Нақшаҳои хониши ройгон ва садоқатҳои марбут ба John 4:5

Being human is hard. Being in relationships with other humans is even harder. Whether navigating political or religious differences, dealing with toxic people or our own unforgiveness, how do we handle the struggles no one really wants to talk about? Come Sit with Me will show how you can grow closer to God and others through the circumstances you’d rather run from. Discover the hope and freedom that comes when you learn to delight in your differences, love through your disagreements, and even live with discomfort.

Do you know the feeling of shame? God has some important things to say to our feelings of unworthiness, rejection, and disgrace! The Gospel addresses this shame and promises God can gift us honour! In this 7-day devotional reading plan from Compassion Canada, you will learn how God’s honour transformed not only people in the Bible but also people's lives today! These are real photos and stories; names have been changed.

A seven-day plan that addresses the deep disappointment that can occur after receiving a negative diagnosis for your child. Drawing from her own experience with receiving a complex epilepsy diagnosis for her daughter Jane, Hilary Harris teaches about the ability to be honest with the Lord about your disappointment, how others in the Bible handled disappointment, and the hope we can look forward to TODAY and in eternity because of Jesus.

Feeling like a stranger can be a barrier to hearing the good news about Jesus. Do you have friends and family who won’t visit church? Do you want to share the good news with someone who doesn’t know any Christians? Do you want help connecting with someone from another culture? Read John 4:1-42 with us and see how Jesus bridges cultural chasms to bring the good news to a stranger who’d never have felt comfortable visiting the Temple in Jerusalem.

Meals nourish us both body and soul. In this 7-day series, you’ll visit various tables in the Bible and discover what they say about our spiritual hunger and thirst. From that fateful bite in the garden to the final feast in Revelation, satisfaction comes from a right relationship with our Creator. You’re invited to a feast. Pull up a chair and taste and see that the Lord is good.

Jesus said “Go and make disciples of every nation,” but many of us stop before we start because we feel like we don’t have what it takes. But Jesus didn’t ask spiritual superstars to make disciples. He invited ordinary people to follow him. In this 7-day devotional from Jessie Cruickshank, discover a pathway for ordinary disciples of Jesus to become disciplemakers who help others be changed by Jesus too.

This 7-day reading plan will share how to walk from victory to victory and apply biblical truths in your everyday life. When we are aware of the promises of God in His word and meditate on His word day and night, our mindset transforms from a defeated mindset to a victorious mindset.

Discover how investing in girls' lives around the world changes communities and entire countries. In this seven-day plan, author, leader, and international reporter Dale Hanson Bourke lean into the call we all have to live a life of service and charity. Dale provides practical ways to show God's love through service in our everyday lives.

Jesus offers abundant life to those who follow him, but many Christians are stuck in the try-harder life instead. This seven-day study beckons readers into the garden and invites them to listen for the heart of God. Just as plants thrive under the care of a skilled gardener, we’ll move from surviving to thriving as we embrace God’s good gifts designed to help us flourish.

The Chosen and BibleProject designed this plan to help individuals, families, and groups reflect on the welcoming love and grace of Jesus during the early part of his public ministry. This seven-day plan incorporates clips from season 1 of The Chosen, BibleProject animated videos, summaries, reflection questions, and Scripture readings. Choose this plan to gain a deeper understanding of Jesus’ character and compassion toward all people.

We all desire friendships that are life-giving, authentic, and where there is a strong sense of honor, support, and loyalty. God wants us to flourish, not only in our relationship with Him, but also in relationships with others. This seven-day reading plan provides a roadmap for understanding a Biblical view of friendship, identifying the obstacles to creating healthy relationships, and ultimately, finding freedom to love and be loved.

This seven-day plan explores the radical conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well in John chapter 4. Jesus quickly turned small talk into spiritual insight on the timeless human problem of living with unmet longing. By the end of the study, you’ll see how the “living water” of God’s presence erases our shame, heals our loneliness, and gives us a place to belong.

Women are everywhere in the Gospels, seeking Jesus for healing and serving Him throughout His ministry. Join Joyce Koo Dalrymple to see how Jesus publicly affirms women’s faith and empowers them to lead and use their gifts as they love and lead in ways that challenge cultural norms and transform communities.

How powerful it is to hear a person’s last words! They carry unique significance. As we study the words that Jesus spoke just before His death, we find truths to apply to our own lives. Join Scott Pauley in studying the lasting lessons from the last words of Christ!

Remarkably, God chooses to use unlikely people. This devotional plan explores the stories of unlikely heroes from the New Testament, highlighting how God often chooses the least expected individuals to fulfill His purposes. Through examining the lives of Paul, the woman at the well, and others, this plan reveals themes of faith, transformation, and divine purpose.

In this devotional for men, we'll take a good, hard, and very practical look at how we can get better at sharing Jesus with others! Written by Tim Pippus of Hope for Life Christian Fellowship.

In this 7-day plan, licensed counselor Debra Fileta shows you how Jesus’ own life rhythms can guide you to true health and rest, teaching you how to live full rather than empty. As you learn to be filled as Jesus was by intentional rhythms and practices, you will experience renewed energy, motivation, and strength to serve others as you never have before!

So, I often feel like the odd one out. Some of my friends and family do not really accept me—they probably just tolerate me. Sometimes, when I look at my life, I do not accept myself. I do not want to continue to live like this!

There is a war for the love of God. This all out war makes perfect sense since loving God is the first and most important commandment. This vital ingredient, love, is how the world will know we are Christians. Daily Nuggets of Grace is a tool to help Christians remove barriers like guilt, shame, fear, and pride while learning to abide in and recover their first love for Christ.

Who doesn’t love the idea of being blessed? We have a kind and generous Father who loves to lavish good gifts upon his kids. This seven-day devotional looks at what it means to connect with God through His Covenant, cast off the mindsets and strongholds that hold us back, and set new rhythms for prioritizing and creating a covenant lifestyle with God.

Before the world began, God–the Trinity–imagined a world of goodness, of flourishing, of delight–Eden–with human beings at the very center of it, created for worth, belonging, and purpose. But a slithering serpent with deceitful lies turned delight into despair, and our first parents– and all of us–find ourselves east of Eden, hiding, coping, alone. But God shows up with curious and compassionate questions, inviting us back to him, and back to ourselves. Let’s discover how.

Jesus left the church the vision of a movement when he challenged us to reproduce from our own Jerusalem into “Judea, Samaria and the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8). For us to see a movement, we need every Christ follower to adopt Jesus' personal mission to “seek and save the lost” (Luke 19:10). Evangelism is core to the mission of Jesus and essential to accomplishing his vision. This plan is part of a 5 week journey built around the topic Gospel X - Multiplying the gospel.

The Lent Project is an initiative of Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts. Each daily devotion includes a portion of Scripture, a devotional, a prayer, a work of visual art or a video, a piece of music, and a poem plus brief commentaries on the artworks and artists. The Seven Last Words of Christ refers to the seven short phrases uttered by Jesus on the cross, as gathered from the four Christian gospels. This devotional project connects word, image, voice and song into daily meditations on these words.

This Easter, we are looking at everything Jesus said on the cross leading up to His last words. What do they tell us about who He is and what He did for us?

Arrested in that garden, Jesus endured two sham trials and the most unjust verdict in all history. The Creator of the cosmos, crucified by His creatures on a hill outside Jerusalem. From that awful site, Christ would speak His “last seven words.” You’ll find reflections on each of these seven words in the following pages. As you read these devotional articles, we pray that you’ll ponder their significance and gain encouragement from the promise of the hope that blooms eternally.