This 2015 Christmas season will be the 8th year of the First in the Nation Nativity Scene INSIDE a U.S. State Capitol and it promises to be another inspiring, joyful time. Our featured speakers included Pastor Mark Tyus of Decatur with his church’s worship leader, Melissa Tyus leading in song; Thomas Brejcha of the Thomas More Society of Chicago and Springfield Bishop Paprocki.

There will be a special Christmas wreath dedication to the U.S. Military presented by U.S. Emergency Chaplain Corps Director Steve Holden. M.C. is the Nativity Scene co-founder Julie Zanoza and BMIC President Bernie Lutchman will do the opening invocation. The service starts at noon on Tuesday December 1 in the Rotunda of the Illinois State Capitol, corner of 2nd Street and Capitol Avenue, Springfield.

As we observe the personal, emotional and physical angst of a man in spiritual agony – Job – it is becoming obvious that the lessons of his life are meant for all mankind, for all time.  Everything Job has experienced said, prayed or complained about, has been done by just about everybody alive now or forever! As we move on towards the end of the prayers of this amazing chronologically first book of the Bible,  Chapter 30 of Job and verses 20-23 shows us a very desperate man who is about near the end of his “rope”. I chose this passage in the New Living Translation which accurately translates it directly into understandable modern language: “I cry out to you, O God, but You don’t answer. I stand before You, but You don’t even look. You have become cruel to me. You use Your Power to persecute me. You throw me to the whirlwind and destroy me in the storm and I know You are sending me to my death – the destination of all who live.”(Job 30:20-23).

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