The Fullness of Time

“Lent is inescapably about repenting.” Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentance and fasting in preparation for Holy Week. It’s an invitation to turn away from our sins and toward the mercy and grace of Christ.

“The power of Pentecost is inseparable from the good news of the Christ who is proclaimed in the Gospels, in accordance with the Scriptures.”

“Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three.” We tend to think of Advent as the season of anticipation before Christmas—and while it is that, it’s also much more. Throughout its history, the church has observed Advent as a preparation not only for the first coming of Christ in his incarnation…

Of all the seasons of the church calendar, Christmas is the one most recognized and celebrated by our society at large. That means it’s the season we’re most familiar with—but that can also make it harder to see past Christmas’s many cultural trappings to its timeless beauty. At the first Christmas, God exchanged the glories…

“We have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.” This line from the prologue of the Gospel of John declares the theme of Epiphany. Christmas celebrates Christ’s birth; Epiphany manifests his glory. The feast of Epiphany and its following season are not as well observed as they should be. Many of…