Advent 2009 is looking to be a little unusual for me…at least from a preaching perspective. Because various children’s choirs at my church will be presenting their much-anticipated Christmas musicals in upcoming worship services, I will be sharing sermons on only the first and last Sundays of the season. I tend to think that this will be a welcomed change-of-pace for the folks in my congregation. After all, what better voices to proclaim the good news of Jesus’ birth than the voices of children? But it does mean that the messages I develop will have a much more ‘stand alone’ feel than the series-based messages that I have leaned toward in recent years.
Today’s message dealt with the lectionary text from Luke 21:25-36, and–in something of a change for me–I actually went to see a movie explicitly so I could see how it might relate to the text. The movie was 2012, and I’ll leave you to see the connection.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
