Advent Calendar Activity Ideas
The following submission are from fellow CHEER members. May God richly bless your family this Christmas season as you celebrate our dear Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ...Emmanuel...God is with us!! Merry Christmas!!
-God with Us, an Advent by Catherine Pawlak
God with Us devotional book, has daily readings, extension activities and follows the Jesse Tree tradition in following the 25 stories from the Old Testament and New Testament. Other Advent options are also on her website- She has a Jesse Tree coloring book, Jesse Tree Ornaments, Gift set with ornaments and book, DIY Jesse Tree Ornaments that kids color on their own and put together, My Advent Tree sticker chart, Jesse Tree Advent Ornament digital file.
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- The Daily Grace Co. Advent Collection - Good News, Great Joy - An Advent Study on the Power and Perfection of Jesus
Through Good News, Great Joy you will:
- Gain an understanding of the priesthood and see how Jesus is God’s perfect revelation.
- Learn why Israel needed priests and how Jesus is our Great High Priest.
- See why Israel so eagerly anticipated a king and how Jesus is the King of Kings.
- Discover the hope of the Messiah
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-Jotham’s Journey- a great storybook for advent with a devotional. It has short chapters for each day of Advent. It is a series of four Advent books. Others are- Tabitha’s Travels, Bartholomew’s Passage, and Ishtar’s Odyssey. (Amon’s Adventure is an Easter devotional).
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-Faithward.org – The Jesse Tree Story: A Family Advent Devotional - Each devotion in this family Advent devotional invites you into the story of someone on Jesus’s family tree. These devotions will show young children how God was preparing for Jesus to be born across many generations. Each story pairs with a symbol you can hang on your own Jesse Tree. Follow along online for free or purchase a printed guide.
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- 25 Names of Jesus Advent Cards @ AVirtuousWoman.org - Jesus is everything we need and when we study the names of Jesus found in the Bible we see how accurately the names of Jesus show us how He provides for all of our needs! If you are looking for a way to celebrate Advent this year, these Scripture Advent Cards are an easy way to take time each day to focus on the real meaning of Christmas. Just look up each days verse in your Bible, read aloud and pray together. You could even sing a Christmas hymn during your Advent worship time together.
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-Good News of Great Joy, 25 Advent meditations- John Piper - Christmas is about the Creator of the universe, who is not himself part of the universe, coming himself, in the person of his Son, into the world that he made. And what makes this fact even more remarkable is that even though this created universe is in rebellion against its Maker, he came into this world that he made in order to save those who are in active rebellion against him.