Broken Cisterns

Technology is everywhere—it shapes how we connect, work, rest, and even see ourselves. Sometimes, it helps us thrive. Other times, it leaves us anxious, distracted, or distant from what matters most. This study is designed for anyone seeking a healthier relationship with technology. Through Bible stories, you’ll see how God has always spoken into the ways people use tools and innovation and discover how to make your digital life one that draws you closer to God and others.

Technology in the Bible: Ancient Stories to Help Us Follow God in a Digital World

What if gratitude could change the way you see your whole life? It’s easy to focus on what’s missing. But if you slow down and reflect on what God has given you, you’ll find there are countless things to be thankful for. This five-day devotional will help you pause, look back on God’s faithfulness, and discover the joy of giving thanks in every season.

Living Thankful, Living Sober

If you feel the pressure to appear perfect or to hide your true self, this plan is for you. If you are an addict or love someone with a substance use disorder, know that there is hope. Through God’s word, you’ll discover how to recognize the masks you wear and what it means to let God into the places you’ve tried to keep hidden. Freedom is possible.

Removing the Mask: Finding Freedom in Christ

Grief doesn’t only follow death. It can come when addiction changes someone you love. If you find yourself mourning who they used to be or the future you imagined together, know that you are not alone and that there is hope. 

In this six-day plan, you’ll find honest stories, biblical encouragement, and hope for your own healing. God brings peace when all you see is chaos. 

Loving an Addict & Living With Grief

You can lose everything—your family, your freedom, your future—and still not be beyond the reach of God’s love. Still His Son isn’t about perfect lives or easy faith. It’s about men who ran hard, fell far, and discovered that even in their worst moments, God never stopped calling them “son.” These stories aren’t fairy tales—they’re soaked in grit, grace, and the kind of redemption only Jesus can bring.


Still His Son: Lost, Found, and Forever Changed by God’s Love

Most of life’s battles are won or lost in the mind. So how do we start winning more of those battles? In this 7-day Bible Plan from Life.Church Pastor Craig Groeschel’s book, we’ll discover how to fight toxic thoughts, overcome out-of-control thinking, and start winning the war in our minds using God’s truth as our battle plan.

Winning the War in Your Mind

The rich young ruler walked away sad because he couldn't give up his wealth. Today, we're walking away from God's best because we can't give up our screens. Discover how your attention has become your scarcest resource and learn biblical principles to protect what matters most from digital distraction and exploitation.

Why You Check Your Phone 96 Times a Day—and the Biblical System That Breaks the Cycle

Some moments change everything. A phone rings. A door slams. Words are spoken that can’t be taken back. Suddenly, the life you were holding onto begins to slip through your hands.

You start to pull away, not because you’ve stopped believing, but because you don’t know how to pray from a place like this. It hurts. It’s messy. It’s not what you pictured.

God hasn’t gone anywhere. He isn’t asking you to be fine or to have the right words. He’s just waiting for you to let Him in.

Letting God in When Life Falls Apart

Come get your masculine heart back. A six-session film series features the teaching of John Eldredge and the stories of men pursuing their warrior hearts through God’s invitation of battle, adventure, and beauty. This is a great Plan to do together with the guys in your life. Based on the bestselling book "Wild At Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul." 

Video Study | Wild at Heart Experience With John Eldredge

This devotional is for believers who desire to have their minds cleansed and refocused on Christ. If you struggle with impure thoughts, pornography, or lust, this devotional will help you replace those mental images with Christ-centered ones and develop new habits in your thinking. Let Jesus free you as you cultivate purity one thought at a time. 
Part 2 of the Purify Your Mind Series by Joe Kirby. 

Purify Your Mind Series (Part 2) by Joe Kirby

Susan Binkley is the founder of Blue Monarch, a long-term residential recovery program for women and their children. As a child, she avoided eye contact with God so he wouldn’t send her to Africa as a missionary. However, he found her anyway and her incredible journey of Blue Monarch began, strengthening her faith, and teaching her aspects and nuances of God’s personality she never knew.

Making Eye Contact With God - Discovering God's Personality

Losing a loved one to addiction brings a range of emotions, from shame to regret to agonizing sorrow. This plan will help you process your grief and move forward on the journey of healing and restoration. (Plan written and developed by Kris Darrah and Amy LaRue of Hope After Loss, a ministry of Hope is Alive.)

Hope After Loss - Leaning on God After Losing a Loved One to Addiction

The Shift: Part 4 - Deliverance from Spiritual Ties
Spiritual ties—whether from sin, unhealthy relationships, or generational patterns—can hold us back from living in the freedom Christ offers. This plan will help you identify and break these ties through the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. The Shift: From Bondage to Breakthrough is a 5-part devotional series created for believers ready to disconnect from the world’s noise and fully embrace the life God designed for them.


The Shift: Part 4

We all struggle with controlling our thoughts and making them honorable and glorifying to God. In this six-day reading plan, based on Louie Giglio’s book, Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table, you’ll learn how to take authority over your thoughts and emotions—through the power God has given us the power, through Jesus Christ, to defeat the Enemy.

Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: Win the Battle of Your Mind

What happens when fear doesn’t get the final say?

Hope to Be Fearless is a five-day reading plan that takes you on a journey from the root of fear to the unshakable hope we find in God's presence. Through powerful Scripture, honest reflection, and heartfelt prayer, this plan helps you uncover the deeper doubts behind your fears and understand how God's truth gives you the strength to overcome them.

Hope to Be Fearless

When we’re held in the grip of addiction, it can be difficult to see a way out. But with God’s help and strength, we can break out of the chains and find new freedom with Him. Read this 30-day reading plan from UCB to face the 'giant' of addiction with the help of God's Word.

Facing the Giant of Addiction

This plan is all about finding hope in the mess and leaning into God’s strength when you feel like you don’t have any left. If you’ve ever felt like your past disqualifies you or your struggles are too big to overcome, this is for you. You’re not alone. And with God, your hardest moments can actually become your strongest ones.

Together, let’s learn, grow, and conquer by leaning on God. 

Forged by Fire

Dear Mama,
You think you’re alone. You look at your kids and wonder how they can even look you in the eyes after everything you’ve done. Shame clings like your shadow, and you can’t help but ask: Could God really still use someone like me?

You’re the mama who’s been through it—addiction, recovery, relapse, regret.

Begin each day with a letter straight to your heart: Dear Mama.
Through seven raw and real stories of women who met Jesus in their darkest places, you’ll discover this unshakable truth: God’s not done with your story. Not even close.

Dear Mama: God’s Not Done With Your Story

What happens when you feel like you’ve done everything right, but things go completely wrong? Kris Darrah and her husband Mike did all they could to raise their four kids in a loving Christian home. But when the grip of mental illness and addiction overtook their oldest daughter, Lexi, Kris soon realized that life doesn’t always go the way we hope and plan. Her story is a testament to the fact that hope can be restored when we lean on our loving and sovereign Savior.

Losing Lexi: One Mother's Story of Grace in the Midst of Addiction and Loss

Did you know that gratitude--giving thanks, praise, and worship--can change your life? We get stuck in negative thoughts, ruminations, and how things aren't going our way. But there is a better way: we can learn to practice daily gratitude to change our thoughts which will change our lives. This 5-day plan will walk you through how gratitude can be a GAME CHANGER! 

Gratitude: The Game Changer

What You Call Your Emptiness reveals the most revolutionary truth about the ache in your heart: it's not a problem to fix but sacred space where God chooses to dwell. This 10-day devotional journey through biblical stories—from Adam's missing rib to Christ's empty tomb—transforms your understanding of emptiness from enemy to invitation. Discover why your deepest void isn't evidence of God's absence, but proof of your heart's divine design for eternal intimacy.

What You Call Your Emptiness

You don’t have to fix yourself before coming back to God—you just have to turn around. Coming Home is a 7-day devotional for those who feel distant, disqualified, or ready to return. Through honest storytelling, biblical parallels, and rooted scripture, this plan invites you into a relationship, not religion. Whether you've faced addiction, shame, or the pressure to control it all, you'll discover that grace still reaches for you. Each day includes a devotional, takeaway, prayer, and journal prompt—guiding you to walk in healing, wholeness, and the joy of being fully known and deeply loved by God.

Coming Home - a Devotional for the Prodigal Heart

In this devotional, I will share why I chose social media as a form of fasting and four ways God revealed that it had become a distraction. As fasting from food serves to cleanse the body of its impurities, a fast from social media will help you return to the Lord, change your habits, and redirect your impulses to healthier choices.

Fasting From Social Media

Jesus is not dead--He is risen! The ultimate hope of Christianity lies in the resurrection; here are readings reflecting on that hope and welcoming the resurrection into our everyday lives.

Risen: Readings for Easter

Addiction

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, ill-equipped, and just plain lost when it comes to God's Word. My aim is to simplify the process of Bible Study for you in a few ways by teaching you three of the most important principles of successful Bible Study. Join this plan and discover how to read the Bible not just for information, but for life transformation today!

How To Study The Bible (Foundations)

Now that you are a Christian, you may be asking questions. What just happened? How do I learn more about God? If you will plan to spend at least five or ten minutes a day alone with God reading this short Bible study, you will learn a lot about God and what has just happened in your life.

The Pursuit: Chasing After Your New Life in Christ

Do you struggle with prayer? This study will help you turn your prayer life from obligation to a delight so that it becomes so much more meaningful and joyful. Join Rob White on this exciting new discovery as you journey into prayer.

Teach Us To Pray

Over the course of five days, read through the first chapter of the book of James and follow along with video instruction from Jen Wilkin, author of "Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds," as she walks through six helpful ways to study the Bible and let it, as she says, “get under your skin.” 

How to Study the Bible: A 5-Day Plan with Jen Wilkin

Every day, we make choices that shape our life story. What would your life look like if you became an expert at making those choices? In the Divine Direction Bible Plan, New York Times bestselling author and Senior Pastor of Life.Church, Craig Groeschel, encourages you with seven principles from his Divine Direction book to help you find God’s wisdom for your daily decisions. Discover the spiritual direction you need to live a God-honoring story you’ll love to tell.

Divine Direction

What is the most meaningful pursuit in your life?  In this reading plan from Joshua Becker’s bestselling book, The More of Less, we explore 6 questions to help us find our most meaningful pursuit.

Finding Your Meaningful Pursuit

Would you say you’re good at sharing your faith with your friends? It can be a scary thing to do. If you want to gain courage in sharing your faith and learn how to do it without coming across as weird, then this Bible Plan’s for you.

How To Share Your Faith

Ok, we know how weird it is to try to give you reasons to read the Bible... that are actually in the Bible. That's why we created this plan; an opportunity to honestly look at what the Bible says and wonder why it says it.

Why Read the Bible?

Ever wonder what the big idea of a chapter of the Bible is, or how it fits into the Bible? Want an overview, but are a little short on time? How about 90 seconds? Join us as Through the Word explains the opening chapters of Genesis - in 90 seconds.

The Bible Explained In 90 Seconds | Genesis 1-11

This reading plan will provide an overview of the key historical events that are told about in the Bible. All of the Bible was written in the midst of real people’s lives in specific time periods. Understanding these events will help Bible readers understand all of the Bible better.



Key Events: Key Historical Events Of The Bible

The concept of being one with Jesus is spiritual and it is mysterious. Yet once it’s embraced, nothing is more practical for enjoying the Christian life. Discover how union with Christ is not only possible, but it is possible now.

Union With Christ

Are you feeling stuck in life? You have a deep faith—but you also have deep feelings of inferiority and insecurity. I’ve been there. And I’ve discovered the joy of moving from  knowing  truth to  believing  it and  living  it out with boldness. I hope this week-long devotional gives you a taste of what it looks like to step out in faith with confidence and take hold of the life you were made to live!

Take Hold Of The Faith You Long For

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. 

Evidence

New to reading the Bible? Want to know what the Bible says it takes to get into Heaven? The answer may surprise you. Want to know what is true of YOU once you’ve trusted in Jesus Christ? Learn these truths and much more! Take the challenge and read a few verses of God’s Word everyday for 30 days!

Essential Scripture For 30 Days

In this plan passages supporting the basic beliefs of Christianity are read. There are five readings per belief. If weekends are used for reflection, the plan will require 90 days. Notes are also included to assist with understanding.

Key Beliefs: Supporting Basic Beliefs

The Gospel is the most amazing, life-changing, world-altering news! Jesus paid the ultimate price to welcome believers into a living, breathing, real relationship with God! The Bible makes it clear that one of our first priorities should be sharing God’s incredible Gospel message with others. Pastor Bayless Conley shares five ways you can make God’s Good News known to those in your world.

The Five P's Of Evangelism

Are you looking for more out of life? Wanting more is really a longing to return to God—wherever your relationship with God is now. We all experience mile markers—or awakenings—as we find our way back to God. Journey through each of these awakenings and close the distance between where you are now and where you want to be. We want to find God, he wants even more to be found.

Finding Your Way Back To God

I often meet people who say: “I believe in God, but the church…? That’s not for me.” Sometimes, I recognize that myself too. Yet the question remains: can faith exist apart from community, or are we stronger together?

This reading plan is a letter to you. Not to convince you, but to invite you on a journey. Together we’ll explore whether the church, with all its flaws, could still be a home for you.

Dear Church Wanderer,

“This Christmas season let’s remember that God’s promises are not like ours – fragile and sometimes forgotten – but are firm, fulfilled and forever. In every wrapped gift, flickering Christmas tree light and sung carol, may we see a reflection of the ultimate gift: Jesus, the righteous branch – our everlasting hope.” (The Promise of a Righteous Branch – Robbie Parkin)

Advent

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Jesus offers something different: true rest for your soul. In this 8-day plan, you’ll discover—phrase by phrase—how his words in Matthew 11 are an invitation to lay down your burdens, walk by his side, and learn the unforced rhythms of grace. Live close to him and experience the light, transforming freedom only Christ can give.

Rest for the Soul: 8 Days With Jesus

Compared to eternity, life on earth is but a short time.  The world is home to an estimated 722,000 centenarians (age 100), according to the United Nations’ population projections for 2024. That is, .02 to .03% of the world’s population.  Whether we die young or live to be old, what we do in between will matter.  Living here is boot camp training to qualify for heaven!

Earth Is Heaven's Bootcamp

Before the Bible was bound, the truth was written. "Oracles of God: The Story of the New Testament" is a 7-day devotional journey through Scripture’s divine origins, fulfillment in Christ, and faithful preservation through time. Discover how God’s Word was spoken, recorded, and passed down from generation to generation so that you might know His truth today. Each day explores the living power of the Word and how it continues to transform hearts.

Let this devotional strengthen your faith and deepen your confidence in the reliability, authority, and eternal endurance of God’s Word.

Oracles of God: The Story of the New Testament

Skate Church Movement is a collaborative initiative with the mission to create resources that inspire new leaders within the skate community. Adapted from the 52-week Skate Church Movement Devotional, this plan was written by skaters, for skaters. 

With over 10,000 skateparks worldwide, this harvest is plentiful. 

We hope to equip individuals to combine their passion for skateboarding with their love for Jesus to impact the world through action sports. 


Evangelism | a 4-Day Skate Church Movement Devotional

Every encounter with Jesus has the power to transform not only what we do, but who we are. Through this 7-day devotional you’ll walk through biblical stories where ordinary men and women crossed paths with the Savior and were never the same. From forgiveness and restoration to calling and mission, you’ll discover that Jesus is still meeting us today—to heal us, raise us up, and send us.

Encounters With Jesus That Change Our Lives

Jesus is loved by many but often misunderstood. Some embrace his compassion while ignoring his call to holiness, while others cling to truth but forget his grace. In this 5-day plan, we’ll explore why following Jesus is controversial and how his teaching on hell, salvation, identity, and grace confronts our culture and transforms our lives. The real Jesus is full of both grace and truth, and he invites us to trust him, follow him, and find life in him alone.

Controversial Jesus

New to Faith

If we were created in the image of the ultimate servant, then why do we find it so hard to serve? It’s because our fleshly, sinful nature is selfish. It’s easy to constantly think about ourselves, what we want, and how we are going to attain pleasure. Even as a Christian, it’s a struggle to not be subconsciously self-focused at all times. Click "Start Plan" now and learn how to be like the Suffering Servant, the Lord and Savior — Jesus Christ!

Servant of All!

What comes to mind when it comes to work? The diligent loves to hear it, but the lazy doesn’t. No matter the opinions and style of approach people use concerning work, God’s Word about this area of life remains sure. Delve deeper into this plan about what God’s Word say about thriving at work today.

Thriving at Work

Jesus paid the ultimate price for our salvation, but many believers forget the immense blessings that come with that salvation. The Bible tells us over and over that we are healed by His stripes, but have you experienced His healing for yourself? In this 4-day video and reading plan, Denise Renner discusses this topic in-depth with the prayer that you will grow closer to knowing Jesus as your personal Healer.


Jesus Is Your Healer

These meditations were inspired by the book "The Power of Rest: 8 Lessons for Work and the Good Life."

The book "The Power of Rest" guides you through rest as a lifestyle, with insights from science, nature, and life lessons from inspirations worldwide. Many of these lessons are rooted in the Bible. 

The Power of Resting Well

 The STRENGTH approach to Christian Wellness places Christ at the center of our mind, will, and emotions. God’s Word is the lens through which we view our world, our relationships, and our bodies.

In this eight-day plan, I hope to present the STRENTH approach to you and walk with you to get you out of the senseless cycle of feeling dejected and like a failure because health changes are so intimidating.

The Strength Approach to Christian Wellness

Pulling back the curtain to see the connection between film and faith. Reel Dialogue is a creative dialogue between the Christian faith and entertainment culture. (Yes, even sports films!) We provide film reviews, downloadable discussion guides, resources and events. Let's get the dialogue started on film. These conversation starters will help you start faith discussions with friends through the beauty of film.

Sport Films + Faith: How Does God Speak Through These Movies?

A common topic for men these days is men's physical and mental health, and how they impact our spiritual health. We live in a world that seems far more open to this conversation than in generations past. This week, as we look at stories of the men of the Bible and examine Scripture's teaching on physical and mental health, we will be able to discern God’s truth and grow in our spiritual health as well. Written by Brad Klassen.

Built to Last

Each of us is broken in one way or another. The pain of feeling unloved, unseen, or forgotten causes us to doubt God and ourselves, but God chooses us, heals us, and works through us in our brokenness. He is our hope for a broken world. 

Broken Still Chosen

Jacob Coyne, founder of Stay Here, infuses life into the dark corners of mental health. Giving hurting souls a reason to live, he shows not only how Jesus brings life to the full, but also how anyone—regardless of their past or pain—can find healing.


Stay Here: God's Plan to Restore Your Mental Health

Are you ready to increase your health in every area of your life? Join us for this 35-day study as a part of our 365-day “Living in Increase” plan to experience the fulfilled and abundant life God always intended for you.

Living in Increase (Part 9) - Increase in Health

Maybe you started out with lots of hope, but you or your loved one has been sick for a while, you feel weary, and your hope is hanging by a thread. I want to embolden you to believe God for your miracle. No matter your situation, no matter what doctors say or what you’ve read, there is always hope with God. He has all power. He can do the impossible! 

God Heals

Are you or someone you love walking through sickness right now? This 5-day devotional offers honest encouragement and real hope. You’ll discover how illness – whether it ends in healing or heaven – can draw you, and those around you, closer to God. Through Scripture, stories, and reflection, you'll discover that even in your illness, God is at work. Join us to find comfort, purpose, and renewed faith. You're not alone.

Sickness Can Draw You and Others Closer to God, if You Let It – Here’s How

Illness in retirement can feel discouraging — but it may be God's invitation to finish well. This 5-day devotional offers hope, comfort, and perspective for those facing sickness later in life. Through Scripture and real stories, you’ll discover how your suffering can draw you and others closer to God. Whether healing comes or not, your faith can leave a lasting legacy that changes lives long after you are gone.  

Retirement’s Final Challenge: Finish Well by Drawing Closer to God Even in Sickness

Seven days of meditations and prayers will comfort and encourage you as you seek God for healing and restoration. Woven throughout are compelling true stories—both biblical and modern—of God's healing power at work, leading you to discover God’s heart is to heal you, and He still heals today.

Jehovah-Rapha: The God Who Heals

If you are struggling with regrets, poor decisions, or need a do-over in your life, this plan is for you! Jesus wants to redeem every part of your life, from finances to relationships. Let the next five days fill you with hope and encouragement because you are REDEEMED!

I Am REDEEMED!

Do you feel like you have the desire to change, but not the power to change? In this 7-day Bible Plan, Life.Church Pastor Craig Groeschel will show you that it’s possible to start living the life you’ve been hoping for. Stop believing the lie that you’re stuck–because through God’s strength you have the power to change.

The Power to Change

Did you know that just as you have physical needs to live, you also have spiritual needs that you cannot ignore?

This 7-day devotional plan will help you rediscover what truly matters: being born again, decreasing so that Christ may increase, living about the Father’s business, understanding affliction, and surrendering in worship.


5 Spiritual Needs You Must Not Ignore

Nowadays, you don't have to be a believer to fast. There are therapeutic fasts, intermittent fasts, sweet fasts... The list could go on and on. This reading plan deals with fasting as a gift from God for us. Because through renunciation we can gain a new perspective on our lives and get to know God in a completely new way.

Experience Fasting in a New Way

Do you feel good about who you are? Do you believe God is pleased with the direction you’re headed? If not, it’s time to take back your life. How? Through the power of pre-decision. In this 9-day Bible Plan, Life.Church Pastor Craig Groeschel offers seven life-defining pre-decisions you can make today to set you up for the God-honoring life you want tomorrow.

Think Ahead: 7 Decisions You Can Make Today for the God-Honoring Life You Want Tomorrow

Do you ever wake up wondering where your healing is? Do you ever question if God has forgotten you in your pain? I am here to tell you He hasn’t. Not once has He forgotten you. This study explores the definition of healing and what it means for believers. We don’t get a free pass from pain and suffering because we are believers, rather it gives us the opportunity to use it for His Kingdom. While healing can be brutal and devastating it can also be beautiful and encouraging, if you allow it, our God will use you.

Healing: Embracing God in the Lowest Valleys

I was diagnosed with Essential Tremors, a disorder of the Central Nervous System years ago.  Tremors affected my head, hands, and voice which stopped my public speaking.  If you are battling a health issue, this plan is for you!  God wants you to know that He can work through you, even when the door you planned to walk through, closes!

Discover the New Door!

Worry is a thief of our time, energy, and peace. So why do we do it? In this 3-day devotional, we will look at worry, why we do it, and how we can stop.

Worry for Nothing

The Creator of the Universe rested and He didn’t need to. If we’ve chosen to follow Him then the wisest thing we can do is learn from Him. In this 5-day devotional, we’re going to look at the beauty of rest, reasons we should rest, and how we can rest.

Rest

Do you relate to words like anxiety, fear, mental unrest, or hostility? If so, there is hope for you in Christ and I pray this devotion will direct you to abide in the Prince of peace. This devotion is taken from my new book, "Abiding in the Prince of Peace," and I want to share some raw and transparent truth that can help you on your journey to mental victory. 

Abiding in the Prince of Peace | How to Win Your Mental War 

Our hearts are critical.  When our hearts stop working correctly, we stop working correctly. This is true with our spiritual hearts. If we don't realize the depravity, deception, and fleshly desires in our hearts, we will become spiritually sick. This 40-day journey is open-heart surgery on our spiritual hearts. Let's look from the Inside Out and attack the unhealthy places, so we can live the life God's planned for us! 

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