Christmas Inspiration

The Twelve Days of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 05, 2025 at 12:55 PM

During Advent, we all excitedly look towards celebrating Jesus’s birth. However, suddenly it is December 26 and the world resets to its ordinary preoccupations. That’s what is wonderful about observing the Twelve Days of Christmas: it helps us keep reflecting on God’s grace and the miracle of Christmas after the busyness of Christmas Day is past.

Christmas Eve at Little Hills

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM

Join us on December 24 at 7 pm on Christmas Eve as Little Hills — a special moment to prepare our hearts for Christmas Day. During the service we will share in the culmination of our journey through the Four Gospels telling of the Savior’s arrival. We will share in readings from God’s Word, singing Christmas carols and enjoy a candlelight service to celebrate that our Savior is born!

O Christmas Stream

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM

Join us and our friends at FaithTree partner churches for a continuous rotation of Christmas music, nostalgic fireplace scenes, meditations from Scripture and more throughout Christmas weekend and then all the way through Epiphany. Whether you want just a few moments of Christmas joy or want to watch the whole thing, it will be streaming 24x7 all Christmas week.

Christmas at FaithTree

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM

FaithTree has so much happening this Christmas and so do our local church friends. If you’re looking for the best ways to celebrate the season, check out these great opportunities.

O Christmas FaithTree 2025

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM

O Christmas (Faith)Tree is something very special: a celebratory service at 7:00 p.m. on December 6 that interweaves favorite Christmas carols and songs — both old and new and in a range of styles — with the story of Christmas that runs from Genesis through Revelation.

Christmas at Little Hills

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM

God is with us — that’s what we celebrate at Christmastime! As we enter into this season, we are going to take time to look at the real, genuine gift of Christmas in contrast to the far less satisfying things that distract us from that beautiful gift.

This Week at Little Hills

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM

Pastor Tim is celebrating Christmas in July by thinking about how God gives us gifts available all year long, not just at Christmas.

The Son's Glory is the Father's Glory

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM

God’s glory is God’s glory — there is only one God. So if we want to share God’s glory and see it spread through the world, we share the hope of Jesus.

Who's in Charge Now?

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 06, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Pastor Tim talks about how we live and understand God’s control of the world in the time before Jesus returns.

Who Gets a Car for Christmas Anyway?

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM

Pastor Tim talks about extravagant gifts and what the Bible says about the truly extravagant gift we receive at Christmas because of the very first Christmas.

Previous Messages
12 Days Devotional Booklets
The devotionals are available to download for free in PDF form below or can be purchased for a low price in Kindle or paperback form on Amazon, with proceeds helping to create future editions.

The Joys of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 25, 2024 at 6:43 PM

As we give gifts small or large, simple or snazzy, this Christmas, this year’s devotional booklet invites us to reflect on the profound ways in which God gifts us to give the best sort of gifts to others. We will go on a twelve day journey through Galatians 5:22-26, exploring how the Holy Spirit transforms us to embody the essence of Christmas hope in the year ahead.

The Christmas Fruit

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 22, 2023 at 3:21 PM

As we give gifts small or large, simple or snazzy, this Christmas, this year’s devotional booklet invites us to reflect on the profound ways in which God gifts us to give the best sort of gifts to others. We will go on a twelve day journey through Galatians 5:22-26, exploring how the Holy Spirit transforms us to embody the essence of Christmas hope in the year ahead.

Twelve Told

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 23, 2022 at 2:57 PM

While the four Gospel writers tell us much about what happens at Christmas and we’ve explored that this Advent in our series Four Told, the rest of Scripture speaks either to the coming of Christmas or reflects back on its significance. The Twelve Days of Christmas give us an opportunity to reflect on the multifaceted meaning of Jesus’s birth.

Because of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 24, 2021 at 5:52 PM

Over the Twelve Days of Christmas, Because Of Christmas will help us to see what happens for each of us because Jesus was born that first Christmas morn.

The Light of the World

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 22, 2020 at 11:58 AM

Over the coming days we will embark on a journey through Scripture and the pictures it gives us of our God lighting our way through the darkness we face throughout life.

Jesus Came for Us

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 25, 2019 at 1:12 PM

Please join us in devotional journey as we look at some gifts far more incredible than a partridge in a pear tree. These are the gifts from our God as Paul describes them in the Letter to the Romans. This devotional has twelve readings exploring the ways Jesus coming into the world is for us.