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Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Recapturing the Excitement of the Season when Christmas Has Started to Lose its Shine-New devotional from Rooted Ministry helps teenagers find what they are truly longing for
Do you remember what it felt like to be a little kid at
Christmastime? There’s nothing quite like the anticipation of Christmas morning. But the holiday can lose its wonder as we wake up to the many hard things going on in our lives and in the world. We’ve certainly experienced this at some point as adults but think back to the first you felt that loss—the first time Christmas didn’t seem as special. You were probably a teenager.
Longing for Christmas: 25 Promises Fulfilled in Jesus (New Growth Press/
) is an Advent devotional from Rooted Ministry that helps teenagers recapture the joy and wonder of Christmas by unwrapping God’s promises throughout Scripture. This twenty-five-day devotional looks at promises God made and fulfilled in the coming of Jesus. As readers explore the way God has kept his promises, they will be encouraged that ALL of the longing we feel—for a better world and for things to be made right—will be fully met in Jesus.
“The loss we feel over our childhood wonder at Christmastime points to a deeper longing within all of us,”writes editor Chelsea Kingston Erickson. “Author C. S. Lewis often wrote about the sense of bitter-sweet we
all feel as we live in this world. He wrote that within each of us is an ‘inconsolable longing,’ or the feeling of missing something we can’t quite name. When we long for the innocence of childhood or even for Christmases past, what we’re really missing, Lewis said, is the life we were made for: life together with God, forever.”
Longing for Christmas was written by more than a dozen contributors from Rooted Ministry, including Erickson,Cameron Cole, Anna Meade Harris, Liz Edrington, Kevin Yi, and others. The contributors are youth ministry
professionals and parents who are gifted in communicating with teenagers. They are transparent with their own stories, in touch with issues facing young people today, and skilled at helping teenagers receive the truth of the gospel. They center each day’s reading around a different specific longing in the heart of teenagers that is ultimately fulfilled in Christ.
Do you remember what it felt like to be a little kid at
Christmastime? There’s nothing quite like the anticipation of Christmas morning. But the holiday can lose its wonder as we wake up to the many hard things going on in our lives and in the world. We’ve certainly experienced this at some point as adults but think back to the first you felt that loss—the first time Christmas didn’t seem as special. You were probably a teenager.
Longing for Christmas: 25 Promises Fulfilled in Jesus (New Growth Press/
) is an Advent devotional from Rooted Ministry that helps teenagers recapture the joy and wonder of Christmas by unwrapping God’s promises throughout Scripture. This twenty-five-day devotional looks at promises God made and fulfilled in the coming of Jesus. As readers explore the way God has kept his promises, they will be encouraged that ALL of the longing we feel—for a better world and for things to be made right—will be fully met in Jesus.
“The loss we feel over our childhood wonder at Christmastime points to a deeper longing within all of us,”writes editor Chelsea Kingston Erickson. “Author C. S. Lewis often wrote about the sense of bitter-sweet we
all feel as we live in this world. He wrote that within each of us is an ‘inconsolable longing,’ or the feeling of missing something we can’t quite name. When we long for the innocence of childhood or even for Christmases past, what we’re really missing, Lewis said, is the life we were made for: life together with God, forever.”
Longing for Christmas was written by more than a dozen contributors from Rooted Ministry, including Erickson,Cameron Cole, Anna Meade Harris, Liz Edrington, Kevin Yi, and others. The contributors are youth ministry
professionals and parents who are gifted in communicating with teenagers. They are transparent with their own stories, in touch with issues facing young people today, and skilled at helping teenagers receive the truth of the gospel. They center each day’s reading around a different specific longing in the heart of teenagers that is ultimately fulfilled in Christ.
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