Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

I graduated from seminary on May 21, 2011.  During our last weeks of school leading to graduation day, my entire class was experiencing the typical anxieties and emotions that accompany the end of one’s senior year.  We were facing final exams, we were completing final projects and papers, some of my colleagues were waiting for assignments to synods, some were already interviewing for future calls, and we were anticipating the many ways in which life would be different after May 21 when seminary would finally come to an end.  And, throughout those last weeks of school, we continually saw these big billboards throughout the Columbus area, one of which was located near the seminary.  On each of these billboards, one would find some version of the following message:  The world is going to end on May 21, 2011.  This message was being publicized throughout the area by a fundamentalist “false prophet” who, apparently having reflected upon the state of the world, including multiple wars, natural disasters and politi