From Fright to Delight | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | December 24, 2025
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Do not be afraid. |
| 0:02.5 | I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. |
| 0:07.8 | Luke chapter 2, verse 10. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.5 | From fright to delight, was written and read by Amy Boucher Pie. |
| 0:22.6 | Luke chapter 2, verses 8 through 14. |
| 0:27.1 | And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. |
| 0:34.7 | An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they |
| 0:41.4 | were terrified. But the angel said to them, do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause |
| 0:50.1 | great joy for all the people. Today, in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. He is |
| 0:58.5 | the Messiah, the Lord. This will be assigned to you. You will find a baby wrapped in claws |
| 1:06.1 | and lying in a manger. Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, |
| 1:17.4 | Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests. |
| 1:29.8 | From Fright to Delight. |
| 1:37.5 | Many historians believe the first ever radio broadcast of music and speech was heard by radio operators on U.S. Navy and other ships in the Atlantic on Christmas Eve, 1906. |
| 1:47.5 | Instead of the usual beeps and pulses to transmit codes, they listen to Reginal Fessenden play a violin solo of the Christmas Carol, |
| 1:54.6 | O Holy Night. Fessenden closed his broadcast by echoing the angel's praise from Luke, Chapter 2. |
| 2:03.4 | Glory to God in the highest heaven! |
| 2:06.7 | The listeners must have been startled by the evocative music and statement of praise over the birth of Jesus. |
| 2:13.6 | The first people surprised by Jesus' birth were the shepherds who had been keeping to their usual business of watching their sheep at night. |
| 2:22.3 | Then an angel appeared, shining with the glory of God, and giving the shepherds a fright. |
| 2:29.2 | The angel urged them not to be afraid and declared, |
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