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Our culture encourages instant gratification, promoting must-have brands, conveniences, and luxuries, but dissatisfaction often results. True, lasting contentment cannot be found in worldly things. Jesus wants our hearts to overflow with joy, and he offers it freely. Lydia McLaughlin’s devotions are full of power to apply Scripture, speak prayer, and start each day with a fresh promise.

7 Days Focused on Living Joyfully

In our never-satisfied world, our souls hunger for more, and it’s tempting to reach for the wrong “food” to satisfy our needs. Thankfully, Jesus is the bread of life who offers us himself through the life-giving and sustainable feast of Scripture (John 6:35). But how often do we sit at Christ’s table, truly hungry for his word?  

Join Kristen Wetherell through an eight day study helping readers to reflect on their journey with their Bible and uncover how it is possible to treasure God’s word.

Help for the Hungry Soul

As teenagers, there are so many emotions experienced on a daily basis. Discovering how to handle all of them can be a challenge. If you feel feelings—any feelings at all—then this plan is for you. 

How To Be Happy

It’s not if you face trials, tragedies and loss but when. What will you do when your life careens wildly into crisis? This 10-day devotional based on Through the Eyes of a Lion by Levi Lusko will help you train for trials you are not yet in. Each day you will discover that where there is impossible pain there is incredible power.

Through The Eyes Of A Lion

The world defines joy as the intense happiness we feel when we satisfy a great desire. C. S. Lewis disagrees: true joy is an unsatisfied desire ─ a deep longing for God that never ends. Featuring Lewis quotes and excerpts from Shadowlands and Songs of Light: An Epic Journey into Joy and Healing by author Kevin Ott.

C. S. Lewis & Joy

These daily readings will help you learn that spiritual warfare begins with holiness as you examine the three arenas of spiritual warfare that every maturing Christian will face: the mind, the church, and the invisible spiritual realm. This devotional is based on the book Strength for the Battle by Francis Frangipane. 

Strength For The Battle

Justice, love, spirituality, beauty, freedom, truth, and power all point to what matters most in life. Unfortunately, these trampled upon signposts have become broken in our world. Explores how John’s Gospel reveals these as true signs that point to the reality of God in our midst. Journey with the One who comes to take our brokenness upon himself in Jesus Christ. 

Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World

In this 14-day devotional, Crossway is partnering with Paul David Tripp to lead you toward becoming the parent God wants you to be. Each daily devotion features a specific parenting principle that can radically change your family. You will learn about calling, grace, law, inability, identity, process, lost, authority, foolishness, character, false gods, control, rest, and mercy. Our hope is that you discover, embrace, and live out the joy of biblical parenting in your home.

Parenting: The 14 Gospel Principles

In the novel, Her Part to Play, the main characters, Adanne and John, couldn’t be more different from each other, yet they both long for belonging, authenticity, and home within the challenges of transitions and new seasons. In this five-day plan, author Jenny Erlingsson shares personal stories, moments from the book, and scriptural truth to encourage anchoring in a Christ-centered identity and cultivating beautiful belonging from that place.

