Relationships

One of the great tasks of life is building awesome relationships. God wants us to learn how to love, and the only way we can do that is when we’re sharing life with other people. 

Awesome Relationships

How can we learn to live like Jesus if we don’t first love like Him? Read along with Life.Church staff and spouses as they retell the experiences and Scriptures that inspire them to fully live and Love Like Jesus.

Love Like Jesus

Once you turn 18, it feels like you have to figure out your life. But what if you don’t? What if where you thought you’d be isn’t where you are now? You’re not alone. Let’s figure out life’s biggest questions together in in this 7-day Bible Plan by Collective, a study for young adults from Life.Church.

Collective: Finding Life Together

Jesus said in Matthew 10, "Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighbourhood and tell them that the Kingdom is here." What is the "neighbourhood?" People that we can impact in our everyday spaces and lives. What an incredible charge for us all! Let's read together how we can Love Thy Neighbour-hood.

Love Thy Neighbour – hood

Christ commanded that His disciples share the Gospel with the rest of the world. As believers, we are especially passionate about our loved ones coming to the saving grace of God. However, we do not always know how to share our faith with unbelieving relatives. Through prayer, wisdom and the Word of God, we can learn how to effectively share the Gospel with our family members and friends. 

How to Share My Faith With My Family and Friends

We’ve all dealt with conflict at some point in our lives. Why? Because we’re humans, and humans mess up! But, we don’t have to fear conflict. In fact, healthy conflict can lead to healthier relationships. Through this 5-day Plan, we’ll look at why conflict matters to God and how we can start getting it right with others. 

Getting It Right With Others

It's no secret that those who are closest to us can wound us the most profoundly. Reeling from betrayal, we build walls around our hearts to protect us from the heartache, yet these are the very walls that block us from seeing hope, receiving healing and feeling love. It's time to tear down your walls, work through your wounds, repair damaged relationships and discover the power of an open heart.

Love Like You've Never Been Hurt By Jentezen Franklin

So many today are struggling with loneliness, yet we were wired for friendships. God does not want us to do life alone on earth. This plan will share the friendships of Jesus. Make Jesus your best friend and trust Him to provide the friends that you need. 

Friendship 

In a world that is broken and lonely, how do we think about friendship? Through this series we will see that friendship is a great gift from God to his people. We will see that the Bible points people to Jesus and helps them grow in obedience to him. 

FRIENDSHIP.

A 15-day high school devotional designed to complement the teaching series “Real Friends” (available from Orange Students curriculum). In this devotional, you’ll find thoughts on what to look for in real friends and what it looks like to become a real friend. Because the right kind of friends—the real kind—are the best kind.

Real Friends

In a world that’s more connected than ever, it can be challenging to develop deep and lasting friendships that build us up and bring joy to our lives. This devotional series will share the biblical aspects of friendship and offer insight into how God guides these treasured relationships.



Friendships That Last

God made us to want and need deep friendships. But some friendships get easily tangled up in comparison and competition. Some friendships lack healthy boundaries. Some friendships need a tune-up. This six-day devotional will show you what is needed to have healthy, deep, and meaningful friendships. You will be encouraged in your existing friendships, and you will see what friendships may be more harmful than healthy. 

How To Have Healthy Friendships

Oftentimes we struggle to share the gospel with our friends. Either we are overcome with fear or don't know what to share. We all need a burden to reach our lost friends for Christ. This is a 21-day Bible reading plan that helps us meditate specifically on passages related to evangelism and is accompanied by a short prayer for each day for our friends. 

21-Days of Praying for Friends 

Bible teacher Kelly Needham debunks our world's constricted, small view of friendship and casts a richer, more life-giving, biblical vision for friendship as God meant it to be.

Friend-ish By Kelly Needham

If you struggle with friendship, you are not alone! The two things I hear most often from women who confide in me as a pastor’s wife is that they fear everyone is hanging out without them and they feel wounded by past relationships. Friendship is never simple but it can be extremely rewarding. Let’s look at this messy, beautiful thing called friendship and discover how we can enjoy it for the gift it is!

Messy Beautiful Friendship By Christine Hoover

God often works through the people we have in our lives. So, who are your friends? What kind of friend are you to others? This seven-day plan will show you the true nature of friendships and the blessing God provides through friendship.

Friendship

The Bible is full of verses that teach us how to be a good friend. This reading plan shows us what God says about friendship. These songs will encourage you to be a good friend the way that God is a friend to us! How can you show love to your friends today? Who are other people in your life that you can share God’s friendship with today?

How Can I Be A Good Friend?

Friendship is a gift and the foundation of great community. Jesus told His disciples He no longer called them servants, but His friends! This devotion was written to encourage you to make friends, value the friends you have, and celebrate the community God gave you. We hope you enjoy this 10-Day devotion, written by our friends and us. 


Friends R Us

For some kids, making friends is hard. A child might not know how to start a conversation, or how to join a group at play, or how to maintain friendships. Thankfully, the Bible is a friendship how-to. In this three-day plan you’ll meet Jose, a boy who’s feeling lonely at school. See how the Bible helps Jose learn how to make and keep new friends.

How To Make Friends At School

Scripture tells us that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be made for all people. The "Prayer Share for a Friend" reading plan is a specially crafted collection of short intercessory prayers designed for you to pray over and share with your friends. Bless and encourage someone today!

Prayer Share for a Friend

Friends can be fun, but they’re also an important way for your kids to learn about sharing  God’s love with others! Over the four days of this plan, you and your kids will do fun activities and have important conversations about how love shapes biblical friendships. Each day includes a prayer prompt, brief Scripture reading and explanation, hands-on activity, and discussion questions.

Teaching Your Kids Biblical Friendship

Friendship is something we all crave, but friendships can be difficult. This video series is all about how to make good friends. You will open up your Bible to passages about friendship and find out what you can do to make and become better friends. And most important, you'll be reminded that out of his love and grace, Jesus calls you his friend too. 

Friend Request: Devotions From Time Of Grace

Do younger women see you as a safe haven? This plan gives practical advice and encouragement for Christian women who want to develop deeper friendships with the younger women in their lives but don’t know where to start.

A Friend In Me

When our friends and loved ones are hurting we rarely know what to say or what to do.  In this reading plan you will hear first hand from a young man and how he and his wife thought and prayed through three of the most common clichés they heard in their time of crisis and how they responded to them.

Talking To Hurting Friends

Friendships

This 40-day reading plan is designed to help those in a relationship, those planning to get married, or those already married to get into the Word and understand the Biblical foundations of marriage. 

"Sexodus" Relationships Devotional

Marriage is a wonderful blessing from God, and in his Word he gives husbands and wives the tools that they need to learn to love and respect each other.

Home Sweet Home

Society has it’s own definition of what it means to love and what true love is. However, that definition and God’s definition are very different. This 7-day devotional is designed to take you on a journey through God’s love in both the Old and New Testaments. Each day, a definition of God’s love will be explained through scripture and then defined in everyday language.  Let's get started! Go to afterthemusicstops.org for the full length version of this plan. 



What is Love? God's View On Love And Relationships

“Love can’t be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other,” says Donald Miller. In this 7-day reading plan based on the book Scary Close, Don challenges our assumptions about what makes for good relationships and shares reflections from his own journey to “drop the act” and find true intimacy. 

Scary Close-Reflections For Finding True Intimacy

Have you ever ditched a friend for a guy? Found yourself jealous because that other girl gets all the dates? Maybe it's time to get lost- in God. Discover how to get so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find you. Dannah Gresh traces God's language of love through Scripture to help you seek love the way God designed it to be. 