Advent Devotion (Beth Stephens)

NADCE (National Association of Directors of Christian Education)

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. We are thankful for Beth Stephens and her willingness to contribute by recording today’s devotion. Beth is the Youth Family Minister at Trinity Lutheran in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme A Weary World Rejoices which were penned by Placide Cappeau and used in the words of "O Holy Night”. In 1843 Cappeau witnessed a weary world and 180 years later our eyes and souls experience the same sin-wrought fatigue. Tribulation fills our screens and tempts to overwhelm our lives. Yet, Christ enters into our world personally and humbly. In the midst of Advent, our weariness meets joyous, heavenly proclamation: "A Savior is coming! A Savior is born!" Though we may be tired, we wait with glad hearts. In the manger, restoration is found. On the Last Day, rejoicing wins.
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