Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional E-Book

Paul David Tripp

• Herausgeber: Crossway
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 79

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Celebrate Christmas with 25 Devotions from Paul David Tripp That Connect Scripture to Everyday Life  Jesus's birth isn't the beginning of the Christmas story. The glorious narrative of redemption starts when sin enters the world and continues until Christ's victorious return. In this special devotional, Paul David Tripp helps you celebrate your salvation by reflecting on biblical events—from Genesis through Revelation—that make Jesus's incarnation so miraculous. Adapted from Tripp's 365-day devotional Everyday Gospel, this condensed edition features 25 selected readings, each with study questions, making it ideal for personal study or family devotions. Count down to Christmas Day with Tripp's heartfelt reflections and contemplate the beauty and significance of the Savior's birth! - Great Christmas Activity: Devotional leads individuals, families, and churches on a guided journey through the full gospel narrative - Adapted from the Everyday Gospel Devotional: Written by Paul David Tripp, these 25 condensed readings are taken from his full 365-day devotional - Fosters Consistent Bible Study: Inspires readers to apply God's word daily and experience renewal through the gospel - Part of the Everyday Gospel Suite: Also includes the Everyday Gospel book and the ESV Everyday Gospel Bible - Features Study Questions for Each Daily Reading

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“Paul Tripp’s Everyday Gospel is a wonder. It’s brilliantly written, clear, concise, Christ-exalting, true to God’s word, enriching to the mind, encouraging to the heart, and overflowing with gospel grace. Every paragraph has the ring of truth. If you want a daily dose of God’s life-giving wisdom and kindness, this book is for you.”

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“I need the gospel every day—not just a glimpse of it but the full depth and beauty revealed throughout all of Scripture. That’s why I love this devotional. Paul Tripp brings the eternal truths of the gospel straight to the heart and shows us how to live in light of them. I hope many will use this resource and learn to walk in the good news of Jesus every single day.”

Jeremy Treat, Pastor for Preaching and Vision, Reality LA, Los Angeles, California; Professor of Theology, Biola University; author, The Crucified King; Seek First; and The Atonement

Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional

© 2025 by Paul David Tripp

Published by Crossway1300 Crescent StreetWheaton, Illinois 60187

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2025-08-06 03:13:39 PM

Contents

December 1  Genesis 3:14–21

December 2Genesis 21:1–7

December 3Exodus 4:1–17

December 4Ruth 4:13–22

December 52 Kings 23:1–14

December 6Esther 4:1–17

December 7Job 33:12–33

December 8Psalm 42:1–11

December 9Psalm 89:1–18

December 10Isaiah 9:1–7

December 11Jeremiah 23:1–8

December 12Ezekiel 25:1–17

December 13Ezekiel 34:11–31

December 14Daniel 7:1–18

December 15Matthew 2:1–12

December 16Matthew 3:1–17

December 17Matthew 20:20–28

December 18Luke 1:26–55

December 19Luke 2:22–38

December 20John 1:1–18

December 21John 3:1–21

December 22John 20:24–31

December 23Philippians 2:1–18

December 24Hebrews 1:1–14

December 25Revelation 12:1–17

Introduction

I love Christmas. You would struggle to find someone as enthusiastic as Paul Tripp about all the festivities that fill a typical December calendar. I love baking Christmas cookies, decorating Christmas trees (we have three!), attending Christmas concerts, and shopping for Christmas gifts for loved ones.

Yet simultaneously this season makes me sad. The chaotic cultural emphasis on Christmas has flipped the true meaning of Advent upside down. What should be a celebratory and reflective season, in which we rejoice in the incarnation of the Creator and surrender worshipfully to his lordship, has become a frenzied pursuit of manufactured delights. We have “exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Rom. 1:25).

Particularly for our children, the lie being actively promoted is how their lives will be made infinitely better by possessing a particular manufactured item. For families seeking to focus the wonder of their kids away from the next trinket or toy and toward the wonder of the coming of our great Lord and Savior, Christmas has become a parent’s nightmare and a retailer’s dream.

So I humbly present to you this resource that may help in the battle for your family’s attention. The Everyday Gospel Christmas Devotional is a twenty-five-day Bible reading plan with my commentary that will take you from December 1 through Christmas morning. My prayer is that the glory of the incarnation of the Creator would become far more attractive than the manufactured delights of Christmas so that we truly come and adore Christ the Lord, as the classic hymn we sing declares.

Why don’t you and your family and your church journey with me for the first twenty-five days of December, walking through the garden of wisdom, truth, and grace that God prepared for us when he guided the recording and preservation of his word? As you read each of these Christmas entries, remember that the Bible is a story with a singular focus: to celebrate Jesus.

Nothing could be more important this December than spending daily time in the word, rejoicing that the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us (John 1:14). He is our hope and the reason for this Advent season!

Paul David Tripp

December 1

Genesis 3:14–21

God doesn’t wait too long to reveal the biblical narrative. The whole story is in compressed form in the first three chapters of Genesis.

Genesis begins with the most brilliant, mind-bending, and heart-engaging introduction to a book ever written. God knows how much we need the creation-to-destiny themes of the biblical narrative in order to make sense of our lives, so he lovingly gives us those dominant themes right up front. The beginning of the Bible is wonderful, awe-inspiring, heartbreaking, cautionary, and hope-instilling all at once. Since God created us to be meaning-makers, he immediately presents us with the wonderful and awful realities that we need to understand in order to make proper sense of who we are and what life is really all about.

The opening chapters of Genesis have three foundational themes.

1. In the center of all that is, there is a God of incalculable glory. The first four words of Genesis say it all: “In the beginning, God.” Here is the ultimate fact through which every other fact of life is properly understood. There is a God. He is the Creator of everything that exists. He is glorious in power, authority, wisdom, sovereignty, and love. Since we are his creatures, knowing him, loving him, worshiping him, and obeying him define our identity, meaning, and purpose as human beings.

2. Sin is the ultimate human tragedy. Its legacy is destruction and death. Genesis 3 is the most horrible, saddest chapter ever written. In an act of outrageous rebellion, Adam and Eve stepped over God’s wise and holy boundaries, ushering in a horrible plague of iniquity that would infect every human heart. Because sin is a matter of the heart, we are confronted in this narrative with the fact that our greatest problem in life is us, and because it is, we have no power to escape it on our own.

3. A Savior will come, crush the power of evil, and provide redemption for his people. The first three chapters of the Bible end with glorious hope. We are encouraged to understand that sin is not ultimate—God is. And he had already set a plan in motion to do for us, through the Son to come, what we could not do for ourselves. A second Adam would come, defeat temptation, crush the evil one, and restore us to God. As soon as sin rears its ugly face, redemption is promised. What grace!

It really is true that three themes course through God’s amazing word: creation, fall, and redemption. They form the lens through which we can look at and understand everything in our lives. What a sweet grace it is that immediately in his word God makes himself known, alerts us to the tragedy of sin, and welcomes us into the hope of the saving grace to be found in the seed of the woman, his Son, the Lord Jesus. We are left with the riches of a single truth that is the core of everything the Bible has to say: Because God is a God of grace, mercy really will triumph over judgment.

Reflection

How might reflecting on the three themes of creation, fall, and redemption help to prepare you for the celebration of Christ’s first advent and to fill you with anticipation of his second coming?

Prayer