Marriage

Dating

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

Parenting Teens/Tweens

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

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

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

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

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

Parenting Young Children

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Relationships

Never before in the history of the world has the institution of marriage come under such scrutiny. Every day, society seeks to redefine what it means to be married, and Christians face greater criticism for holding to a so-called narrow-minded view of marriage. So what is the biblical purpose of marriage, and how should we pray as believers to preserve its meaning? In our six-day campaign, Prayers for Purpose in Your Marriage, couples can pray meaning into their own marriage, as well as affirming a godly understanding of the covenantal union between a man and a woman. 

For further help, Tony’s book, Kingdom Marriage fully explores the biblical foundation for marriage and gives couples the tools they need to foster healthy relationships.


Prayers For Purpose In Your Marriage

Abandoned faith is a painfully deep and prevalent problem among millennials. Even those who grew up in strong Christian families are walking away from their faith. Expert apologist authors Alex McFarland and Jason Jimenez address this new reality with compassion to parents who feel burdened and alone. They share statistics, stories, and practical ways parents can impact their children, and help you lead them home. 

How To Help Your Millennial Return To Faith

Without a doubt, life can get super busy as we try to have good marriages, train up our kids, and do all the things, but there is help! We are surely not alone in the process. Join me for this life-changing 4-day devotional. Together with God, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and some practical tips, we can manage marriage, motherhood, and ministry, well. Download it today and let's get started!  

Life Management - Managing Marriage, Motherhood, & Ministry With Courtnaye Richard

In this five-day study for couples, we'll explore how to engage in spiritual disciplines in your marriage. Learn how to pray, study God's Word, worship, serve, and experience community together with your spouse and discover how these habits can bless and benefit your marriage in ways you never thought possible!

Pursuing Christ Through Your Marriage

Most of us were raised to view conflict as a bad thing. And we carry that belief into our marriages—too often believing that no conflict = happy, healthy relationship. But in any close relationship, conflict is inevitable. In this 10-day devotional,  Dr. Juli Slattery explores how God wants conflict to be used as a catalyst for intimacy in our marriages, instead of catastrophes that destroy them.

Conflict as a Catalyst

This prophet Hosea ministered during one of the most difficult times in Israel's history. The midst of the struggles, God called Hosea to speak wisdom to his people. So, what did Hosea tell them? And what can we learn from his wisdom today?

The Prophetic Wisdom Of Hosea

God designed marriage to be a reflection of His love and devotion toward us. As you celebrate your marriage, this 7-day Bible plan is designed to strengthen your marriage and help you pursue Jesus together.

The Next Year of Your Marriage

From Kingdom Story Company and The Erwin Brothers comes American Underdog, based on the true inspirational story of Kurt and Brenda Warner. This American Underdog plan leads you through 5 days that highlight Biblical examples of experiences and lessons learned through Kurt and Brenda Warner's journey in life.


American Underdog

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 31 day devotional focusing on strengthening your marriage.

31 Days To A Stronger Marriage

When you think about forgiveness, it can feel overwhelming. Maybe someone’s words or actions have cut deep, leaving your heart bruised. Forgiveness might even feel unfair, like letting them off the hook. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing what true forgiveness means and how to offer it even when you’re hurt.

Forgiveness in Dating: The Hardest and Purest Form of Love

It’s easy to think, “Shouldn’t my life look different by now?” Maybe you’re single and tired of feeling like you’ll never meet someone you truly connect with. Or maybe you’re dating, but nothing seems to hold potential, leaving you discouraged about where it’s going. In either case, you’re not alone! In this 5-day devotional, we’re exploring how to trust God’s timing in love and bloom where you're planted.

Bloom Where You're Planted: Trusting God's Timing in Love

Do you believe you’re worthy of a love that respects and cherishes you? Too often, we settle for less than we deserve, forgetting our immense value. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing practical insights and biblical truths to help you build self-worth, set healthy boundaries, and pursue relationships that honor who you are in Christ. 

The Love You Deserve: How to Value Yourself in Dating

Dating to find the right spouse can be challenging, especially with cultural pressures all around. However, we see in Scripture that God offers a template for us to follow when we are navigating the waiting season. Learn more about how to date in a godly manner with this reading plan.

Dating in a Way That Honors God

Too many people lose their mind when they fall in love. That’s when the real insanity—and eventual heartache—begins. This chapter provides an alternative. We call it smart love, and it will help you evaluate your romantic relationships with your head, not just your heart. 

Improving Your Love IQ

If it's true that God can use anything to draw us closer to Him, why is online dating any different? How might God want to use this season of singleness and the adventure of online dating to deepen your trust in Him?

The Grown Woman's Guide to Online Dating: 5 Days of Finding God's Goodness in Dating

Setting boundaries is an integral part of maintaining a healthy and God-honoring courtship, especially in the context of Christian relationships. Boundaries are like the guardrails that guide couples in their journey. In this 3 day plan, we will explore the significance of setting boundaries in Christian courtship, how to establish them, and the role they play in nurturing a relationship that glorifies God.

Setting Boundaries in Christian Courtship

Do you long to fall in love and find your soul mate? Does God say anything about dating in His word? In this 7-day devotional you’ll learn what God thinks about dating and love and all things that lead to a healthy marriage. 

7 Dates To A Love That Lasts

An Esther season gifts us time and space to develop and become the person Christ wants us to be before taking marriage vows. As our hearts bubble with joyful gratitude because we’ve found the one whom our soul loves, our minds and hands race toward the day when we make that covenant commitment. Seek God and be refined by his grace as we prepare for all that is to come.


Before the Vow

Everyone wants to find someone with whom they can build a family and live happily ever after. Many online dating websites and apps have been created for people to meet each other. Christians wonder if a successful dating relationship can be done online. This devotional is meant to teach adult couples how to date successfully whether they meet online or in person. 

Should Christians Date Online?

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

This reading plan by Tracie Miles takes a deep dive into understanding and overcoming the emotional toll divorce, separation, and the loss of a serious long-term relationship has on a woman’s well-being. Tracie Miles leads women on a powerful, life-changing journey that provides much-needed hope, encouragement, and practical guidance for living their best life even if it’s not the life they once imagined. 

Living Unbroken: Reclaiming Your Life and Heart After Divorce

What do we do when our dreams seem out of reach or even shattered? Having overcome abuse and trauma, as well as the heartbreak of a divorce, I have been faced with this question again and again. Whether you’re experiencing the devastation of tragedy or loss, or the frustration of a long season of waiting, the God-dream for your life is still alive! Friend, it’s time to dream again.

Dreams Redeemed

You know the saying, "Won the battle but lost the war." It's a profound description of what can happen in a marriage if one spouse insists on always winning arguments and getting their own way. The victory may feel good in the short term, but it can do serious damage to your relationship, long term. Pete Briscoe brings a fresh perspective about what it really means to win at marriage.

Choosing To Lose Wins In Marriage By Pete Briscoe

Marriage is hard work. And things don't always go as we hoped they would. Whether your marriage has struggled because of betrayal or years of neglect, you can have a new marriage. This plan is just seven days, but you can read more in Cindy's book, Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New.

Rebuilding A Marriage Better Than New

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

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

Explore 7 inspiring, Biblical relationship goals to deepen intimacy with each other and with God. Whether you've been married one year or many, this plan will help you discover ways to grow and strengthen your relationship in practical ways that work for you.

7 Relationship Goals for Your Marriage

The Fresh Fire for Couples reading plan is a seven-day devotional written by Richard and Brittni De La Mora. As relationships progress we run the risk of growing familiar with our significant other and losing that spark we once had. To ensure that doesn’t happen, it is necessary to invest into our relationships. With this seven-day challenge, you will create a fire in your marriage while simultaneously growing closer to your partner and God.

Fresh Fire For Couples

In this 7-day devotional for men, we look at biblical and practical ways to find freedom in the area of lust - an area that many men struggle with! Written by Chris Walker of Impactus.

Overcoming Lust

Because sex is considered “taboo” in many churches, some couples may feel lost about some of the big topics regarding sex. Dr. Doug Weiss, a psychologist who has helped married couples reconnect intimately and sexually for decades, biblically and therapeutically answers some of the toughest questions about healthy, biblical sexuality and guides you through some foundational principles so your sex life can be the best that it has ever been!

Upgrade Your Sex Life

Sex. It's everywhere. We're bombarded with it everywhere we look. Yet, what is the value of sex? Unfortunately, it has become a cheap commodity and something that many struggle to truly understand the value of. Thankfully, God, through the Bible, has much to say on the topic of sex, it is not something He has been silent on, even if the Church is.

The Value Of Sex

Getting to the truth about sex and relationships.

A middle school devotional designed to help students discover God's best for them when it comes to dating and relationships. In this devotional, you’ll find wisdom that will help you get to the truth about sex and relationships and how you can experience both in real, healthy ways. 

Real Talk

It's almost impossible to read an article, turn on the TV, or get on the web without being bombarded by sex. The world says, “do it,” while the church is often too silent on the issue. God designed sex, so doesn’t it make sense to go to the designer and ask how we should handle it?

One Minute Apologist - God's Design For Sex


In today's sexually charged society, embracing God's design for sex and purity often feels impossible. This devotional is your invitation to spend a week with us recognizing God's purpose for sexuality as good, relevant, and whole. We will be honest about our struggles and victories as we set our understanding against a biblical framework. Let’s allow God to refine our inmost longings and discover true hope and lasting freedom.

Sex, Purity, And The Longings Of A Girl's Heart

Because God is love, he knows the best way to love. This reading plan explores the intersection of sexuality and spirituality.



Love Is Love

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Family-ID:  7 Keys To A Great Family

Today, many Baby Boomers are smack dab in the middle of their grandparenting years. They don’t want to be merely adequate grandparents. They want to be rockstar grandparents! Chrys Howard—best known to many as mom of Korie Robertson of Duck Dynasty—shows you how, using lyrics from classic Boomer songs, her own stories as “2-mama” (grandma), and powerful truths in God’s Word.

Rockstar Grandparent

You may be a care provider who impacts kids in care, or a parent who understands that “if it’s not Ok for MY Kids - it’s not OK for any of God’s kids.”  Whatever your motivation, God wants to use YOU for His Glory and their Good. Ignite Hope invites you to Stand in the Gap for the Modern Orphan - with this segment focused on children in Foster Care.

God’s Got This: Praying For Kids In Foster Care

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

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

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

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

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.