Relationships

After the pain of sexual sin, building trust is a long, difficult process. But with the help of a counselor, lots of work, and God’s grace, you can find restoration. This 7-day reading plan will outline some steps to take in this journey.

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Building Trust After Infidelity

Your desire is to have a strong and thriving marriage, but that desire gets choked out by the many struggles and challenges of life. God designed marriage to be a beautiful representation of His love for us and His church—and yours can be! Lauren Diggs encourages you to cultivate a marriage that honors God and your spouse with truths taken from God’s Word and her full devotional, Ground{ed} Wife.

Grounded Wife: Simple Truths to Honor God in Your Marriage

This plan is adapted from Dr. Kim’s book “7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage." The secrets of START, STOP, CONNECT, ENGAGE, BALANCE, MINGLE, and FIGHT become steps that will help a couple have the marriage that God designed for them. 

7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage

Having the right tool at the right time can be a game-changer. Using the correct tool can easily turn a serious problem into a solution. The same is true for marriage. Although every marriage is different, certain tools are beneficial for everyone. With this reading plan, we are going to give you four tools you can use every day to have a healthy and thriving marriage.

The Marriage Toolkit

Do you feel disconnected from your spouse? Has your marriage lost the closeness you once shared? If so, you are not alone. God’s desire for your marriage is intimacy so close that “two become one.” This 15-day plan from Awesome Marriage Content Editor, Lindsay Few, combines Scripture, practical application steps, and prayer to move you toward that vision. 

Reconnect: Refresh Your Marriage 

As devastating as an affair is, God does amazing things when a couple commits to rebuild their marriage. In this plan by Dr. Kim, we meet Adam and Kristi and hear their story. If there has been an affair in your marriage, this plan will help in your healing. If not, it will help you understand each other and take steps to protect your marriage from this marriage killer. 

Affair Prevention in Marriage

This study based on Philippians 4:8 has been created to help you begin to think about your own thoughts about your husband and to recognize if they are indeed in agreement with the way the Bible tells us to think. 

8 Days to Rethink Your Thinking (For Wives)

Did you know that God wants your marriage to be great? It’s true! He actually created marriage to be wonderful — like a little slice of heaven on earth. But having a good marriage takes effort. Most married couples I know want to have a good marriage, but they don’t always know how. Here are 3 keys that work…

3 Keys to a Strong Marriage

Living a servant marriage is a revelation on God’s masterpiece of marriage. In this plan, you will learn more about God's creation of man, woman and marriage. You will also be introduced to the Father God, but also the Father-in-law God in your marriage. Work through this plan with with Dr. Doug Weiss to walk out a servant marriage in your home with your spouse.

Living a Servant Marriage

Once the shock of an affair subsides and life begins to stabilize, there’s room to think more clearly about the future of your relationship. Recovery can be a slow journey. It’s about forgiveness and gaining a new perspective about your marriage. And, some days, it will simply come down to the willingness and determination to keep moving forward. With the Lord’s guidance, however, there is hope for recovery.

Infidelity: Road To Recovery, Where To Start

Marriage

As we look at real life lessons from our biblical Anti-hero Sampson, we can find wisdom and direction from God’s Word on ‘how to be single.’ If you are needing some clear ‘what not to do in relationships’ this is for you. Whether you’re a young adult, teen, recently divorced—or even in a relationship that might need to end; my prayer is that through this devo you will find strength + a clear reason to hold out for the person that God has prepared for you. This 5-Day Plan is narrated by the author.

Strength for Singles - Lessons From Sampson

In the journey of Christian dating, the "friends-first" approach can be a refreshing path to explore. But is it better to start as friends or go straight into a romantic relationship? In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing the benefits and challenges of starting as friends before dating to help you choose the right path for you.

Christian Dating Dilemma: Is It Better to Start as Friends?

Have you been dating someone for a while? Are things going well? Are you considering having “the talk,” defining the relationship, and getting a bit more serious about the person? What an exciting time in a relationship! In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing the most important questions to ask someone before taking your relationship to the “next level.” 

Dating: Questions to Ask Before You Get Serious

“Prayer is the lifeline of Christian courtship - a relationship deeply rooted in faith and guided by God's love." In this transformative Bible reading plan, explore the profound role of prayer in nurturing and sustaining relationships. Drawing inspiration from Biblical examples and teachings, this plan will empower you to prioritize communication with God, inviting His presence to permeate every aspect of your relationships. 

Defining Christian Courtship and the Role of Prayer in Relationships

Relationships are complicated, and relationships can be confusing if you're single, dating someone, or just putting feelers out there to see who you're attracted to. While the Bible never explicitly talks about "dating" relationships (because dating as we know it didn't exist when it was written), we can learn a lot of wisdom about relationships, singleness, attraction, and feelings.

Relationship Goals

It will help the reader to discover biblical principles on maintaining sexual boundaries.


SEXUAL TOUCH BOUNDARIES & SCRIPTURE

Are you thinking about mixing a bit of faith into your date nights? Picture this: you, your boyfriend or girlfriend, a cozy couch, and some seriously good vibes as you dive into a Bible study together. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing why, when, and how to do a Bible study as a couple to grow spiritually and honor God with your relationship.

Why and How to Do a Bible Study With Someone You’re Dating

Quality love relationships do not happen by accident; they are built through persistent hard work. In this 7-day plan for couples, author Danny Silk includes quick daily readings, Scriptures, and thought-provoking questions that will help you build, strengthen, maintain, and heal your relational connections. Learn to live out the very best of who you are and to "Keep Your Love On" with these devotions for couples.

Keep Your Love On: Devotions For Couples

Over one million couples have read the book by Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott. Now you can enjoy a Bible reading plan to accompany their award-winning book. Focusing on 7 questions to ask before (and after) you marry, this plan provides 7 readings to work in tandem with the book – and they are perfect for reading together with your fiancé or newlywed spouse.

Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts

Dating. Should you date? Should you not? What does Jesus think about it? If you choose to date, how should you? There are so many questions surrounding romantic relationships, and since dating as we know it today didn't exist 2,000 years ago, the Bible doesn't specifically address it. But, over the next 5 days we will look at some Biblical principles that can guide us through the confusion.

Call It What You Want

Dating

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

Co-parenting with God's help devotional will provide practical tools on how you can co-parent well, even when it is difficult. It addresses topics such as being a peacemaker, handling fear and control, praying through assumptions and more. 
Each day you will be given tools to help you walk with God through your co-parenting journey. We pray it will be a reminder to you that God is in it with you. 

Co-parenting With God's Help

This is a continuation of Growing Your Marriage. In this 4-day devotional Dr. Kim walks you through practical things you can start doing today to grow and deepen your marriage. This devotional will give you practical tips to improve your marriage. Each day has a short devotional, scripture, a short video, and application questions that will help you grow your marriage. 

Growing Your Marriage ‐ Part 2

Toni Nieuwhof is a former divorce lawyer and pastor’s wife who wants to help couples find joy in each other again, even after the lowest lows. She asks, do you wonder if you’re done with your marriage? If you’re seeking one more chance, hoping against all hope that your relationship can be turned around, these devotionals are for you. 

Before You Split

Divorce is the death of a marriage. It is one of the most challenging experiences a couple can encounter. Whether it occurs for one's safety, sanity or whatever reason, it is devastating for the couple, their extended family, and friends. This devotional will guide you into wholeness and renewal of spirit. There is life after divorce.

Life After Divorce

Everyone wants to experience a great marriage that lasts. The most effective and satisfying way to achieve that worthy goal is by consulting the One who created marriage in the first place. With compassion, transparency, and engaging storytelling, we will unpack what marriage really is, why God created marriage, and the unique roles both a man and a woman play in their marriage. A marriage that works is worth the work!

Marriage That Works

Divorce

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

“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

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

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

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. 