Thanks for checking out our Advent Devotional Guide. Our sincere hope is that this guide helps Meadowbrook families move through the season of Advent together. Posts will upload daily to this blog and to the Meadowbrook app beginning on November 29th (Jesus Storybook Bible track will begin on December 1).

For parents and others choosing to follow the Jesus Storybook Bible track, here are some notes from our Children's Minister, Laura Fike.

About the Advent Reading Guide… 

is a guide, and nothing more. We recommend using the Jesus Storybook Bible, but any Bible will do. Use the guide every day, or once a week. Use another guide. Pick and choose the activities that are right for your family. Just: Get in touch with your desires, make a plan and put it into practice, and invite others to join you.  

About the Jesse Tree…

The Jesse Tree seeks to tell the story of God’s Rescue Plan using symbols from the Old and New Testaments. Each day during Advent, a picture (usually an ornament) is hung to tell the story of Jesus from creation to His birth. 

A Jesse Tree can take on a variety of forms. A silhouette of a tree may be painted or sewn. It may be hung on a wall or a door. A Jesse Tree might be a real evergreen tree, or it might not be a tree at all.

You’ll find links on our website of pictures you can print and color and hang from your Jesse tree. Or, you can draw, sew, or carve your own images. Each day’s symbol is listed on each day of the Reading Guide below.

Jesus Storybook Bible Reading Plan

December 1 – The Story and The Song, p. X (Psalm 19, Hebrews 1)

December 2 – The beginning: a perfect home (Genesis 1-2)

December 3 – The terrible lie (Genesis 3)

December 4 – A new beginning (Genesis 6-9)

December 5 – A giant staircase to heaven (Genesis 11)

December 6 – Son of laughter (Genesis 12-21)

December 7 – The present (Genesis 22)

December 8 – The girl no one wanted (Genesis 29-30)

December 9 – The forgiving prince (Genesis 37-46)

December 10 – God to the rescue (Exodus 3-13)

December 11 – God makes a way (Exodus 14-15)

December 12 – Ten ways to be perfect (Exodus 16-17, 19-40)

December 13 – The warrior leader (Joshua 3, 6)

December 14 – The teeny, weenie…true king (1 Samuel 16)

December 15 – The young hero and the horrible giant (1 Samuel 17)

December 16 – The Good Shepherd (Psalm 51, 2 Samuel 7, Psalm 23)

December 17 – A little servant girl and the proud general (2 Kings 5)

December 18 – Operation “No More Tears!” (Isaiah 9, 11, 40, 50, 53, 55, 60)

December 19 – Daniel and the scary sleepover (Daniel 6)

December 20 – God’s messenger (Jonah 1-4, Hebrews 1:1-2)

December 21 – Get ready! (Nehemiah 8-10, Malachi 1, 3 and 4, Ezra 7)

December 22 – He’s here (Luke 1-2)

December 23 – The Light of the whole world (Luke 2)

December 24 – The King of all kings (Matthew 2)
December 25 – Heaven breaks through (Matthew 3, Luke 1, 3; John 1)