Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 27:56

The story of Easter in holy scripture gives us exact times, dates, and sequences of the events during Passion week. This audio plan will walk you in real time through each day. We hope you will join us for what will most certainly be an extraordinary and life-changing experience.

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Let’s slow down this Holy Week and learn from Christ’s final days on earth. Each day we will receive lessons or gifts that He took the time to give. Do you need a fresh reminder of what mattered most to Christ—that you love His people and follow Him? What could He want to teach you this Holy Week?

As we walk towards Holy Week, let us draw nearer to the true King, receiving Jesus on His terms and embracing the peace and salvation He offers. Let’s prepare our hearts to receive all God has for us as we study the steps that led up to and included the cross.

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Bloody, beaten, and nailed to a cross, a dying Jesus looked at those around Him and spoke His final words as a man. In this 12-day reading and devotional plan, you’ll examine Jesus’ final words and see the power that they have for us today. Relive Jesus' final hours, and celebrate His ultimate victory on this red-letter day.

Who are you? What things do you think about when you ask yourself that question? Name, age, gender? Maybe your job, role in society or in your family? In this series we consider the pop culture of masked heroes - battling with not only their nemeses but often their own mask and a process of discovering their identity and their purpose. Using the Bible, what can we learn from them?

We love Christmas with all its festivity, but Easter can be no less. What started in Bethlehem seemed to have found its end at Golgotha, yet it didn’t end there! This is a 12-day Easter plan to contemplate the significance of the last supper, the death of Jesus, the in-between day of rest, and a glorious comeback.

This reading plan explores the first Gospel. This Gospel explains that Jesus was the king of Jews that brought the kingdom of heaven, even though Jesus didn't arrive in the way people expected.

This beautifully illustrated plan with paintings from the Wiedmann Bible invites you to pray and reflect on the last hours, or Passion, of Jesus Christ. Follow the traditional Stations of the Cross during this 14-day plan. There is no love more substantial than the love of Jesus Christ for you! Take a look!

Welcome to the third portion of our BEMA Liturgy plan. This reading plan seeks to help you slow down, form groups around Scripture, and live out the life Jesus has called us to. We hope you've gone through Parts A and B with a group and continue this journey with them to study, pray, and worship. See our website for more information about the official start dates for each plan and timing of the weekly liturgy to participate in real time.

The final day of Jesus’ earthly life was not a tragedy. It was the culmination of love, obedience, and redemption. This plan invites you to walk slowly through the last hours of Christ’s life, from the upper room to the cross, and into the silence of the tomb. Through Scripture and reflection, you’ll see the depth of His surrender, the cost of grace, and the power of a love that chose the cross. As you behold Jesus in His suffering, you’ll discover hope, forgiveness, and new life. Pause, reflect, and encounter the Savior who gave everything for you.

COVID-19 has brought tremendous challenges to our community, our country, and our world, resulting in uncertainty and fear. Yet even in our crisis, God still speaks. Jesus entered into human history to show us how to find hope and peace. This devotional will lead us through key passages of the gospel of Matthew to show us how Jesus provides hope and peace in the midst of all of life’s circumstances.

The Gospel of Matthew bridges the gap between the testaments, swinging back to gather up prophecies and going forward into the future, the first to mention the church by name. Matthew presents Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah and King. And though originally written to Jewish people, we can see Jesus Christ in a fresh new light through these 20 lessons from trusted Bible teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

God with Us: The Four Gospels Woven Together in One Telling is a captivating new book that looks and feels like a paperback novel. But it’s not a story based on Jesus’ life, with fictionalized embellishment. It is the story of Jesus’ life, told entirely in the words of the four Gospels in the New Living Translation. This reading plan is not the full account of God with Us but takes you through select events during Jesus’ final week as he visits Jerusalem for the last time leading up to his death and resurrection.

Favor is simply God's supernatural provision that enables us to live beyond our natural abilities. It is available to everyone, and it comes by grace. Learn how to pursue God's favor over the next 21 days, and ready yourself for an outpouring of favor that will accelerate your kingdom assignment!

Matthew is all about Jesus! This 22-day plan will walk you through the book of Matthew by reading only 1-2 chapters a day. Each day is accompanied by a short devotional and video that explains what’s happening and shows you how each part of the story points to Jesus and his Gospel.

Matthew is all about Jesus! This 24-day plan will walk you through the book of Matthew by reading only 1-3 chapters a day. Most days are accompanied by a short devotional that explains what’s happening and shows you how each part of the story points to Jesus and his Gospel.

Amidst all the hustling to get stuff done during the Christmas season, we invite you to pause daily and meet 25 Bible Characters (some well-known, some not-so-well-known) that Jesus brought healing to. Just as He has brought healing into the lives of those in the Bible, He is ready to bring healing to you today.

In Matthew 26-28, we read in detail about Jesus' suffering, death and resurrection. This reading plan will help you go step by step through this impressive story and discover how these events have great meaning for you as well.

Research shows that many people today do not have a firm conviction to submit our lives under the authority of the Word of God–to live and die by it. But doing so leads to our best possible life.

The Bible is full of examples of amazing people who demonstrated courage. But can a kid live out extraordinary courage in just their ordinary life? This plan includes some kid-friendly videos of some Bible greats and takes us through their stories of courage while also exploring other verses and passages that challenge us to live with courage in our everyday walk with Christ.

Matthew’s Gospel opens the New Testament by brilliantly introducing the culmination of the entire Old Testament story. After thousands of years and dozens of generations, Jesus had come “to save his people from their sins” (Mathew 1:21). Matthew focuses on Jesus as King of Kings, who had come to reign on the throne of David forever.

In the beginning was the Word … but what came next? This plan is for anyone who wants a better understanding of the Bible. It provides a chronological reading program that endeavors to place all biblical passages in their date order. Part Eleven of this twelve-part one-year reading plan is titled ‘God Provides the Lamb and Starts the Church: AD 33–AD 58’.

Daily Bible Reading is designed to facilitate consistent interaction with Scripture. It includes background information on each day’s Scripture passage and key verse for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, a prayer and prayer concern to help you connect to God and be of spiritual support to others. Journey with us this month as we explore the theme “God’s Life-Giving Word of Hope.”