Advent Resources
Joy to the World
Family Advent Guide
Few stories in Scripture are as captivating for all ages as the Christmas story. Over the next four weeks of your Joy to the World study, you’ll walk through this narrative and other key passages of the Bible that give you a better understanding of Jesus’s first Advent and His promise to come again. With this family devotional guide, we’ve made it easy for you to bring your family along with you on this Bible study journey.
Waiting Here for You
Louie Giglio
A season overflowing with anticipation, Christmas comes the same time each year with great hope and the promise of a baby born long ago. But this season meant for joy is often consumed by busyness, pressure, mixed emotions, and is gone as quickly as it came. What is it all for?
Waiting Here For You helps us anticipate rather than dread the busy season of Advent and Christmas. In the journey of Advent—a season of expectant waiting and preparation—we find our answer. It's in the waiting that we prepare our hearts to meet December 25 with joy, peace, hope, and promise in our newborn King.
Because of Bethlehem
Max Lucado
Max Lucado loves Christmas. The carols and cookies, the decorations and favorite films, the warmth and generosity of the season. But most of all, he loves it because it’s during this time of year that people will wonder and inquire about the baby born in the manger. This little baby became the King on the cross. Christmas proclaims the truth of Easter to come.
Join with Max in this lively, heartwarming celebration of all things Christmas. Because of Bethlehem features stories both insightful and whimsical. On every page, Max’s words will encourage, captivate and inspire you, but most importantly, they’ll point you towards the One worth celebrating.
Family Advent Devotional
Matt & Lauren Chandler
Human beings are captivated by stories because we are created to live in a story—the Christian story. But given our bent toward sin, we often find ourselves caught up in the false stories of our culture. Entering into the Christian season of Advent helps to reorient our hearts and minds away from the false stories of the world. This Advent, reflect on and celebrate the story of Jesus’s birth as a family through this video-enhanced 25-day devotional.
The book is divided into four weeks that each focus on a major theme of Advent: hope, peace, love, and joy.