Marriage

Dating

Divorce

Based on Series 2 of Fearless TV UK, in this devotional we will be looking at the fundamentals of healthy relationships. We will be focusing on sex, singleness and friendship, and seeing how the Word of God can help us to have fruitful and fearless relationships.

Baesics: The Devotional

It seems like relationships are everywhere you look. Whether you’re in one, waiting for one, or happily single, we can all work on the common denominator in our relationships—ourselves. In this 5-day Plan, we’ll look at what it means to be dateable—and you may be surprised.

Dateable

“Love can’t be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other,” says Donald Miller. In this 7-day reading plan based on the book Scary Close, Don challenges our assumptions about what makes for good relationships and shares reflections from his own journey to “drop the act” and find true intimacy. 

Scary Close-Reflections For Finding True Intimacy

You’ll meet a lot of people in your life and you’ll need wisdom and discernment in order to pursue God honoring relationships. In the Wise Bond Bible plan readers will discover through scripture how to develop and identify positive characteristics of Christ-centered friendships, bonds and associations. 

Wise Bond

Society has it’s own definition of what it means to love and what true love is. However, that definition and God’s definition are very different. This 7-day devotional is designed to take you on a journey through God’s love in both the Old and New Testaments. Each day, a definition of God’s love will be explained through scripture and then defined in everyday language.  Let's get started! Go to afterthemusicstops.org for the full length version of this plan. 



What is Love? God's View On Love And Relationships

Unity has the ability to transform both personal relationships and the body of Christ. This reading plan explores the 4 attributes in Ephesians 4 that lead to unity and how you can cultivate each, leading to transformational growth in your life and in the church.

Cultivating Unity

Have you ever ditched a friend for a guy? Found yourself jealous because that other girl gets all the dates? Maybe it's time to get lost- in God. Discover how to get so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find you. Dannah Gresh traces God's language of love through Scripture to help you seek love the way God designed it to be. 

Get Lost: Love Feast

God looks beyond what we do (even the good we do) to see our heart. He cares about our motives when we give, pray, fast… The heart of the issue, with God, is always the heart. He wants to guide us by our heart so we can make a radical difference for Him!

Give God Your Heart And Keep Your Motives Pure

Marriage is a blessing from God, but because we are flawed individuals, it can be hard at times. This reading plan offers words from God’s Word about common marital issues.

Marriage Is Hard

This reading plan includes seven daily devotions based on Louie Giglio’s curriculum Relat(able): Making Relationships Work. This study will explore what makes us relatable to others, how God can bring peace in the midst of conflict, and how we can help restore relationships that seem broken beyond repair.

Relat(able): Making Relationships Work

Parenting Young Children

When we spend our first energy tending our relationships, including our relationship with God, all of our needs will be met.

Building Healthy Relationships: Devotions From Time of Grace

Shaunti Feldhahn studied thousands of men and women to learn the most important things that matter to an abundant, happy marriage. It turns out, her research findings match what the Bible has said all along. This reading plan highlights those key Biblical secrets that we often miss — and which, once we apply them, usually make an immediate, wonderful difference.

See more of her research, books, or speaking at shaunti.com.

Biblical Secrets to a Happy Marriage

Through the latest scientific research and poignant, personal stories, a father / daughter team help parents and their teenage girls navigate the traps and temptations of the teen dating years.

The 10 Myths Of Teen Dating

Life is a series of choices, each determining the trajectory it will take.  Will we choose allowing our hearts to be changed by God's Word which leads to life? Or will we default to our human nature, a passive choice leading to death?  

Choices

This 40-day reading plan is designed to help those in a relationship, those planning to get married, or those already married to get into the Word and understand the Biblical foundations of marriage. 

"Sexodus" Relationships Devotional

Marriage is a wonderful blessing from God, and in his Word he gives husbands and wives the tools that they need to learn to love and respect each other.

Home Sweet Home: Devotions from Time of Grace

Parenting Teens/Tweens

Relationships

Most of the struggles we have in marriages are not due to a lack of information. They are due to a lack of obedience to what we already know. In this plan, we offer Straight Biblical Truth that will help you with your walk in having a successful marriage.

Keys To A Successful Marriage 

A 3-day devotional to encourage women trying to conceive.

God Remembered… (Insert Your Name Here)!

When we marry, we often think we are marrying our soulmate. And yet we know so little about them. Statics show that our marital connections deteriorate with time if there is no direct intention otherwise. Marriages take work. Marriage vitality is worth the work. Healthy marital relationships are the foundation of the family unit. Roxanne shares five important steps to deepening the soul connection of your marriage.

Soulmates: 5 Steps to Deepening the Soul of Your Marriage

I can’t love my wife because…. How can I submit to my husband who is….. These are common everyday challenges in a marriage. The purpose of this devotional is to understand how to live in realistic marriages and not ideal marriages.

Being Real In Our Marriages

Each of you woke this morning in your version of home: a 2-story beach-side condominium, a 1-level ranch on acreage, a fixer upper, an urban high rise, a studio apartment. Whatever it might look like to you there’s a place called home where you live. Here are 5 reasons that the work you do within those walls morning after morning, midnight after midnight truly does matter.

Your Home Matters

Life is busy and the demands of your day feel never-ending. In this 7-day plan, you'll hear daily encouragement to keep you moving forward, together. Read them as a stepfamily together or separately, but create a space for everyone to share their thoughts.

Daily Encouragement for the Smart Stepfamily

Conflict is the hard and messy part of marriage. Every couple argues, but not every couple fights in healthy ways. Learn how to resolve conflict the healthy way. This 4-day plan by Christina Dodson gives you biblical principles to fight fair in marriage. 

4 Ways to Fight Fair in Marriage

Learn how to love like you’ve been loved. This plan, with content from Called 2 Love: A 40-day Journey into Marriage Intimacy by Dr. David and Teresa Ferguson and Steve and Barbara Uhlmann, will help you begin to experience deepened closeness with your spouse and learn how to write your own marriage story. Experience God’s love for you and live out that love with your spouse.

Called 2 Love: A Journey Into Marriage Intimacy 

The Bible gives us a great script for happily ever after and a realistic view of finding true love, lasting happiness, and a deep contentment whatever your relationship status.

Living Happily Ever After: Devotions From Time Of Grace

The hardest and most rewarding relationship? Marriage. Told from the perspectives of both husband and wife, this 3-day devotional by the Synns uses personal experience and examines Scriptures to help guide you and your spouse toward a biblical and enjoyable marriage. 

Connected: A 3-Day Journey to Build Your Marriage

Whether you’re single or in a relationship, there are things you can do now to prepare yourself for marriage. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing practical tips, spiritual truths, and four ways to prepare yourself to be the best godly wife you can be.

A Woman's Guide to Preparing Yourself for Marriage

Some of us grew up in families where we watched small disagreements evolve into loud arguments, violence, separation, or even divorce. Regardless of our early experiences, we have the power to turn threats to our relationships into a platform for growth. Based on the book In Love & Always Arguing, this 5 day devotional is designed to equip readers with the tools needed to successfully navigate the waters of conflict and disagreement that are sure to arise in any loving relationship.

In Love & Always Arguing

With gentle humility and great compassion, Christian Bevere shows how to leave behind what's held you back. This is an invitation to liberation, a chance to release who you've been and discover who you truly are. Often our former mistakes and regrets hold us back from where we're called to be. How can one heal and move on? To find your breakthrough, you must break up with what broke you.

Break Up With What Broke You: How God Redeems and Rewrites Your Story

Wherever you are in your marriage, you are in the middle of a story.  Like writing an actual story, you can approach your marriage in one of two ways: aimlessly, going with whatever pops in your mind on a given day, or intentionally, based on a deep study of other great stories.  Learn how to model your marriage on the greatest love story ever told: The Gospel.

Your Marriage Story

As Christians, all of who we are and what we do should be grounded in God's kind of love—a love that is not based in emotion or condition. This love has no reason.  It just is. It's called agape! Learning to operate in this kind of love is the healing power for a hurting world.  It's not always easy, but it is possible.  Love is the essential element.  

Love Is?

This 10-part challenge for married couples is designed to help you grow in your love, devotion, and service to your spouse!

Couples: Kindness Challenge

Wish you were a mind reader and could tell what would really make her happy? We surveyed a few married ladies and got these tips directly from them! Romancing your wife for a special occasion is one thing. Consistently caring for her and cherishing her is the greatest challenge, but reaps the greatest rewards.

UNCOMMEN: What Women Want

A twenty-day middle school devotional designed to complement the teaching series, “None of Your Business” from Orange Students. In this devotional, you’ll find encouragement to follow God’s heart and develop healthy habits when it comes to dating, relationships, and sex. 

None of Your Business

Are you looking and praying for a spouse? Have you found someone you think might be “the one?” How do you know if they’re husband or wife material? How do you know if you are? In this 5-day devotional, we’re talking about the qualities and characteristics that make someone “marriage material” according to God’s design for marriage.

Wife Material, Husband Material

Does it feel like you’re the last one waiting for love? As if God is withholding the thing you want more than anything: the person to spend your life with? Anxieties stir as you cry out to God, “Will I be alone forever?”, “Am I unlovable?”. This series through Ephesians 4 will show you why knowing Jesus, and His immeasurable love, is the only answer to your deepest heart-cries.

Take Heart: God Has Answered Your Prayer for Love

This reading plan is based upon Cindy Beall's book, Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken. Learn how to find hope and healing for your wounded marriage as you navigate the waters of betrayal. Cindy, and her husband, Chris, have walked out their healing by trusting in God's mighty power and encourage you to join them on this healing journey.

Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken

During divorce and other extremely difficult times, there comes a moment when you will wonder if you will ever make it. Over the next 7 days, you will be able to connect with God through prayers, advice, and action plans. Learn to not just survive, but survive and thrive.

Divorce To Healing: Survive And Thrive

The heartbreak, the lost love, the grief and the shame that comes with unwanted divorce doesn’t have to stay forever. You don’t need to go through this alone. In this study, we’ll learn how we can lean heavily on God’s strength despite life’s most troubling events.

UNCOMMEN: Surviving Divorce

What you know is what gets you through. If you don’t know the right things when the rouge winds and tsunamis of life come, you’re going to fall over.  But if our lives are built on the rock solid, bedrock truth of the Bible, we know some unchanging truths.

How To Get Through What You're Going Through

This 15 day reading plan offers biblical insight for personal growth and wholeness from doctors Henry Cloud and John Townsend—bestselling authors of How People Grow and the Boundaries series. The devotions are perfect for those entering new phases of life or dealing with difficult relationships. Readings provide help in translating God’s Word into a plan for staying spiritually healthy.

Henry Cloud & John Townsend - Life Journey

Divorce grieves the heart of God. He hates seeing us in pain and holding onto guilt, shame, and fear. Despite our mistakes, He longs for us to accept His grace and know we are valued, cherished, and irreplaceable. No matter your circumstances, this plan will help you find healing from your divorce, so you can live the redeemed life God has for you—one full of hope, joy, and purpose.

Living Changed: After Divorce

Author and pastor Debra B. Morton reveals the secret to surviving and even thriving in the midst of setbacks and painful circumstances.

How To Thrive In Life's Toughest Seasons By Pastor Debra Morton

A 40 day devotional for remarried families discussing the many issues that are exclusive to blended families. We discuss the root of the issues and provide solutions found in the Bible to build your new family. 

Blending A Family Devotional

Divorce is messy. In the aftermath, relationships with your ex-spouse and children can be tense. We invite you to follow along with this seven-day devotional where we’ll find transformation, healing, and victory in Jesus Christ, even in the aftermath of divorce.

UNCOMMEN: Broken

Is your identity tied in your accomplishments, people or even your past?  Do you know who you are? Are you seeking validation from people to determine your worth? No longer live with the perception that your identity is determined by an accumulation of life events.   In this Bible plan, readers will discover that their identity is found in Christ and not the Crises of life’s experiences. 



Identity Crisis

The Ephesian Christians lived in a hypersexualized culture and many of them were stuck in sexual sin. Before Paul addressed their sin, he reminded them of who they are in Christ. In this 10-Day Bible Plan from the book of Ephesians, we’ll discover how Paul’s radical instructions to live out our identity in Christ also addresses the six roots of a sex or porn addiction. Identity conquers lust. 

Identity Conquers Lust

I was once slave to my flesh and sin, but now I am free. Jesus pulled me out of a life of pain and emptiness and brought me into His loving arms. He wants this for you too! God has given us freedom through His son. We don’t have to be slave to this world so obsessed with sex. We can be transformed even if we’ve failed repeatedly. Walk through this 7 day plan and hear God’s word set to song. 

Love at First Sex? Finding Purity in a Sex-Crazed World

In this 3-part plan, Dr. Kim discusses lust and the difference between lust and sexual desire. We will look at dealing with temptation, living in a sex-charged world, and the way out that God provides. This plan will help you go from the chains of lust to the freedom of sexual desire in your marriage.

Lust vs. Sexual Desire 

You were expecting happily ever after, but if you’ve been married longer than a week, you may now be thinking: “What did I get myself into?” God designed marriage not only to make us happy but as a laboratory to learn to love well. Dr. Carol shows you how to think and pray as you work together with God to build a fully alive marriage.

Fully Alive Marriage

Porn addiction can feel like a never-ending cycle of resolve, temptation, failure, and shame. What if there was a way to break that cycle? We believe there is. This devotional invites you take your first steps toward porn-free living by offering a vetted, researched, and demonstrated pathway to lasting change. 


The Path to Freedom: 5 Steps to Porn-Free Living

To break free from sexual sin, it’s  important to understand the nature of temptation. Sexual temptation is powerful and pervasive. Culturally, sexual temptation is everywhere – from magazine racks to television commercials to mobile devices. Personally, once sexual sin takes hold, it can consume one’s life and make freedom difficult to find. Love – both for God and for our spouse if we’re married – is key for determining a course of action.

Understanding Sexual Sin: Temptation

Infidelity is at near epidemic proportions. I doubt  there is anyone who has not been affected by it in one way or another. It may have been a friend, a relative, or in your own marriage. This plan includes six short videos of Dr. Kimberling teaching on infidelity and is designed to help couples look seriously at their marriage and take steps to protect and strengthen it together.  

Infidelity - Part 1

What if you could learn how to resolve painful conflict within your marriage? This week, you will begin to recognize the process that happens when you are in conflict with your spouse and how your response can either diminish your partner or strengthen your marriage. This devotional is not for the faint of heart. You are more responsible than you realize and more capable than you believe. Are you ready to build a successful marriage?

10 Choices Successful Couples Make

Hopefully, you and your husband are both working toward restoring your marriage and moving forward together. If you’re alone in this endeavor, the information in this devotional will help you as a single individual or a married woman whose husband isn’t joining her on this journey ... yet.

Aftershock - Setting Yourself Up for Success

Many people have a hidden battle with lust and the enemy thrives in secrecy. When I was younger I battled with lust and pornography, until I experienced God's freedom. If you have been struggling with lust, true freedom is possible. Learn how to overcome it in this plan. 

How to Overcome Lust

From the moment a child enters our life, parenting is a tough job. It’s even harder when a child is struggling with difficult behaviors. Parenting a child in crisis leaves parents worn out from exhaustion, frustration, and fear. God doesn’t leave us, even in the midst of our fears, failures, and fatigue. For foster and adoptive parents, or any battle-weary parent in warfare for their child.

Battle-Weary Parents for Parenting in Crisis

This devotional is designed to help you trust that God loves your son even more than you do. To bring you hope when your son has lost his way or is struggling with weaknesses or temptations. To lead you to praise God for his power in your son’s life. As you pray through these devotionals over the next week, rest in the knowledge that your son is in God’s hands.

Powerful Prayers For Your Son By Rob & Joanna Teigen

No words can express how amazing it is to hold your newborn child in your arms. Parenting is such a holy and life-changing opportunity. One of the most powerful things a parent can give their child is their prayers for them. In this 5-day Bible plan, Evangelist Matt Brown shares 5 powerful prayers you can pray for your children every day. 

What to Pray For Your Children

Throughout Scripture, God is called Father. Yet how does He father His children? What parenting principles can we learn by observing His interactions with humanity? This seven-day study will examine key Scriptures which will help you to father like the Father.

Father Like the Father

Refreshing devotions for weary mamas who find themselves in need of truth and encouragement! These devotions are aimed to help a mom find her identity in Christ as she faces the challenges, surprises and joys of caring for young children. No need for her to compare herself to the supermoms around her; God has recruited her for her kids and He has big plans for her!

Grit & Grace: 5-Day Devos For Moms Of Young Kids

Raising kids is tough, even in the best of circumstances. In this seven-day devotional, real-world parents — who also happen to be staff members at YouVersion — share how they apply principles from God’s Word to this important aspect of their lives. Each day’s devotional includes a Verse Image you can use to help you share your own journey.

7 Things the Bible Says About Parenting

Truth Becomes Her is a movement that transcends the emphasis on feminine beauty and focuses on teaching young women about their true worth in Christ.

Unlocking Your Daughter’s True Potential

Your home is the primary training ground for developing your child’s character, so parenting must be intentional.  We’ve compiled a 14-day devotional for parents, each session concentrating on a different character trait. From toddlers to teenagers, you can adapt these principles for any age. 

Building Character in Your Child

Dr. Tim Elmore joins with Life.Church to share 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid. We all want the best for our kids, but sometimes our own good intentions misdirect their paths. Let’s correct course and lead our children to become thriving adults and fully devoted followers of Christ. For more content, check out finds.life.church

12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid

The Bible tells us children are a gift from God. Yet parenting them from toddler to teenager can sometimes be an immense challenge! Perhaps no task on earth demands greater love, patience, and wisdom. Thankfully, God has provided plenty of guidance for us to follow. Join Dr. Charles Stanley as he instructs and inspires you to apply godly wisdom in this clear and concise approach to parenting God’s way.

Parenting God’s Way

As much as we want the fruit of the Spirit to be present in our own lives, we want that for our children too. So where do we begin? In this 9-day devotional, you'll learn principles taken from Scripture and tools for applying them to your parenting.

Developing the Fruit of the Spirit in Your Child

Navigating your teen's rebellion can be scary, challenging and even heartbreaking. In this Bible plan, Roxanne Parks shares ways that she and her husband kept their sanity during some of the confusing and murky days raising 4 teenagers.

Navigating Teenage Rebellion

As a parent of teens, you probably wonder how to keep social media, culture, and peers from having a stronger voice than God in their lives. Jeffrey Dean wants to remind you that you are still the greatest influence in your child's life—and that’s good news! Use this guide to spend the next five days in intentional reflection and prayer for your teen as you parent with purpose and hope.

Raising Successful Teens

Each day, learn a new biblically-grounded concept that you can begin applying immediately in your family. When you lead your family by living out love, mutual respect, intentionality, and service, you’ll see their relationships with you and with each other radically transformed.