Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Luke 2:15

By mid-December, many already hate Christmas. We are tired of the carols and the parties, and our tree is starting to die. There are a lot of reasons that people hate Christmas. But, what if all of the hatred is because what we hoped for isn’t reality? This year, set aside the hate and come expecting something new as we dive into Advent themes of the season.

Prepare your heart for the Christmas season with this 5-Day Advent Devotional from Worship Together.

In the midst of a busy, often stressful holiday season, these short Advent reflections, questions, and prayers will bring hope to parents like you and help you stay rooted in anticipation of Christ’s arrival. Advent is an invitation to reexamine how God has worked and will work in our lives as we wait for the light of Christ to illuminate every shadow.

Christmas is one of the most refreshing and enjoyable times of the year yet so often, we get lost in the marketing maze of buying more and having the newest. This small Christmas devotional plan is designed to refocus us on the meaning of the season—the love of a Father, the gift of a Son, and the advent of a heavenly Kingdom in our midst.

Christians are different. They can’t help it. When you’re in Christ and filled with the Spirit, it changes you. This leads to weird ideas and alternate beliefs about reality. This series of 5-day plans uses classic Christian Creeds as a vehicle to explain the Christian worldview compared to the world’s, and help us see reality through Jesus’s eyes

Amazing Stories is a series of animated videos featuring Bible stories that share God’s redemptive narrative across all Scripture. A short, animated video about how Jesus showed his humanity while he was on Earth tells a New Testament story for each day of the five-part plan.

The music we sing at Christmas helps us to remember the story of Jesus and fills our hearts with hope, peace, love, and joy. This 5-day plan will encourage your heart as you learn inspiring stories behind some of our most beloved Christmas songs, including O Holy Night, Joy to the World, and Silent Night.

Celebrating Christmas is a tradition many of us look forward to all year. We play music, decorate trees, and throw parties all through December. This Advent reading plan aims to help in those celebrations by exploring the themes of the Christmas story. This plan can be read with friends or as a family (kids too!). Use the “Application Questions” for groups to center the conversation on Jesus. And, for families, use “Next Steps”, to find creative ways to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.

This Advent season, anticipate the celebration of Christmas with oral Bible stories. Listen to a story based on Scripture, reflect on its themes and journal with the Lord. May you be encouraged as you prepare your heart to celebrate the birth of our King Jesus!

Exploring the four angelic appearances found in the Christmas story and what they can teach us about our own call this Advent season.

In the busy holiday season, it’s easy to feel like something is missing. Inspired by the short film "Have You Any Room?", this 5-day plan invites you to slow down and think about what really matters. Through simple devotionals and Bible verses, discover what it means to make space for Jesus, even in a crowded life. This isn’t about doing more but finding peace and purpose in the middle of everything. Join us to rediscover the heart of Christmas.

This five-day plan explores various angelic encounters that announced the arrival of the Messiah. We’ll consider Zechariah's doubt, Mary's humility, Joseph's obedience, and the shepherds' exuberance. Angels should not be worshiped, but they model true worship when they sing, “Glory to God in the highest!” This Christmas, marvel with the angels at the Savior born in the city of David who is Christ the Lord.

We all know how easy it is to get swept up in Christmas planning, shopping, decorating, and countless gatherings. These things are exciting and festive, but they can sometimes pull us away from what Christmas is truly about—the arrival of Emmanuel, “God with us.” The Good News is that, in a world filled with so much uncertainty, He is our Hope. He is our Love. He is our Peace, our Joy, our Light. This is the gift of Christmas, for each and every one of us.

Does thriving through the holidays feel impossible? If the Christmas season has you feeling overwhelmed, lonely, and fighting for joy, there’s hope for you, Military Wife. Grab a cup of something warm and join us as we celebrate the season's most powerful source of joy: Jesus Christ. Discover the unexpected, simple, and extraordinary ways to thrive through the holidays!

Twice in Luke 2, Mary is described as treasuring what she witnessed in Jesus's life. She pondered the sacred moments God brought her into. In this five-day reading plan, Brittany Rust explores those moments and how we might both treasure and ponder God's work and Person.

Wondering if your Christmas could get any better or struggling through this season? Join us in digging into the timeless wisdom of the Bible to discover what makes Christmas not just merry, but also, truly meaningful.

Waiting is a fundamental part of the human journey, marked by tension between hope and uncertainty. In this devotional, we will walk alongside Abraham, a man who walked through his own long season of waiting to see God’s promises fulfilled. Through his story, we’ll discover what to expect and how to grow as we navigate our own seasons of waiting on God’s promises. And ultimately, we'll see how Jesus himself—the true offspring of Abraham—brings deeper meaning to our waiting, standing as the final fulfillment of God's promises to all who follow in Abraham’s footsteps of faith.

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.

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.

The Christmas story reminds us that hope is not found in perfect circumstances but in our faithful God. Over the four weeks of Advent, journey through the readings of this devotional plan to help you reflect on the promise of Immanuel, God with us, and discover how He meets us in every season of waiting with faithfulness and hope.

In Part 1, we will be looking at how the Father prepared his Son to be the greatest leader who ever lived on Earth. The Father will spend the first thirty years of Jesus’ life preparing him to be the leader and shepherd of his people. Come and take a look at the God who was willing to become a man. Fall in love with a God who is so in love with you that he would do whatever it takes to bring you into a personal relationship with him — even becoming a man himself.

Join us in this Advent devotional journey as we prepare our hearts to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and look forward with hope to His promised return. Over these readings, we will reflect on the wonder of Christ’s first coming, God made flesh to dwell among us, and the assurance of His second coming, when He will make all things new. Each day will include a passage from the Christmas narrative, an Old Testament passage fulfilled or alluded to in Christ’s birth, and a passage from Revelation to help us look ahead to His coming kingdom.

Advent invites us to remember both Jesus’ first coming and to live expectantly for His return. Biblical hope is rooted not in circumstances but in the unchanging promises of God. Let's examine where our hope is fixed, to eliminate hopelessness by focusing our eyes on Jesus, and to live differently because we trust the One who is coming again. Christ is our anchor, our expectation, and the object of our hope – what a beautiful reminder of why we celebrate his birth.

We all want to hear from God. But sometimes, it’s hard to know what that means or how to listen. In the Christmas story, God spoke to ordinary people through dreams, angels, Scripture, and the quiet stirrings of the Spirit. Each one had to decide how to respond. Over five days, we’ll look at how Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and others heard from God, and what that can teach us about hearing and following him in our everyday lives today.

Christmas is more than a holiday — it is the moment when the Creator steps into His own creation to restore it. In these five short devotionals, you’ll be invited to contemplate Christ who comes, the King who serves, the Shepherd who guides, the Lamb who gives Himself, and the Light that never fades. May this journey renew in you the conviction that the Gospel not only saves but also restores everything sin has broken — reaching every sphere of life and bringing all of creation under the lordship of Christ.