Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Luke 9:24

This reading plan includes five daily devotions based on Jonathan Murphy’s book Authentic Influencer: The Barnabas Way of Shaping Lives for Jesus. Through this study, you will learn from a remarkable man of God, nicknamed Barnabas, and his heart for influencing people to take God’s vision forward. As you walk with Barnabas, you will learn to shape the world for Jesus Christ—one life at a time.

This five-day plan explores practices Christians can implement in their daily walk with Christ to live a big faith at work.

Luke 9:51-62 teaches us that we can outright decline to follow Jesus, or we can allow ourselves to be distracted from following Jesus, or more importantly, we can be determined to follow Jesus.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to weird ideas and alternate beliefs about reality. This series of 5-day plans uses classic Christian Creeds as a vehicle to explain the Christian worldview compared to the world’s, and help us see reality through Jesus’s eyes.

Are you feeling tired or anxious today? This 5-day devotional reminds us that sitting at the feet of Jesus gives us the energy and focus we need to move forward in hope. Sitting at Jesus’ feet is not just about listening for His Word. It’s about worshipping Him. It’s about talking with Him. It’s about believing that He will give us boldness and courage to follow His call.

Acts has an implied question: To whom are you loyal? King Jesus or the powers that be? This 5-day plan continues a journey through the book of Acts, the Bible’s gripping sequel of Jesus at work in the life of his followers as he expands his kingdom to the ends of the earth. It’s a journey on what it means to be a Christian. It’s a story in which you have a role to play.

Did you know that the Word of God works when you work it? Internalizing and applying God’s Word is a crucial component of the spiritual growth process. This devotion offers five spiritual practices that help cultivate your faith walk, open your heart to the Holy Spirit’s leading, and align your thoughts and speech to God’s vision for your life. Affirm the Word and the vision God’s placed on your heart!

Living alert with a sober mind isn’t about fear or restriction, it’s about clarity, freedom, and purpose. This Bible Plan invites you to slow down, clear the noise, and learn how Scripture calls us to stay watchful, wise, and focused on what truly matters. As you begin, expect God to sharpen your discernment, help you recognize distractions, and guide you toward a life marked by peace and intentional obedience. Come with an open heart, ready to live awake to God’s direction and faithful in every season.

Lent is more than a tradition; it is an intentional time to calibrate our spirit. In this 5-day plan, we will prepare our hearts and minds to remember Jesus' sacrifice. Through reflection, repentance, and humility, we will walk together toward the cross, rediscovering the cost of our freedom and the immensity of His love.

Following Jesus is not casual. It is costly. It requires priority, surrender, obedience, and faith. Jesus never asked people to follow Him blindly. He told them exactly what it would cost, and He told them exactly what it would give. This plan is about counting that cost honestly and choosing obedience anyway.

Near the end of his life, John was the last of the living apostles and wrote a story about Jesus. It’s his testimony of who Jesus is, what he said, what he did, and who he claimed to be. Jesus has a story. He invites us to make it our story. When we make Jesus’s story our story, we have life in his name. This plan focuses on the first eight verses of John 12. It is part of an ongoing series through John.

With transparency, humor, heart-tugging storytelling, and more than a little personal confession, Martin shows us that no matter where we live or how much we have, as we learn what it is to be with people as Jesus was, we'll find our very lives. 

When thinking about missions, questions that flood our minds include: “Do I have what it takes?” “Am I qualified?” “Am I called?”. While thinking ahead is good, it is important to meditate on the Word of God day and night, as we ask these questions. This devotional is a 6-day exploration for those asking the question, “Should I go into cross-cultural missions?”.

Missionaries, pastors, and the average Christian will encounter suffering in their lives and the lives of those they love and serve. This devotion is designed to look at real-life stories illustrating how God uses suffering to teach, guide and mold us to be more like Jesus. By God’s grace, we can glorify God as we embrace suffering in our lives, knowing that Jesus willingly laid down His life for us.

God wants us to grow into the transformed men and women He created us to be. As we draw closer to Him, read Scripture, and develop a Christ-centered community, we position ourselves for optimal growth and freedom. This Bible reading plan, written and presented by Jessica Brodie and edited by Karen Greer, LaShawn Montoya, and Shelley Brooks, helps readers actively grow in Christ.

Stop whatever you’re doing and start reading this Bible Plan. You’ll learn more about what it means to follow the unique, unpredictable, unrivaled Jesus who walked this earth to bring us closer to God. This six-day Bible Plan with video clips from The Loop Show will help you learn who Jesus is, why He’s worth following, and what that looks like today.

Jesus is not a distant Lord who cannot relate to our struggles as men. Jesus modeled masculinity the way God intended man to be. Over the next six days, you will examine His life; to learn and apply the high-performance habits of Jesus in your daily routine. Discover one aspect of Jesus daily so you can follow Him on your journey into being the man He created you to be.

For those looking to find purpose and meaning as a Christian, this study delves into what authentic discipleship really means today. It explores learning, loving, living, and looking like Jesus, highlighting how being a follower of Christ provides a powerful means of fulfillment beyond the religious treadmill. By walking parallel alongside others on their faith journey, anyone can fulfill their purpose by embodying Jesus’ love for the world.

Being a child of God, a follower and disciple of Jesus is a wonderful privilege. But every Christian must understand that there is a cost – it is not always easy to be a follower of Jesus. This study is about the cost of discipleship.

As Jesus made clear, being his disciple involves a challenging choice. You must weigh up the costs and benefits of serving Jesus and decide whether you are willing to sacrifice your life and desires to follow Him. This Plan will assist you in making this choice. We will start with the costs of being a disciple, but we will certainly get to the benefits.

Beauty can be found in life’s imperfect moments. In this plan consisting of excerpts from the new devotional The Good Mess, mother-daughter duo Debbie Morris and Elaine Fisher share six of thirty-six stories that all women can relate to. Find out how God can rewrite our messes into stories that bring Him glory!

In our time, idolatry rarely appears in obvious forms. It hides behind good things — ambitions, influence, reputation, relationships, self-image, control, and even gifts God Himself has given. What begins as a blessing can quietly become a rival to the One who gave it. In this 6-day journey, we will examine some of the idols that quietly compete for the heart today, trusting that the Lord will help us recognize what competes with Him within us, tear them down, and lead us back to Himself.

In our world, filled with talk about our “rights” as human beings, the message of the Bible is strikingly countercultural. At the heart of the Gospel is an innocent man condemned to death who nevertheless willingly lays down His life for others. In this study we learn about the power of surrender in our own lives.

 As children of God, we have been given a new home and a new hope. And when we learn to live for heaven, the cares and weights of this world fall off our shoulders in light of our place in God’s advancing Kingdom. In this 7-day plan, you’ll create space every day to cast your burdens at the feet of Jesus, and rejoice in the hope of the eternal life you’re already living in God. 

Author Elizabeth Laing Thompson invites readers to walk alongside people of the Bible who had to wait on God. . . Their stories will equip us to live our own stories—particularly our problematic waiting times—with faith, patience, perspective, and a healthy dose of humor.