The Adore: Christmas Songs of Worship album is Tomlin's second Christmas record, the first being 2009's Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship. He said: "I didn't think that I'd do another Christmas album, but I thought more and more about all the traditional, more spiritual Christmas songs and how meaningful they are. I wanted to do a worship album. The classic songs that I decided on have always been so important to me, so essentially we wanted to record worship tracks about the true meaning of Christmas."