2022 Worship Guide

2022 Worship Guide LINCOLN DAILY NEWS December 1, 2022 Page 13 The next morning there was a package on our front step full of cookies, candy, a pop tart, pretzels, some cough drops, anything they could find, and a note from them that read… “Please don’t hurt our Baby Jesus…he’s all we have.” My grown children still talk about that Christmas. Surprisingly, there are still some plastic lawn Christmas nativity sets floating around out there. The entire set with wisemen, shepherds, and camels are rare. Occasionally, you might still see a full set. This got me thinking how many Americans like the idea of plastic Christmas! Plastic can be cute and inexpensive but remember there’s no substance to plastic. It doesn’t stand up well when the winds of storms blow; lights inside burn out leaving us in darkness, and how many things are wrong with a plastic Jesus? Our secular culture would love a Jesus they could put away quickly and easily and forget until next year. Jesus isn’t plastic. He’s real flesh and blood. And He wants to be real to you. Don’t buy into how secular society packages Christmas. It’s counterfeit and will leave you feeling empty. True Christmas invites a real Jesus into it. Everything else is just hollow. Merry Christmas Lincoln.