Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to 1 Corinthians 3:8

Feeling like a stranger can be a barrier to hearing the good news about Jesus. Do you have friends and family who won’t visit church? Do you want to share the good news with someone who doesn’t know any Christians? Do you want help connecting with someone from another culture? Read John 4:1-42 with us and see how Jesus bridges cultural chasms to bring the good news to a stranger who’d never have felt comfortable visiting the Temple in Jerusalem.

These seven devotions are based on Jim Cymbala's Carry the Flame Bible study with clips of Jim's teaching from the video series. Find out how to renew your heart and revive the world.

The light and love of Jesus meet the world’s deep need—and we can participate in bringing his light to our communities and relationships. In these devotionals, pastor and former NFL player Derwin Gray encourages us to become everyday missionaries, offering good news to those around us.

In this week of devotionals, we will explore some of the big ideas from the book of 1 Corinthians, written by the apostle Paul, and consider what it means to be men set apart for the sake of Christ! Written by J.R. Hudberg.

This seven-day series is a healthy dose of practical and spiritual considerations for your mission trip. The second part in the “Mission Trip Checkup” series, it is applicable for groups or individuals on any type of mission trip. It is intended to help team members refocus each day on what’s important during their mission trip, from spiritual truths to practical considerations.

God's church has faced several crises, and God's wisdom has resolved them. It would be a waste not to learn critical lessons from those crisis moments that will help us in the Church today. This devotional plan seeks to show you essential lessons for serving in God's vineyard without crisis. It asks and answers seven critical questions about serving in God's house.

Every follower of Jesus has a job to do. In this 7-day Bible plan, you’ll explore why Jesus came, who you are in Him and how God uses ordinary people to share His extraordinary message. Through Scripture and practical encouragement, you’ll discover that evangelism isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about faithfully telling others what Jesus has done. You were made for more than just believing the gospel; you were made to tell it.

The journey of an athlete to the Olympics has many parallels to our journey to a closer walk with God. Paul uses the comparison in his letter to the church at Corinth where he mentions a runner's pursuit of a prize. This plan features the stories of Olympic athletes who compete with Biblical guidance. Their pursuit of a gold medal is based on trusting God, not performance alone.

The Bible gives clear instructions on what to do with weights, worries and weariness – so why do we find it so difficult to let go and to recharge? This Bible reading plan will help you to discern what’s stopping you from letting go of the weights and worries that you’re carrying, and what’s keeping you in a state of weariness.

Do you want to share Jesus with others but need help figuring out how to begin? This devo will help you learn how to bridge spiritual conversations into gospel conversations. With practical steps, you will feel more confident to take the steps of faith to share the life-changing message of Jesus with others.

This devotional was written to help us as believers level up! As we walk our journey with Christ we may reach a point where we need to progress and advance and step up in devotion to God - if this is where you are then this devotional is for you!

As a pastor, you spend a lot of time leading and encouraging others, but the Bible has encouragement for you, too. This 10-day reading plan walks you through 10 practical ways to strengthen the health of your church by learning to rely fully on God. With short but powerful verses and a focused thought for each day, Growing a Healthy Church is a great boost for your daily prayer time.

What if we don’t have to travel far to get close to people who are distant from God? What if Christians were the best neighbors? Would your street change? Would heaven be fuller? A long time ago, a religious leader asked Jesus how to get into heaven. Jesus answered with a question, then the story of the Good Neighbor. No surprise, 2000 years later Jesus’ story still explains how to neighbor. Join Pastor Craig Groeschel and Life.Church in a practical, story-filled guide to meeting your neighbors and loving them as yourself. But don’t just read it—live it!

Adapted from TruNorth Cooperative’s City Lab, this plan is designed for 20-somethings and young professionals who want to reflect deeply on gospel transformation in their own lives so they can participate in the gospel renewal of the workplaces, communities, and cities in which they live. TruNorth exists to help twenty-somethings find their bearings as they settle into life and faith in the City and is an expression of Cru City.

Ephesians 4:8 says that when Jesus ascended to Heaven, He gave gifts to men. These gifts are the ministry gifts of the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher. Each one has a specific function and is necessary in building up the Body of Christ. This plan focuses on the vital but often misunderstood roles of the apostle and the prophet; what they are and what their purpose is.

Are you tired of settling for less than what God has for you? Do you want to reap the harvest He intended for your life? In Galatians, Paul makes it clear to us that "a man reaps what he sows". Join me on this 10-day journey to prepare the grounds and make our way... back to the garden.

The Gospel of John shows us who Jesus is. In chapter 4, we read how Jesus reveals Himself in a conversation with a Samaritan woman at a well. This story contains many lessons for us. John has written it down for us, “so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31)

Even though the offer of freedom is available to all, many still live in bondage. The key to unlocking your freedom is the forgiveness that Jesus has already won for you. Bring all of your sin, your guilt, and your shame to Jesus and experience this gift of grace in your life. A forgiven person is a forgiving person. So come. Be free.

In this devotional, we will explore sociocultural perspectives, the world and its changes, and the damage caused by the Fall as expressed in society, families, and individuals. The invitation is to re-evaluate our own vision, to be healed from emotional fragments, and to be freed from the dogmas and sophisms that characterize our minds and, consequently, our perspective.

Do you understand God's view of work? Each of these studies will have a work life theme. There are 12 individual Bible study lessons in this series.

The first epistle to the Corinthians covers several issues that are relevant to Christians today. By drawing lessons from 1 Corinthians 1-7, Dr. David Mende encourages us to live for Christ in a corrupt world.

This reading plan explores the background to Paul's letters to the Corinthians, examines the structure and content of First and Second Corinthians, and reveals his eschatology.

Unlimited Service will teach you the basics of how you can serve God through your local church, through your family and friends, and in your own personal life. It will emphasize that the most important work that you can do for God is to believe in His Son Jesus Christ and show you that the reward for your service is unfathomable glory in eternal life.

The church at Corinth was plagued by internal division and sinful derision. Paul provides the only solution potent enough for their disunity and spiritual disruptions: “Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 1:10). 1 Corinthians reminds us that by focusing on Jesus and His glorious resurrection, we too will “be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the word of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).

In several parables, Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a field where a man sows seed. This reading plan seeks to discover which spiritual lessons we can learn from Jesus’ parables and from other Bible verses about seeds and sowing. Thanks to Gospel Images for the beautiful image.