Holidays & Occasions
30 articles · Feb 2026
Long-form studies gathered under this theme, newest first. Each one links back to the passages it works from.
Showing 30 of 30 articles
- Christmas: The Birth of Jesus The Nativity as recorded and as foretold — Bethlehem named by Micah, the virgin birth, the Magi from the east, and the eternal Word made flesh and dwelling among us.
- Christmas Eve: Preparing for the Savior The night before the birth: the journey to Bethlehem, the shepherds keeping watch, the heavenly host over the fields, and the waiting that Advent gives a shape to.
- Easter: The Resurrection of Christ The empty tomb, the appearances of the risen Christ, and Paul's argument that if Christ is not raised the faith is futile and the sins are still on the sinner.
- Good Friday: The Crucifixion The trials, the physical reality of crucifixion, the seven last words spoken from the cross, and the prophecies the day fulfilled to the letter.
- Palm Sunday: The Triumphal Entry Zechariah's king on a colt, hosannas from a crowd that would shout otherwise within days, the tears over Jerusalem, and the Temple cleansed on arrival.
- Ash Wednesday: Repentance and Renewal Dust to dust: the ashes, the forty days of Lent that follow, and the repentance Scripture means by the word — a turning, not a mood, which fasting is meant to serve.
- Pentecost: The Coming of the Holy Spirit Pentecost means fiftieth — the Feast of Weeks kept fifty days after Passover. Wind and tongues of fire, Babel reversed, and three thousand added in a single day.
- Ascension Day: Christ Ascends to Heaven Forty days after the resurrection Christ ascended bodily: seated at the Father's right hand as advocate and high priest, with the promise that He returns the same way.
- Epiphany: The Manifestation of Christ January 6th marks the manifestation to the Gentiles — the Magi from the east, the baptism in Jordan, and the water made wine at Cana: three showings of who He was.
- Maundy Thursday: The Last Supper Mandatum is Latin for commandment: the Passover meal, the washing of feet, the bread and cup instituted, and the new commandment given the night before the cross.
- Advent: Preparing for Christ's Coming Adventus means arrival. Four weeks and four themes — hope, peace, joy, love — holding the coming at Bethlehem and the coming in glory in a single season.
- All Saints' Day: Honoring the Faithful In Protestant usage a saint is any believer, not a canonised few: Hebrews 11's roll of faith, the great cloud of witnesses, and what the communion of saints claims.
- Reformation Day: Sola Scriptura October 31st, 1517: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses on the Wittenberg door, the five solas that followed, and ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda.
- Passover: From Exodus to the Cross Blood on the doorposts in Egypt, a lamb for each household, the feast kept as perpetual memorial, and Paul's line that Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.
- Rosh Hashanah: The Feast of Trumpets The Feast of Trumpets on the first of Tishrei: the shofar calling Israel awake ten days before Atonement, and the last trumpet the New Testament sets beside it.
- Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement The tenth of Tishrei — two goats, one killed and one sent away, and the high priest passing the veil once a year, against the once-for-all entry of Hebrews.
- Sukkot: The Feast of Tabernacles Sukkot keeps seven days in temporary shelters, recalling forty years of manna, cloud and fire — a harvest feast whose theme is God dwelling among His people.
- Shavuot: The Feast of Weeks Fifty days after Passover: the wheat harvest, the Law given at Sinai, and the Spirit poured out in Jerusalem on the same feast — one pattern kept twice.
- Hanukkah: The Festival of Lights The Maccabean rededication of the Second Temple and its eight days of light, and John 10 placing Jesus at the Feast of Dedication, in winter, in Solomon's porch.
- Purim: God's Providence and Deliverance Esther never names God and shows Him on every page: Haman's lot, a sleepless king, a forgotten honour, and a decree turned back on the man who drafted it.
- New Year's Day: Fresh Beginnings in Faith Scripture commands no January observance, yet new beginnings run through it — mercies new every morning, the new creation in Christ, and resolutions that stay empty.
- Valentine's Day: Love in Scripture Love in Scripture beyond the romantic: agape, the Song of Solomon inside marriage, the definition given in 1 Corinthians 13, and the command to love an enemy.
- Mother's Day: Honoring Mothers in the Bible Eve, Sarah, Hannah, Jochebed, Mary, Lois and Eunice — the mothers Scripture names, and the fifth commandment that makes honouring them a matter of law.
- Father's Day: Biblical Fatherhood Abraham's faith, Joseph's guardianship, and Eli's failure as a warning — biblical fatherhood measured against the Father from whom all fatherhood is named.
- Thanksgiving: Gratitude in Scripture Gratitude as a command rather than a mood: the sacrifice of thanksgiving, thanks offered in trials, the psalms that model it, and the danger of ingratitude.
- Memorial Day: Sacrifice and Remembrance Greater love hath no man than this — laying down one's life, in the soldiers Scripture records and in the Shepherd who called it His own act rather than a defeat.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Justice and Faith Justice in Scripture: the image of God as the ground of human dignity, the prophets' demand, the economics of Jubilee, and speaking for those who cannot.
- Labor Day: The Biblical View of Work Work predates the fall — Adam was given a garden to dress and keep — so labour is calling rather than curse, and it is done as unto the Lord, not unto men.
- Independence Day: Freedom in Christ Freedom in Scripture is freedom from sin, from the law's condemnation and from the fear of death: the Exodus as its pattern, and liberty spent in service.
- Veterans Day: Courage and Service in Scripture Courage in Scripture: Joshua told to be strong, David refusing the armour, the centurions Jesus commended, and the armour of God that names the real war.
Nothing in this collection matches that. Clear the box to see all 30.