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Becoming A Better Husband

7 Days

Becoming A Better Husband
Join Bob Lepine, co-host of the award winning radio broadcast, FamilyLife Today, as he shares with men on how to courageously bring the best out of the woman God has called them to love.

Heroic Husbandry: Reclaiming Hero Status in Your Marriage

5 Days

Heroic Husbandry: Reclaiming Hero Status in Your Marriage
We love to watch movies where the hero triumphs against all odds, yet our lives rarely feel as heroic. This 5-day plan will help you embrace the high call of husbandry in a way that unleashes the hidden hero within.

Profound Mystery: Marriage Lessons from Ephesians

16 Days

Profound Mystery: Marriage Lessons from Ephesians
Marriage is designed by God to show the world a picture of Christ’s relationship with the church. Why God would use our imperfect marriages to illustrate His perfect love is a mystery, but the implications are clear. How we live behind closed doors matters. This study will examine the marriage principles hidden within Ephesians 4:32 – 5:32 and help you reflect God’s love to a watching world.

Father Like The Father

7 Days

Father Like The Father
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.

I Like Her, Now What? A Single Guy’s Guide to the First Date

5 Days

I Like Her, Now What? A Single Guy’s Guide to the First Date
This 5-day plan will help you pursue the girl you like in a way that honors God, the girl, and you. Start your relationship on a solid foundation. Each day contains relevant scripture, biblical advice, and a prayer prompt.

Like Arrows

8 Days

Like Arrows
Psalm 127:4 says, “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.” When carefully aimed, arrows fly straight and true. If launched haphazardly, they’ll likely miss their mark. During this 8-day plan, you will examine ways to aim your children towards God and launch them well. Each day includes a Scripture, devotional reading, and prayer.

As For Me And My House

9 Days

As For Me And My House
Breaking free from a legacy of sin can be difficult, especially when it seems everyone around you is going in a different direction. This 9-day plan will help you to start a new legacy and stand strong in your faith, even if you must stand alone.

Back Together

10 Days

Back Together
There’s a lot in life constantly tugging to pull you and your spouse apart … work, kids, and family, a schedule too full to pencil in a cup of coffee together let alone a weekend away. Through this 10-day devotional, we want to help you come back together. To redirect your marriage trajectory from moving apart to back where you belong—pursuing each other’s hearts. Again and again.

Take Up Your Cross

15 Days

Take Up Your Cross
In this 15-day plan, you will examine what it means to take up your cross and follow Jesus by studying scenes from his life and those of his early followers.  Each day includes a Scripture, devotional reading, and questions.  It can be used during Lent or at any time.

What Is God's Plan for My Life?

6 Days

What Is God's Plan for My Life?
What is God's plan for my life? This is a question that every earnest believer struggles with at some point. But is the struggle necessary? This 6-day plan will invite you to dive into God's word, overcome your fears, and take the next step of faith.

Developing The Fruit Of The Spirit In Your Child

9 Days

Developing The Fruit Of The Spirit In Your Child
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22–23).  Parents naturally want to see  these values in their children's lives.  Each day of this devotional concentrates on an individual trait to help parents partner with the Holy Spirit as their children grow. From toddlers to teenagers, you can adapt these principles for any age. 

Blended Family: Becoming Stepfamily Smart

6 Days

Blended Family: Becoming Stepfamily Smart
The Blended Family: Becoming Stepfamily Smart reading plan provides practical, realistic solutions to the unique issues that stepfamilies face. Integrating a stepfamily is rewarding and at times challenging; but the odds of your success increase dramatically when you see a picture of how a healthy blended family looks and acts. Each day starts with a video clip of stepfamily expert Ron Deal speaking and includes scripture and written content.

Reintegration After Deployment

7 Days

Reintegration After Deployment
Deployment is always challenging for a military family. From setting priorities to parenting to prayer to protection. But when deployments end, some struggles are just beginning. There are time-tested ways you can prepare your marriage for what has become a necessary part of a military career. We have compiled definite steps you can take now to address the challenges you are facing and face reintegration with confidence. Use these seven days of encouragement as you reintegrate after deployment!

Anxiety Is Real: So Is God

5 Days

Anxiety Is Real: So Is God
Are you feeling anxious? It's okay, me too. Anxiety can sometimes feel like a made-up problem. But between life changes, traumatic events, or just the daily struggles we face in this world, there are many reasons we can feel anxious. In our 5-day devotional plan, you'll learn that your anxiety is real, but so is God, and He cares.

Parenting Under Pressure

7 Days

Parenting Under Pressure
Being a parent is one of the biggest responsibilities anyone could ever have. All of life’s potential—the good and the bad—exist in your child, just waiting to be coaxed out. We feel tremendous pressure to get it right. “Parenting Under Pressure” is a simple tool designed to help you relieve some of the pressure, while bringing out the best in your child and pointing you to Jesus.

Building Character In Your Child

14 Days

Building Character 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. 

The Next Year Of Your Marriage

7 Days

The Next Year Of Your Marriage
This is a series of seven devotions that ideally would be completed around a couple’s anniversary. Its focus is on improving your relationship during the next year, and it focuses on a series of promises tied to the character of God.

A Husband's Role in Marriage

8 Days

A Husband's Role in Marriage
During the wedding ceremony, it is easy to tell what the husband’s role is. Stand here, repeat after me, say “I do,” and kiss the bride. Easy! But what happens after the wedding? This 8-day plan will help husbands understand their biblical role in marriage.

Surviving Year One: After the Death of Your Spouse

7 Days

Surviving Year One: After the Death of Your Spouse
When death takes a beloved spouse, it can feel like our faith goes to the grave with them. Yet, in despair, God holds us close in His steadfast love. In this 7-day devotional, we look at Jesus’ heart for those grieving the loss of a spouse. We would like to thank Elise Boros and FamilyLife for providing this plan. For more information, visit www.familylife.com.

More Daily Encouragement for the Smart StepFamily

7 Days

More Daily Encouragement for the Smart StepFamily
Life is busy and the demands on your day just won’t let up. Nevertheless, you’re still trying to strengthen your blended family. These brief, but potent daily thoughts of encouragement will keep you moving forward. Read them separately or together and share your thoughts. Go ahead. It’ll only take a minute. 

Your Home Matters

5 Days

Your Home Matters
Each of you woke this morning in your version of home: a 2-story beach-side condominium, a 1-level ranch on acreage, a fixer upper, an urban high rise, a studio apartment. Whatever it might look like to you there’s a place called home where you live. Here are 5 reasons that the work you do within those walls morning after morning, midnight after midnight truly does matter.

Dating With Purpose

7 Days

Dating With Purpose
How do you find lasting love? And once you find someone, how do you date well so that love will last? Single Christian men and women around the world report they are seeking authentic Christian partners with whom they can share their life, but are a bit confused about the purpose of marriage, and therefore, the purpose of dating. This plan will systematically address each of these from a Biblical perspective.

The Messiah Mystery: A Lent Study

7 Days

The Messiah Mystery: A Lent Study
This plan will help you prepare your heart to celebrate the mystery of Jesus, the Messiah and Savior of the world. As you approach Easter, see how Scripture anticipates His coming by dropping clues along history’s path. There were clues in the tabernacle, the desert, the mountain, and even the vineyard. Join us as we unlock the mystery.

Your Home Is An Embassy

5 Days

Your Home Is An Embassy
Learn how to make your home an embassy—a tiny version, a taste—of our eternal home in a foreign land. Your home is one of your best opportunities to reach and influence people for Christ. So many people today are longing for a place where they are loved and encouraged. Your home can be that place.

Daily Encouragement For The Smart Stepfamily

7 Days

Daily Encouragement For The Smart Stepfamily
Life is busy and the demands on your day just won’t let up. Nevertheless, you’re still trying to strengthen your marriage and blended family. These brief, but potent daily thoughts of encouragement will keep you moving forward. Read them separately or together and share your thoughts. Go ahead. It’ll only take a minute. 

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