Over the past weeks, we’ve talked a lot about our Christmas devotionals—special seasonal devotionals focused entirely around the Advent season. It’s a bit of a Christmas tradition here at Bible Gateway to unroll a few high-quality Christmas-focused devotionals during Advent. Hopefully you’ve checked out one or two of them! But those aren’t the only place you can find inspirational Christmas content. Many of the “regular” devotionals in our library have been sharing insights about Christmas lately.

I’ve gone through our devotional library and identified some of the best Christmas-related writing from devotionals that aren’t specifically Christmas-season devotionals. Below are some of my favorites.

Charles Spurgeon’s Christmas Sermons

Charles Spurgeon’s best-known devotional is Morning and Evening, but we’ve actually got two other Spurgeon collections in our library: Spurgeon at the New Park Street Chapel and at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Both collect excerpts from sermons that Spurgeon delivered at those churches—and both have a good collection of Christmas sermons worth reading.

Both sermon collections began focusing on Christmas starting this last Sunday, December 20; I recommend starting there and walking through the week to read all the Christmas sermons. Here’s December 20 in the Metropolitan Tabernacle sermon collection, and December 20 in the New Park Street Chapel collection.

Between them there are about a dozen Christmas-related readings. Here are a few of the best:

• No Room for Christ in the Inn
• A Christmas Question
• Holy Work for Christmas
• The Incarnation and Birth of Christ

These readings are excerpts from his sermons—not the entire sermons, in case you were worried—and while Spurgeon’s writing is “dated” (he lived during the 19th century), he has a wit and a way with words that makes him a true delight to read. If you enjoy the language of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol or other Christmas classics, you’ll feel right at home with Spurgeon. Give him a try!

Christmas Videos by Sheri Rose Shepherd

Speaker and author Sheri Rose Shepherd has written a great deal of inspirational devotional content for Bible Gateway over the past years, including His Princess Every Day, and most recently the THRIVE devotional. Some her best Christmas devotional content can be found in her library of video devotionals. Here’s one:

The other video devotional, Unwrap the Gift Inside Your Loved Ones, is also worth watching.

Encouragement for Today and Girlfriends in God

The Encouragement for Today and Girlfriends in God devotionals both dedicate much of the second half of December to Christmas-related reflections. While not every devotional in December is Christmas-related, many of them are; it’s worth following both of them throughout Advent to see what they come up with. Here are a few particularly good ones:

• The Radical Dance of Celebration and the Sacred from Girlfriends in God
• Finding Peace in the Chaos of Christmas from Encouragement for Today
• Inviting Jesus to His Birthday Celebration from Girlfriends in God
• Avoiding an Over-committed Christmas from Encouragement for Today
• Is a Merry Christmas Really What We’re After? from Girlfriends in God

Women of the Christmas Story

Ann Spangler’s Women of the Bible devotional highlights the major female characters of the Christmas story, with writeups about each woman’s life and reflections on what we can learn from them:

• Mary, the Mother of Jesus
• Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist
• Anna, among the first to bear witness to the newborn Christ.

These are just some of the Christmas-related devotionals lurking in our devotionals library in “non-Christmas” devotionals. The links above should give you plenty of inspiring reading material over the next few weeks, but if you like these, I encourage you to spend some time browsing through the many other free devotionals in our library during the Christmas season!