Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Luke 1:34

Advent is a church tradition to help believers across the globe prepare their hearts for the arrival of Jesus. Over four weeks, we’ll look at themes of hope, peace, joy, and love in the biblical narrative leading up to Jesus’ birth, and how these themes can be applied to our Christmas season this year.

Reflect on the wonder of the incarnation – the infinite life found in the small infant Jesus and how he invites you to do wonderful work with him, right where you are. There were no fanfares when Jesus was born. The surroundings were far from royal: squeezed into a small home in a small, provincial town called Bethlehem. Yet this birth – the most wonderful news of all time – has infinite implications. In this 25-day journey, reflect upon the wonder of the Christmas story and be inspired to join in God’s wonderful work in your everyday life.

Your family will love this 25-day Advent calendar that will take you through the Old Testament, connecting the dots between prophecy and the birth of Jesus Christ. Each day will be filled with questions designed to spark discussion about the Bible, your lives, and the impact we can make on our communities during the Christmas season. Grab a friend and go through this devotional plan with them!

During a season that often feels busy and stretched thin, we invite you to pause and remember what matters most: following Jesus. The birth of Christ is more than a story we tell in December. It's the beginning of our Savior's life on earth — and the pattern for our own life with Him. Our prayer is that these 25 days prepare your heart to celebrate His birth, deepen your walk with Him today, and stir your hope for His return. We’ve also created a companion worship playlist – search “Following Jesus Through the First Christmas” on Spotify to listen.

Plan Description: Join Dr. Ken Boa as he guides you through the season of Advent. This 25-day plan walks you through the Scriptures, which will offer the “thrill of hope” that has come, because of which a “weary world rejoices.”

The Promise of Light: An Advent Journey of Hope Fulfilled invites readers to follow the thread of God’s light from creation to Christ’s birth and the promise of eternal glory. Through 25 days of Scripture, reflection, prayer, and simple daily actions, this devotional traces how God’s light breaks into darkness, fulfills ancient promises, and transforms our lives today.

In His Gospel, Luke recorded with a physician’s precision the eyewitness testimony of those who experienced the first Christmas morning. This 25 day Bible reading plan will take you through the preparations and presentation of that first Christmas morning to understand more fully the gift that Jesus is to us.

Advent is often described as a season of joy—but what if you feel anything but joyful? O Come All Ye Faithless offers an honest journey through the stories of Scripture for those who feel hopeless, joyless, anxious, or lonely. Over twenty-five days, you're invited to slow down, reflect, and encounter the God who meets us where faith feels thin. Each day includes Scripture, a reflection, and a prayer to help you discover that hope grows in silence, joy emerges through surrender, peace is born in trust, and love is revealed in presence—the true invitation of Christmas.

Draw near to God as we celebrate that Jesus came to make His dwelling among us. Each day of this 25-day Christmas Advent reading plan includes two Bible passages and a daily devotional to deepen and encourage your faith walk.

This 25-day Christmas devotional invites you to journey from hope to Messiah as we let the true story of Christ’s arrival reshape our hearts. Each day we’ll pause, read Scripture, reflect in light of the gospel, and prepare not just for a celebration... but for the extraordinary God who changes everything.

The Christmas season can be an incredibly stressful time of the year. With all the busyness of the Holidays, it’s easy to lose focus on the true meaning of Christmas, the coming of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. The Christmas at Graystone Bible Reading Plan continues our study through the gospel of Luke and helps keep our focus on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.

Join us this Christmas Season by diving into God's word each day as we celebrate the birth of Jesus!

Advent is a season of anticipation for our coming Savior. Enjoy a weekly video devotional and daily Scripture readings through the month of December, leading up to Christmas and the birth of Jesus!

The Essential Journey to Bethlehem provides you with one short scripture reading each day followed by a reflection question or two designed to help you see how God promised the world a Savior and then kept that promise. Join us on the journey from Old Testament prophecies about Christ's birth to the blessed stable in Bethlehem where he was born.

In Our Christmas Stories, dozens of women share memories of past Christmases. From inspiring to bittersweet, these personal stories may have different details, but they all ultimately reveal the same story of Advent, of waiting for the “good news of great joy” of Jesus’ birth (Luke 2:10). Janet Denison also provides short devotional thoughts with each story, ensuring that the greatest story of Christmas is never just a memory.

Don't lose your focus for the reason of the Christmas season—Jesus. Celebrating Advent is a beautiful way to keep Christ central in the holiday and in this reading plan, you'll take a journey through Scripture to worship our King with daily Bible readings and devotions.

26-days of ADVENT devotional thoughts to help you pursue an intimate, abiding relationship with our Lord and Savior as we approach the celebration of His birth.

What if this Christmas, we were to remember the miracles that Jesus performed in the lives of those who came to Him? This Advent season, I pray you enjoy these 25 compelling stories based on the New Testament characters from The Chosen series. May their diverse, powerful testimonies inspire you to experience and become a miracle of God for others! Are you ready? You are a Miracle! Christian Misch

What if, these next 25 days, we could remember the miracles that Jesus performed in the lives of those who came to Him, and we were inspired by their stories to experience God's miracles in our own lives and also be miracles for others? Join Christian Misch as he examines the lives and testimonies of those who chose to follow Jesus Based on The Chosen series.

This Advent Guide comes from students, faculty and staff at Belmont University. Advent is that season of waiting that carefully and purposefully helps us to realign our priorities and to glimpse, anew, our place before God. Our humble hope is this guide helps people focus more fully on Jesus Christ through the Advent season.

This 27-day study examines the healing accounts of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. How did He heal, who, when, why and what can you learn from Him? Jesus' healing ministry addresses body, soul and spirit. This study may change the way you view healing, and most importantly draw you closer to our Heavenly Father.

How we posture ourselves in the Christmas season makes all the difference in our experience of the miracle of the Advent. Be inspired to surrender to Jesus, refocus on Him, and embrace the grace of our King in this 4-week daily devotional as you move through five different postures: Eyes Fixed, Head Up, Knees Bent, Hands Open, and Arms Wide.

Don't lose your focus for the reason of the Christmas season—Jesus. Celebrating Advent is a beautiful way to keep Christ central in the holiday and in this reading plan, you'll take a journey through Scripture to worship our King with daily Bible readings and devotions.

Whatever December looks like for you, wherever you are, whoever you are with or not with, our hope is that you will set aside time every day over the next four weeks to open God’s Word. We will have short devotionals each day to help you reflect on the day’s reading. We pray that you will see Jesus in a new light this Christmas.

Christmas can be an overwhelming season. We try to feel the joy of the celebration, but our long to-do lists and packed schedules often leave us exhausted and we crawl to Christmas Eve trying to survive until the 26th. In the middle of our very busy days, it's easy to forget what we really celebrate at Christmas: We celebrate Jesus. We celebrate His coming.