Marking Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year

Preface

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Christianity is the unfolding drama of the Story of God, a tale that begins for humankind in the Garden of Eden and ends in the glistening, golden City of God, the New Jerusalem. The Bible tells this marvelous tale of creation and covenant in Scripture, which gives commentary of God’s saving work in creation, Israel, and finally in the incarnation and second coming of Jesus Christ. Believers embody and enact this Story in our service of the liturgy and in our spiritual formation, fleshing out our devotion to Christ as we trace this steps in the seasons of the Church Year. May the Lord grant you insight into the Church’s marking of time in the liturgical calendar, and may you come to experience, with so many millions of us, the power of shared spirituality as we journey together, marking time by the works of God in Christ. ~ Don Davis

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