Bible scholar and pastor, Raymond Surburg writes about the major and minor festivals of the Christian Church Year. Particularly helpful for pastors preaching on these festivals: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday. Includes articles on Handel's "The Messiah," Mendelsohn - A Jewish Christian, the contribution of Lutheran Handel to Ecclesiastical Music, and Bach to Lutheran Orthodoxy.