grasp hold of a faith that is THE center of our lives and meets us in the trenches of life. That faith acts as a filter for what we experience daily—in media, entertainment, politics, relationships, and yes, even in the church. The Politically Incorrect Jesus addresses issues and ideologies in our current cultural climate, juxtaposed with the clear teachings of Jesus, so readers can embrace being who God designed them to be—men and women of counterculture faith, making a difference in a counterfeit world.

In 2015, accomplished recording artist, songwriter, and performer Plumb, aka Tiffany Lee, released her first ever worship album. In this 7-day devotional, in partnership with The Overflow Christian Music Streaming Service, Plumb directs us to the scriptural application and her personal experience behind 7 songs from the album "Exhale."

In our uncertain, complex workplaces, teams and people are desperately looking for direction, awareness and clarity to be productive and grow, this 7 day devotional will help you gain insights from Jesus’ life on how he developed his chosen 12, making them one of the best teams and individuals who created a greater, lasting impact through their lives.

In a world where we are made to feel less than perfect because of our age, size, income, or possessions, Pastor Bobby Schuller reminds us of what is truly important: we are loved by God. With his powerful creed, Bobby wants readers to believe that their worth is not measured by anything here on earth, but in how our powerful God feels about them.

We’re all chasing something. Usually something just out of reach—a better job, a more comfortable home, a perfect family, the approval of others. But isn’t this tiring? Is there a better way? Find out in this new Life.Church Bible Plan, accompanying Pastor Craig Groeschel’s message series, Chasing Carrots.

Three times in I Samuel, Jonathan said to his young armor bearer, "Come, Let's Go!" Three times in Revelation 22 Jesus said, "I'm coming soon!" It's been more than 2,000 years since Jesus made this promise. Jesus gave the church a simple job to do. It's called the Great Commission. So church, why hasn't Jesus COME back yet? We need discipleship in evangelism! COME, LET'S GO!

In the world that we live in, things are not as they should be. One might even say they are upside down. However, the good news is that Jesus came to turn this world right side up. What if our eyes were opened to the REALITY that the Kingdom of Heaven is in fact here?

Reading the news can be discouraging—even demoralizing. Unfortunately, we cannot convict a single sinner of a single sin or change even one person, much less our culture. But God can. To join him, we must submit our lives to the only power that can change the culture. When Jesus said, "Blessed are . . . " to launch the Beatitudes, he invited us to precisely such an empowered, transformative life.