Advent

This 3-day devotional, Blessed to Be a Blessing, explores God’s miraculous provision, unexpected generosity, and deep, sacrificial love. Reflect on how God meets our needs, often in surprising ways, and how we’re called to pass His blessings forward. Be encouraged this Christmas season to extend love, meet needs, and share hope with those around you.

Blessed to Be a Blessing

The birth of Jesus reminds us that God doesn’t remain distant. In Jesus, God took on human flesh and moved into the neighborhood. The word used to describe this incredible event is “incarnation.” God came to us—not in abstraction or theory—but in real human flesh. God moved into the neighborhood to rescue us and remake our neighborhoods. This five-day devotional draws from themes in Derek Vreeland’s Bible study Incarnation: 8 Lessons on How God Meets Us, to help us rediscover the joy that came when God moved into our neighborhoods to rescue us and our neighbors. 

God With Us: Lessons From the Incarnation

Advent is more than a countdown to Christmas. It’s an invitation to hope. Advent teaches us to choose peace over fear, receive joy in God’s presence, and behold the One who has come, is coming, and will come again. Whether your waiting is full of longing, uncertainty, or anticipation, these devotions will help you slow down and experience the transforming presence of Jesus, the God who is with us.

Waiting for Jesus

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

This Christmas, take time each day to slow down and focus on the joy of the season. In this 5-day Advent reading plan, best-selling author and pastor Greg Laurie shares wisdom, Scripture, and prayers designed to help you connect with God and find hope and peace amid the holiday rush. Adapted from his brand-new 25-day Advent devotional 'Heaven's Light Breaking.'

Heaven's Light Breaking: A 5-Day Advent Devotional

Read this five day devotional, and discover how the King that was born in a manger all those years ago in Bethlehem was the promised Prince of Peace. 

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” - Isaiah 9:6.

A King Is Born ~ the Prince of Peace

In this eye-opening three-day devotional, you will learn that the goodness of God explains EVERYTHING. And His goodness is looking for YOU. You don’t have to chase it down. God designed “goodness” to follow you ALL the days of your life! This devotional will shape your expectations and free you from negative emotions caused by a misconception of God’s truly good and loving nature.

The Ten Miracles of God's Goodness

When Jesus was born into human existence, it was the most epic interruption to human history that has ever happened. God loves us enough to punctuate history in human skin; not as a king, president, or noble warrior, but as a helpless newborn. This reading plan studies the people surrounding Christ’s birth and their response to (or role in) this divine interruption on the timeline of history.

Christmas: The Divine Interruption 

Jesus came because God wants to be WITH people. All people - that's you and that's me. Join John Ortberg for a journey toward Christmas, walking through the Advent story and learning how to be WITH God in our every day, normal lives. This plan also features special visual graphics prepared by artist, Matthew Custar.