Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Matthew 27:63

Colt to Cross to Crown: Reflections for Holy Week
8 Days
"From Colt to Cross to Crown" is an eight-day devotional guiding you through the journey of Holy Week. From Jesus’ triumphant entry on a colt to His sacrifice on the cross and victorious resurrection, each day offers scripture, reflection, and prayer to deepen your faith and prepare your heart for Resurrection Sunday.

Holy Week
8 Days
Welcome to Holy Week. For centuries, the Church has used this week to dedicate the fullness of its attention to Christ’s passion, resurrection, and the events leading up to it. Over the next 8 days, we will explore the gospel accounts of Holy Week and how it still impacts our everyday lives, even nearly two thousand years later.

Who Is This Man? An Easter Week Devotional
8 Days
This is an 8-day journey through Holy Week designed to deepen your faith and draw you closer to Jesus. From the celebration of Palm Sunday to the silence of Holy Saturday and the victory of Resurrection Sunday, each day explores the heart of Christ and the meaning of His final days. With thoughtful reflections and powerful questions, this devotional invites you to examine your expectations, surrender your heart, and rediscover the transforming love of the cross. Whether new to faith or growing deeper, this devotional will help you experience Easter with renewed hope, clarity, and resurrection joy.

From Palm Sunday to Easter
8 Days
Walk with Jesus through the most important week in history with this 8-day video devotional series led by Pastor Jon. Journey from Palm Sunday to Easter, experiencing Christ's triumphal entry, temple cleansing, final teachings, Last Supper, crucifixion, and glorious resurrection. Each day includes a video devotional explaining key events and their meaning for your life today. Choose your intensity: Light (video only, 10-15 min), Moderate (video + one Gospel, 20-30 min), or Vigorous (video + all four Gospels, 45-60 min). Daily reflection questions, action steps, and prayers help you personally engage with Christ's journey through Holy Week.

Holy Week: 8 Days That Changed Everything
8 Days
In the final days leading up to the cross, everything shifted. This 8-day plan walks through each day of Holy Week, highlighting the key moments in Jesus’ final week and helping you see how His love, obedience, and sacrifice changed everything forever. It’s an invitation to slow down, reflect, and walk with Jesus on the road that led to the cross—and beyond.

From Hosanna to Resurrection - Jean-Luc Trachsel
8 Days
Holy Week marks the most pivotal moment in history, tracing Christ’s journey from a humble entrance to His absolute victory over death. This eight-day path—from Palm Sunday to the Resurrection—invites believers to move beyond mere remembrance and actively enter the drama of redemption. By reflecting on the sacrifice of the Cross and the miracle of the empty tomb, individuals experience a mirror of their own spiritual growth. It is a call to surrender and renewal, transforming fragile hope into unshakable faith.

Jesus’ Final Days | a Holy Week Devotional
8 Days
Holy Week changed everything. The final days of Jesus’ life reveal the depth of His love, the power of His sacrifice, and the victory of His resurrection. In this 8-day devotional journey, you’ll walk through Holy Week from Victory Sunday to Resurrection Sunday, discovering what each day means for your life today. Through Scripture, reflection, and prayer, you’ll be encouraged to realign your priorities, remain faithful in silent seasons, and live in the freedom Jesus purchased for you.

The Story of Easter
8 Days
Walk through the last week in Jesus' earthly life with a dramatic retelling of the Easter story.

Walking With Jesus Through Easter Week
8 Days
What if you walked through Easter Week as a witness, from palms to silence to resurrection, watching Jesus overturn tables, share bread, endure the cross, and rise again in hope?

Holy Week Chronological Bible Reading Plan
8 Days
Holy Week: Walking with Jesus to the Cross This 8-day reading plan follows the timeline of Holy Week through the Gospels—from Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the victory of the empty tomb. Each day highlights key moments of Jesus’ final week, including the Last Supper, the crucifixion, the silence of Saturday, and the celebration of the resurrection. Journey through Scripture and prepare your heart for the hope of Easter.

The Story Of Easter
9 Days
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.

Meal From Below: A Lenten Devotional
9 Days
Jesus “took the bread, blessed it, broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, ‘This is my body given for you, do this in remembrance of me.’” In the same way, we too are taken, blessed, broken, given, and spoken in God’s love—that we might remember the body of Christ for a hurting world and become instruments of peace. Welcome to the Jesus Meal.

Lent: Embracing Your Need for God
11 Days
Lent is a 40-day season leading up to Jesus' death and resurrection. Traditionally, Christians use this time to fast, pray, and give to those in need. It's a time to reflect on our need for God and prepare our hearts for the magnitude of Easter. Use this Lent Devotional to guide you through this sacred season with intentionality.

A Dozen Easter Bible Stories for Kids, Children, & Kiddos
12 Days
Here's a dozen colorful Bible stories telling kiddos the Easter essentials! Grandma Goodie tells the REAL stories leading up to that first Resurrection Sunday and what it means for a child and the whole world. First watch the entertaining video. Read the kid's devotional (written at a 3rd grade reading level). Pray! Play to help you remember the stories.

From Death to Life - 12 Day Easter Plan
12 Days
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.

The Gospel According To Matthew
14 days
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.

The Human Becoming: A Lenten Devotional
15 Days
The Lenten journey is a counterintuitive journey to life by way of the cross. Each year at this time we are invited to turn and face those things from which we would rather run and hide. We walk to the cross where we experience the great unveiling and see things as they really are. We see God for who God is, and we discover ourselves for who we are.

The Easter Story
16 Days
The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are described in the four gospels. This Easter read about how Jesus endured betrayal, suffering, and humiliation on the cross before changing the world through the hope offered by His resurrection. A short video illustrates part of the story for each day of this plan.

Stations of the Cross
16 Days
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.

Lion + Lamb
17 Days
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.

Thru the Bible -- Gospel of Matthew
20 Days
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.

Jesus' Final Visit to Jerusalem
20 Days
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.


