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25 Days of the Christmas Story (Dr. Josh Straub and Christi Straub)
This December, spend a few moments of each day leading up to Christmas helping your family focus on the true joys and meaning of Advent with 25 Days of the Christmas Story: An Advent Family Experience. This is a devotional perfect for families of all shapes, sizes, and schedules. Each of the 25 days highlights a different person, place, or object from the Christmas story—from the prophet Isaiah to Baby Jesus, from the Christmas star to the gift of frankincense. All devotions include an easy-to-read story, character trait, activity, and more—each designed to reinforce the main theme of the day.
Your family can choose simply to read each day’s story or to go deeper and engage with each day’s features. Either way, parents and children are sure to learn and celebrate the season of Advent together while having fun in the process!
A true heirloom in the making, the book includes pages in the back where parents and kids can record memories of each day’s activities and write journal entries to look back on year after year, Christmas after Christmas.
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40 Days of Christmas: Celebrating the Glory of Our Savior (Joseph Castleberry)
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. Psalm 28:7 NIV
Men face challenges to their faith at work and at home. Daily Strength for Men offers a daily dose of wisdom for men who seek to draw strength from God’s Word.
Each devotional covers two days, offering flexibility and freedom to contemplate the message in depth. You will find:
- a reading that applies to your life
- inspirational Bible verses from the Old Testament
- contextual Bible passages and related Scriptures
- questions for reflection and application, and
- an uplifting prayer.
Daily Strength for Men will equip you to walk faithfully with God—the source of your strength.
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A Better Than Anything Christmas (Barbara Reaoch)
A Better Than Anything Christmas is the second Advent devotional for families from Barbara Reaoch, author of the very popular A Jesus Christmas.
These daily devotions in the Gospels give a thorough investigation of why Jesus came. In the lead-up to Christmas, families will explore 25 reasons why Jesus came, and they will see that what Jesus gives us is better than anything else we could wish for.
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A Jesus Christmas (Barbara Reaoch)
Explore God’s amazing plan for Christmas with this family devotional for Advent written by Barbara Reaoch.
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Bake through the Bible at Christmas (Susie Bentley-Taylor, Bekah Moore)
12 Christmas Bible stories for young children with related cooking activities.
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God’s Big Promises Advent Calendar and Family Devotions (Carl Laferton)
This attractive 25-door Advent calendar for children aged 3-7 years old is linked with God’s Big Promises Bible Storybook. It also comes with a booklet containing 25 short, simple devotions for December, to help families explore the Christmas story together.
Young children will enjoy learning about and interacting with the Christmas story.
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Heaven and Nature Sing: 25 Advent Reflections to Bring Joy to the World (Hannah Anderson)
Heaven and Nature Sing invites you into a fresh reading of the Christmas story—one where earthy, overlooked things like snowflakes, trees, serpents, bodies, and swaddling bands reveal the glory of the Promised Son. Journeying from the first pages of Scripture to the last, you’ll experience the goodness of our Creator King and learn how the whole earth sings his praise.
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany (Jonathan Gibson)
During Christmas, homes are filled with good food, welcoming family, and lively cheer. Streets are lined with lights and sprinkled with snow. Amid this season of beauty, even Christians can become distracted, keeping Jesus at an unintentional distance. How can Christians effectively prepare their hearts for the arrival of their King and worship him the way he deserves?
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by Jonathan Gibson presents a 40-day devotional liturgy guiding readers through Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany—helping them keep their eyes fixed on Christ. Designed as a resource for the holiday season, each reading includes a guided meditation, applicable Scripture readings, hymns, prayers, creeds, and prompts for petition and confession. For individuals and families, this devotional will help Christians focus on Jesus and meditate on the mystery of his incarnation.
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Prepare Him Room: Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Family Devotional (Marty Machowski)
Guide your family into the heart of Christmas with this gospel-focused, four-week Advent curriculum.
Prepare Him Room by children’s best-selling author Marty Machowski takes a biblical, theological approach to the Old Testament promises and New Testament fulfillment in Christ in a way kids can understand.
A tool for families hoping to focus on Jesus during the Christmas season, readers will have the resources necessary to counter the commercialism, materialism, and sentimentalism our culture celebrates each Christmas. Prepare Him Room includes an original Christmas short story and thirteen family Advent devotions—three for each of the four weeks of Advent and one more for Christmas—plus crafts, activities, and carols to sing together.
Prepare Him Room will change the way you and your family celebrate Christmas. A corresponding curriculum, Prepare Him Room: Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Advent Sunday School Curriculum is sold separately. A companion CD, Prepare Him Room: Celebrating the Birth of Jesus in Song, is also available through Sovereign Grace Music. Challenge your family to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.
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The Advent of Glory: 24 Devotions for Christmas
Slow down and appreciate the wonder of Christmas with a beloved Bible teacher! Mixing scholarly detail and heartwarming application, Sproul’s 24 brief Advent readings explore the details of the nativity story—and how they can impact our lives today. Features daily prayers from Sinclair Ferguson, Tim Challies, Joni Eareckson Tada, and many others. 144 pages, softcover from The Good Book.
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The Christmas Promise Advent Calendar (Alison Mitchell)
Advent Calendar linked with The Christmas Promise storybook. Includes 25 family devotionals.
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The Christmas Promise Board Book (Alison Mitchell)
Christmas book for toddlers that teaches them that Jesus is God’s special king.
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The Christmas Promise Storybook (Alison Mitchell)
A captivating retelling of the Christmas story showing how God kept his promise to send a king unlike any other: a new, rescuing forever king.
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The Light Before Christmas: A Family Advent Devotional (Marty Machowski)
This four-week Advent family devotional by best-selling author Marty Machowski combines devotions on the theme of light and darkness with the story of eleven-year-old Mia and her grandmother as they prepare for Christmas. Grandma loves to share her faith, especially at Christmas time, and although she is blind, she can see the light of Jesus shining bright and helps Mia—and children of all ages—to do the same.
Every year, Mia loves to spend the month of December with Grandma getting ready for Christmas. This year, they read a special devotional, The Light Before Christmas, together. Machowski brings families into their devotional time, sharing the story of Christmas. Through a Bible study of light and darkness, readers will discover how the theme of light weaves its way through the Christmas story and God’s plan of salvation.
The Light Before Christmas contains thirteen devotionals—three for each of the four weeks of Advent and one more for Christmas. Each devotional includes a Scripture for the day, an object lesson, a focus Scripture, a question to discuss as a family, a song to sing together, and a prayer.
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The Praises of Christmas: Christmas Through the Eyes of Those Who Were There (Jay Smith)
The Praises of Christmas takes readers on a journey to the first Christmas through the eyes of those who were there, focusing especially on their response of praise to God’s gift of a Savior:
- Mary, sure of God’s goodness but unsure about all the implications of this baby
- Zacharias, humbled by his doubts but rejoicing in God’s work
- The angels, marveling that their Creator would come to earth in such a vulnerable way
- The shepherds, despised in society yet being first to receive the good news for all people
- The elderly Simeon and Anna, rejoicing to see the young Messiah after waiting so long.
Their memories are not of candles and presents and meals and family togetherness but of God at work in a way that almost made them speechless.
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The Promise and the Light (Katy Morgan)
Captivating retelling of the nativity story. Great Christmas gift for kids who love to read.
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Unwrapping the Names of Jesus for Kids (Asheritah Ciuciu)
Based on the best-selling Advent devotional that’s helped over 100,000 families recapture the joy of Christmas!
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Unwrapping the Names of Jesus: An Advent Devotional (Asheritah Ciuciu)
How to focus on Christ during Advent
Most Christians agree that Christmas is all about Jesus, yet most of us spend little time preparing our hearts to celebrate Him. Why is this? Partly because we don’t know how.
In Unwrapping the Names of Jesus, Asheritah Ciuciu leads readers through the four weeks of Advent (Hope, Preparation, Joy, and Love). Each week:
- Begins with an interactive family devotional that equips readers to celebrate Advent together
- Offers five daily reflections that focus on that week’s name of Jesus
- Includes suggestions for fun-filled family activities or service projects
This devotional can be used by readers in their own personal worship times or as a tool to engage in family worship during the busy holiday season. Either way, participants will gain a greater sense of awe and wonder at who Jesus is.
By focusing on the person and character of Jesus throughout the Advent season, readers will prepare their hearts so that when they admire the live nativity, sit in the candlelight service, or wake up on Christian morning, they can join the faithful who sing from the bottom of their hearts, “O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!”
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Wonders of His Love: Finding Jesus in Isaiah, Family Advent Devotional (Champ Thornton)
Advent is the perfect time for families to gather together and celebrate the birth of Jesus. Using pictures of Jesus from Isaiah’s prophecies—the Light, the Branch, the Shepherd, and the Savior—brings to life the true meaning of Christmas.
Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, God spoke to his people through the prophet Isaiah, promising them a Savior. To communicate God’s message, Isaiah used striking, stunning, and surprising imagery—the “wonders” of his love! Isaiah pointed God’s people to the future, when one day, through his birth, death, and resurrection, Jesus would deliver his people from sin and sorrow forever.
Perfect for busy families with younger children, each week of Advent focuses on one of Isaiah’s images and has readings related to the week’s theme—Jesus the Light; Jesus the Branch; Jesus the Shepherd; Jesus the Savior—and, on Christmas Day, Jesus the Bread. Each week also includes fun stories, discussion questions, crafts, recipes, games, and suggestions for family service projects.
Written by Champ Thornton and illustrated by Jeremy Slagle, this four-week devotional will draw families closer to Jesus and to each other.
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Come Let Us Adore Him (Paul David Tripp)
This year, don’t let Christmas sneak up on you again.
The wonder and awe of the Christmas season can easily get overshadowed by lights, tinsel, bows, and paper—not to mention last-minute trips to the mall and visits to the in-laws. In all the hustle and bustle, we often lose sight of what’s most important. This book of daily readings for the month of December by best-selling author Paul David Tripp will help you slow down, prepare your heart, and focus on what matters most: adoring our Savior, Jesus.$17.99