Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 5:14

Sharing Jesus with the kids of your church is a rich, rewarding experience—but it comes with challenges, too. This Bible Plan is here to support and encourage your journey in kids’ ministry so you can lead from a place of overflow. You’ll develop foundational mindsets and learn practical approaches for effective, sustainable ministry—all modeled after the life of Jesus.

Mountains are one of God’s favorite places to meet with his people. From the Mount of Creation in Genesis 1 to the Mount of the Great Commission in Matthew 28, mountains regularly serve as holy ground for connecting with God. During this plan, Bible teacher and author Kat Armstrong guides readers through five mountaintop Bible stories. Watch as God reveals His character and invites His children to enjoy His presence.

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.

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.

Are you overwhelmed by the rampant godlessness sweeping across the cultural landscape? Are you disillusioned that the vitriolic voices in controversial debates are sometimes those of Christians? Berni Dymet explores the increase of persecution, understanding our enemy, what to do when our freedom is threatened, how to speak the truth in love, and what it looks like for us to really shine the light of Christ in a dark world.

Identity, value, and purpose are three critical aspects of our faith journey and are vital to becoming all God has called us to be. This Bible plan helps encourage readers to look to Jesus to recognize their identity in Christ, understand their value to Him, and discover their purpose in life.

The "Revival: Awakening A Generation for God" devotional invites believers on a transformative journey of spiritual renewal and awakening. Through prayer, scripture reflection, and practical application, participants explore the layers of revival—from personal renewal to societal transformation—drawing inspiration from Biblical narratives and timeless truths.

Do you sense the call to write and publish a book? Jesus said that you are the light of the world, and He has created you to shine. When we write from our unity with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we write with authority. This Bible reading plan will help you discover that you are a unique expression of the Father's heart.

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 series of 5-day plans uses the Lord’s Prayer to show how Jesus invites us to approach life and the future.

Feeling overwhelmed or bogged down? Too busy—or just plain tired? Written with the daily grind in mind, these five devotionals will remind you of the one true constant in an ever-changing world: The hope, rest, and abundant grace we have in Christ.

Over the next few days, we will discover together how God wants to move in our hearts, families, churches, and workplaces. Maybe one of these areas seems more significant to your current season, and you need God to move and break through in a major way. This plan will help us discover and remember that God is able and willing to do more.

To know that we are accepted is a human need. Understanding how God accepts and loves us completely transforms who we are. In this devotional from the Yellow Balloons team, we will be able to learn more about the acceptance we have from our Father and how to share it with those who still do not know Him.

How do we live as Overcomers here on earth? In Matt Chandler’s book The Overcomers, he walks us through the book of Revelation as we examine what it means to be a uniquely created child living out His purposes here and now. As we explore Revelation, we’ll be convicted and encouraged to live as we are meant to live—as Overcomers sharing the gospel for His kingdom.

Helping others explore, respond, and grow. Jesus tells us in the Great Commission that we are to go and make disciples of all nations. But how does a follower of Jesus make disciples? This reading plan gives a biblical framework for how believers teach others to obey everything Jesus commanded, both in their personal walk with Him and with a community of believers.

Perhaps the most famous speech ever given, this relatively small collection has shaped the lives of billions, and in many ways created the world we see around us today. Together we'll look at how Jesus' Sermon can be used as a blueprint for us to live our lives to its absolute fullest.

Do you long to see the miracles that surrounded Jesus’ ministry and that of the disciples in the early church? Let this devotional encourage you! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His miracles are proof of His love. This devotional plan is based on Dr. T. L. Osborn’s book Miracles: Proof of God’s Love.

Onan sought pleasure without generating children for his brother, disobeying God. Jesus, our elder brother, calls us to generate spiritual children, not just for our personal satisfaction. This five-day devotional will guide you to reflect on how to fulfill this call with faithfulness.

This plan is designed to help you be bold in your faith wherever you go. God has called us to be a light of hope to the world!

This 5-day devotional reveals God’s perfect design for girls as you embody true beauty, brains, brawn, and brilliance. It helps you discover your beauty from the inside out, create a powerful mindset, become more capable and courageous, and shine the light of Christ. You will learn to take control of your thoughts, put an end to self-defeating negativity, overcome everyday pressures to fit in, and find your purpose and passion.

Preparing parents to faithfully send their children into college and to emerge into adulthood thriving in their faith and thriving in healthy relationships with their parents and family of origin.

Jesus embodied servant leadership, humbly serving others and sacrificing Himself for the greater good, as should we, His followers. The biggest faith-movie franchise returns with an exceptionally relevant look at the challenges involved when private citizens feel called to stand up in the political arena. God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust addresses issues such as freedom, separation of church and state, and citizen responsibilities.

Acts is a call to be a part of a new community living out a new way of life through God’s 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.

Don’t lose the true meaning of Christmas in the holiday hustle. Take 5 days to refocus and center your heart on the peace, love, and joy of the season!

“BRING” is the third & final guideword in our 3-part series for living as a Kingdom-building Christian. Mostly, your Christian life will consist of being a good example (“NICER”) and loving others (“BLESS”), yet we are instructed in the Bible always to be ready to explain the hope that we have. In this reading plan, we look at when and how to share the gospel's good news to help build God's Kingdom here on earth, easily and without fear. Be blessed as you read this plan to equip yourself.