Christmas Plans

Discover the wonder of the Christmas story with fresh eyes - looking deeper at the tough experiences, challenging settings, and real people it's made up of. At its heart, the Nativity isn't a cute kids' play: it's the gritty, wondrous story of Jesus entering the mess and madness of the human world.

Gritty Wonder: Christmas Through Fresh Eyes

For many, the holidays are a time of great joy...but what happens when the holidays lose their sparkle and become challenging due to deep grief or loss? This special reading plan will help those going through grief to find comfort and hope for the holidays, and shares how to create a meaningful holiday season in spite of deep grief.

Grief Bites: Hope for the Holidays

Christmas is simple...God became man...but are we so familiar with the story of Christ’s birth that we lose interest and keep doing what we always do during this Christmas season? Join me as we slow down, do less, and intentionally spread the great joy of the Gospel while we wait in anticipation of celebrating our Savior’s birth. 

Can't Wait for Christmas: A 3-Day Devotional With Cade Thompson

BibleProject designed Advent Reflections to inspire individuals, small groups, and families to celebrate the advent, or arrival, of Jesus. This four week plan incorporates animated videos, short summaries, and reflective questions to help participants explore the biblical meaning of hope, peace, joy, and love. Choose this plan to discover how these four virtues have arrived to the world through Jesus.

BibleProject | Advent Reflections

Is your holiday season merry and bright or frantic and crazy? Do you look forward to giving or receiving? Make sure your priorities and heart are in the right place during the holidays. Don’t take Christ out of Christmas.

How to Keep Christ in Christmas

This three week plan walks us through the timeless wonder of how God came to us through His son, Jesus. The plan is designed to begin on a Monday so that each weekend will include shorter content meant for rest and reflection during the holiday season. Join us as we study what the birth of Christ means for our future, present, and past.

Timeless Wonder | a Christmas Reading Plan From New Life Church 

The Christmas season highlights the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. How can we worship deeply in this season? Through this 9-day devotional, we want to provide the story and spiritual meaning behind several Christmas songs you know and love, and maybe some new ones as well! This Plan features several worship pastors from Life.Church Worship who are a part of the live Christmas album, Gloria.


Gloria

The following devotionals were written to help you in your spiritual journey. Each article has been selected to help you understand more about God's love for you, and we hope that through these pages you will find encouragement, comfort, and true joy this Christmas season. 

Joy to the World

Women bring the present at Christmas. They cook, buy gifts, create crafts, plan parties, coordinate outfits….make MAGIC, and this year will be no different. This devotional is a walk through a few of the women involved in the family line of Christ and his birth. These women faced a myriad of obstacles, but in the end, they brought the most beautiful gift to the world--the presence of Jesus Christ. 