1) REFLECT on the stunning reality that God doesn't hide - He reveals Himself. This is the very nature of true love – self-revealing. In Christ, God gave the world an epiphany of Himself, His Personality, robed in vulnerability. 2) REMEMBER that Christ's revealing to the Gentiles was a cataclysmic fulfillment of the Genesis mandate. God's Story reaching every tribe of humanity was always the point; a people (the Jews) were designed to carry that revelation to the entire of the human race, for all time....

Following the lead of secular culture, many Christians place Christmas as the most important day in the Christian year. This post suggests that a more profound understanding of Christmas arises out of an awareness of the history of the Christian year. Christmas should be understood in light of the events which follow—Epiphany and, eventually, Easter....