Advent Reads for This Joyful Season
With Christmas around the corner, why not take the time to slow down, reflect, and prepare your heart for Christ’s birth with reflections on the true meaning of the season? Spend some quiet time alone reading heartfelt devotionals or take some time with the family to reflect on the joy and hope of the season. These hand-picked books will help you and your whole family come together to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.
December can feel like a race to the finish line, filled with shopping lists, school programs, travel plans, and full calendars. Yet Advent invites us to move at a different pace. It is a season of waiting, a time to remember that God stepped into our world in the humblest of ways, and to anticipate with hope the day Christ will return.
Whether you are looking for a devotional to anchor your quiet mornings or a gentle way to gather your children around the Christmas story each evening, there is something here for every household. Some books offer reflection for your heart, while others are filled with Scripture, conversation, and activities for the whole family. May each page help you make room for Jesus this season.
Advent Devotions
The Gifts of Christmas
Infusing joy into a busy and stressful season, beloved author and speaker offers you the opportunity to stop for a moment and unwrap a new refreshing gift from God each day during the advent season.
Advent Unhurried
This Advent devotional invites readers to slow down and make space for sorrow and joy, longing and hope, and doubt and faith as they journey through the season leading up to Christmas.
The Spirit of Christmas
Join acclaimed author Cynthia Ruchti for a faith-building, eye-opening walk with the Holy Spirit. This Advent devotional highlights the power and presence of the Holy Spirit that is often missed in retellings of the Christmas story through core verses, daily devotions, and prayer.
Prepare Him Room
In the hurriedness of December, sometimes we find ourselves sacrificing a sacred pace for hustle, leaving us feeling more stressed than blessed. As you begin your Christmas preparations this year, journey through Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth, life, death, and ultimate resurrection. God invites you to be still and let Jesus radically transform you this holy season.
Star of Wonder
Bestselling author, Angela Hunt, weaves together visceral storytelling with overlooked biblical and historical truths to help you rediscover the places, people, prophecies, and purpose of Christmas. Each Advent devotion includes Scripture, insights, historical facts, personal application, and family activities, giving you new glimpses into the traditional Nativity.
For the Whole Family
Anticipating His Arrival
Spend time with your family remembering His first Advent on Christmas and prepare for his second coming, celebrating and anticipating both events. Each day’s Scripture reading includes discussion questions with accompanying responses to make it easy for you to engage the themes of preparation, anticipation, joy, and incarnation throughout the season of Advent.
Laugh and Grow Bible for Kids Family Advent Devotional
This devotional is designed to help children anticipate the gift of Jesus through engaging stories, memory verses, and games. Journey through the Christmas story together while exploring the hope, peace, joy, and love He brings.
The King of Christmas
Inspired by the story of the magi and Mary’s Magnificat, The King of Christmas invites children and families to share the joy of searching for Jesus during Advent. And where do we find the King of Christmas today? In his word, where he promises to be found. Wherever his name and word are, you will find him too.
Happy reading,
Club31Women
