Christmas and Advent

Keep Jesus at the very heart of the Christmas season with this 31-day Advent guide and see more clearly how He is Immanuel - God with us past, pres...

These daily devotions for December seek to recapture the true joy of Jesus' birth through the study of biblical characters, hymns, prayers, Christi...

Joel Edwards takes as his theme the idea of glorious hope: and this is seen to great effect throughout the advent season. As the shepherds and the ...

This festive season, engage your senses to celebrate Immanuel. Instead of being caught up in the rush of plans and parties, create moments to pause...

With all the pressures of Christmas, finding joy can be challenging. The Perfect Gift offers busy readers uplifting five-minute devotions to start ...

December can feel like chaos – full of social events, services, Christmas presents to buy, never-ending to-do lists and the pressure to create the ...

"You will conceive and give birth to a son ... And there were shepherds living out in the fields near by ... You will find a baby wrapped in cloths...

The weeks leading up to Christmas should be a time when we remember God’s promises to send the Messiah. A time when we celebrate the Savior who has...

Advent: A Calendar of Devotions 2024 provides daily devotions to help you prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ. This annual favorite is a wonde...

The Leader Guide contains discussion questions and session plans for a four-week Advent study. It includes opening and closing prayers, optional ac...

The leader guide includes four small group sessions complete with prayers, summaries, and discussion questions to inspire active group engagement. ...

You may or may not know the story of your birth. If you do, there is something special about hearing your origin story again and remembering how it...

On the Way to Bethlehem follows the long journey to Christmas. The story begins in Rome with a decree issued from the seat of worldly power for a c...

For centuries, Christians have turned to the story and message of John the Baptist in the weeks leading up to Christmas. In Prepare the Way for the...

Reflections for Advent from members, associates and friends of the Iona Community around the world –– from Uganda, Scotland, Wales, Palestine, Swit...

"The celebration of Christmas in the twenty-first century is wrapped in nostalgia and infused with hopes and dreams. The sweetest of these dreams i...

'The Nutcracker' is a delightful and whimsical Christmas classic that children and adults look forward to every year. First performed in 1892, the ...

His parents gave him the name Jesus. But the prophets, the shepherds, the wise men, and the angels addressed him by other names. They called him Lo...

This colourful, biblically accurate Arch Book tells the Christmas story, tracing back to Isaiah's prophesies. Allow the names of Jesus-Wonderful Co...

Everything you need to celebrate Advent… in one box! The Come and See Advent box is a resource designed to make celebrating advent easy and fun f...

Join Elizabeth Rundle for 31 days of Advent study, and find something of eternity to touch your heart and deepen your faith. Wherever we live, we a...

Spend 30 days with Krish Kandiah, exploring the mystery and the wonder of the Christmas story. Go on that journey again. Dig out the strange circum...

It s a common saying in churches that Christmas begins with Christ , but for many people the festive season is becoming less about Jesus and more ...

After the success of ‘One Big Question’ and the Lent study guide ‘Centred on Christ’, Michael Baughen introduces us to Advent in a new way. Experie...

Joy to the world, the Lord is come. The opening line of this classic Christmas carol captures the delight and awe that surrounded Jesus’s birth. Bu...

During the Christmas season, even those who do not know Jesus love the lights and songs. And yet to many, this is all that Christmas is about. Even...

Let There Be Joy! is a 31-day Christmas devotional that will enable the reader to navigate the busy-ness, the joy and the meaning that solely belon...

Discover more than 60 quick, easy, and stylish decorating ideas to add cozy Christmas cheer to your home. Seriously, these projects are so easy—you...

Paul’s stories of hardship in his letters to the Corinthians are often ignored but are crucial to understanding how the apostle thought about the C...

Advent is a special time. We look forward with expectancy to Christmas. We get excited by lights and decorations and the joy on children’s faces. B...

The first Christmas sermon preserved in church history was preached by St. John Chrysostom in AD 386, in which he declared, "Behold a new and wonde...

"O wondrous exchange!" Of all the seasons of the church calendar, Christmas is the one most recognized and celebrated by our society at large. That...

There's a reason our hearts overflow with gratitude as Christmas approaches. We're celebrating not just one coming of Christ---but three! In this p...

Mary and Joseph had to search for a place to give birth and then to flee from the murderous King Herod: a course on finding refuge fits naturally w...

For many years, award-winning journalist and author Cole Moreton has been involved in and worked alongside those offering relief and welcome to men...

The most beloved Christmas carols arranged in 28 daily devotions for the Advent season. The Carols of Christmas is a heart-warming devotional insp...

Have you ever wished the world was more like a musical, with characters bursting into song at the slightest provocation? In the nativity story, th...

Martin Luther King famously declared that 'I have decided to stick with love... Hate is too great a burden to bear'. In these luminous daily readin...

Open Our Eyes is a welcome accompaniment to the Advent days of anticipating Christ’s birth. Follow its invitation of prophetic prayers and vibrant ...

Daily readings for Advent from Iona Community members, associates and friends: Peter Millar, John Harvey, Kathy Galloway, Ian M Fraser, David Rhode...

For several years now, pastor/poet Thom Shuman has written daily devotions for Advent, sending them out through his popular blogs and books. In th...

Disturbing Complacency does not advocate a ‘cosy’ view of Christmas but rather urges people to use this season to address some of the most importan...

No other time of the year captures our imagination as much as Christmas: God coming into the world on a dark winter’s night; a baby’s cry that woul...

No other time of the year captures our imagination as much as Christmas: God coming into the world on a dark winter’s night; a baby’s cry that woul...