Introduction to the Advent Devotional Guide
Greetings from the Belmont School of Theology & Christian Ministry and welcome to the 2025 Advent Devotional Guide.
For nearly two decades, the Advent Devotional Guide has been a valuable resource for the Belmont community, and we’re delighted you found your way here.
Here’s how the Guide works:
Every day during Advent except Sundays, you will find linked Scripture passages. Our hope is that having easy access to the passages for each day of Advent will encourage contemplation of these rich texts.
Every Sunday in Advent, as well as Christmas Eve and Christmas, you will find brief devotionals written by members of our community.
These devotionals are not intended to be definitive pronouncements. Rather, we offer them as suggestions for contemplation and invitations to conversation. None of us claims to have ready-made answers to your deepest questions, and we don’t pretend to be spiritual experts. As Christian people, we’ve caught a glimpse of God’s infinite love in Jesus Christ, and now we long to see in that light, to move within the movements of God’s grace.
So, as we wait on the Lord together this Advent season, we pray these texts and reflections would shake a little dust off ordinary perception, offer a few fresh angles of vision and encourage you as you seek to live in sync with the one who is making all things new.
Adam Neder
Professor of Theology
Senior Fellow of Spiritual Formation
Belmont Formation Collaborative
Andy Watts
Professor of Religion
Chair, School of Theology & Christian Ministry
