Joy to the world, the Lord is come. The opening line of this classic Christmas carol captures the delight and awe that surrounded Jesus's birth. But how often does the Christmas season feel stressful rather than joyful? Why do we trade all is calm for all is chaos?

In this 4-session Bible study, you'll spend the weeks of Advent learning to celebrate the good news of great joy found in the Christmas story. Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth to save us from our sins and sorrow and to make right our relationship with God. And He will return to finish setting everything right. With daily personal study, suggestions for family devotions, and engaging activities to transform your study experience, this beautiful resource will help you delight in Jesus's birth and joyfully anticipate His return this Christmas season and all year long.

Features:  

• 4 weeks of personal study and guided reflection for the busy Christmas season
• 4 Advent-themed videos that will help individuals, families, and groups experience the joy of Advent. Videos feature music from Ellie Holcomb and devotional teachings
• Leader guide to facilitate engaging small or large group conversation
• Family devotion suggestions to help integrate your study experience with your family's Advent season
• Beautiful full-color interior to enhance your experience
• Creative Advent activities to strengthen community and put into practice what you're learning

Benefits:  

• Delight in the Christmas story as you prepare your heart for Advent.
• Trace the theme of joy throughout the Christmas story.
• Learn how to live joyfully while you wait for Jesus to return.
• Be inspired to share the good news of great joy with others.
• Worship the Lord through study, song, prayer, and creativity.

Video Sessions:

• Week One: The Lord Is Come (10:07)--Join Ellie Holcomb and Janice Gaines for a time of worship and teaching on the theme of Jesus's birth. This video includes Ellie's rendition of Joy to the World and devotional thoughts on John 1:1-14.
• Week Two: The Savior Reigns (13:47)--Celebrate the good news of Jesus's first Advent, which made a way for salvation from sin and the hope of eternal life in God's presence. Ellie Holcomb sings O Come All Ye Faithful and Alecia Bryant teaches on Jesus's purpose and power.
• Week Three: No More Let Sins & Sorrows Grow (16:08)--Ellie Holcomb's beautiful version of O Holy Night and Ashley Marviittori Gorman's teaching on the presence of sin and promise of restoration remind us to anticipate Jesus's certain return.
• Week Four: Wonders of His Love (11:10)--This video session wraps up the Joy to the World study with a focus on anticipating Jesus's return. Heidi Lee Anderson teaches how to wait with joy and purpose, and Ellie Holcomb's acapella Silent Night ushers in the joy of Christmas day.

Fostering a heart of gratitude brings such blessing and joy to our lives and to those around us. Being grateful turns our eyes off ourselves and helps us cherish our time and relationships in a new way. When we are a thankful people, we point to our good God who loves and provides for us. But how can we develop grateful hearts?
 
The Bible shows us that becoming a thankful person begins with acknowledging how the One who owes us nothing has given us everything. Truly grasping God's goodness to us begins a process of growing in gratefulness that can be cultivated into a continual harvest of gratitude, regardless of the circumstances.

Spend 4 weeks examining reasons to be grateful to God. Each week you'll look at a profile of someone in the Bible with a grateful heart, find teaching from Scripture on gratefulness, focus on a psalm of thanksgiving, and be encouraged to practice gratitude. When you're able to see the biblical basis of living with a grateful heart, you will be more motivated to thank God in all things.

Features:

• 4 weeks of personal study
• Beautiful full color interior to enhance your experience 

• Questions for you to reflect on and apply to your life
• Journaling space for notetaking and prayers
• Thoughtful commentary by women experienced in ministry
• Practical ideas for living a life of gratitude
• Leader helps for group discussion

Benefits:

• Learn how to cultivate gratitude as part of your everyday life. 
• Understand how God's promises motivate us to live lives of thanksgiving. 
• Explore how a grateful heart changes the way we relate to God and others. 

• Develop gratitude as a spiritual discipline. 
• Discover how the call to give thanks is laced throughout Scripture. 

As a new believer in Jesus, you may be wondering, What now? How do I continue growing in my faith? In a world full of confusing beliefs and persuasive voices, it's vital to understand and embrace your full identity in Christ as you begin your journey of faith.

In Alive: Growing in Your Relationship with Jesus, you'll spend five weeks walking through the basic, fundamental beliefs of the Christian faith. You'll gain understanding of the change that has taken place in your heart and life as a new believer and learn what it means to walk out your faith as an individual and as part of the body of Christ--the community known as the Church. Understand the meaning and importance of historic Christian practices like baptism, prayer, worship, the Lord's Supper, tithing, missions, and more. And hear and respond to the calling and encouragement to take the long view of the Christian life, being challenged to endure and leave a legacy of faith behind.

Features:  

• 5 weeks of Bible study designed to help new Christians understand the meaning and importance of the Christian faith
• Helpful tips and guidance throughout for women new to Bible study
• Questions that help you learn to live out your faith in daily life
• Special emphasis on church practices like baptism, the Lord's prayer, and worship
• In-depth digital leader guide to help women's ministry leaders, small group leader, or mentors facilitate the study
• Beautiful design reflecting the goodness of growing in Christ

Benefits:  

• Discover what it means to be a follower of Jesus, find your identity in Christ, and be part of His church
• Grasp a deeper understanding of the biblical truths that the Christian life rests upon
• Lay a strong spiritual foundation for a lifetime of following Jesus
• Strengthen your walk with Christ whether you've been following Him for days or decades
• Great for individuals, small groups, or mentoring and intergenerational discipleship groups

Sisters, daughters, friends. Queens, missionaries, mothers. From Eve in Genesis 3 to Eunice in 2 Timothy 1, the Bible mentions countless women who bear witness to the faithfulness and love of God. While each woman is unique, they all have one thing in common--a life interwoven with God's story of redemption.

Spend 6 sessions studying more than 30 women in Scripture whose lives have inspired generations of women in their faith and devotion to God. Their stories are a reminder that you, too, are made in the image of God, and you have an important part to play in God's story.

Features:

• 30 days of personal study over 6 weeks
• Beautiful full-color interior to enhance the reader's experience
• Questions for reflection and application
• Journaling space for notetaking and prayers
• Thoughtful commentary by women experienced in ministry
• Compelling background on some of the most important women in Scripture
• Leader helps for group discussion

Benefits:

• Be encouraged by the faith of women in Scripture and reminded of the important part you play in God's mission.
• Discover the impact that faithful women had on generations to come.
• Cultivate a heart devoted to God.
• Learn to see Jesus in the stories of more than 30 women in Scripture.

Every Christian woman is called to live confidently in her identity--known, free, and loved in Christ. Designed to assist women of any age as they study God's Word, the CSB Lifeway Women's Bible will inspire you to laugh, grow, and worship alongside your community. It includes an in-depth collection of inspirational articles, devotional commentary, study tools, and other Bible reading helps from prominent voices in the Lifeway Women community. As you explore God's Word, your life will be changed, inevitably affecting those around you, impacting lives one woman at a time.

FEATURES

• Including Bible study and devotional content from Lauren Chandler​, ​Gloria Furman, Lisa Harper, Mary Kassian, Kelly King, Kelly Minter, Trillia Newbell, Jackie Hill Perry, Angel Thomas Pharr, Jennifer Rothschild, Mary Jo Sharp, Priscilla Shirer, Angie Smith, and other Lifeway Women.
• Over 100 articles placed alongside the corresponding biblical text to foster deep reflection on Bible passages and topics focused on the life needs of women
• Nearly 100 short devotional thoughts placed throughout the Bible
• Bible genre introductions with a short overview and reading plan highlighting key passages in that section
• 66 book-focused introductions providing a concise overview with book-specific timelines
• Over 40 character profiles of key women in the Bible with questions for application
• More than 35 reflection questions to help women engage more deeply with the Bible
• Nearly 100 brief inspirational quotes on the Bible
• Over 25 word studies on individual words or phrases detailing meaning and significance
• 30 plus charts, tables, and maps
• Distinctive full-color design elements to foster an immersive reading experience for women of all ages
• Single-column text layout
• Black-letter text for easy readability
• Easy-to-read 9.5-point type size
• Durable Smyth-sewn lay-flat binding
• Ribbon marker for easy referencing between pages
• Concordance
• Presentation page for gift-giving
• Full-color maps

The CSB Lifeway Women's Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible(R) (CSB). The CSB captures the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.

More than any other time of year, Christmas brings with it an undeniable sense of wonder and awe.

The Advent season gives us the opportunity to delight in the promises we celebrate at Christmas: the HOPE that Jesus will return and make all things new; the JOY that comes from worshiping Him today and for eternity; the PEACE we experience with God today and we long for our world to experience when it is redeemed; and the LOVE of a God who sacrificed His own Son to be in relationship with us.

In The Wonder of Advent, spend a week considering each of the themes of Advent--hope, joy, peace, and love. Each week you'll trace that theme throughout Scripture by looking at: 1) an Old Testament prophecy; 2) a scene from the Christmas story; 3) a moment from Jesus's earthly ministry; 4) a teaching of Jesus; and 5) a promise from Revelation. When your eyes are opened to these threads in Scripture, you'll stand in awe of the glory and love of God, and you'll be motivated to share the wonder of Advent with the world.

Features:

• 4 weeks of personal study
• 4 devotional videos featuring music by Adrienne Camp, approximately 15 minutes per session, available via redemption code for individual video-streaming access, printed in Bible study book
• Leader helps for group discussion
• Beautiful full color interior to enhance your experience
• Specific Advent activities for kids, teens, and adults

Benefits:

• Be reminded of the hope, joy, peace, and love available in Jesus.
• Understand how Old Testament promises and New Testament events tell the full story of Jesus's first advent and look ahead to His return.
• Learn how to set your focus on the promise of Jesus's return and how God wants you to live in the meantime.

Video Sessions:

• Session One: Hope (16:44)--Prepare your heart for the Advent season with a time of reflection on the theme of hope. This video session includes worship with Adrienne Camp as she sings the classic Christmas hymn O Holy Night, a Scripture reading and the lighting of the Advent wreath's hope candle, and a devotional teaching that reminds you of the hope you can have in the Lord because He always keeps His promises.
• Session Two: Joy (14:21)--When you read the Christmas story in the Bible, you can't miss the joy of everyone who met Jesus. In this video session, joy is the focus with Adrienne Camp's rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful and a Scripture reading and the lighting of the Advent wreath's joy candle. In her teaching time, Adrienne explains that true joy comes when we put our trust in the Lord, when we choose to focus on who He is rather than how things are going in our lives.
• Session Three: Peace (12:43)--Through His first Advent, Jesus made peace between God and His children possible, and when He returns, He will make peace the universal reality. This is the focus of the third week of Advent. Join Adrienne Camp in the singing of O Come, O Come Emmanuel, a Scripture reading and the lighting of the Advent wreath's peace candle, and a time of teaching that anticipates the promise that with Jesus's return death, grief, crying, and pain will be no more.
• Session Four: Love (15:17)--For the final week of Advent, join in a time of worship as Adrienne Camp performs Silent Night. This video session also includes a Scripture reading and the lighting of the Advent wreath's love candle, and a devotional teaching from Lifeway Women author Mary Wiley, who encourages you to see God's love for you in a fresh way this Christmas season as you reflect on the wondrous news of Jesus's birth and the anticipation of His return.

Experience the Christmas season anew this year with this 5-session study on Advent, why we celebrate it, and how it fuels our worship of Jesus. Understand the anticipation and waiting the Old Testament world endured. And experience the joy of new life signaled by the coming of Christ, and the way Advent points to the glory of God still to come. First released in 2019, this study is expanded with tools for Scripture memory to help you savor this Advent season.

Features:  

• Beautiful, full-color designed pages to ready participants for the Christmas season
• Personal study segments to complete between 5 weeks of group sessions
• Weekly activities for adults, teens, and kids
• Tips to guide discussion within small groups

Benefits:

• Fuel your worship of Christ with a deeper understanding of Advent
• Grasp God's character and His work on behalf of His people, in the past and present, as a catalyst to a more intimate relationship with Him
• Learn how to practically extend joy, hope, peace, and love to others during the holiday season