Free Family Advent Christmas Devotional with Jesse Tree Ornaments

When we haul a tree in the front door and untangle the lights on the darkest days of the year and look hard, keeping looking hard, for the star for the very top —

I think I know what I want for Christmas.

I don’t want a Christmas that you can buy.

I don’t want a Christmas that you can make.

What I want is a Christmas that you can hold.

A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me.

I want a Christmas that whispers — Jesus.

I want a Christmas that lives and breathes and moves in Jesus Christ.

I want for the God in the manger who makes Himself bread…

For the Saviour in swaddlings who makes Himself our robe of righteousness.

For the Christ who makes precisely what none of us can — Christmas.



It is only Christ alone who can make Christmas.

So that’s what we lay out under the tree, this Jesus Advent Devotional, this story that begins in the beginning, in Genesis, and sweeps across His Word and His-Story, that winds through some of the highlights the Old Testament, stories that keep murmuring it — He’s coming, He’s coming.

That when we’ll bend the knee come December 25th, we’ve run our hands and hearts along the whole spanning epic story of the why and how and Who of this coming, from the Garden to Noah to Jonah to Ruth to David to Zechariah to Mary to Bethlehem

And we’ll feel the divine breaking into here and we see the light shattering dark and we’ll find what we’ve looked hard for, everything we’ve ever yearned for  —

Christ –

and we”ll bend and we’ll whisper — We have beheld

and are held.

 

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Might we give you the free gift of this Jesus Advent Devotional?

Each of the 27 days of the Jesse Tree Family Devotional journey includes: (There are 27 days of devotionals — so begin the last week of November — so that you finish up by December 25th!)

1. The full Bible text of the day’s reading in either NCV or NIV (of course, feel free to read from your own Bible, if you’d prefer another translation.) Readings are selected to begin in Genesis and cover significant events throughout the Old Testament — each story pointing to the coming Messiah. It’s like an overview of the whole span of His Story — leading right up to the climax of the coming Christ!

2. A devotional read-aloud for the whole family – engaging enough (we pray!) for young children and yet meaty enough for teens and adults.

Each reflection endeavors to not only highlight an important scene from God’s epic in time, but to always unwrap more of Jesus, the gift hidden in every story.

3. a short, simple action point for the day– “Unwrapping more of His love in the World” — a way to do something together as a family that not only invites the coming Kingdom of God and Jesus’ love into your home and community, but is an opportunity to apply and live out the day’s devotional. It’s like an Advent Calendar that gives back – becoming more like the gift Himself!

4. a free full color ornament,, illustrated by Nancy Rodden and used with permission, to hang on your own Jesse Tree. The very last pages of the book include all of the ornaments in over several pages so you can easily cut each ornament out and creatively mount to your own preferences.

5. black & white Coloring ornaments, if your children choose to color ornaments, while you read the devotional?

{You are welcome to print the booklet out for your own personal use only; we only humbly ask that the book be printed in it’s entirety, text/images not altered. To use the devotional outside of family (church settings, etc.,) please contact us .

Sample Pages & Free Ornaments from the book :

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The book and ornaments are our grateful free gift to you!

To thank you. For all the ways you’ve cared and encouraged and written notes and prayed for us this year. Though I can’t always express it well to each and every one, know how our heart swells… Our whole family, we truly appreciate you.

So from our heart and home to you and yours this Christmas season, may our family offer this book to you as our humble, imperfect little gift? May we all find our home in Christ year round.

Christ has unwrapped more of His love to us every day– through you.

So utterly grateful,

Ann Voskamp & The Farmer & family…

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Our Warmest Welcome, new friend!

Thank you for the humble gift of your friendship. It’s a humble grace to walk together… Christ came to do that exactly that with us…

Merriest of Christmases, one and all…

Perhaps there’s encouragement too for you in these Advent thoughts?

Three Very Simple Ways to have a Peaceful Advent

What Jesus Really Wants This Year for His Birthday

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::Click here to download the FREE JESSE TREE Advent Family Devotional {please give it a few moments to download… thank you for grace!}