My friend the Rev. Nathan Mattox sent me a link to his recent blog entry dealing with the end-times hype about the year 2012, prompted by the movie of the same title. Read his thoughts on the matter before he delivered his sermon. The money quote:
The idea of the apocalypse should instead prompt us to action for the sake of Christ. Jesus says "Be alert!" (Mark 13: 33) Being alert doesn't mean alert and alarmed about latest prognostications about an occasion that we can't possibly fathom, let alone predict. "Alert" means "awake" and "about the tasks that we were left with."
If you want to hear the sermon itself, it's available online, too.
Our recent guest blogger the Rev. Andy James saw 2012 over the weekend, and said he noticed parallels with the United Methodist Church in the plot. I haven't seen the film myself, so I don't know what he means, but hopefully we'll get him to say more in the next day or two (hopefully as a blog entry here).
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