Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to John 1:11

What beliefs make up the foundation of the Christian faith? How do these beliefs shape and transform people's lives? In this five-day devotional, we'll explore who God is, what God is like, the person and work of Jesus, the person and work of the Holy Spirit, and learn about the Trinity.

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.

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.

Need more of God's grace, favor, and blessing? Then pray these five simple prayers of humility, asking the Lord to favor you and help you. He will answer your prayer; He gives grace to the humble! And if you humble yourself before the Lord, He will lift you up.

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.

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.

By mid-December, many already hate Christmas. We are tired of the carols and the parties, and our tree is starting to die. There are a lot of reasons that people hate Christmas. But, what if all of the hatred is because what we hoped for isn’t reality? This year, set aside the hate and come expecting something new as we dive into Advent themes of the season.

Would you like to welcome this Christmas with something special? Read this special Christmas devotional from Our Daily Bread for 5 consecutive days, entitled O' Holy Night. May this reading help prepare your heart to experience the true meaning of Christmas, which is far greater than just a beautiful event on a holy night.

Join this 5-day reading plan from Melissa Spoelstra to find encouragement to slow down and linger with the living Word. You’ll appreciate the pace of the Savior, who never hurried but completed all the Father called Him to accomplish. You’ll be challenged to take on the posture of a learner—understanding that the peace Jesus offers is not an ease of circumstances but a stillness of the soul.

The Bible is full of wonderful, inspiring, and sometimes hard-to-believe words describing your identity in Christ. God calls you a masterpiece, overcomer, new creation, and accepted child of God. It can be easy to let doubt, shame, and lies cause you to forget these things. If you want to overcome negative labels, discover your identity in Christ, and embrace God’s love, this Plan is for you.

If you’re disillusioned with church, hunger for more than dry religion, or simply want to draw closer to Jesus, this plan is for you. Growing up a pastor's kid, Emily Wierenga battled anorexia. Longing to encounter Jesus, she unexpectedly found Him while traveling in Africa. She now offers Him to you. Pull up a chair at the table. Taste and eat this God who became bread. You’ll never hunger again.

Church hurt refers to pain or abuse in the church context. Experiencing hurt within the church sounds like the total opposite of what the church should be about, right? Well, I understand the pain. I lived it for so long. But God redeemed my story. In this devotional, I walk you through the process of beginning your healing journey in the church.

Throughout the Bible, we see God's heart for the orphan, as well as the significance of family. This reading plan highlights passages showing how God designed families to nurture love, faith, and belonging. As we study these Scriptures, we'll explore His plan for all children and the call to reflect His love by ensuring every child experiences the warmth and security of a family. Each day ends with a prayer for orphaned children and encouragement to act with compassion.

Do you feel so busy that you barely have enough time to breathe? You are not alone. The 5-5-5 Method is a simple and practical method that eliminates the excuse that you’re too busy to spend time with God; because even the wealthiest, most influential, time-consumed individuals still have 15 minutes of spare time each day to prioritize what they love. And so do you. Do you love Jesus enough to spend 15 minutes of your day with Him? Click "Start Plan" now and learn how to spend time with God daily!

In the busy holiday season, it’s easy to feel like something is missing. Inspired by the short film "Have You Any Room?", this 5-day plan invites you to slow down and think about what really matters. Through simple devotionals and Bible verses, discover what it means to make space for Jesus, even in a crowded life. This isn’t about doing more but finding peace and purpose in the middle of everything. Join us to rediscover the heart of Christmas.

We all know how easy it is to get swept up in Christmas planning, shopping, decorating, and countless gatherings. These things are exciting and festive, but they can sometimes pull us away from what Christmas is truly about—the arrival of Emmanuel, “God with us.” The Good News is that, in a world filled with so much uncertainty, He is our Hope. He is our Love. He is our Peace, our Joy, our Light. This is the gift of Christmas, for each and every one of us.

God is complex. We cannot fully understand Him. He is also relational and has been revealing Himself to mankind since the beginning of time. Jesus was not created but was with God from the beginning. Why did Jesus come to earth? Where is the peace His birth was supposed to bring? Some answers to these questions are found in this five-day Bible study.

Find space to reckon with your grief during the most joyous time of the year. With prayer and spiritual practices from Stephanie Duncan Smith, author of Even After Everything and creator of Slant Letter, this devotional invites you to openly acknowledge your loss, reckon with the dissonance of the season, and encounter God’s empathy in the fullness of your honest emotions.

Waiting is a fundamental part of the human journey, marked by tension between hope and uncertainty. In this devotional, we will walk alongside Abraham, a man who walked through his own long season of waiting to see God’s promises fulfilled. Through his story, we’ll discover what to expect and how to grow as we navigate our own seasons of waiting on God’s promises. And ultimately, we'll see how Jesus himself—the true offspring of Abraham—brings deeper meaning to our waiting, standing as the final fulfillment of God's promises to all who follow in Abraham’s footsteps of faith.

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.

Have you ever felt empty? Like you have nothing left to give? What if it is at our lowest that Jesus meets us and fills us? When we come to the end of ourselves, there is someone greater to lean on. In this five-day devotional, Marlena Graves guides us in humbling ourselves and submitting our wills to God by pointing us to the best teacher there is, Jesus.

In the quiet, tender spaces of motherhood and missionary life, worship became more than a song—it became survival. From her home in South Africa, missionary Kacy Ladd shares heartfelt stories of waiting, wrestling, and whispered prayers in the midnight hours—especially while parenting her autistic son. Through tears and worship, she discovered God’s nearness in the hardest places. This devotional is a gentle invitation from one mama to another: come find Jesus in your own wilderness. He sees you, He loves you, and even here—especially here—He is near and worthy of your worship.

The creators of the popular Girls Gone Bible podcast have written this devotional to encourage and strengthen you in your seasons of struggle. It will remind you that God is still present and working in your life, even when you can’t see or understand his plans.

John, the last of the living apostles, wrote a story about Jesus near the end of his life. It’s his testimony of who Jesus is, what he said, what he did, and who he claimed to be. Jesus has a story. He invites us to make it our story. When we make Jesus’s story our story, we have life in his name. As part of an ongoing series through the book of John, this plan focuses on John Chapter 11.

Near the end of his life, John was the last of the living apostles and wrote a story about Jesus. It’s his testimony of who Jesus is, what he said, what he did, and who he claimed to be. Jesus has a story. He invites us to make it our story. When we make Jesus’s story our story, we have life in his name. This plan focuses on Jesus predicting his death in John 12. It is part of an ongoing series through John.