Christmas and Advent Plans

One of the things that is vital for us during the Christmas season is to make sure we really understand the impact of Jesus' coming, His advent in our lives. This devotional will help you to focus on God’s greatest gift of all, Jesus, and the true meaning of His birth for our present lives and for all eternity. Walk with us through this 14-Day Christmas Devotional and experience your best Christmas yet!

14 Days Christmas Devotional

The celebration of Jesus' birth during Christmas time is about much more than a single event. Long before the Son of God took His first breath here on earth, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit determined a plan that would provide the greatest gift to all humanity: Jesus, the perfect sacrificial Lamb of God. Join us in this 5-day devotional as we celebrate the Gift That’s Freely Given.

The Gift That's Freely Given

Is it really possible to experience peace when life is painful? The short answer: yes, but not in our own power. In a year that has left us feeling overwhelmed, many of us are left with questions. In this 7-day Bible Plan, accompanying Pastor Craig Groeschel’s message series, we’ll discover how to find the Missing Peace we all crave.

Missing Peace

This year and last year have felt chaotic, stressful, uncertain, but God (I love those two words!) is unchanging, faithful, and our source of peace. Christmas is a time of remembrance, to reflect on what our God really did when Jesus was born in a manger. Follow along as we meditate on Christmas, joy, peace, love, and hope this Advent season. -Matthew West

We Need Christmas With Matthew West 

One Baby For The World takes you on an unforgettable Advent journey seen through the eyes of missions. Author Shari Tvrdik offers a unique perspective through Advent. She connects the powerful story of the nativity to her experiences with life among the suffering poor of Mongolia's ger district. Adapted from the book, One Baby For The World.


One Baby for the World: 24 Days of Advent From a Missions Perspective 

In Isaiah 9:6, we see that Jesus is our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. In this 5-Day Plan, we'll celebrate the arrival of Jesus by learning about His different names, and how they apply to our lives today.

Unto Us: Celebrating the Arrival of Jesus

In all the holiday hustle and bustle, it can be easy to lose sight of why we’re celebrating. In this 5-day advent plan, we’ll dive into the promises fulfilled by the birth of Jesus and the hope we have for the future. As we learn more about who God is, we’ll discover how to live through the holiday season with hope, faith, joy, and peace.

Living Changed: At Christmas

In a brand new devotional series titled, The Reason for the Season, Pastor Jim Cymbala provides fresh insight into the Christmas story. As he addresses the unspoken sadness that many carry at this time of the year, Pastor Jim Cymbala challenges us to think about what would mean the most to Jesus this holiday season.

The Reason for the Season

When was the last time you did a really deep dive into the Christmas story? From King Herod to the shepherds, Mary and Joseph, to the wise men and Zechariah, there is much to learn from the events surrounding the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Over the next 10 days, we’ll look at truths from the Christmas story we should live all year long. 

10 Days of Christmas Truths to Live All Year

What if this Christmas, we were to remember the miracles that Jesus performed in the lives of those who came to Him? This Advent season, I pray you enjoy these 25 compelling stories based on the New Testament characters from The Chosen series. May their diverse, powerful testimonies inspire you to experience and become a miracle of God for others! Are you ready? You are a Miracle! Christian Misch

Chosen to Be a Miracle! Advent Plan Based on “The Chosen"

The Greatest Gift will take you through the Christmas story in ten days, reminding you of the reason why you can have hope, joy, and peace in a world filled with turmoil and despair. 

The Greatest Gift

Our Saviour King came into this world not riding on a horse, surrounded by an army, wearing armor, or crowned with a golden crown. No, our Saviour came into the world as a baby, unexpected, unannounced, and unexceptionally. We hope that through this plan, as you reflect on the meaning of the birth of Jesus Christ, you’ll be reminded that Christmas isn’t just an event in history to be remembered. 

Real Hope: The Birth of Our Saviour King

As we lean into this season of celebration with the intention of tuning into the heart of God, join us for four weeks as we: Behold Beauty, Break Barriers, Make Room, and are Surprised by God. Like all the best stuff in life, this journey is best taken with others—so grab a friend or two and your sense of wonder and roll into the Advent Season.

Infinitum Family Advent, Week 3

Are you celebrating Christmas the way you long to? With all the holiday hustle and bustle it's easy to lose track of the true heart of Christmas. Give yourself the gift of peace and joy as you rediscover the hope of Christmas. This 5-day series gives you quick prayers and scripture to refocus your holiday on what really matters. 

Quick Christmas Prayers for Your Heart

Do you want to refresh your sense of wonder this Christmas? The Voices of Advent plan explores 4 famous miracles from the Bible as four desperate people meet Jesus for the first time. A powerful reminder about encountering Christ is the essence of Christmas.

Voices of Advent: 4 Famous Encounters With Jesus

Year after year, millions of people do their best to make the excitement and festivities of Christmas Day match the anticipation that precedes it. But what about the first Christmas? Why did it happen? And was anyone disappointed? This plan focuses on the wonder, mystery, and purpose of the first Christmas—challenging us to praise God for His goodness as we receive and remember His gift of salvation.

The Wonder and Mystery of Christmas

These personal meditations will help you focus your heart on Jesus and find encouragement to express His love to others this Christmas season.

Our Daily Bread: Celebrating Jesus

It’s easy to feel small in a world filled with seven billion people, especially when there are people with titles like president, king, or even influencer. But most of the people in the Christmas story weren’t all that powerful or famous, and yet they played a part in one of the greatest stories ever told! This four-day devotional will remind us that everyone has a role in God’s story.

Good Enough for God

Christmas is a season of wonder. So, let’s lay aside our lists, distractions, and cares to receive refreshment by reflecting upon a few of the nativity’s highlights. Reminding ourselves, that the story we love so well speaks directly into our lives today by pointing us to Lord Jesus. Realizing that in this lifetime, we will only begin to scratch the surface of Who He is and what He has done.

A Week of Christmas Wonder

Christmas is filled with wonder. Yet under the twinkly lights and piles of paper and ribbon, all its promise can be lost in our must-do lists, noisy distractions, or dreams dismantled by the stuff of life. Instead, let’s journey to the manger where Jesus came for our rescue. Realizing that we will only begin to scratch the surface of Who He is and what He has done in this lifetime.

Christmas Journey: Ten Days of Wonder 

Discover the heart of Jesus this Christmas season as we follow the star in this seven-day devotional! The star led the Magi as they followed that glowing light for many days before it finally stopped over the place Jesus was, and there they worshipped Him. Discovering Jesus' heart means shining the light of His love this Christmas season, so others can follow that glow and find Him, too. 

Follow the Star: Discover the Heart of Jesus

In this 25-day plan, you’ll get to read all about the gift of peace that comes through Jesus and how we can experience it as we look at the familiar story of Christmas through a different lens. Journey through the Christmas stories found in Matthew and Luke, as well as a variety of passages explaining the true peace Jesus came to give us!

Christmas: 25 Days of Peace

Join us as we explore what it means to feel the ‘Christmas Spirit’ this Christmas, how God celebrates with us when we return to Him, and how celebrating isn’t just about the finish line, but about remembering the journey and seeing victory in each step.  -Taylor, Madison, and Logan Cain of the band CAIN

Celebrate Me Home - A 3-Day Devotional by CAIN

During Advent, we remember that Jesus is God’s Star, heralding God’s love and forgiving power to us. Each devotional in this series is for one of the Sundays leading up to Christmas. The fifth, and final devotional, is for Christmas Day. Use these short reflections around a meal table, or on your own. More than anything, lift your eyes to God’s Star –Jesus – as your Hope this season. 

Adore Him: One Star One Hope 

The Gospel of Luke tells us that some shepherds were guarding their flocks at night when an angel of the Lord appeared unto them, and the Lord’s glory shone upon them.  After the angel spoke to them, a great assembly of heavenly hosts praised God along with him. What a vision, what a tremendous glimpse of heavenly apparitions and glory!


[From Heaven to the Hay in the Heart] Part 2

Christmas Plans

Take seven days this Christmas to slow down, breathe, and rediscover the wonder of Jesus’ birth. In the middle of the noise and rush, this devotional helps you refocus your heart on what truly matters - God with us. Each day invites you to reflect on the miracle of His coming, the hope He brings, and the peace He offers to every weary soul. Whether you’re overflowing with joy or walking through a hard season, these seven days will draw you closer to the One who came to bring light, love, and life to the world.

When Heaven Touched Earth - a 7 Day Journey to Christmas

In the birth of Christ, every single promise of God that the world was waiting for came into alignment. His holy purpose was happening in real time through that baby boy born in the manger. This week, we will look at some of those precious promises that Jesus fulfilled, and through them, learn how to be men who, like Jesus, live out what God wants us to be. Written by Chris Walker


Promises Fulfilled: A Men's Devotional on Christmas

The Promise of Light: An Advent Journey of Hope Fulfilled invites readers to follow the thread of God’s light from creation to Christ’s birth and the promise of eternal glory. Through 25 days of Scripture, reflection, prayer, and simple daily actions, this devotional traces how God’s light breaks into darkness, fulfills ancient promises, and transforms our lives today. 

The Promise of Light

Plan Description: Join Dr. Ken Boa as he guides you through the season of Advent. This 25-day plan walks you through the Scriptures, which will  offer the “thrill of hope” that has come, because of which a “weary world rejoices.” 

25 Days of Advent

Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture & the Arts is pleased to share the annual Advent Project, a daily devotional series celebrating the beauty and meaning of the Advent season through art, music, poetry, prayer, Scripture, and written devotions. The project starts on the first day of Advent and continues through Epiphany. Our goal is to help individuals quiet their hearts and enter into a daily routine of worship and reflection during this meaningful but often hectic season. Our prayer is that the project will help ground you in the unsurpassable beauty, mystery, and miracle of the Word made flesh.

And He Shall Be Called: Advent Devotionals, Week 1

This Christmas, join a global community for an epic journey through the Bible’s original Christmas story—and a tradition that goes back seventeen centuries: Advent. Each Sunday you’ll light a candle as a powerful ten-minute audio guide walks you through the beautiful stories leading up to Jesus’s birth. Weekdays we’ll walk chapter-by-chapter through Jesus’s full story in Mark. Gather the family or just listen on the go. Subscribe now—starts Nov 29.

Advent Through the Word 2025

And He Shall Be Called: Advent Devotionals, Week 2

This reading plan serves as a guide through the Advent season, traditionally celebrated during the four weeks leading up to Christmas. We’ll explore the biblical themes of hope, peace, joy, and love, diving deeper into human longings for healing and restoration—our anticipation for God’s new world.  

Anticipating Christmas: An Advent Overview

Advent is not only the anticipation of Christmas. It’s a time when we’re facing the darkness of this world and at the same time seeing the rise of the Light. The Light that no darkness can ever overcome. 
For the next seven days, we’ll reveal that Christ has not just come once but that He comes to us today. 
This plan will help you feel Christmas not merely as an event from the past but as a living hope that renews your personal heart, family, and the nation.

Advent: The Light That Rises in the Darkness

As Christmas approaches, the sights, sounds, and smells of the season fill the air, reminding us of childhood wonder and the excitement of gifts beneath the tree. 

Yet as we grow older, we discover a deeper joy: Christmas is not about presents, but presence, the presence of Christ, “God with us.” 

Amid the busyness, we’re invited to slow down, reflect, and make His presence the centerpiece of our celebration. As you journey through this devotional, may each moment of reflection draw you closer to the true gift of Christmas, Jesus Himself, whose presence transforms every ordinary day.


In Search of CHRISTmas Presence

An Audacious Advent: Setting the Table invites you to look at the story of Jesus’ coming through the lens of equity, welcome, and belonging. Each day explores a different facet of God’s heart for inclusion and what it means to make room for others, just as He made room for us. This five-day journey challenges us to prepare differently this season—to open our hearts, homes, and communities to reflect the Kingdom table Jesus came to set.

An Audacious Advent: Setting the Table

The lead-up to Christmas can quickly fill up with things to do, errands to run, and things to plan. Before we know it, Christmas has come and gone, and we're left wondering, "Did I even focus on the real reason behind the season?"

This 12-day plan is written to help you slow down and reflect on the deep significance and lasting impact of Christ's arrival. From prophesies foretold thousands of years ago, to testimonies of those whose God's glory was first revealed, this plan will help grow gratitude in your heart for God's great gift to us. 

Countdown to Christmas: 12 Days to Prepare Your Heart

These 29 daily devotionals, created by Dr. Walt Larimore, are structured around the four traditional pre-Christmas Advent candles—Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love and one final devotion for the penultimate Christ candle. Each of the first four weeks focuses on one candle, with seven daily devotions exploring a specific aspect of that theme through Bible verses, a reflection, and a prayer prompt—then, of course, the final Christmas Eve or Christmas Day devotion. All Bible verses are quoted from the NIV, 2011.

What the Bible Says About Advent - 29 Days of Advent Meditations

Christmas is not just a date on the calendar—it’s the story of God’s perfect plan to redeem humanity through His Son, Jesus Christ.
This 7-day devotional journey explores the prophecies, preparations, and promises that culminated in the birth of Christ. Each day will help you rediscover the wonder of Christmas and renew your faith in the Savior who came for you.

The Indescribable Gift – a 7-Day Christmas Journey

And He Shall Be Called: Advent Devotionals, Week 3

Lighting an Advent candle is a beautiful tradition: an act of faith declaring that darkness doesn’t win because the Light of Christ overcomes it. This Plan will help your family to gather and reflect on the hope, peace, love, joy and wonder Jesus brings to our hearts.

Drawn from Gather for Advent, the new Advent book of poems and stories by Andrew Kooman, the plan will bring hope to your heart and home as you prepare for Christmas.

Gather for Advent

Designed to make your heart sing, these Advent devotions by Tim Chester dwell on the song Mary sang at the first Christmas. They will help you to pause and marvel at Jesus’ birth and to praise him with all your heart, soul, and voice.

5 Reflections on Mary's Song for Advent

A Christian Christmas is a devotional that helps you refocus your heart on the true meaning of the season. Each reflection invites you to pause, give thanks, and remember the incredible love behind Christ’s birth.

Through Scripture and thoughtful insight, it explores the promise of His coming, the gift of salvation, and the peace that only Jesus can bring. More than a holiday tradition, this devotional reminds us that Christmas is the beginning of hope — a gift meant to be carried in our hearts all year long.


A Christian Christmas

Christmastime conjures up pleasant images of the baby Jesus in a manger—but the Gospel of John reminds us that that baby was and is much more than meets the eye. At the nativity, the creator of the universe came to live on the earth in the flesh, and His creation rejected Him. Yet those who recognize Jesus for who He is are born again into a new family.

The Maker in the Manger

Advent is often described as a season of joy—but what if you feel anything but joyful? 

O Come All Ye Faithless offers an honest journey through the stories of Scripture for those who feel hopeless, joyless, anxious, or lonely. Over twenty-five days, you're invited to slow down, reflect, and encounter the God who meets us where faith feels thin. Each day includes Scripture, a reflection, and a prayer to help you discover that hope grows in silence, joy emerges through surrender, peace is born in trust, and love is revealed in presence—the true invitation of Christmas.

Come All Ye Faithless

During a season that often feels busy and stretched thin, we invite you to pause and remember what matters most: following Jesus. The birth of Christ is more than a story we tell in December. It's the beginning of our Savior's life on earth — and the pattern for our own life with Him. Our prayer is that these 25 days prepare your heart to celebrate His birth, deepen your walk with Him today, and stir your hope for His return. We’ve also created a companion worship playlist –  search “Following Jesus Through the First Christmas” on Spotify to listen. 

Following Jesus Through the First Christmas: 25 Days of Advent Truths

Advent is a season of waiting—a time to slow down and sharpen our awareness of what we're waiting for and how we're waiting for it. This plan, from Practicing the Way, explores the themes of hope, peace, joy, and love through the lens of the Christmas story. Featuring reflections from Gemma Ryan, John Mark Comer, Ken Shigematsu, and Bethany Allen, this four-day devotional invites us to discover how God's coming changed everything and continues to transform us today.

Advent Meditations

Christmas is more than a celebration—it’s a reminder that God brought light, closeness, and hope into our lives through Jesus. This three-day devotional invites you to rediscover the heart of Christmas with simple reflections, personal questions, and clear biblical foundations. Take a few minutes each day to return to the essence of this season and allow its message to transform your heart and your relationships. Perfect for sharing with anyone who needs a reminder of the true light that brings life.

Christmas

Advent isn’t just a countdown to Christmas—it’s an invitation to slow down and reimagine our hearts. In An Audacious Advent: Reimagining the Heart of Advent, discover afresh the sacred rhythm of hope, peace, joy, and love as they break into the mess and beauty of our everyday lives. Let this season draw you closer to the God who still comes near.

An Audacious Advent: ReImagining the Heart of Advent

Over the first 25 days of December, we will cover the genealogy of Christ, the characters of Christmas, the prophecies Jesus fulfilled, who Jesus is, and the Christmas story. 

The Christ of Christmas

Advent

This 5-day devotional explores the hope, peace, joy, love, and light found in Jesus. Use it daily or as an Advent guide for the four Sundays before Christmas and Christmas Eve. This Christmas, don’t just celebrate a season — spend some time with the Savior who stepped into our story. Once distant, now among us, God came near so we could draw near. 

Light of the World

Christmas isn’t simply about celebrating what God did thousands of years ago but what He is doing for you when you trust His Son. Jesus is Immanuel, God-With-You, right here and now. Embark on this journey to unwrap the greatest gift. 

Christmas: The Greatest Gift

Every good story has a plot twist—an unexpected moment that changes everything. One of the biggest plot twists in the Bible is the Christmas story. Over the next five days, we’ll explore how this one event changed the world and how it can change your life today. 

The Christmas Story

What have we missed about the Christmas story?
Through brand new Salt + Gold artwork, scripture, and real-life stories, explore the people, interactions, moments, and objects often unnoticed within the familiar Christmas story. From messy mangers to wild dreams, come and see the things you may have missed about Emmanuel - and the God who never misses you.

Christmas: The Things We May Have Missed

When hope feels distant—buried in silence, barrenness, or delay—Jesus is quietly at work, bringing life where we least expect it. 

In this five-day Advent journey, uncover fierce hope: hope that waits with expectation, trusts God’s work in the silence, chooses joy in uncertainty, believes against all odds, and prepares Him room. 

Each day offers Scripture, a short devotion, and a prayer to steady your heart with fierce hope this Advent season.

Fierce Hope: An Advent Journey of Waiting and Wonder

What does Christmas mean to you? Spend 20 days recounting the Bible's Christmas story from Old Testament passages and the Gospels. Slow down, worship Jesus, and cherish Him by faith. Receive and rejoice in God's greatest gift. Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh to dwell among us. All who believe may be re-born to dwell with God now and forever.

Advent: Born to Dwell With Bible Study Fellowship

Your family will love this 25-day Advent calendar that will take you through the Old Testament, connecting the dots between prophecy and the birth of Jesus Christ. Each day will be filled with questions designed to spark discussion about the Bible, your lives, and the impact we can make on our communities during the Christmas season. Grab a friend and go through this devotional plan with them!