Do you want better relationships? Do you consider yourself to be a loving person?  Have you ever thought about how to show a more loving version of yourself toward your family, friends, co-workers, and even strangers you meet? It may sound simple, but loving others well is layered and comes with many challenges. It’s more than emotion or affection. It’s more than having things in common.  Love is a divine choice to act in a favorable way toward another.
It’s more than making friends, acts of kindness, romance or marital love. It’s about redefining love from God’s perspective.

A New Way to Love Your Neighbor

After being mocked and tortured on the cross, Jesus spoke his final words and took his last breath, fulfilling the purpose and promise of His Father. These final words continue to live on. But why do the matter? How does it affect your everyday life? This Easter, journey through each of Jesus' seven statements spoken from the cross and meditate on what they reveal about who our Savior is—who died and uttered His last words specifically for you.

Messiah’s Last Words: Easter Reflections

Do you believe you’re worthy of a love that respects and cherishes you? Too often, we settle for less than we deserve, forgetting our immense value. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing practical insights and biblical truths to help you build self-worth, set healthy boundaries, and pursue relationships that honor who you are in Christ. 

The Love You Deserve: How to Value Yourself in Dating

In the Mom’s Devotional Bible reading plan, you’ll be inspired by 7 devotions that will remind you that you are loved and seen by God, and that He is always with you – no matter what. Take a moment for yourself today and be encouraged. 

7 Days of Encouragement for Moms

Have you ever been moved by a song that changed your heart forever? God’s love is like that—deep, personal, and life-changing. In this 3-day devotional, we explore the depths of His love: how He loved us first, how we respond in obedience, and how this love transforms us from the inside out. 

The Greatest Love Story

7 Days Empowered by Grace is a short but powerful Devotional that will help you experience God’s Grace in a real and personal way. In just seven days, you’ll see how His Grace isn’t just a nice idea—it’s the Life-Changing Power in your daily life.

7 Days Empowered by Grace

When you think about forgiveness, it can feel overwhelming. Maybe someone’s words or actions have cut deep, leaving your heart bruised. Forgiveness might even feel unfair, like letting them off the hook. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing what true forgiveness means and how to offer it even when you’re hurt.

Forgiveness in Dating: The Hardest and Purest Form of Love

Have you ever had a gut feeling about someone or a situation but brushed it aside, telling yourself you were probably overthinking? That nudge in your spirit could be discernment from the Holy Spirit. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing how to discern between red flags and real love for a healthy and godly dating experience.

Red Flags vs. Real Love: Discernment in Dating

When we experience injustice, we long for God to execute justice. But that also presents us with a problem: none of us is completely righteous. So if God Is to execute justice, He has to punish us as well. But don't worry, God has found a unique way to love us in spite of our mistakes. In this exciting reading plan, you can read about this solution, and how it can work in your life. 

I Searched for Justice, but Found Love

Daily Bible reading helps you build consistent interaction with Scripture. Background, key verses for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, and prayers prompted by the day's passage will all help you connect with God and others. Journey with us this month and explore the theme “Assurance of Hope in Christ Jesus"

Daily Bible Reading— April 2025, God’s Strengthening Word: Assurance of Hope in Christ Jesus

Has your walk with God ever felt one-sided? Silent? If you’ve struggled to hear God’s voice, or if you feel like you’ve never heard his voice, you are not alone. In this five-day reading plan, we explore the profound truth that God desires to communicate with you, personally. Consider opening your heart, listening intently, and embracing the joy of continual conversation with the God who knows and loves you.

Hearing God's Voice

To the weary, hurting single mom–the one who feels you cannot go on and that life has been too much–you are seen. You are seen by the one, true God. While I don’t understand the depths of your pain, I know the depths of my own. And the God I serve has been a faithful healer of all my broken places, and He will surely heal yours. 

Healing and the Single Mom: By Jennifer Maggio

There is a war for the love of God. This all-out war makes perfect sense since loving God is the first and most important commandment. This vital ingredient, love, is how the world will know we are Christians. The Daily Nuggets of Grace is a tool to help Christians remove barriers like guilt, shame, fear, and pride while learning to abide in Christ and recover their first love for Him.  

Daily Nuggets of Grace Part 4 Victorious!

Busyness can become the mantra of the holiday season if we are not intentional to make room for Jesus. Over these next 24 days, let's declutter our hearts and minds so we can make room for the gifts of love, joy, hope and peace that our Savior has given us. 

Advent Devotional: Make Room for Jesus

How often does it feel like time is in short supply? ‘If only there were more hours in the day!’ crosses our minds. Familiar to many of us is the idea that we can spend time or invest it. How can we as parents invest in the lives of our children in ways that will produce beneficial outcomes? Our thoughts turn in that direction this week.

Time: It Is “Of the Essence”: A 3-Day Parenting Plan)

The Marriage Talks is the ideal plan for couples or small groups who want to understand what the Bible says about marriage as they grow their relationship together. Part 2 focuses on two marriage essentials: love and respect. Listen together as Kris Langham guides you through key Bible passages, and discuss together the differences between his and her love languages and respect languages. Great for groups or marital/premarital counseling.

The Marriage Talks Part 2 | Love & Respect

Whether your child is five or fifty-five, don’t stop listening. Continue engaging their heart. Continue being Dad. In this seven-day plan, based on Michael Thompson’s newest book King Me, you will explore how the legacy we leave behind as fathers isn’t determined by how we started—though that may very well need to be cleaned up—but rather, by how we move forward from here. 

Fathering Hearts

A 5-day preview of Restart Your Heart by Jentezen Franklin - 
21 Encouraging Devotions So You Can Love Like You've Never Been Hurt.  Used by permission of Chosen, a division of Baker Publishing Group. Copyright 2018.

Restart Your Heart

The evil one wants to destroy your family! We are going to unpack simple areas in your everyday life so you can fight back daily. Our goal is to equip you to push back the darkness that is trying to steal, kill, and destroy everything good in your life. 

TheLionWithin.Us: 5 Simple Strategies to Fight for Your Family

Can God truly forgive someone like me? This is a question we may have asked or wondered. In this devotional, we will journey through the Bible and explore countless examples of God's forgiveness of those many had written off. This plan will show you God's ability to forgive and love us beyond our sins. It will also show the beauty of love and redemption found in God's forgiveness. 

He Forgives..

From the latest news headline to social media comments, there are plenty of opportunities to be offended each day. But what if we decided to respond differently? In this 7-day Bible Plan, accompanying Pastor Craig Groeschel’s message series, No Offense, we’ll discover how to surrender the anger that’s been holding us back and keeping others hostage. 

No Offense 

What does it look like to raise godly kids in a godless world? And how can you parent your child’s heart, not just their head? Many parents settle for raising good kids instead of godly adults by trying to control a child’s behavior rather than cultivate a child’s heart, but this doesn’t have to be you! In this 5-day plan, you’ll find out how to successfully parent your child’s heart, not just their head, to raise not just good but godly kids.

Parenting Your Child's Heart -- Not Just Their Head

Welcome parenthood with open arms and encouragement straight from God's Word! Oh Baby is a Bible reading plan full of devotions, prayers, and Scripture created to bring comfort, wisdom, and guidance to new parents-to-be on your journey to welcoming your little one into the world! Embrace 14 days of encouragement as you step into this new chapter as parents. Oh baby!

Oh Baby: 14 Devotions for New Parents

There is a war for the love of God. This all-out war makes perfect sense since loving God is the first and most important commandment. This vital ingredient, love, is how the world will know we are Christians. The Daily Nuggets of Grace is a tool to help Christians remove barriers like guilt, shame, fear, and pride while learning to abide to recover their first love for Christ.  

Daily Nuggets of Grace  Part 2  Unashamed!

Ever been afraid that you’re not enough? Struggle to believe that God really loves and sees you? This 7-day plan from Bible teacher Jen Weaver will help you silence nagging self-doubt and replace insecurity with confidence as you receive God’s incredible truth about who you are. Discover how to align your thoughts with His promises and live with the assurance that you’re deeply loved, chosen, and seen by God every day.

Living Loved: See Yourself Through God’s Eyes

God often uses “40 days” to complete a spiritual challenge. The challenge can involve overcoming temptation like Jesus in the desert, or preparing for an encounter with God like Moses on Mount Sinai, or the strengthening of an individual’s faith exemplified in stories like Noah’s Ark, Jonah, or David and Goliath. Over the next 40 days, we will engage with the Word, seek God, and take hold of His promises.

40 Days in the Word - Power of the Word 

Embark on a soul-nurturing journey crafted by licensed professional counselor, Susan Goss, who brings a unique blend of spiritual insight and therapeutic expertise to your fingertips. Susan integrates encouraging devotions, Scriptures that speak to the soul, and heart-stirring prompts to help deepen your faith, amplify the power of love, and unlock the liberating force of forgiveness.

Faith Love Forgiveness

There is a war for the love of God. This all-out war makes perfect sense since loving God is the first and most important commandment. This vital ingredient -love is how the world will know we are Christians. The Daily Nuggets of Grace is a tool to help Christians remove barriers like guilt, shame, fear, and pride while learning to abide to recover their first love for Christ.  

Daily Nuggets of Grace Part 5 Courageous!

Jesus-Style Leadership (JSL) offers 80 biblical devotions designed to help young Christian leaders develop a biblical way of leadership that will ensure their leadership calling and gifting is greatly used by God in his kingdom. JSL is all about leading Jesus' way. This second Plan focuses on the importance of love for followers (seen in service) and heart for God (seen in character).

Jesus Style Leadership 2 - Love & Heart

A thriving marriage doesn’t happen by chance—it takes intention. In this 7-day plan, Pastor Ed Young share biblical wisdom and practical steps to help you build deeper love, strengthen communication, and experience lasting connection. Whether you’re newly married or years in, discover how God’s design can transform your relationship and ignite lasting intimacy.

Ignite Your Marriage: 7 Days to Deeper Love & Lasting Connection

Relationships aren’t perfect! Some days, we find ourselves emotionally bruised and battered by the words and actions of others. And sometimes, we are the ones whose choices inflict deep pain in someone else. This reading plan will help you learn to walk in the freedom of forgiveness, as you study the example of true grace—our Heavenly Father. 


Mastering The Art Of Forgiveness

Let’s be honest…we all ask, “What about me?” But could you be sabotaging your own progress by focusing on the wrong things? Joyce Meyer’s free, 10-day study—filled with fun lessons and activities for the entire family—is just what you need to refocus and find more satisfaction than you thought possible. Discover the joy of an unselfish life!
 


What About Me?!

Mercy Culture Church exists to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. Each year we pray and ask God for His heart and His mind over that next year. This year, we heard the Lord say 2025 will be a year of Radical Love! Join us over the next 5 days to learn what it means to radically love God with everything you have.

Radical Love

Together, we’ve been blessed to see the world through the lens of many amazing opportunities. But our family’s still just like your family. Our marriage’s just like your marriage. Our relationship goal when we married: love God, love each other, and inspire our kids to see marriage differently. We hope this series inspires you to do marriage and family God’s way – and to give them all you’ve got.  

Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, & Family

This devotional, inspired by four songs from Tianna's debut EP Welcome In, is perfect for young adults seeking to deepen their faith and connections. Dive into reflections, personal questions, and prayers that emphasize the power of community, self-worth, and God's constant presence. Join us to strengthen your faith, build meaningful relationships, and navigate life with confidence and support.

Welcome In

Arguably one of the most well-known Bible verses around the world, John 3:16 carries the weight of the Greatest Gift we can ever receive. This 7-day Plan breaks this verse and the surrounding passages down in a way that will help you grasp the magnitude of God’s Plan and His Love for you – read along and be encouraged!

John 3:16

How do you feel about the violence in so many of our cities and the lack of civility? In this reading plan, writer Paul Marc Goulet shares about this topic and how you can deal with it.

Let God's Love Transform Lives

The Bible presents marriage as a sacred covenant. But what does that mean, and how do we live it out in the everyday challenges of marriage? Listen together as Kris Langham opens the Word to provide clear explanation and insightful application on key issues like commitment, connection, holiness, and sex. With engaging audio and practical discussion questions, The Marriage Talks is perfect for marital or premarital couples and small groups.

The Marriage Talks Part 3 | Covenant

This 4-day plan weaves Scripture together with Mister Rogers’s own words to show how the redemptive work of Christ led Rogers to embrace his own vocation as a means of redeeming television. As we will see modeled in the life of Rogers, the gospel changes everything about our work, from our motivations for work, to what we create, to how we work each day.

Mister Rogers And The Call To Create

Explore the transformative power of God's love through these devotionals. Learn about loving your enemies, the unbreakable bond of God's love, and the command to love one another. Each devotional, grounded in Scripture, guides you to a deeper understanding and practical application of Christ-like love in everyday life

Love

What does it take to keep your marriage strong for the long run? In Part 4 of The Marriage Talks, Kris Langham searches the Bible to find the keys to making it last, with a clear explanation on joy and honor, plus a compassionate discussion of Jesus’ teaching about divorce. With engaging audio and practical discussion questions, The Marriage Talks is perfect for marital or premarital couples and small groups.

The Marriage Talks Part 4 | Making It Last

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful tools God gives us for building deep, meaningful relationships. When you’re starting as friends, imperfections and misunderstandings will inevitably show up. After all, you’re both human. What matters is how you respond to these moments. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing the role of forgiveness when starting as friends first.

The Role of Forgiveness When You’re Building a Friends-First Relationship

Does your critical spirit crush your spouse or rob your marriage of companionship? Has your spouse said you are critical? Constantly judging yourself and others will hold you back from being fully vulnerable and transparent with your spouse. God has better for your marriage. In this 5-day plan by Tiffany Miller, we take a biblical look at how to cut the criticism and cultivate companionship. 

Cut the Criticism and Cultivate Companionship in Your Marriage

Daily Nuggets of Grace Part 6 Calm!

The devotionals in this eight-day series focus the reader’s attention on the final week of Jesus’ life and the circumstances surrounding his death, burial, and resurrection. When Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he entered a city filled with political strife, fear and uneasiness. Following Jesus’ actions and interactions each day gives readers a clearer understanding of the context of the events that serve as the foundation for Christian faith.

The Final Week of Jesus' Life: An 8-Day Holy Week Devotional Series

When we focus on the final week in the life of Jesus, we see the undeniable love He has for us!  In this 4-part Easter study, you will walk through the days leading up to the Resurrection of Christ and discover amazing truths about Christ’s love for us. 

The Heart of Easter

Today, we are praying for the Illness, finances, or marriage problems of people we love. But, what if the way we pray for other people was bigger than we imagined? What if our vision for prayer is too small? This four-day plan will help you pray for the people you love with more confidence and expectation.

How to Pray for the People You Love

Most of us were raised to view conflict as a bad thing. And we carry that belief into our marriages—too often believing that no conflict = happy, healthy relationship. But in any close relationship, conflict is inevitable. In this 10-day devotional,  Dr. Juli Slattery explores how God wants conflict to be used as a catalyst for intimacy in our marriages, instead of catastrophes that destroy them.

Conflict as a Catalyst

The Resurrection of Jesus is one of the most amazing days! Easter is God showing us His undeniable love. And the 40 days before Easter—the season of Lent—is a time to refocus our attention on Christ and deepen our relationship with Him. As you take the time to study the Bible during this season, this plan will challenge you to experience Easter in a more meaningful way.

Preparing to Celebrate Christ at Easter

Jesus is calling you into the quiet place. Daily, He invites you to come away with Him, to get lost in His presence. In this reading plan, we will explore how practicing the disciplines of solitude and silence can help us learn to discern God’s will in daily life, find healing for our wounded souls, and overcome the loneliness that so many today feel trapped by.

Being With Jesus: Solitude and Silence Part 2

God’s love is the central theme woven throughout scripture, and yet we all need a greater revelation of the depth of God’s love for us personally. In this 7-day devotional from Steve McCracken, discover more about the extravagant nature of God’s love and learn how Father wants His gift of love to flow through us to others. 

Indescribable Love

Do you struggle with bitterness? Have you ever experienced betrayal? Are you quick to hatred? Spend a week learning how to embrace forgiveness and love, even when it feels impossible. With excerpts from Corrie ten Boom's books, this devotional empowers readers to walk in forgiveness. 

Walking in Forgiveness With Corrie Ten Boom

Encouragement, often expressed as “a word fitly spoken” (Prov. 25:11), an arm around the shoulder, or a warm hug, can be of tremendous benefit to our children. Such gestures serve as a balm for their hearts in a hurt of the moment or for instilling long-term confidence for addressing the challenges of life. Let’s consider examples of where we can find it and how it can be demonstrated.

Doses of Encouragement: A 3-Day Parenting Plan

In just two verses—John 3:16 and 1 John 3:16—God reveals the depth of His love for humanity and the call for believers to live in response to Jesus' sacrifice. These passages, penned by the disciple Jesus loved, proclaim the very heart of the Gospel. Over the next five days, we will unpack these two verses to better understand God's boundless love and what it means to imitate Christ.

3:16

Do you ever feel tempted to hide parts of yourself to be loved by God or other people? Ever hold back in your prayers or worship of God? Me too! In this plan, I help you understand how God knows all of you and loves all of you. Learn how He wants you to bring all of you into your relationship with Him.

All of You: Learning to Love God With Your Whole Self

This plan is an overview of the unashamed wonder and power of the gospel (Romans 1:16). In this plan, Part 4 of our six-part series through the book of Romans, we will see the role of the SPIRIT. As you read, slow down and enjoy the richness of the truths found within each passage.

Romans - Part 4: SPIRIT

God’s love goes infinitely beyond anything you can fathom. You have been adopted into his family, and you are safe in his care. Each small step of faith brings him great joy. He created you for relationship with him, and he loves to hear your voice and your thoughts. As you dwell on God’s promises over the next seven days, remember that he is thinking about you and smiling.

When God Thinks of You He Smiles

Discover the Wonder of Grace through this 8-day Reading Plan that offers discussion, reflection, and prayer. Explore what Grace is, and how God views you, examine your motivations, uncover the possibilities of change, face your fears, examine your purpose, and make your life truly count. Through reflections and prayer, this short Plan will help you define Grace and embark on an even deeper journey with Him.

Wonder of Grace

Marriage is what you make it—for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse. But you may not feel like your marriage is all it could be. Thankfully, you don’t have to wonder which choices and behaviors support a flourishing marriage. God has a design for a loving, lasting, thriving marriage. No matter what you’ve been through, it’s still possible to be and to stay in love.

Thrive: Building Stronger Marriages . . . Together

What if, instead of being consumed by our struggles and shortcomings, we learned to stand confidently in the power of God’s perfect love? Scripture tells us that perfect love casts out all fear, yet so often, we live weighed down by anxiety, doubt, and insecurity. In this five-day journey, you’ll discover a deeper understanding of God's love along with practical steps to walk out these biblical truths in your daily life.

The Power of Love: Finding Rest in the Father’s Love

"Self-Love Through God's Love" takes you on a journey of self-discovery using biblical truths, personal insights, and daily meditations. Crafted with wisdom and compassion, Shanice Lawrence helps you uncover your worth through scripture while looking at your life from God's tender and loving eyes. This is your guide to combating negative self-talk, overcoming doubt, and confidently living in the fullness of your worth.

Self-Love Through God’s Love: A 7-Day Devotional to Uncover Your Worth

This one-year plan will take you on a journey in Faith and Love through the New Testament. We hope that you will be challenged to grow spiritually and be inspired as a follower of Jesus. This is Part 2 of 12.

Faith & Love: A One Year Bible Reading Plan - Part 2

God’s love for you is unconditional, inescapable, and unstoppable. The apostle John understood this love, and it changed his life. As you read each day of this 21-day devotional along with the Gospel of John, you'll discover there is no love like Jesus’ love for you, and you'll know His love in your heart.

Know Love Like This: 21 Days of Discovering God's Heart for You

This one-year plan will take you on a journey in Faith and Love through the New Testament. We hope that you will be challenged to grow spiritually and be inspired as a follower of Jesus. This is Part 1 of 12.

Faith & Love: A One Year Bible Reading Plan - Part 1

Melissa, If One Life . . . is the extraordinary love story of Jeremy and Melissa Camp seen in the movie, I STILL BELIEVE. This plan is a challenging look at one life radically surrendered to Christ and the journey they took together. Experience Melissa’s journals and join the journey.  “Big or small, I’m willing for it all. The journey is ours - Let’s go!”

Melissa, If One Life: Love, Joy, and Hope Through Trials

Faith.

Forgiven.

Loved

Redeemed.

Are you ready to heal beyond the shame of your past? Do you know that God's love meets you in the midst of guilt and shame  and loves you deeper still?

Although shame may have been a part of your past, it doesn't define your future. Join Jackie for four days of Bible stories that demonstrate Jesus' steadfast love, offering redemptive power and freedom from shame through full surrender to God.

Shedding Shame for Surrender: Finding Healing in Gods Love a 4 - Day Bible Plan by Jackie Smith Bell

Faith is a precious gift from God. This video plan will show you what having faith means and how you can always put your trust in the unchanging, almighty God.

How Faith Works

This 8-day devotional was written by Tori Kelly, based off songs from her new album, Hiding Place.

Hiding Place: An 8-Day Devotional By Tori Kelly

More and more people deal with fear and anxiety in our world today. They feel alone and abandoned by God – fatherless. God’s dream is for a family, and he has paid the price to show his love and adopt us as his children. Follow this powerful devotional that confronts the lies of the Orphan Spirit with the Truth of our loving Father. 

God's Adoption for the Fatherless

This is the sixth part of a reading plan through the Bible, following the lectionary pattern of reading in the Psalms, Old Testament, and New Testament each day. In addition, each day this month will feature a memorization challenge for 1 Corinthians 13 (The Love Chapter), and there will be brief devotionals from different people in our Church scattered throughout the plan.

Reading With the People of God - #6 LOVE

Scripture elevates God to His rightful place as the sovereign Lord of all creation, reminding us we are not sovereign but finite. We’re not the point. We’re here to point to the Point. Taken from the teaching of Casting Crown's lead singer, Mark Hall, these devotionals are designed to recalibrate our perspectives in a selfish world. 

Only Jesus From Casting Crowns

Are the waves of grief taking you under because of pain and sorrow weighing down on your heart? Do you find it difficult to accept what was - is no longer? Fortunately, through God’s promises, a grieving heart can heal. This 5-day Bible plan guides the bereaved through healing, reflecting, and applying God’s promises to a grieving heart.

God’s Promises for a Grieving Heart

Everyone has a life principle, whether it’s comfort, fun, safety, or affirmation. Join Pastor Rick for this series that walks through the ways to make love the most important goal of your life and be obedient to Christ: “Let love be your greatest aim” (1 Corinthians 14:1).

"40 Days of Love" in American Sign Language

When you think of the human heart, what comes to mind?  Love?  Emotion?  Courage?  Pain?  Our hearts matter to God and the more we understand our hearts, the more we will understand God’s will for our lives.  For the next five days let's look at some scriptures and listen to what God says about our hearts.  

The Heart

"A good marriage saves more cops' lives than a bulletproof vest."
~ Chief Scott and Leah Silverii



Uncuffed: Bulletproofing the Police Marriage

This 7-Day series is designed to build new habits of recognizing and showing care for people throughout your day. As a part of a larger 40-Day Journal, you can start your journey here, and then deepen it through the actual journal. 

The Care Project

Written to early Christians facing cultural pressures and spiritual confusion in the first century A.D., the apostle Peter’s second epistle provides a framework for living a fruitful life in Christ. Second Peter 1:5-8, in particular, represents a call for believers to grow spiritually by strengthening the foundation of their faith through endurance, godliness, and the like. Over the next eight days, we will explore the virtues Peter identified as underpinning a Christ-centered life and why they still matter today. 

What Peter Said

In a world where so much division and tension exists, we’d all be better off if we learned to love others—even if it’s inconvenient or uncomfortable. In this 4-day plan, we’ll discuss who our neighbors are and how to love them. 


How to Love Your Neighbors

How do we pull our world back together when everything seems to be pulling apart? This Plan encourages us to learn about and lean into loving each other well in a world that is full of hate and dissension. Embracing what the scripture says about love, you are challenged to come to the family table with grace, empathy, sacrifice, justice, and love, because how we love matters.

How We Love Matters

The local church is a huge part of God’s design for the Christian community, and although He never promised us it would be perfect, He is clear that it's necessary. In this five-day plan, you’ll be reminded why you need the church, why the church needs you, and how to best engage the body of believers using His Word as your guide and the sacrifice Jesus made as your motivation.

5 Days to Better Love Your Local Church 

Celebrating love goes beyond a particular date; it is a life that constantly reminds others that God's love came to heal, restore, and give us a life that proclaims his goodness.

I invite you to navigate a three-day study of what love represents and what it looks like to love others as God intends us to.

Love and Keep Loving

Daily Bible Reading helps you build consistent interaction with Scripture. Background, key verses for meditation, reflection questions to help you dive deeper into Scripture, and prayers prompted by today’s passage all help you connect with God and others. Journey with us this month and explore the theme “God’s Guiding Word: Love.” 

Daily Bible Reading—February 2024, God’s Guiding Word: Love

God doesn't promise us an easy life. But he does promise to sustain us through whatever life holds. He's not surprised by our struggles - or by our sins - and His love knows no bounds. This 5 day plan takes you through prayer and guided exercises to help your beautiful heart remember what is True.

Our Burdens + His Strength

How do we live a victorious Christian life in this sinful world? In the first devotional plan from the Confident Series, we learn about God’s rain of salvation that fills the reservoirs of our hearts. These reservoirs overflow into rivers of love to others as we live a life of confidence in God, His Holy Spirit, and ourselves. 

[Confident Series] Confidence Instead Of Burden 

Look at six biblical principles that shaped Dr. King’s life and motivated him to speak on behalf of African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement: love, conscience, freedom, justice, perseverance, and hope. You can better understand, live, experience, and ultimately form a community around the unifying principles at the heart of the dream to which Dr. King dedicated his life. Adapted from Share the Dream Bible Study.

6 Biblical Principles of Martin Luther King Jr

Be honest. If God sent you the "one" today, would you be ready for him/her? Or would you potentially sabotage the relationship and cause more harm than good? Truth is a lot of us are dealing with baggage from past relationships and toxic cycles that need to be dealt with. Join Damien as he helps you become whole from head to toe before you meet the right one.

Completely Single: Learning to Become the Right One

Agape love is the greatest and rarest form of love. It’s found in the New Testament 116 times and usually means the unconditional love of God. In this reading plan, you'll learn more about the love of God.  

Discover the Different Sorts of Biblical Love

This one-year plan will take you on a journey in Faith and Love through the New Testament. We hope that you will be challenged to grow spiritually and be inspired as a follower of Jesus. This is Part 11 of 12.

Faith & Love: A One Year Bible Reading Plan - Part 11

Love is an emotion that connects us all, and we all desire to be loved. Do you know what God's love for you is? This plan takes a closer look at John 3:16 which is an expression of God's incredible love. It reveals God's immeasurable love and eternal promise of salvation for you. YOU ARE SO LOVED!  

For God So Loved the World 

Learn how to Love Well in a Divided Culture. Get ready to be transformed as you are challenged to lay down your own agenda and fully lean into the Holy Spirit’s direction. Engage with spiritual disciplines to help you put on the full armor of God and learn new ways or reignite old ways of having Christ’s love influence your behavior and soften your heart toward others.

Love Well in a Divided Culture: Navigate Challenging Times With Jesus' Love

We must prioritize our marriage if we plan to make it “until death do us part!” After 34 years of marriage, having 4 kids in 5 years, and enduring hardships and teenage rebellion, Roxanne shares her top marriage nuggets to help you establish the priority of a lifelong love.

Marriage Matters

This 5-day devotional is an invitation to slow down and meditate on the eternal truths and Christ-honoring prayers woven into 5 congregational songs from Austin Stone Worship. With prayers declaring the holiness of our God, asking the Holy Spirit to move in power, celebrating Christ's resurrection, and delighting in His pursuing love, we pray your soul is encouraged and stirred to worship our beautiful Savior in a fresh way!

In the Hands of Christ My King: 5 Day Devotional

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this powerful devotional. Who do you Love more than God? What do you Love more than God? What do you welcome in your heart? Do you spend more time focusing on your career than you do worshipping God? Do you worship your business more than you honor God? Surrender to God in every area of your life. 

He First Loved Us

Psalm 145:16 "When You open your hand, You satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing." Discover the currency of The Kingdom of God. 

Hunger & Thirst

Ruth is widely considered one of the greatest love stories in all antiquity. But this OG chick-flick is not a sappy tear-jerker nor a bubble-gum romance. There is real depth here. Through the Word walks you through each chapter of Ruth with clear and concise audio that will help you follow the drama and uncover the subtle beauty of this classic story. Kris Langham guides us through Romance & Redemption.

Ruth

How can we, as Christians, be civil people in an uncivil time? The best description of civility I know is found in Galatians 5:22–23. If we would be people of civility, we need to be people who manifest the fruit of the Spirit. Let’s look at each manifestation of that fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Seeking Civility Through the Fruit of the Spirit

Are you a Mary or a Martha? There are a lot of different types of women in the world, but most of us relate to one of these sisters more than the other.  Find out which sister you are more like and how you can use that knowledge to love others better. Plus, learn about the unique love Jesus has for you.

Are You a Mary or Martha?

Are you ready to increase your love for God and people? Join us for this 28-day study as a part of our 365-day “Living in Increase” plan to experience the fulfilled and abundant life God always intended for you.

Living in Increase (Part 2) - Increase in Love

As believers, we’re often faced with a choice: to serve ourselves or serve others; to take or to give; to strive towards our own ambitions or advance the Kingdom of God. Join us for this 5-day devotional to learn more about how God wants to work through you to uplift others. 

Through You

Loving others is hard. It goes against our heart's natural tendency to live for ourselves. It challenges us to put the needs of others above our own and model Christ's compassion. It calls us to give up our desires, resources, and time. This devotional shows our need for Christ's equipping to develop a servant's heart. Based on the book "Neighborology: Practicing Compassion as a Way of Life" by David Apple.