Marriage

Dating

Divorce

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

Parenting Young Children

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

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

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

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

Relationships

We’re Dino and Ashley Petrone, and we have a passion for healthy, God-centered marriages. We pray that by sharing our own experiences of confronting our failures, seeking after the future, and being intentional, we can encourage others by suggesting ways to move forward with a God-centered marriage. 

Designed to Last

As wives, our call is to love and respect our husbands out of reverence for Christ. Not an easy task! This reading plan will be a great encouragement to you. It will help you look to Christ to deepen your love for your husband, develop a biblical perspective of your role as his wife, instill romance in your relationship, and strengthen your walk with Him!

Pearls and Promises for Your Marriage

When it comes to love and relationships, many people go through life with a distorted view. But what if there was a better way? What if our perspective is out of focus? Over the next six weeks, we’re going to see what the Word of God says about love and relationships and how it was truly meant to be seen. Through this study, we’ll uncover the secrets to healthy relationships. 


The Secret: How Do You See Love?

For a couple who wants to have an alliance with God

A Cord of Three Strands

Do you ever feel like you are going through a mid-wife crisis? You know, when the honeymoon phase is over, and you find yourself wanting more out of marriage. The Word of God is filled with wisdom for wives. Through this devotional, let’s be encouraged by God’s Word regarding all that He created you for in this wifey life. 



Wifey for Lifey 

Satan uses popular culture, books, movies, and even other people to tell us what marriage "should" be. No wonder so many couples are unsatisfied and looking elsewhere to find happiness. Satan's ultimate goal is to divide husbands and wives and to destroy families, and he'll use anything at his disposal to do it. Pete Briscoe shines a spotlight on eight lies that can devastate your marriage.


Lies That Can Ruin a Marriage by Pete Briscoe 

In this 5-day devotional, Dr. Kim looks at things in life that can distract you from your marriage. This devotional will help you see different ways to protect your marriage from these distractions and how to nurture your marriage at the same time.

Each day has a short devotional, scripture, a short video, and application questions that will help you grow your marriage. 

Distractions in Your Marriage - Part 1

In this plan Dr. Kim Kimberling and Pastor Craig Groeschel talk about taking steps to be the man of God you were created to become. Each day will focus on one topic with a short video, Bible references, a devotional, and questions to help you grow to be a man of God.

Fighting to Be a Man of God

In this 15-day study, we’ll explore how the gospel changes everything, including the different relationships in our lives. From being single, dating, and marriage to parenting, family dynamics, co-workers, and the world, learn to see purpose in your purpose (who God has called you to be), purpose in your people (the relationships He’s positionally put around you), purpose in your placement (the season you’re in).

Relationships & the Gospel

Conflict in marriage is inevitable, but there are healthy ways to resolve it. This plan by Dr. Kim Kimberling will help you learn about conflict resolution as well as how to deal with anger and hurt in a healthy way. 

Stop The Fighting - Part 2: Breaking The Cycles Of Unhealthy Conflict

Taken from their book "Getting Ready for Marriage," join relationship experts Jim Burns and Doug Fields as they help you start planning now for your lasting union. Finances, in-laws, communication, forgiveness, sexual expectations, no topic is off-limits as you and your fiancé get ready to step from engagement into a life-long covenant to each other.

Getting Ready for Marriage

Do you struggle with lies of fear, worry or unforgiveness? These are often due to the Inner Critic who comes to steal, kill and destroy. Do you struggle to love yourself? In Letting Love In you learn what the Bible says about this and how to ask the Lord to help you overcome and experience a life of love. 

Letting Love In: How God Crushes Your Inner Critic 

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?

Tired of dating disasters, disappointments, and train wrecks? This five-day devotional will cut straight to the chase and lay out a practical plan that will help promote a healthy and enjoyable dating experience by sharing proven principles and tips that can be applied throughout the journey of exploring the relationship.

Dating In Black & White: Boundaries, Sex & Reality

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

Dating can be fun and fulfilling, but it also can get complicated. Thankfully, there’s wisdom and encouragement in Scripture to guide us toward healthy dating relationships. Whether you’re dating, you want to date, or you’re ready to talk to your kids about dating, this 5-day Bible Plan is for you.

Wisdom for Dating

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


SEXUAL TOUCH BOUNDARIES & SCRIPTURE

Whether you have just started out in a new relationship or have been married for a while, it is important to know what will make your relationship work. Ecclesiastes 4:12 says that a threefold cord is not quickly broken. This Bible reading plan touches on 13 practical keys to help you put and keep God at the center of your relationship.

13 Keys in Relationships

Between busy schedules and long days, expressing love towards your husband can easily fall by the wayside. These seven slightly adapted excerpts from the #1 New York Times bestselling book "The 5 Love Languages" by Dr. Gary Chapman will help you better communicate and connect with the man you love the most.

The 5 Love Languages For Her Reading Plan

In this 5-day devotional, we’ll help you open up the "closet" of your heart and “spring clean” your dating life as you trust God to fulfill the desires of your heart.

Spring Cleaning Your Dating Life

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

No one gets married anticipating the moment when they will be signing divorce papers. The path to divorce is often paved with guilt, shame, fear, and unforgiveness. This devotional plan , written by two divorcees, seeks to give an honest and hopeful perspective on how you can walk through some of the lingering effects of divorce with the help of God.

Living in Christ After Divorce

Fight or flight? When marriage gets messy, the question is real and sobering. Though the promise you’ve made is “…till death do us part,” letting go seems like such an easier option. What choice will you make when it comes to your marriage? In this 5-day reading plan, Pete Briscoe provides biblical insight for couples who long to fight for an enduring marriage—not one they’re merely struggling to endure.

Enduring Marriage By Pete Briscoe

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

Las rupturas son dolorosas e incómodas, y muchos de nosotros tendremos que caminar este oscuro y solitario camino. Para mí, es una de las cosas más difíciles sobre las que escribir o hablar: el dolor de la intimidad que no llegó al matrimonio. Así que aquí hay nueve lecciones para crear esperanza y amar a otros cuando se termina un “casi matrimonio”.  


Más allá del dolor de la ruptura

Were you taught that, as a Christian, you should “save” yourself for marriage and remain a virgin until having sex with your spouse for the first time? Were you taught why you should wait? In this 5-day devotional, we’re talking about God’s design for sex and why He instructs Christians to “save themselves” for marriage. 

Why Wait? A Christian Guide to Sex and Dating

Parenting is hard work in this sexualized, digital age. Yet, with vision and strategies rooted in God’s Word, we can guide our children in truth and grace… creating space for conversation, helping them understand God’s story of sex, equipping them to navigate the challenges of their world, and modeling the pursuit of purity—which is the pursuit of Jesus. This resource is a toolkit for your parenting journey!

Parenting In A Sexualized, Digital Age  

These five daily devotions were selected from Levi and Jennie Lusko's new devotional, The Marriage Devotional: 52 Days to Strengthen the Soul of Your Marriage. Even in the midst of mortgage payments, emotional baggage, drama, mistakes, and a whole lot of laundry, your marriage can not only survive, but be sweet, steady, and strong.

The Marriage Devotional: 5 Days to Strengthen the Soul of Your Marriage

Dating or single, engaged, or married for ten years, we can all use some of the Bible’s wisdom for our romantic relationships. Let God speak directly to your questions about dating and relationships. You might be surprised at how much He has to say.

What About Dating?

Nothing affects our lives as much as our relationships. The one best suited to guide you towards healthy, lasting relations is he who created you. This reading plan is made to help you discover Gods plan for your relationships.

Written by Simon Holst, lead pastor Skövde Pingst.

Better Together

So many of us have learned about sex and sexuality through media, friends, or our own experiences. Let’s discover what God says and how to walk in His ways. This is PART 1 of the PureHeart Challenge—a 5-Part Bible Plan for men and women on the topic of sexuality and purity.

Sex & Sexuality - God’s Ways vs. The World’s Ways

Has the guilt and shame of sexual sin been making you feel cut off from God? Start experiencing freedom with this proven framework for establishing a purity mindset. Overcome the mental block of "feeling unforgiven." Apply God's abundant grace to your personal journey. See yourself through the lens of who you are in Christ. And discover a vision behind your purity that will help you sustain your new lifestyle! 

5-Day Purity Mindset Reading Plan

This 16-day devotional (with two catch-up days) was written for couples in ministry roles by couples in ministry roles. At Leading and Loving It, we believe that ministries will not be healthy unless marriages are healthy first. You and your spouse will discuss a variety of topics including communication, finances and sexual intimacy!

Healthy Practices Of Ministry Couples

This biblically based and scientifically informed approach to porn addiction recovery/discipleship helps you renew your mind with God’s truth. The challenge is to go 30 days without porn or other sexual sin while addressing the roots of addiction. The 10 minutes or less of content each day will include at least one of the following:
(1) A video and reflection questions 
(2) A scripture meditation
(3) A devotional/testimony

Freedom From Porn Begins Here

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!