Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to James 1:3

When was the last time you laughed during your devotional time? This amusing but thought-provoking reading plan is designed to make you laugh while also encouraging you to dig deeper into your faith. Each devotional is accompanied by Dennis Fletcher’s cartoon artwork, which adds an extra bit of humor to your day.

We all go through times when God’s presence feels distant and answers to our prayers seem silent. We wonder if God even cares. With transparency and a pastoral heart, Jamie Rasmussen mines the riches of the book of Esther for principles that are available to us today. The result is an intimate guide to navigating seasons of divine distance so that we can once again feel closer to God.

If you could have joy for the rest of your life, would you choose to? If in the midst of the hardest circumstances, you could somehow smile, would you? If there was a way to be happy and full of laughter all the time, should you? This 5-day reading plan by Baylor Wilson will encourage you to receive the everlasting joy that Jesus offers no matter what you’re walking through.

When you love someone addicted to drugs or alcohol you feel all alone, you blame yourself, and you lose all hope. This Bible plan will help guide you through the storm of your loved ones' addiction to find hope and healing. (Plan written and developed by Amy LaRue, Finding Hope Coordinator for Hope Is Alive.)

Sometimes life’s good and the surf is pumping. Other days, life’s hard and nothing seems to go right. So when you’re caught in the closeout, or everything’s turned to mush, what do you do? Join the Christian Surfers’ crew to explore how God can grow you through hard times—and how you can learn to rejoice in Him, even when life isn’t going the way you hoped.

Everyone's story comes with unique challenges that leave you lost and drowning in their wake. Dr. Tony Evans, bestselling author and pastor, understands life's hardships firsthand. In less than two years, he lost his brother, sister, brother-in-law, two nieces, father, and wife. Join him on this 5 day journey and see that there is hope for the hurting: His name is Jesus.

What is joy? We can receive fleeting moments of it from time to time, but there is only one source of true, lasting joy—and that’s our Savior, Jesus. When everyday life fills us with uncertainties, we can learn to count it all joy by turning to God and His Word.

This reading plan includes five daily devotions based on Ben Stuart’s book Rest and War. The spiritual life can feel like it’s a struggle because it is! The pursuit of intimacy with God occurs within the context of adversity. And yet with struggle can come progress if we learn to struggle well.

Do you feel stuck? Almost as if you haven’t moved forward in the last several years? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. This 5-day plan will encourage and help you see how God always moves, even when we feel stuck.

Do you have children? What is the most challenging part of raising them? For me, it is this. Just when I have parenting figured out, the child moves into yet another phase, requiring a completely different approach. Fortunately, our heavenly Father knows exactly how to meet us where we are. This Plan takes us through our journey with our own children to understand the Father’s perfect love.