Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Colossians 3:13

During the early days of the Passion Movement, God connected our story to the confession found in Isaiah 26:8, specifically the last phrase, which says, "For your name and renown are the desire of our souls." The heart of Passion is God's glory, and God is most glorified in us when we live lives that are fully satisfied in Him. We pray that this scripture journey through Passion's five core statements and prayers will encourage a posture of gratitude for what He has done and increase expectancy for what He will do in the future.

This 5-day plan is here to equip, empower and inspire you to move with God and make an impact, the same way God empowered Esther to move and save the Jews. God desires to use you to save and impact a generation.

Men and women are both made in God’s image. But why do we behave so differently then? Could it be that our differences are just a kaleidoscope of different reflections of God’s image? In this Plan, we will explore how to recognize God’s image through our differences in marriage.

The Church is more than a building—it’s people following Jesus together. So we don’t go to church, we are the Church and we exist for the world. Over the next five days, we’ll discover what it means to be the Church in our communities all over the world.

Giving up your “right” to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things you can do. Being "unoffendable" helps lift religious burdens from our backs and allows us to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of our lives—flourishing the way God intended.

Sometimes it's easier to explore a deep subject when we can see it through the lens of a film we love. This 5-Day plan pairs biblical truths on forgiveness with the stories from popular movies to give you a new perspective on the importance of understanding forgiveness, accepting forgiveness, and offering forgiveness.

Sometimes it feels like we're losing an uphill battle when training children to be more like Christ. But as Jesus models grace and forgiveness on the cross, we must also forgive our own mistakes and the growing pains in our children's progress toward maturity. This five-day devotional teaches parents how to extend grace to themselves, their children, and their spouses alike so that children can learn by example.

The kids are melting down, life keeps throwing curveballs, and you are simply overwhelmed. When family life is harder to cope with, God offers strength, compassion, and tender mercy. This 5-day devotional teaches parents how to cope with the hard things in life by putting on the armor of God, so kids, in turn, can learn by example to deal with emotions in a healthy way.

Forgiveness may be the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood quality in our culture. But what is real forgiveness? In this series, Pastor Rick looks to the Bible to see what God says about it. You'll discover what real forgiveness looks like, and three things God says are essential for resuming a relationship that's been broken.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches about prayer and about the Father. We learn about the importance of beginning and ending with PRAISE. We see that the Father has a PROMISE for the world and a PURPOSE for his children. And we see that the Father both PROVIDES and PROTECTS. This 5-day plan will look closely at how Jesus responds when people say, "Teach us to pray."