Are you looking forward to the Christmas season?

The Christmas season can get busy—very busy. Though it’s a season of joy, the pace of life can get overwhelming.

Even things we love about the Christmas season, such as time with friends and family or crossing off Christmas lists, can easily become the main focus rather than what the Christmas season is really about.

Do you find that during the holiday season, it can be easy to lose sight of Jesus?

The weeks leading up to Christmas are typically fast-paced and focused on going and doing. But Advent is about slowing down, waiting, and preparing. We slow down and meditate on the state of the world without Christ and the darkness and sin that Jesus came to remove and destroy. We wait with longing and hope for the celebration and joy that Christmas brings, and we prepare our hearts and our homes for Christ’s arrival—now, through the Holy Spirit, and in the last days when Christ returns.

In Awakening Wonder | Experiencing the Nearness of Jesus, you are invited into this centuries-old practice of Advent—the intentional anticipation of God’s presence with man. During the season of Advent, you’ll join with Christians around the world to prepare your heart to celebrate the incarnation—the accomplishment of God taking the form of a human and dwelling among us.

This study was designed to help you meditate on and marvel at Jesus’s incarnation, the wonderful truth that Jesus took on flesh and came near to us.

Awakening Wonder | Experiencing the Nearness of Jesus is a 4-week study that will guide you to:

• Discover God’s presence throughout Scripture that culminates in the person of Jesus Christ.

• Experience the nearness of Jesus, promised and made available to you.

• Put Jesus at the center of your Christmas season.

• Seek God’s presence daily and rest in God’s presence in every situation. 

Get Awakening Wonder | Experiencing the Nearness of Jesus, follow along each day through the Christmas season, and be awakened with wonder with the promise that Jesus is with you, closer than you ever realized.

Key themes: Advent, Christmas, Jesus

Special Resources within this study:

• Cutout 2025 Advent Calendar

• Cutout Memory Verse Cards

Study Details: 

• Each week begins with an Advent candle lighting and memory verse, and there is a time at the end of each week for reflection on a Christmas hymn.

• Each day includes study material, daily application questions, and prayer prompts

• This resource is perfect for individuals and groups.

• This pairs well with The Advent Adventure Family Devotional and the Awakening Wonder Group Leader Guide as these resources will help participate as a family in Advent and give you the tools you need to lead others in the study.

Product Details:

• Size: 11” x 8”

• Paperback (Matte)

• Includes 173 pages

• ISBN: 9798885232166

• Publication Date: September 2025