Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room
Daily Family Devotions for Advent
by Nancy Guthrie
From Back Cover:
Draw nearer to God—and to each other—every day during Advent.
How many Christmas mornings have you found your family gathered around the tree with presents beautifully wrapped and a scrumptious feast on the table—but with hearts that have not been prepared to truly take in the wonder of God’s becoming human? Not this year.
Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room, a family Advent devotional from Bible teacher and mom Nancy Guthrie, is designed to bring your family together during a season that is often too much about programs and presents and simply not enough about Jesus. Along with devotions for every day in December, this resource includes explanations of some hard-to-understand elements of popular Christmas carols and discussion questions that will draw your elementary through high school age kids into the conversation, transforming this time together from a dry lecture into a treasured family experience.
Our Thoughts:
Munchkin and I have made these devotions part of our morning routine before we start our school day. Each short, thoughtful devotional is followed by a prayer and discussion questions. The discussion questions help you dig a little deeper into the devotional. For us, they tend to start rabbit trail discussions as we look up additional verses. The devotional concludes with some verses related to the theme for the day.
Throughout the book, there are places to write down questions and thoughts from the family devotional time. In addition to the devotionals, Christmas carols are sprinkled in here and there. Some of the carols/hymns have more in-depth information while others just have the music and words.
The devotionals can be light and short, or they can become quite lengthy depending on how much discussion takes place among family members. It’s a good way to help keep the focus on Christ during the CHRISTmas season.
About the Author:
Nancy is the author of six books including Holding on to Hope, The One Year Book of Hope, Hoping for Something Better, Dinner Table Devotions, Hearing Jesus Speak Into Your Sorrow, and When Your Family’s Lost a Loved One (co-written with her husband, David). She is also the editor of several anthologies published by Crossway, collections of great writing by noted classic and contemporary Bible teachers and theologians including Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross, Be Still My Soul, and O Love That Will Not Let Me Go.
She is currently working on another book for Tyndale’s One Year line that will be One Year of Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament.
Nancy and her husband David live in Nashville, Tennessee while their son, Matt is off to Western Kentucky University.In addition to teaching opportunities at her church, Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Nancy speaks regularly at conferences and events around the country such as the Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Conference, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, Second Baptist Church of Houston, Taylor University, Covenant College, and in countries including Scotland and Colombia.
Book Details:
- Hardcover: 112 pages
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers (September 27, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1414339097
- ISBN-13: 978-1414339092
- Retail Price: $9.99
I received a copy of this book from Tyndale to help facilitate the writing of a frank and honest review. No compensation was received. All opinions are my own.
