Advent 2025 Devotional

To be human is to understand what it means to fear. Fear elevates and prolongs our anxiety or our shame as we choose to avoid addressing our mistakes - and the mistakes of others - out of concern that we’ll only make things worse.

 

The season of Advent helps us long for a different reality: one ruled by peace rather than fear. For the Son of God was born into our tribulation, despair, and fear not just to comfort us but to bring about an end to whatever terrifies us most.​

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We pray, whether you use this as a personal devotional or in a group setting, that these Scripture passages and reflections on the good news of God’s peace strengthen your faith in the only one who can answer our dread, the one who willingly entered a fearful and terrified world as an innocent and helpless babe and by which the angels proclaimed: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Luke 2:14)