Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 5:16

The gospel is the power of God for salvation. It is not just a door into eternal life but the path we live our everyday life. The gospel changes how we think, speak, act and decide. The gospel frees us to worship God and gives us a sense of mission. This Bible plan along with a devotional reading helps us understand how the gospel shapes our life.

Is social media consuming your time and attention? Is this glorifying to God, or does something need to change with your relationship to social media? In this 5-day Bible Plan, you’ll discover Biblical insights to reclaim and sanctify your relationship with social media.

When a crisis happens in our world, it’s easy to question our faith, and it’s hard to replace the panic we face with the peace we’re promised as Jesus-followers. In this 5-day Bible Plan accompanying Pastor Craig Groeschel’s series, Not Afraid, we’ll discover three things we can do as Christians in the face of a crisis.

Read through God’s Word, within each devotional, and reflect through guided questions for both individual consideration or group discussion. We pray it encourages you to reframe your reality.

What are you afraid of? What’s wrong with being "one of them"? This 5-day Bible Plan is designed to inspire and encourage you to take your faith to a deeper level. To be 'one of them' is to accept the assignment to win souls and make disciples. These devotions will help you to stand bold in this broken world and declare that you are "One of Them"!

What if your struggles aren’t a barrier to thriving but an invitation into your most vibrant days? This 5-day reading plan, based on Jennie Lusko’s book, The Fight to Flourish, will explore how God uses both the pain and promise in life to grow you into the person He designed you to be. Discover how to live a life of joy and fullness.

Join Hillsong East Coast’s online experience and walk through this corresponding five day devotional. This plan is based on Dr. Dharius Daniels, recent message 'The Church Has Left the Building'. Dr. Daniels is the Lead Pastor of Change Church. In this walk through God’s Word, allow space for questions, reflection, and discussion. We pray this encourages you to represent Jesus’ heart for humanity in this time in history.

Did you know that friends can be dangerous for you? The Bible tells us to be careful with the companionships we allow in our lives. This devotional teaches believers how to recognize dangerous friends, how to remain friends with unbelievers, and how to build wise and godly friendships. This teaching will also tell married Christian couples what friendships can help them maintain a good marriage.

This 5-day plan will weave Scripture together with William Wilberforce’s own words to show how the redemptive work of Christ led Wilberforce to embrace his own vocation in politics as a means of ending slavery. As we will see modeled in the life of Wilberforce, the gospel changes everything about our work, from our motivations for work, to what we do, to how we work each day.

We all think we're pretty nice people, right? We just occasionally gossip, or snap at our spouse, or scream at our kids . . . I mean, if everyone else would get with the program, we wouldn't be this way! Join Nicole Phillips on a quest for kindness as she shares how to recognize negative thought patterns and show kindness towards others even when we don't feel like it.

How do you faithfully follow Jesus in a divided world? In a world where every issue has become a battle between “us” and “them,” it is more important than ever to remember that no matter what, Jesus is still on the throne. Learn how to respond to an increasingly divided world as a disciple of Jesus.

This video devotional plan was recorded in Israel. In this series see how Jesus is part of your everyday life.

Watch this video devotional to see how you can be a good neighbor to others the way God called you to be, despite the unrest and uncertainty in our world.

Over the next five days, author, and marketplace leader Staci Wallace will lead the charge as you learn how to turn the pressures of your life into supersonic power that the Holy Spirit can use to put you in places of influence so that your voice, your life, and your story can change the world.

This Little Light Is a 5-day devotional loosely based on the song of the same name. It focuses on the idea that every creative act is a light signaling to future generations the power of hope amidst the dark. Each day I will provide you with an opportunity for reflection along with a visual meditation from my own time reflecting on the advent season.

Work can be the sphere where we proclaim God's glory and where people see in our lives that we are letting God lead us. Work can be the place where we help people and are a light by what we do and how we do it. Sounds simple in theory, however the reality is often different. What can stop us from turning the workplace into a dynamic place of worship?

As Christians, we are called to live a life of service to our Saviour king, but what does that practically look like in a world where service can take so many different forms? This plan looks at just that – what does Christian service mean, and why are we called to a life of service?

Everyone has a deep desire to make a difference with their lives. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. In this 5-day devotional, Fellowship of Christian Athletes executive Jeff Martin reminds us how God uses ordinary people to change the world.

This video series takes a look at how you can determine truth in a post-truth world.

In this YouVersion plan, Dr. Dave Martin walks readers through the power of habits: how they influence the course of our lives, how they can be beneficial, which habits are good and bad, and our responsibility surrounding them! When we come to understand the importance of habits, we can more effectively utilize them to honor God in our lives!

Taking a look at what the Bible has to say about mental and emotional wellbeing and what Jesus shows us about living with wellbeing practices.

God has clarity and purpose for you today. Each two-minute biblical meditation will inspire you to focus on one word—from God’s Word—and live it out practically through the power of the Holy Spirit. Each day also includes a question for reflection, a prayer, a declaration of faith and a practical action step. You will find strength and direction when you discover one word for a Spirit-led day.

Nature nourishes us. It is amidst nature that we discover God’s role as our provider and pathmaker. This devotional, written by Gideon Heugh, was created to remind us that we have a standing invitation to enter into God’s presence and reconnect with Him through the beauty of His creation.

God calls us to shine our light in a world that’s full of darkness. As we live out each day, our lives need to shine to bring attention to the Saviour King who will bring healing, restoration, unity, peace and hope to a world desperate for it. They just need us to light the way.

What truly matters is loving God and loving others, but how do we do that effectively? The truth is, we can’t love people well in our own power. But when we look to God and lay ourselves down in humility, we can live from God’s authentic and powerful love. Learn more about growing in love in this 5-day Bible Plan from Pastor Amy Groeschel.