1) Read the Bible passage.

2) Write out the memory verse.

3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.

4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)

You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double sided) and fold the pages over in the center and you can make your very own devotions booklet!

1) Read the Bible passage.

2) Write out the memory verse.

3) Choose one of the options provided (or create your own method) for personalizing, processing, and memorizing the verse.

4) Spend some time committing the verse to memory. (Review prior verses too if you choose!)

You can find our devotions booklet to print out here. Just print it out (double sided) and fold the pages over in the center and you can make your very own devotions booklet!

If you’re having trouble printing out the handy booklet and need something a little simpler, you can grab the normal layout file here.

Passion Week (aka “Holy Week”) is from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday). It’s called “Passion Week” because of the passion with which Jesus willingly went to the cross to pay for our sins. Passion Week is described in Matthew chapters 21-27, Mark chapters 11-15, Luke chapters 19-23, and John chapters 12-19.

We are covering the Passion account in Luke with the text each day corresponding to what happened each day as Jesus was accused and crucified. We encourage you to take extended time this week to do your DT so you can remember and appreciate what Christ has done for you.

1. Read the text two times.
2. Write your favorite verse.
3. Write one aspect of what God is like.
4. Write one aspect of how text describes you.
5. What lesson can I learn from this text?
6. Write out a prayer in response to the text.

1. Read the text two times.
2. Write your favorite verse.
3. Write one aspect of what God is like.
4. Write one aspect of how text describes you.
5. What lesson can I learn from this text?
6. Write out a prayer in response to the text.

• What are the factors that I consider most important in my decision-making process for my future plans?
• What did Apostle Paul consider in making his future plans?  What are some experiences of God at work in my life that I need to consider in making my plans?
• Even though Apostle Paul says many are opposed to him, he states that a great door for effective work has opened up to him as well.  What is the relationship between the work of the Gospel being carried on effectively and opposition?

“If you are not persevering in the Christian faith, this is evidence that you did not have saving faith in the first place.”

“The faith which collapses is the faith which has not thought things out and thought them through. For so many of us faith is a superficial thing. We tend to accept things because we are told them and to possess them merely at secondhand. If we undergo the agony of thought there may be much that we must discard, but what is left is really ours in such a way that nothing can ever take it from us.”

• What is the test of genuine faith based on these verses?
• What does it mean to “take your stand” and “hold firmly” to the gospel?
• According to vv.54-55, what makes my Christian life ultimately triumphant regardless of struggles and setbacks that I experience?

“The expression ‘my mind is unfruitful’ means that the mind does not intelligently share in the blessing of the man’s spirit. The mind (the nous) is that faculty involved in conscious, meaningful reasoning and understanding of thinking, reasoning person.”

“There is a proper place for the intellect in Christianity. In praying and singing, both the mind and the spirit are to be fully engaged. When we sing, we should also think about the meaning of the words. When we pour out our feelings to God in prayer, we should not turn off our capacity to think. True Christianity is neither barren intellectualism nor thoughtless emotionalism. See also Ephes. 1:17-18; Phil. 1:9-11; Col. 1:9.”

• Give examples of the mind being “unfruitful” in the midst of spiritual activities.  What is the danger of this?  Is there evidence of this kind of mindless involvement in spiritual activities in my life?
• Are there some steps I need to take to more actively engage the mind in my prayer and in my praise?
• What aspects of contemporary Christian pop-culture does this passage warn against?

• Think about the life of Jesus based on this passage.  Reflect on how he perfectly fits the description of love.
• How does my idea of what it means to love and to be loved compare with the description of love in this passage?
• How is it possible for me to love others in this way (cf. Galatians 5:22-25)?
• In what ways have I been loved by God and his people in terms of the specific way that this passage describes love?

• What are some mute idols that influence and lead astray people today?
• According to vv.2-3, Paul describes a pagan as someone following mute idols and a Christian as someone who can say “Jesus is Lord.”  Is there evidence of this kind of fundamental difference between my life and that of a pagan?  Does my life back up my confession that “Jesus is Lord?”

1 Corinthians 12:12-27

“‘You,’ he says, ‘are the body of Christ.’  There is tremendous thought here.  Christ is no longer in this world in the body; therefore if he wants a task done within the world he has to find a man to do it.  […]  Literally, we have to be the body of Christ, hands to do his work, feet to run upon his errands, a voice to speak for him.  […]  Here is the supreme glory of the Christian man–he is part of the body of Christ upon earth.”

• Reflect on the fact that individual Christians are called to unite to form the body of Christ—i.e., to be Christ to the world today.  What is the personal implication of this truth on my life in terms of how I view myself, conduct my life, how I regard and value other believers God has placed in the church with me?