Week 4 (December 18 through December 24): Isaiah 51–66, Luke 19–24.Week 3 (December 11 through December 17): Isaiah 34–50, Luke 13–18.Week 2 (December 4 through December 10): Isaiah 18–33, Luke 7–12.Week 1 (November 27 through December 3): Isaiah 1–17, Luke 1–6.Luke writes about how Jesus was rejected by Israel and is offered to the Gentiles.
Advent bible study for small groups full#
Isaiah is full of messages about how the coming king/servant/anointed one will redeem Israel and the world. Here is an option to read long portions of the Bible instead of studying small portions. Week 4 (December 18 through December 24): John 1.Week 3 (December 11 through December 17): Luke 1:1–2:20.Week 2 (December 4 through December 10): Mark 1.Week 1 (November 27 through December 3): Matthew 1–2.
In this study, you’ll compare how each of the gospels begin. Matthew and Luke include narrative about Jesus’s birth, but Mark and John do not. Week 4 (December 18 through December 24): Luke 2:25–52Įach gospel writer begins his book differently.Week 3 (December 11 through December 17): Luke 2:1–24.Week 2 (December 4 through December 10): Luke 1:39–80.Week 1 (November 27 through December 3): Luke 1:1–38.This study takes you from the beginning of Luke’s gospel through the second chapter, when Jesus is twelve years old. Week 4 (December 18 through December 24): Matthew 2:13–23.Week 3 (December 11 through December 17): Matthew 2:1–12.Week 2 (December 4 through December 10): Matthew 1:18–25.Week 1 (November 27 through December 3): Matthew 1:1–17.Matthew gives two chapters to the birth and early days of Jesus. (So even though Advent is not technically four weeks, these plans take you from November 27 through Christmas Eve.) A Study in Matthew I’ve planned each of these studies to take four weeks. We’ve collected some worksheets that you may want to use on our Resources page. Start here to see an overview of this OIA method, and read the details here. It’s our aim at Knowable Word to help ordinary people learn to study the Bible, so we’ve written much about the three primary areas of Bible study: Observation, Interpretation, and Application. If you’ve never studied the Bible before, let me suggest some resources before you begin. There’s nothing monumental in the plans themselves I’ve simply listed some relevant sections of the Bible that could be covered in the listed time period. If you’d like to mix up your Scripture study for Advent, I have four plans listed below. This is not a screed against devotional books, just a plea not to rely on them.
The commands and promises and works of God will sink down more deeply into your soul-taking root both to form and strengthen you-if you uncover them yourself. Will that take longer? Of course! But wrestling with difficult and glorious truths on your own is worth it. You’re not relying on an author or teacher to tell you what the Bible means you’re reading and thinking and searching and praying yourself. When you study the Bible on your own, you encounter God’s word directly. (Some, of course are not.) But even good devotional books are no substitute for personal Bible study. There are no shortage of Advent devotional offerings, with scores of new volumes published each year.
Advent bible study for small groups series#
Like many churches that put their sermon series aside, individual Christians can find great blessing in focusing on Jesus’s birth.
If you’ve thought of shifting your devotional life for the Christmas season, read on. It begins on December 3, and it will be here before you know it.
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