2020 Worship Guide

Page 14 2020 Worship Guide LINCOLN DAILY NEWS December 2, 2020 S tress and frustration will always be identified with 2020. They also marked a time 2,000 years ago during the days of Jesus’ birth. Not much today beats the stress and frustration levels of that story. Imagine: Does the idea of a pregnant peasant teenage girl stress you? We have one. Do the broken dreams of a young engaged groom with a fiancé who is pregnant (not his child) frustrate you? We got one of those too. Does an unexpected long trip riding on a donkey for no other reason than a senseless political counting of the people push your buttons? It’s here. Does an inn keeper who points an expecting mother to a barn out back feel insensitive? Shame on him! Does watching someone being treated poorly, rejected, and outcast like the shepherds, bother you? We have those. Will a powerful, corrupt evil King like Herod, who has the murder of children on his “to do” list make you clinch your teeth? We also have one of those. Can’t you feel it? The stress and frustration of this story is off the charts. And yet… Ron Otto, preaching minister / Lincoln Christian Church HOPE helps! CONTINUE