Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Luke 4:17

When God’s Kingdom comes, what does it look like? In Luke, Mary prays a powerful prayer, praising, and predicting the return of a God who feeds the hungry, exalts the poor, rescues servants, and keeps His promises. Jesus, in his own ministry, lives out this vision every step of the way.

Christmas is a time of vision, a time to consider the landscape of human life, what it means, and why it’s valuable. The mental image of Christmas is the Nativity, the crude circumstances that surrounded the moment when God reinforced the dignity of Humanity by clothing Himself as a human. But He did not stop there. Christmas brings into focus the only two sacred things in this world—God and People. Christmas is about Life. The Author of Life. Your Life. My Life. And the Life of the world. This 12-day Plan celebrates Life.

These days, it is commonly believed that all religions are more or less the same. The idea of a unique Saviour is not popular. Yet the Bible teaches that Jesus is unique. There has never been anyone like him. How can this be? How is he different from all others.? In this stirring Bible Plan, Australian author and teacher Dr Barry Chant explores eight ways in which Jesus is unique.

“All generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me,” Mary sang. And she was right. She became the mother of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God! This gives her a unique position in God’s salvation plan. This reading plan is about Mary, a humble and blessed woman with great faith.

From the creators of the BEMA Podcast, BEMA Liturgy is here to help you slow down, form groups around Scripture, and live out the life that Jesus has called us to. We encourage you to find a group that can be a part of this journey with you as you study, pray, and worship.

We live in a diverse society with a history of ethnic conflict. As the early church discovered, the gospel has enormous implications for how we relate to others from different backgrounds. These readings offer perspective on an issue that has been a struggle throughout history and insight for our response today. Commentary is excerpted from the Modern Life Study Bible.

This reading plan explores the third Gospel. Luke described Jesus Christ as the one who saves. Humanity is lost and desperate, without help or hope, in need of salvation. The third Gospel reminds us that Jesus died to save us.

What drives you to live beyond yourself, to embrace Jesus’ commission to make disciples of all nations? Jesus reached beyond His own people and calls His followers to do the same. These Bible stories will engage you in God’s vision and reveal what Michael Jordan, an Israelite servant girl, a Samaritan leper and others teach us about our own mission—and being compelled by Christ’s love.

In the Gospel of Luke, we find a unique account of Jesus’ life. Luke shows us how much Jesus sees, knows, and cares for His people. He continually goes out of His way to help those in need and to seek the lost. This Gospel also shows us what it truly means to follow Jesus and what it may cost us when we do.

You may be incarcerated, but you are not forgotten. Here is two weeks' worth of hope, including devotions and encouraging testimonies from former inmates in a reading plan developed by Hope is Alive Ministries, with the assistance of Beth Niestemski, LCSW, former Associate Director of Mental Health for New York City's Rikers Island.