2025 Advent Devotionals Introduction

Advent season is meant to be all about waiting. Children understand this. The month of December often feels like the longest wait of a child’s life. Each day tends to drag on as they eagerly anticipate Christmas morning. But many times adults can forget this. This season is so filled with parties, performances, buying gifts, travel, and many other things that the month is usually gone before we know it.

This Advent season, we hope to help you recapture the spirit of waiting. We will spend this month studying promises of the messiah from the Old Testament. As we do this, we will be reminded that the people of God received these promises hundreds and even thousands of years before Jesus came. That’s a long time to wait. But in God’s perfect timing, Jesus, the Promised One, came and fulfilled all of these promises.

But studying these promises also reminds us that we still await the second advent of Jesus. This season helps us long for His return when He will bring the ultimate fulfillment of all of God’s promises. And we can wait well because of all of the promises that He fulfilled in His first coming.

Each morning you will receive a brief devotional that invites you to read a passage of Scripture, reflect on the promise that was given and how Jesus fulfilled that promise, and respond in faith. We hope that you will take just a few minutes each day, either alone or with friends and family, to read, reflect, and respond.