June Featured Plans: Darlene Zschech, NewSpring Worship, Dave Adamson, and More

NewSpring Worship Leader Lee McDerment shares the biblical inspiration and application behind four songs from Now & Forever, the latest worship album from NewSpring, featuring music intended to prepare your heart to encounter Jesus.

Discover healthy biblical perspectives that will help you continue moving your life forward—even when you know you’ve made mistakes.

Drawing on her perspective as a sex-industry overcomer, author and speaker Harmony (Dust) Grillo shows you how God’s grace, love, and truth can direct you to His purpose for your life, healing your heart and freeing you from the pain of your past.

North Point Online Pastor Dave Adamson’s unique, social-media-ready approach teaches you key Hebrew words that will transform the way you read Scripture and help you apply it in your life—and then equips you to share them with others in meaningful ways.

Through this series of devotionals, pastor and speaker Darlene Zschech shares what it means to truly live a life of worship, drawing on her insights spanning years as a world-renowned composer and worship leader.

Theologian, professor, author, and speaker Dr. Jacqueline Bussie reveals six unspoken “Faith Laws” that dictate the lives of many Christians, contrasting them against healthy, life-giving, authentic truths from the Bible.

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Give your kids more than “just” storytime.

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Make the most of family storytime.

We hope your family has been enjoying time together in the Bible throughout Family Bible Week. For our last day today, we’d encourage you to invest in some family storytime together. Our family of Bible App for Kids resources makes it easy!


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The Bible App for Kids is a completely free Bible experience designed just for children. Featuring delightful animations for 41 Bible stories—and available in 15 languages—this app from YouVersion and OneHope has already been installed on more than 11 million Apple, Android, and Kindle devices all over the world. If you don’t already have Bible App for Kids, click below to get it now.

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Bible App for Kids Storybook Bible

Featuring 28 stories from the most downloaded Bible story app in the world, the Bible App for Kids Storybook Bible brings the Bible to life for your entire family. With a presentation page you can sign and date, the Storybook Bible is your perfect go-to gift for baby showers, birthdays, child dedications, and more. For all the special kids in your life, give them the one thing that matters most: an abiding love for God’s Word.

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(Also available in Spanish.)


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BibleAppforKids.com

BibleAppforKids.com offers free companion resources that help children get the most from their Bible App for Kids experience: videos and music, and downloadable Adventure Books, coloring pages, and Parent Guides. BibleAppforKids.com even offers materials for churches, such as the entire two-year Bible App for Kids Curriculum. All digital resources at BibleAppforKids.com are always completely free.

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Bible Plans from Bible App for Kids

On Tuesday, one of the Bible Plans we recommended for families was “God’s Good News” from the Bible App for Kids. We have many more Plans for kids, including several featuring videos from the Bible App for Kids curriculum that will help your kids understand and remember the principles taught in the Bible stories. Here are just a few to get you started:


The Bible App for Kids Bible Plan

Two by Two Bible Plan

A Roaring Rescue Bible Plan

Through the Roof Bible Plan

Stones, Slings, and Giant Things Bible Plan

 

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Enjoy a Family Bible Plan together, and you could win

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Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds… Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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The best way to help your family consistently connect with the Bible… is to invest time in it together. That’s why today, for the second day of Family Bible Week, we’re presenting this special blend of Bible Plans for your whole family.


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Let us encourage you.

We’ve suggested several Plans below, but you can use any Plan you think your family will enjoy. And if you’ll let us know which Plan your family is doing together, you could be one of many who are randomly selected to win a prize pack* picnic basket. Each basket has everything you need for a fun afternoon together: custom YouVersion items and other picnic essentials! Just share which Plan you’re doing on Instagram, Twitter, or at Facebook.com/YouVersion. Be sure you include the hashtag #FamilyBiblePlan so we can find your entry!


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Unshakable Moms

Refreshing daily devotionals connect sound biblical truths to the everyday struggles moms face, helping you build your life on a solid foundation.

Guardians of Ancora Family Devotions

Based on the biblical game app Guardians of Ancora, you’ll be learning about the Bible each day, reading Bible verses, and talking together with your friends or family about your adventures and the meaning of what you discover.

A Daily Word for Parents with Ron Hutchcraft

In this devotional series, author Ron Hutchcraft empowers busy moms and dads with scriptural insight on how to make wise choices, find new beginnings, leave a legacy, and more.

12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid

Dr. Tim Elmore shares practical twelve biblical principles that will help you lead your children to become thriving adults and fully devoted followers of Christ.

Never Say No: Raising Big Picture Kids

The parents of Jon and Tim Foreman (from the band Switchfoot) present ideas for how you can raise your children to have creative character that inspires others.

UNCOMMEN Dads

In just a few minutes each day, this series of short devotionals will stretch your dad muscles and help you learn to lead as a husband and father.

Exploring Your Gifts

AWANA shares key questions that will help emerging adults, college students, and young leaders identify the things they’re most passionate about, equipping them to pursue God’s plan for their lives.


Plans for Individuals

For Teens


Fighting FOMO

10 Things to Abandon for Spiritual Growth

Teens: Q&A Devotionals on Top Questions

Better Together: Connecting with God and Each Other

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Truth or Trash

Big Dreams, Big Prayers: A 6-Day Devotional for Kids

I Can Learn the Bible: The Joshua Code for Kids

God’s Good News

Featured: Christine Caine, Steven Furtick, Jen Hatmaker, John Piper, and More

Acclaimed speaker and A21 founder Christine Caine shares how the power you find in God’s Word can help you release your shame and begin to live a life of freedom.

Through Bible passages that demonstrate how God uses broken people (like us) to do big things, Pastor Steven Furtick helps you come to terms with the good, the bad, and the unmentionable in your life.

With characteristic honesty and humor, bestselling author Jen Hatmaker shares biblical wisdom that shows how you can keep bringing grace—and joy—to the inevitable struggles and occasional heartbreaks that find their way into your relationships.

Author and pastor John Piper sheds the light of the gospel on three areas where everyone struggles, showing that when we give these things the place in our lives that God intended, we can actually bring him glory.

Through daily Scripture and audio prayers, author Seth Haines shares devotional reflections on how experiencing pain helps you recognize where you need healing, which can then lead you toward recovery.

Connecting a daily excerpt from the classic My Utmost for His Highest with a related Bible passage, a short video helps you visualize how Oswald Chambers’ inspiring words can help you make Jesus the center of your everyday life.

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Family Bible Week begins next Sunday, May 8. Throughout this year’s celebration, we’ll be offering free resources, tips, and even prizes to help your family grow together around God’s Word. One of the best ways you can do that is by enjoying a Bible Plan together. Tap below to see Plans from our “Family” category. When you find one you think your family would enjoy, open it and tap “Save for Later”—so you’ll have it for Family Bible Week!

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Are you a church leader?

We have free resources you can use in your church to help your families connect with the Bible during Family Bible Week. Tap below to learn more.

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Major Milestone: 50 Million Plans Completed

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Congratulations. You’ve just completed 50 Million Bible Plans.

Not by yourself, of course. But if you’ve completed even one Reading Plan or Devotional in the Bible App, then you’ve contributed to this milestone. More than that, you’re a part of something much bigger: a worldwide movement of people actively seeking God through His Word.

Plans are the most popular Bible App feature. Millions of times every day, people just like you count on Plans to help them make engaging with Scripture a daily priority.

And, thanks to generous content partners, we’re constantly adding new Plans, each one developed to help you explore the Bible from different perspectives, experience it in new ways, and meditate on how its words should shape your life. Here are several that we’d recommend:

Who is this Man?
John Ortberg, 7 days

Adapted from John Ortberg’s bestselling book, this week’s worth of devotions focuses on the person and character of Jesus, and on his impact on the world — and on us.

Mornings with Jesus 2016: 7-Day Devotional
Guideposts, 7 days

Developed to help you draw closer to Jesus, Guideposts compiled this series of devotions from women authors who seek to bring you daily hope, direction, and practical biblical application.

Trusting God’s Process
Brittany Rust, 5 days

Blogger and speaker Brittany Rust helps you find strength and renewal by learning to trust the things that God is doing in your life, even when you face unforeseen circumstances and difficult seasons.

Through devotionals, Scripture, and prayer, discover the biblical perspective and foundations for what work is, what it should mean to us, and how we can honor God with our work.

No Fear: Standing Firm in Your Faith
Tony Perkins, 5 days

Speaker and syndicated radio host Tony Perkins inspires you to live more boldly, sharing stories of both biblical and modern-day heroes, ordinary individuals who chose to fear God rather than people.

Waiting Well
Cheri Strange, 3 days

Through short video devotionals, author and speaker Cheri Strange reveals a biblical strategy that will help you avoid emotional fits of impatience and doubt, even when you have to wait for God’s timing.

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