Hope

To build others up is to encourage them, give support, instill confidence, or even share hope. Throughout scripture, we see the exhortation to ‘encourage one another.’ In this next week, we explore what it means to encourage one another and how we can live a life that builds others up. We will also end the week with a three-day dive into 1 Thessalonians 5:11. 

Real Hope: Building Others Up

In this 5-day reading plan, Sarah Clarkson shares her own encounters with beauty in the midst of her decade-long struggle with mental illness, depression, and doubt. She paints a compelling picture of the God who reaches out to us, using the beauty of the world around us to demonstrate his goodness and show us ways to find hope even amid our darkness. 

Finding Hope in Suffering Through Beauty

We can either allow our hardships to drag us down into hopelessness, or in our hardships, we can allow the gospel to lift us up into the New Testament hope that we have in Christ.

Hope in Times of Hopelessness

Discover the narrative story of the Bible and read the highlights of each book. Over the next 60 days, you will read portions of each book of the Bible, capturing the major themes, prominent characters and important events while building a foundational understanding of its overarching story. From Genesis to Revelation, you'll clearly see the steadfast love and faithfulness of the One True God of the Bible.

Biblical Highlights Bible Reading Plan

When our heart and mind is weary, there is strength in giving thanks. There’s lots of research into the power of gratitude, with the results showing happier healthier minds and emotions. (It’s In All The Small Things - Susie Holt) As you read this seven-day plan, try keeping a record of things you are grateful for each day – see for yourself the changes gratitude can bring!

Real Hope: Gratitude

Do you sometimes wish you were somebody other than yourself? Someone more beautiful or wiser than you or… more perfect? This imaginary perfection is not what God has designed you to be. This plan will encourage you to throw out that image and embrace fully who you are. Start this five-day plan by Loop for Women devotional to love yourself just as God made you.

Embrace Who You Are: Loving How God Made You

The purpose behind this series is to encourage and provide viewers with a new framework on how to deal with adverse situations in life.

Thank You Cancer

Bestselling author of Ever Upward, Justine Brooks Froelker, walks the reader through healthy messages of surviving and thriving after life doesn't turn out how we planned. A mental health therapist and a survivor of failed infertility herself, Justine guides the reader through topics such as relationships, self-care, shame, doubt and grief. She helps the reader to find their place in God’s story, even when it has not turned out who they had hoped and dreamed. 

Glorifying Him Through And In Our Self-Care

Feelings of shame can have an enormous impact on your life. Sometimes these feelings are justified, but often they are not, for example when you feel ashamed of your faith in Jesus. This reading plan presents some important Biblical truths about this topic and shows you why a child of God does not need to be ashamed in front of the Lord God or in front of other people.