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Advent

Relative Peace

Christmas With the Family You Didn't Pick

Four weeks · November 29 – December 20, 2026

Also works for Thanksgiving, Mother's or Father's Day, or a summer series on family.

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You already know how the dinner goes. You've run it in your head. You know who brings it up and roughly when, and you know what you'll do with your face when it happens.

Relative Peace is four Sundays of Advent on the part of Christmas nobody puts on a card: the family you didn't pick and can't fix. Nobody's going to hand you a strategy for December. We're going to look at what God has actually done with families like yours, which turns out to be the only kind he's ever worked with.

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What’s included

  • Start Here guide: how to use the package, week by week
  • Series overview: the big idea, every week at a glance, and notes for the preacher
  • 16 sermon outlines: one for each lectionary reading, every week, so you preach the text you choose
  • Exegesis for all 4 weeks: a page for each passage
  • 4 small group guides: one per week, built to work whichever text you preach
  • Promo copy: website description, social post, two announcements to read aloud, a bulletin line, and slide titles
  • Title graphic in three sizes: one Canva template link with slides (1920 × 1080), Facebook and Instagram posts (1080 × 1350), and stories (1080 × 1920), plus previews of each
Week by Week

Four Sundays

Nov 29
Week 1

Bracing for Impact

Stop watching for what might happen. Start watching for the God who comes.

Dec 6
Week 2

Your Side of the Fence

You can't make them come. You can clear your side of the road.

Dec 13
Week 3

The Fixer

You were never the one holding this together.

Dec 20
Week 4

The Fun in Dysfunctional

God has never waited for a family to get cleaned up before he moved in.