Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to John 15:13

Remaining in Christ has frequently been misunderstood by Bible readers, as though it were a special, mystical, and indefinable experience. In John 15:1-17, first, Christ helps us to understand what it means to remain in Him. Second, Christ helps us to understand the methods that strengthen our remaining in Him. Third, Christ describes three ways in which our lives are marked by our remaining in Him.

We love many different kinds of things and people, but some things are hard to love. Certain vegetables, for example. Or hard subjects in school. But sometimes people can be hard to love, too. Is there anyone in your life who you have a hard time loving? Catherine Parks will help you learn about love from the most loving Person of all time—Jesus!

Near the end of his life, John, the last living apostle, wrote a Gospel. And it seems some people were distorting it. John writes to believers caught in the aftermath, bringing clarity and commentary on what he wrote. He shows them what it looks like to be people of light and life instead of people of death and darkness. This plan takes us through 1 John and how to live in the face of distorted Christianity.

In Luke 15, Christ shows us that the reason we all need the gospel is because of the hopelessness of our sin. He reminds us of the amazing, and even scandalous, love of God our Saviour, that is displayed in the gospel, and He teaches us the only way we can receive the salvation of God that He offers to us through the gospel.

God’s Word is living and effective. It’s where we encounter the good news and where we find practical wisdom for our everyday lives. Discover hope and let the gospel of grace speak transformation into your life’s toughest issues with this 5-day plan.

We all want to be liked, accepted and included. It hurts when others reject us. But the enemy isn’t the person who leaves you out—Satan wants you to feel you don’t belong anywhere. How do we recognize and thwart Satan’s tactics to enjoy a deeper relationship with God and others? It starts with knowing that God made us to belong with him.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re born again and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to different values about right and wrong, and a different lifestyle to match it. This series of 5-day plans uses the 10 Commandments (following the classic Augustinian ordering) as a vehicle for an alternative, Christ-like morality and Jesus-way of living.

Come back from disappointment and failure and build resilience to go again.

Do you struggle with identity? Everyone tells you who you should be: influencers or a girl with a full social calendar and an Instagram-worthy life. But as a teenage girl and a Christ-follower, it is important that you remember who God says you are in His Word. Take the next five days to remember that the only person you are “supposed to be” is a child of God.

Male or female, single or married, lonely or embraced, we all need friendship love. This study will help us give and receive in a way that calls us back to Jesus’s commandment, that we love each other just like He loves us.