Advent Series | 2024

Advent | For All Ages

Let the
ADVENTure Begin!

Celebrate the Christmas season and prepare your hearts together. Each week of Advent, you and your family are invited to explore a theme — Hope, Peace, Joy, or Love — offered to us through God’s love born in the manger.

8 Scenes | 6min ave length | Recommended for All Ages

What its about…

Four Sundays before Christmas, begin the celebration of Jesus’ birth through weekly themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Videos by teacher Ray Vander Laan share scriptural insights about the season. Bible passages, activities, and conversation starters expand the joy of this important season.

8 Scenes | 26min ave length | Recommended for All Ages

What its about…

Learn what the book of Daniel is about and its place in biblical history. The Bible project provides an overview that explains the book’s major themes – the story of Daniel and his friends, the kings he served, and the dreams and visions he interpreted.

Esther

Coming Soon!

What its about…

Discover the incredible story of Esther. While living in Persia, this brave, young Jewish woman became queen and bravely risked her life to save her people from a genocide. Learn she used her position to influence the king to reverse the deadly decree, and thwart the evil advisor Haman’s plot. Learn about the important Jewish holiday of Purim, too. 

Holy Week

Coming Soon!

What its about…

Prepare your hearts and deepen your family’s journey leading up to Easter Sunday. Video insights from discipleship expert Ray Vander Laan will help you grow. Walk together from Palm Sunday through Resurrection Day and receive additional activities and resources to make the sacred season meaningful, fun, and memorable.

Experience

Age & Stage

Enjoying Family Reading of Scripture? You may also enjoy Age & Stage — an experience tailored to the specific ages of your children. We’d love to come alongside you with biblically-based, research-based wisdom for each stage of your child’s development. Nurture and celebrate what matters most in the lives of your kids!

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Presenting

Ray Vander Laan

It is important that in all these Old Testament promises about the coming of the Messiah, God’s people are facing enemies and an uncertain future. Every time, they need hope. In each passage we read, God promises His people that he will bring them salvation by the birth of their Messiah. The New Testament takes these important passages and reminds us of them at the birth of Jesus Christ.

About

Daniel Huerta

Dr. Danny Huerta is a practicing psychologist and licensed clinical social worker who has served families through Focus on the Family since 2004. As Vice President of Parenting and Youth, he oversees ministry initiatives that equip moms and dads with biblical principles and counsel for raising healthy, resilient children rooted in a thriving faith. Danny is the author of 7 Traits of Effective Parenting, Focus on the Family’s Age & Stage resources, as well as other materials providing practical, biblically-based, research-based parenting advice. You can hear Danny on the Focus on Parenting Podcast and on Practice Makes Parent.

He and his wife, Heather, have been married since 1997 and have 2 adult children.

About

Phil Steiger

Phil and his wife, Heather, co-pastor Living Hope Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In addition to his role as pastor, he has a B.A. in Economics, an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion, and most of another graduate degree in Philosophy. Phil is passionate about the biblical model of pastoring, spiritual formation, the church’s role in its culture, and helping to raise the level of reflection and discourse in the church. He believes all truth is God’s, and that philosophy and theology are both necessary to a pastor’s life well-lived.

Find more of Phil’s published work by visiting https://philsteiger.com/publications/.

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