This free, printable Christmas Advent Calendar with Bible Verses can be framed and used year after year while your family learns about Jesus from Scripture!
When I was a kid, I honestly thought Advent was another word for those little cardboard 3D calendars with the chocolates in them. It wasn’t that I didn’t know that Christmas was about the birth of Jesus. I mean, we made him a cake every year. But I didn’t know that Advent is a season we spend celebrating the coming of the King of the Universe, Jesus.
When my kids look back on their childhood, I want them to remember Christmas as a time focused on Jesus, on the gospel, and on God’s plan for humanity.
Do you ever purpose to spend the entire Advent season pointing your kids to Jesus, just to have the busyness of the season overwhelm you?
Do you know there are Scriptural Nativity themes you could be focusing on with your kids each day, but you just don’t have time to pull them together and organize them?
Do you wonder if your kids will grow up thinking Christmas is all about them and their gifts?
Me too.
Hey! There’s a free Advent Calendar in this post!
Psst! There’s a big giveaway at the bottom of the post, too!!
Bible Verses for Advent
It doesn’t have to be that way. In just a few minutes each day of Advent, your family can read through themed Bible verses about the birth of Christ. Your kids will learn to make important connections between Old Testament prophecy and the New Testament fulfillment of prophecy. They’ll learn about important Scriptural themes like:
- The Promise of Jesus
- Jesus’ Family
- Jesus’ Royalty
- Zechariah and his Reaction
- The Coming of the King
- Shepherds Worshiping Jesus
- And more!
Christmas Advent Calendar with Bible Verses
Make this year a year your kids truly begin to understand and remember the gift the Lord gave us. His plan for our salvation began before his creation of the world. The Lord’s prophets told us of Jesus’ coming, and Jesus fulfilled those prophecies.
In 2 Peter 1:16, Peter tells us:
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Jesus’ birth is not a myth, nor are the extraordinary circumstances surrounding it. The birth of Jesus Christ is a well documented fact, as is his life, crucifixion, and resurrection. We can make his miraculous coming real to our kids.
To receive your Christmas Advent Calendar with Bible Verses, just hop over to the store and check out. Print it on cardstock for your family–and a copy for each of your Sunday School kids!
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Display Your Christmas Advent Calendar Every Year for Family Worship
Frame your Advent calendar, and display it every year for use during December. Make this a tradition that will last!
Beginning December 1st, read that day’s Scripture readings. I recommend find a time each day to read with your kids, like at breakfast or at dinner. That way, you won’t forget to read together.
Have your kids help you locate the Scriptures in the Bible. Take turns reading a paragraph each and discuss what you learned about the Incarnation of Christ that day!
Great Books about Jesus, the Reason for Christmas
30 Prophecies: One Story: How God’s Word Points to JesusThe History of Christmas: 2,000 Years of Faith, Fable and FestivityI Spy At Christmas: Jesus is More Important than Crackers and TinselThe Christmas Story: The Bible VersionThe Very First ChristmasThe Very First Christmas
Giveaway! 5 winners, ends November 23, 2022.
I have teamed up with some pretty generous bloggers for the 9th annual Christmas Blessings Giveaway to bless FIVE families this year. In the past we have had two winners for this giveaway, but this year we wanted to give to even more families – we are giving away $200 gift cards to 5 families! Each winner will get a $200 gift card to wherever they choose – a restaurant, clothing store, grocery store, online retailer – any place that offers gift cards!
There are lots of entry options in the Rafflecopter form below – the more you enter, the better your chance of winning!
The giveaway will run until Wednesday, November 23rd (ends at 11:59pm EST).
Winners will be notified by email shortly after the giveaway ends and will have 48 hours to respond to claim the prize or another winner will be drawn. By entering this giveaway, you agree to be added to the email lists of the participating bloggers. Please be sure to read the Rafflecopter terms and conditions upon entering.
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I would first donate some of the money to our local Samaritan Center, which helps people in our community with food, rent, etc. Then I would purchase my daughter some much needed clothes.
My family and classroom would be blessed by this money. Moving from upper intermediate to second grade has been a struggle. I am trying to find resources that don’t break the bank, and educate the children. Knowing that this blessing was coming would help me plan for the following year.
I would bring my son and his new wife home for Christmas!
Great giveaway!! I would love to use it for curriculum!! Thanks for the opportunity:)
Fix things around the house, homeschool materials, and our Waffle House Christmas blessing dinner.
Fix things around the house, homeschool supplies and our Christmas Day Waffle House blessing dinner.
$500 would help me be able to give more at Christmas. My way to earn extra money at for Christmas has been cut greatly. $500 would enable me to give to my family and to others. Last year sponsored 5 foster children. I would love to be able to do it again.
The money would give me more flexibility in buying curriculum. Thanks for the giveaway!
What a great idea! I LOVE THIS! Thank you for sharing.
We would use some of the money towards Christmas gifts and save the rest.
We would pay some bills and make holiday travel more affordable to see family.
Thanks for the giveaway. What a blessing this would be to who will win. Praying it will be blessed by God. I would buy gifts for my extended family. Thanks
My family is getting together for Christmas for the first time – my mom and all the kids and grandkids. So I would pay for everyone’s trip!
What a lovely giveaway! Thank you for the advent calendar; we’re always looking for ways to center more on Christ. $500 would be a blessing in curriculum purchasing and in ministering to others.
$500 – well tithe, then either bills, repairs, holiday food, flannel sheets, jeans…
I would use the money to purchase a Nutramilk. My daughter is allergic to dairy, so I have to make almond milk for her every week. This would make the process much easier.
I love this Advent Calendar!! I plan to use it with my teen Sunday school class as well!! Thank you!
I would use it for Christmas gifts and to help pay for some unexpected car repairs!
This would be a huge blessing to me if I were lucky enough to win! I would be able to take my mom out and do something nice for her! She has MS and Im afraid my chances are getting slim.
We’d use it to help pay for snow tires for our teenager car and also to buy a few more things for the local pregnancy center that supports moms in time of crisis and shares the Gospel message with them.
We would put it towards repairing my husbands and school supplies.
Wow, thank you for all of the wonderful Advent inspiration, and for the opportunity to enter the giveaway as well!
If I won, I’d be able to pay off some Bill’s that have been weighing us down, and hopefully do some shopping for gifts for my 5 daughters as well.
What a great giveaway! Our family would be so blessed to take care of several needs.
I would love to use this money to fix our downstairs room so our family can use it. Right now it needs all new carpet or flooring, which is very expensive.
This is such an awesome giveaway! It is truly a blessing what all of you do for others. It has been hard these past few months and your blogs are a wonderful blessing. I love the advent verse Christmas calendar.
Thank you again for all you do and your encouragement.
Many blessings to al of you.
Estella
Our stereo broke and my husband loves music. He is so sweet and generous with his time and loves God more than anything. I would get him the stereo he won’t buy for himself.
$500 would help with Christmas presents.
This money would be a blessing to our family of eleven. We would allow each of the children to choose a gift for themselves as well as a gift to give to bless someone else. Also, I would be able to help family members with the cost of travel to come home for Christmas.
$500 would bless us this Christmas in that we would be able to bless someone else because of it!
Thank you for offering and amazing giveaway.
I have enjoyed utilizing a few of your resources since I found you last summer. Your work is high quality and well done.
Wow.. a great give away… We would use it to help with gifts for our children things, are tight this year. We would then also be able to let them pick someone or something to help out at Christmas… We love helping someone in need when we can.
Curriculum and house repairs. Thank you for all you share with us!
I would pay a few bills and tithe
I really enjoy the Christmas season. Without our Savior’s entrance as a baby, Easter would not have been possible. I enjoy blessing others at this special season.
I would use the money to help our family of 6 move into another house. God Bless and thank you for the giveaway.
My daughter is blessed enough to be skilled and on the competition team in gymnastics, however the fees are extremely expensive and the uniform is outrageous as well. While $500 shockingly won’t cover all of the expenses, it surely would bless our family during the holidays when money is tight. Thank you very much for the opportunity.
I would use it to pay for some bills that need to be paid and would probably buy a membership to a Science museum for 2019.
I would use it to help us catch up on bills 🙂
I would use it to do some much needed improvements on our house. This giveaway is amazing!
I would use it to visit my family for the holidays, as we have no income right now.
This would be a wonderful blessing for my family: I would use it to buy clothing for my children and new shoes as they need them alot…..and would also buy a wonderful gift request for a family in need. What a blessing this giveaway is!
I wish I had been the April D who won! Haha! But, truly, this Advent calendar is wonderful, and we are using it in school this year. Thank you!
This is such a great group to come across! Thank you for advertising the giveaway. I feel like I’ve won already. Next year I plan to begin homeschooling my oldest and these resources are excellent. Thank you so much ladies!!
If we won the $500 Giveaway, it would bless my family tremendously. Our situation is one too long for explaining, but it involves multiple out of state moves with two little girls over the last year. My husband works in ministry. We live on very little and desire to adopt one day. The money would not go to Christmas presents and extras. The money would be used to pay for our essentials. We might go out for a meal and offer to pay for another struggling family. God be glorified!
I need a better advent plan.
This would be helpful as my husband was affected by the GM layoff this year – off work for 6 weeks. He did eventually get paid for a lot of it but in the meantime we put a lot of stuff on credit cards. Right after we needed a new dishwasher, lol, and the end of the year is always fun on money with two kid birthdays and Christmas! 😀
We have a book that explains Advent that we really enjoy. I am going to print your Advent calendar. I’m sure my children will like it, too.
It would be a huge blessing to win the $500 giveaway. This year has been tough for us. We had health and financial struggles plus our youngest child was diagnosed with a speech and language disorder.
The artwork is very nice on the advent study!
The $500 would be a blessing to help with the classes I teach at our local homeschool co-op! It could buy supplies for a lego stem class or a high school science lab class and these supplies could be passed down each year to bless the next group of kids.
An extra $500 would allow us to double the number of angel tree kids we adopt this year! I’d also use some to purchase a few pieces of curriculum we need for next year.
Excited to use the Advent calendar this December. I was just thinking about looking for something when I saw the email with it. 😊
What a generous give away during the Christmas season! If we won, I would splurge a bit more at Christmas after tithing and taking my family out to dinner to celebrate!
I just have to add a plug for your Bible Road Trip curriculum! I have an 8th grade son and triplet 5th grade girls. We enjoy sitting down together each morning and studying God’s Word. They especially love the recommended read along stories. They bring the Bible alive to my kids in a way that they remember. Thank you for this wonderful resource!
Using the Thanksgiving calendar already Thx!
An extra $500 for a single income family is always helpful. Thanks for the chance.
Wow! What great resources you are offering!
As a missionary mom in Africa, a $500 paypal gift would be SO awesome!
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway! It would be nice to have some extra money for Christmas.
It would be helpful, I would use towards our Christmas dinner and some presents.
Thank you so much for all these blessings!
I appreciate your blog and Christian encouragement so very much! It is a blessing to our entire family!
We use your Bible curriculum and our whole family is learning so much! Excited to look through all of the Christmas activities.
What a generous giveaway! This would be a huge blessing to our family since we haven’t had income in a very long time.
Thank you!
What a wonderful resourceful post! I will be bookmarking for future reference.
Thank you for the giveaway and the Advent calendar! We used the one you made last year, as well. This prize would be a blessing to our family for sure to help pay bills and give a gift to someone in need!
I love the verse calendar for Advent. What a great way to “count down” to Christmas! This is an awesome give-away, too.
This giveaway would go for several things at our house: a few winter clothes our kids could use, Christmas gifts, and to help a relative who was recently injured and cannot work right now. This is a very generous giveaway!
Awesome giveaway!!
Thanks for the advent calendar, I cant wait to use this with my kiddos!
Thank you so much for the Advent calendar! I’m really desiring to be very intentional this year with my family. We aim to do a Christ centered advent each year, but I want to include more of the activities, as well, since Christmas can so easily get highjacked by busyness and dwelling on the presents. Thanks for the opportunity to enter the giveaway!
My husband is a pastor, and our family is planning to attend the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando in June. We’re saving up for a couple of days at Disney world while we’re there, and this would definitely help! Thank you for the opportunity to enter!
We have not used an Advent calendar in years. Thank you for the email reminder and for the free product.
I love Advent! Thank you for the free calendar nd the giveaway!
Winning would allow our family to share blessings with more people in need.
Thank you so much for this giveaway. I really appreciate your resources pointing families to Christ this Advent. God bless you!
A $200 giftcard would be such a blessing! Thanks for ministry!
I love advent calendars for kids, it is a great way to keep the focus on Jesus throughout the holiday season. My kiddo memorized the whole advent calendar when they were 2!!!
Thank you so much for everything!
This is such a blessing and I love all the new, fresh ideas for this up coming season!
Thank you