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(uplifting music)
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Good morning.
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My name is Dennis Campbell.
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I'm the Dean of the Divinity School at Duke.
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And it's a pleasure to welcome all of you
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to Duke University Chapel and to the university
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and this weekend.
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It's hard to believe, but this is the final service
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during this academic year during which our
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chapel choir will sing.
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And it's also hard to believe that already
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Rodney Wynkoop has completed his first year
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as director of chapel music.
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He has done a magnificent job and the choir
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has done a magnificent job and we are grateful to them.
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We're also especially pleased today to welcome
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many alumni who are back.
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There are members of my own undergraduate class, 1967.
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Other undergraduate classes, but perhaps most significantly,
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the 50th anniversary year class.
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Those of you celebrating your golden anniversary
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of the graduation as undergraduates at Duke.
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We're glad to have you.
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I'm particularly pleased, a word of personal privilege,
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to welcome Bob and Margaret Vanderlinde
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from Hanover, New Hampshire, special friends of ours
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whom we came to know first on one of
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Barbara Booth's alumni trips.
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The Duke alumni family is very special.
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Our lector this morning is John Jordan,
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who is also a member of the 50th anniversary class.
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Our preacher is Hans Hillerbrand,
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chairman of the department of religion.
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Professor Hillerbrand taught at Duke from 1959 to 1970
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in the Divinity School.
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Then he went away to serve as dean of the
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graduate school and provost at the
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City University of New York
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and later as provost to Southern Methodist University.
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He came back to us last year as chairman
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of the department of religion and has brought
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new vitality and enthusiasm to that department
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and its leadership.
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And we are delighted to welcome him to the
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pulpit of Duke Chapel this morning.
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Now we're going to test your ability,
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those of you who are Duke alumni,
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those of you who are students, friends,
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to figure out the first hymn.
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The musicians told me to be sure to tell you
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that you are to turn to hymn 324
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and to note that verses one, three, and five
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are on the left hand page.
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Verses two, four, and six are on the right hand page.
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And that since this is the second Sunday of Easter,
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we will sing the text marked Easter.
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(uplifting music)
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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♪ All the fair beauty of earth ♪
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♪ From the death of the winter arising ♪
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♪ Every good gift of the year ♪
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♪ Now with its master returns ♪
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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♪ Rise from the grave now, Oh Lord ♪
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♪ The author of life and creation ♪
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♪ Treading the pathway of death ♪
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♪ New life you give to us all ♪
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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♪ God the Almighty, the Lord ♪
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♪ The ruler of earth and the heavens ♪
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♪ Guard us from harm without ♪
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♪ Cleanse us from evil within ♪
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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♪ Jesus the health of the world ♪
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♪ Enlighten our minds, great redeemer ♪
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♪ Son of the Father supreme ♪
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♪ Only begotten of God ♪
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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♪ Spirit of life and of power ♪
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♪ Now flow in us, fount of our being ♪
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♪ Light that enlightens us all ♪
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♪ Life that in all may abide ♪
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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♪ Praise to the giver of good ♪
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♪ Oh lover and author of concord ♪
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♪ Pour out your balm on our days ♪
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♪ Order our ways in your peace ♪
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♪ Hail thee, festival day ♪
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♪ Blessed day to be hallowed forever ♪
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♪ Day when our Lord was raised ♪
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♪ Breaking the kingdom of death ♪
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As Christian men and women in the light of Easter,
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we are called to recognize before God and one another
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that we have fallen short and are in need
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of confession and pardon.
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Let us pray.
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We have forgotten who we are.
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We have alienated ourselves from
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the unfolding of the cosmos.
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We have become estranged from the movements of the earth.
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We have turned our backs on the cycles of life.
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We have forgotten who we are.
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We have sought only our own security
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We have exploited simply for our own ends
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We have distorted our knowledge
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We have abused our power.
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We have forgotten who we are.
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Now the land is barren and the waters are poisoned
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and the air is polluted.
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We have forgotten who we are.
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Now the forests are dying and the creatures
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are disappearing and the humans are despairing.
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We have forgotten who we are.
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We ask forgiveness.
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We ask for the gift of remembering.
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We ask for the strength to become
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the people God would have us to be.
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We have forgotten who we are.
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Hear this good news.
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If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just
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and will forgive our sins and cleanse us
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from all unrighteousness.
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Thanks be to God.
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Let us pray and let's be seated, please.
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Let us pray together.
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Open our hearts and minds, oh God,
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by the power of your Holy Spirit
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so that as the word is read and proclaimed
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we might hear with joy what you say to us today, amen.
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The first lesson is taken from the Acts of the Apostles.
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But Peter standing with the 11 lifted up his voice
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and addressed them.
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Men of Israel, hear these words.
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Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God
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with mighty works and wonders and signs,
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which God did through him in your midst.
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As you yourselves know, this Jesus delivered
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up according to the definite plan
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and foreknowledge of God you crucified and killed
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by the hands of lawless men.
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But God raised him up, having loosened the pangs of death,
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because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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For David says concerning him,
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I saw the Lord always before me,
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for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken.
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Therefore, my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced.
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Moreover, my flesh will dwell in hope.
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For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades
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nor let thy holy one see corruption.
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Thou hast made known to me the ways of life.
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Thou wilt make me glad,
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full of gladness with thy presence.
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Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the
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patriarch David that he both died and was buried
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and his tomb is with us in this day.
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Being therefore a prophet and knowing that God
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has sworn with an oath to him that he would set
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one of his descendants upon the throne,
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he foresaw and spoke the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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that he was not abandoned to Hades,
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nor did his flesh see corruption.
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This Jesus God raised up,
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and of that we are all witnesses.
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This ends the reading of the first lesson.
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Thanks be to God.
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Please stand for the psalter,
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which may be found on page 750 of your hymnal.
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♪ The heavens are telling the glory of God ♪
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♪ And the firmament proclaims God's handiwork ♪
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♪ Day to day pours forth speech ♪
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♪ And night to night declares knowledge ♪
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♪ There is no speech, nor are there words ♪
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♪ Their voice is not heard ♪
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♪ Yet their voice goes out through all the earth ♪
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♪ And their words to the end of the world ♪
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♪ In them God has set a tent for the sun ♪
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♪ Which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber ♪
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♪ And runs its course with joy like a strong man ♪
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♪ Its rising is from the end of the heavens ♪
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♪ And its circuit to the end of them ♪
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♪ And there is nothing hid from its heat ♪
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♪ The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul ♪
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♪ The decrees of the Lord are sure ♪
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♪ Making wise the simple ♪
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♪ The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart ♪
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♪ The commandment of the Lord is clear ♪
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♪ Enlightening the eyes ♪
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♪ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever ♪
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♪ The ordinances of the Lord are true ♪
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♪ And righteous altogether ♪
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♪ More to be desired are they than gold, ♪
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♪ Even much fine gold ♪
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♪ Sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb ♪
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♪ Glory be to our creator ♪
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♪ Praise to our redeemer Lord ♪
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♪ Glory be to our sustainer ♪
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♪ Ever three and ever one ♪
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♪ As it was in the beginning ♪
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♪ Now and ever more shall be ♪
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The second lesson is taken from the first letter of Peter.
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Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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By his great mercy, we have been born anew
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to a living hope through the resurrection
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of Jesus Christ from the dead.
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And to an inheritance which is imperishable,
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undefiled, unfading.
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Kept in heaven for you who by God's power
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are guarded through faith or the salvation
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ready to be revealed in the life's time.
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In this you rejoice.
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Though now for a little while,
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you may have to suffer various trials
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so that the genuineness of your faith
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more precious than gold,
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which though perishable is tested by fire,
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may redound to praise and glory and honor
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at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Without having seen him, you love him.
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Though you do not see him, you believe in him.
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And rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy
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as the outcome of your faith
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you obtain the salvation of our souls.
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This ends the reading of the second lesson.
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Thanks be to God.
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♪ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ ♪
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♪ Which according to his abundant mercy ♪
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♪ Hath begotten us again ♪
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♪ Unto a lively hope ♪
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♪ By the resurrection of Jesus Christ ♪
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♪ From the dead ♪
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♪ To an inheritance ♪
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♪ Incorruptible and undefiled ♪
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♪ And that fadeth not away ♪
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♪ Reserved in heaven for you ♪
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♪ Who are kept by the power of God ♪
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♪ Through faith unto salvation ♪
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♪ Ready to be revealed in the last time ♪
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♪ But as he which hath called you is holy ♪
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♪ So be ye holy ♪
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♪ In all manner of conversation ♪
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♪ Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear ♪
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♪ Love one another with a pure heart fervently ♪
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♪ See that ye love one another ♪
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♪ Love one another with a pure heart fervently ♪
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♪ See that ye love one another ♪
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♪ Being born again, not of corruptible seed ♪
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♪ as the flower of grass ♪
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♪ The word of the Lord endureth forever, endureth forever ♪
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♪ The word of the Lord endureth forever ♪
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The gospel lesson is from the book of John.
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On the evening of that day, the first day of the week,
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the doors being shut where the disciples were
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for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them
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and said to them, "Peace be with you."
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When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
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Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.
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Jesus said to them again, peace be with you.
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As the father has sent me,
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even so I send you.
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And when he had said this, he breathed on them
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and said to them, "receive the Holy Spirit.
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"If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven.
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"If you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
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Now, Thomas, one of the 12, called the twin,
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was not with them when Jesus came.
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So the other disciples told him.
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We have seen the Lord.
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But he said to them, unless I see in his hands
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the prints of the nails and place my finger
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in the mark of the nails and place my hand in his side,
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I will not believe.
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Eight days later, his disciples were again in the house.
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And Thomas was with them.
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The doors were shut, but Jesus came and stood among them
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and said, "Peace be with you."
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Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here
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"and see my hands.
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"And put out hand and place it in my side.
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"Do not be faithless, but believing."
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Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God."
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Jesus said to him,
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"Have you believed because you have seen me?
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"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe."
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Now, Jesus did many other signs
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in the presence of his disciples
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which are not written in this book.
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But these are written that you may believe
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that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God,
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and that believing you may have life in his name.
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This ends the reading of the gospel.
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Thanks be to God.
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Once upon a time, long, long ago,
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when the earth was flat
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and the style of Duke Chapel was avant garde architecture
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and when the university had its beginning,
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the Christian universe was peopled by patron saints.
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Everyone had one.
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The butchers and bakers and candlestick makers,
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students and professors, not to mention art dealers,
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unhappily married husbands, and weak and penitent women.
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Patron saints provided special favors
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for a special category of people.
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And it was the life of the saint that provided
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the cue for the connection.
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Since Saint Christopher had carried a boy Jesus
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across a turbulent river, he was the natural
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patron saint for travelers.
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Joseph of Arimathea was a natural
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patron saint for undertakers.
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And Saint Cecilia, who reportedly invented the organ,
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became the patron saint of musicians.
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Now in some cases, alas, the connection
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between saint and special group of people
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was not so clear.
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Thus Saint Catherine was the patron saint of philosophers
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because so it was reported she had converted
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some 50 learned heathen who had been sent
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to her prison to repudiate her.
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Well now, the world is no longer flat.
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The architecture of Duke Chapel is hardly avant garde,
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though still a weekday attraction for tourists
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and school children whom buses endlessly
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disgorge on the main quad.
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And we reflect about what once was and now no longer is
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all the way from the five cent ice cream cone
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to a Duke tuition of $550 per year.
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And patron saints have also disappeared.
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Except for the Saint Christopher medallion
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on the dashboard of cars, of course, of careless drivers
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and the annual flourish of florists on Valentine's Day,
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Saint Valentine being the patron saint of lovers.
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Now, such vicissitudes notwithstanding,
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I wish to propose a new patron saint this morning.
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Thomas of our gospel story as patron saint
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of the university.
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And the point, of course, is that Thomas was a questioner,
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was a doubter, was a skeptic.
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Now, of course, it is a bit ludicrous that this story
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of doubt follows right on the heels of Easter,
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with all the fanfares and the hallelujahs and the trumpets.
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It thus is heavy medicine.
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No wonder that many Easter worshipers
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tend to stay home this Sunday.
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Because it was in the context of the jubilation
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of Easter that Thomas says quite simply,
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I don't believe it.
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I need proof.
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Or more precisely, unless I see,
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I will not believe.
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Now to be sure, our gospel story unfolds
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with the predictable drama of a late night TV movie.
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It ends as expected.
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No uncertainty as in an Agatha Christie mystery.
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No abrupt ending as in some of Will Willimon's sermons.
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It is all neatly programmed.
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The story surely does not rate as a cliffhanger suspense,
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since its point, of course, is all too obvious.
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In the span of 11 brief verses,
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the doubting Thomas becomes the true believer.
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Now, that is precisely where I think
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some of us have a problem.
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We understand the questioning and the doubt.
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But 11 verses from doubt to certainty
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are a bit too fast for us.
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Doubt and uncertainty at times lie heavily on our souls,
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much like final exams for you students,
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and try as we will, we cannot escape them.
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Unless I see, I will not believe.
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We yearn for proof.
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We yearn for seeing for certainty.
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Wouldn't we all love to be at a wedding reception
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or at a picnic, as happened 19 centuries ago,
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with Jesus as one of the guests?
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None of us I dare say traveling to Wellspring Grocery
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or South Square Mall would mind be blinded
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by a light from heaven flashing about us,
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as happened to Saul on the road to Damascus.
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So pity us,
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the generations of women and men
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that have followed the generation of the Bible.
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Because we have not seen Jesus with our own eyes.
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We were not spoken to like Nicodemus
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nor were we touched like Thomas.
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No wonder then that we have doubts about some of that
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heavy and heady stuff associated with Christianity.
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God in human form,
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a physical resurrection from the dead,
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God who is three but also one,
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who is one but also three,
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who is omnipotent and yet does not seem to be able
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to control holocausts and cancer.
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And if that were not enough, we face a tantalizing
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cluster of religious options.
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Liberal and conservative.
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Evangelical and liberation.
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Feminist and fundamentalist.
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A bewildering panoply of theologians.
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And the artfully spun tales and the real
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and the counterfeit crowd the stage
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and it is all very complicated and confusing.
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And you and I yearn for a sign
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just a little sign, a touch, a glimpse.
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We yearn for proof.
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Unless I see, I will not believe.
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Now, doubt and proof are what a university is all about.
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And in truth, we might well say that doubt
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and proof have become institutionalized
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in the modern university.
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Now, to be sure, in its medieval beginnings,
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the university sought to be a citadel of faith.
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But for a long time now, the university has been
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a monument to questioning and doubt.
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And the ideal university as you and as I know it
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is in perpetual motion, is an unceasing pursuit
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of answers to questions and questions to the answers
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and new questions arising out of those answers.
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A university is a relentless asking why,
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how do we know.
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A university is the relentless repetition
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of Thomas's statement, unless I see, I do not believe.
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There are no sacred cows in a university.
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The precepts and the notions of the natural
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sciences change.
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Scholarly paradigms are constantly replaced.
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And indeed, critical theory is what
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a university is all about,
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even if that phrase is not capitalized,
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as is the case here at Duke.
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Each new cohort of scholars will have a different
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perspective than did the previous one.
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And younger members of the academy will always
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see things differently than their seniors.
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A university is questioning writ large.
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And ask any professor on this or indeed on any campus
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about the quality most desired in students,
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and you will get but a simple answer.
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A curious and a questioning mind.
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So Thomas who wanted proof would be a perfect
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colleague in any department on campus.
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The university is a phalanx of doubting Thomases.
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And so I propose him as our patron saint.
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But more than that,
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as patron saints for us humans.
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Because after all, the notion seeing is believing
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and that is exactly what Thomas said,
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is all around us.
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Some of you may have seen that outrageous and
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outrageously funny movie "Roger and Me."
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If Roger, also known as Mr. Roger Smith,
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chairman of General Motors,
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would only come to Flint, Michigan,
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he would see how wrong the decision had been
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to close the General Motors plant there.
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Unless I see, I will not believe.
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Now, that is the proof of the pudding,
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the domino approach to life.
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And we all know how it goes.
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Life based on prerequisites, which usually start
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with a preposition of if or unless,
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if you really love me, blank.
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If only you, unless.
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Now, this is, of course, profoundly human.
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Deep down, we want proof for everything,
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not only in the university.
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We want proof that we are in love.
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We want proof that Duke is worth its tuition.
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We want proof that the Soviets have really
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changed their intentions.
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We want proof that there really is a greenhouse effect.
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And unless I see, I will not believe.
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Or as the commercial has it,
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satisfaction must be guaranteed or your money back.
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Now, the trouble with this proof of the pudding
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approach to life is that often life
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doesn't work that way.
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Often the fundamental aspects of our lives
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work quite differently.
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Human relationships work differently.
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Vocational decisions are made differently.
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And you and I surely remember that time
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we stood beside the swimming pool and got ready
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for the first time to jump into the water.
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And all the proofs in the world from the swimming
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instructor or our father or our mother
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did not really help.
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Why?
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We had to risk.
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Some things in life do not lend themselves to proof.
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Can you really prove that a humanities major
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is the best preparation for a professional career?
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I seriously doubt it.
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When the people of Israel on their exodus
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after many, many years at long last
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reached the borders of the promised land,
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they sent scouts ahead to explore.
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And in due time, those scouts came back
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and they came back with a report that
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was both splendid and terrifying.
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They had found a wonderful land, a beautiful land
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full of milk and honey, but horror of horrors.
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They had found that land occupied by giants.
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And they said
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and we seemed unto them like grasshoppers.
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They were frightened.
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They wanted and needed proof.
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But instead of risking, their suggestion and
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their advice was to return to Egypt.
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Now, you might call this life based on
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the certainty principle.
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We want certainty, and indeed, we want more than that.
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We want the comfort that goes with it.
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But the fact of the matter is,
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I submit if we live our lives like that,
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we will find that it is rather anemic and pale.
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Because what will happen is we will be frightened
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like the scouts of the people of Israel.
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For there will be always giants ahead of us.
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And then there will be no choice but to be frightened.
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Don't fall in love because you might be disappointed.
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Don't get married because there might be divorce.
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Don't apply to law school because they might not admit you.
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Don't trust the Russians, don't trust the Germans.
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Don't trust anybody over 30.
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Indeed, I submit that life based on the certainty
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principle should have kept you at home this morning,
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what with only the chairman of the department
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of religion preaching.
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Better yet, we all should have stayed at home
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and stayed in bed and not even looked at
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the morning paper because only then
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could we have been sure that we would not slip
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in the shower or find out what all distressing
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news is going on in this world of ours.
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And once you let yourself think that way,
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then you would continue and say that Columbus
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should have stayed at home, because after all,
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he might have returned with an embarrassment on his face.
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And Martin Luther King should have stayed at home,
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because who knows, people don't change.
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And Mother Theresa should have stayed at home
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because Calcutta has always been like this
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and will always be like that in the future.
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There are never enough proofs around to satisfy
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our yearning for certainty.
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What lies ahead is always risk.
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And even Dante in the middle ages knew already
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that our paths are seldom straight
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so that we can see.
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But they are curved and meandering
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and foggy to boot.
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Ironically, it is what lies behind that seems
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to be so safe and reassuring.
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Like the Israelite scouts, we seem to prefer proof
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even if proof means the return to the slavery
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and bondage of Egypt.
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Now, a long time before Thomas,
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Moses also wanted proof and certainty.
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I'm referring to that small little vignette
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in the Hebrew Bible where Moses encounters
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God at the burning bush and then Moses asks,
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Lord, show me your face.
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And according to the very ambivalent translation
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of the Latin Vulgate version,
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God responded by making fun.
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What appears like making fun of Moses.
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Because so we read in the Latin,
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I will not show you my face.
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I will show you my rear.
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How shocking.
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God's derriere.
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Yet how profoundly true, because we do not see God.
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And who knows, we might not have lost an important
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Biblical truth if artists had depicted God
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in terms of the response to Moses and not
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the way we know so well,
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00:54:12.140 --> 00:54:16.830
say Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
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00:54:16.830 --> 00:54:20.430
the grandfatherly type gray beard and all,
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00:54:20.430 --> 00:54:24.410
naked toes dangling over the clouds.
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00:54:24.410 --> 00:54:27.380
For again, the fact of the matter is,
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we do not see God.
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Nor, for that matter, do we see the son of God.
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At most we see a baby in a manger,
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a young man who cared, who hugged little children
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and worried about the homeless and the disenfranchised,
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who talked about sin and about reconciliation,
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00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:54.823
and who ended his life in an electric chair of 32 A.D.
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Like the three card monte played in the streets
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00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:03.410
of Manhattan, what we see is not what we get.
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What we see is a world in turbulence.
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Oil spills and endangered rainforests.
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Billions of discarded styrofoam cups.
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00:55:15.740 --> 00:55:20.070
Not to mention Lithuania, competing ideologies
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in east and west, unresolved ambiguity
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00:55:23.864 --> 00:55:27.580
about the meaning of humane existence,
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00:55:27.580 --> 00:55:32.580
of the Holocaust, of cancer, of horrible diseases
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00:55:32.940 --> 00:55:36.855
eating away at the potential of the young,
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00:55:36.855 --> 00:55:40.438
and the meaning of the old.
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00:55:40.438 --> 00:55:45.060
The truly honest thing to do in face of all of this
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00:55:45.060 --> 00:55:47.728
is what Thomas did.
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And that is to doubt.
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00:55:52.670 --> 00:55:57.200
Now, Thomas' question is answered in the New Testament
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00:55:57.200 --> 00:56:01.601
by the author of the letter to the Hebrews.
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00:56:01.601 --> 00:56:05.000
We're in the context of a long and it seems
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00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:09.077
at times somewhat boring string of names.
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From the Hebrew tradition, the author talks about faith.
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00:56:14.950 --> 00:56:19.620
And we, you and I, thus have a practical way to go about it.
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00:56:19.620 --> 00:56:23.920
By faith, by faith in that wonderful definition
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00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:27.680
of the book of Hebrews, that is the evidence
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00:56:27.680 --> 00:56:30.540
of things not seen.
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Faith that this is God's world,
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00:56:34.310 --> 00:56:38.170
faith that this world expresses God's purpose,
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00:56:38.170 --> 00:56:42.340
faith that this world and you and I have been
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00:56:42.340 --> 00:56:44.780
redeemed through Jesus Christ,
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00:56:44.780 --> 00:56:48.740
and above all, faith that God fills this world
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00:56:48.740 --> 00:56:52.750
and that you and I cannot take a single step,
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00:56:52.750 --> 00:56:55.470
cannot tumble out of bed in the morning
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00:56:55.470 --> 00:56:58.460
nor stumble into bed in the evening
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00:56:58.460 --> 00:57:02.550
without stumbling into God.
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00:57:02.550 --> 00:57:05.550
Wither shall I flee from your presence,
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00:57:05.550 --> 00:57:07.789
asked the Psalmist.
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00:57:07.789 --> 00:57:10.970
And the answer was, if I take the wings in the morning
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00:57:10.970 --> 00:57:14.320
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
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00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:18.680
even there your hand shall lead me.
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00:57:18.680 --> 00:57:21.890
In the end, then, we are back at the beginning.
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00:57:21.890 --> 00:57:26.890
Doubt becomes a wonderful way to take us to faith.
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The two go together.
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00:57:30.218 --> 00:57:34.436
You cannot have faith without doubt.
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00:57:34.436 --> 00:57:39.110
And Thomas is our patron saint.
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00:57:39.110 --> 00:57:42.010
And his special favor to us is his message
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00:57:42.010 --> 00:57:47.010
that to doubt is human and profoundly Christian as well.
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00:57:47.930 --> 00:57:50.527
Amen and amen.
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00:57:53.713 --> 00:57:56.213
(organ music)
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♪ Oh breath of Life, come sweeping through us ♪
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00:58:34.549 --> 00:58:39.549
♪ Revive your church with life and power ♪
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00:58:41.543 --> 00:58:46.543
♪ Oh breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us ♪
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00:58:50.902 --> 00:58:55.902
♪ And fit your church to meet this hour ♪
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00:58:58.370 --> 00:59:03.370
♪ Oh wind of God, come, bend us, break us ♪
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00:59:06.697 --> 00:59:11.697
♪ Till humbly we confess our need ♪
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00:59:13.550 --> 00:59:18.550
♪ Then in your tenderness remake us ♪
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00:59:22.334 --> 00:59:27.334
♪ Revive, restore, for this we plead ♪
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00:59:30.018 --> 00:59:35.018
♪ Oh breath of love, come, breathe within us ♪
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00:59:38.855 --> 00:59:43.855
♪ Renewing thought and will and heart ♪
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00:59:46.042 --> 00:59:51.042
♪ Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us ♪
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00:59:55.317 --> 00:59:59.567
♪ Revive your church in every part ♪
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01:00:06.327 --> 01:00:08.584
The Lord be with you.
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01:00:08.584 --> 01:00:09.900
And also with you.
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01:00:09.900 --> 01:00:12.033
Let us pray, be seated.
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01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:31.940
Oh God, we give thanks unto you for your word,
687
01:00:31.940 --> 01:00:35.543
which has been read to us and proclaimed.
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01:00:38.630 --> 01:00:43.630
Let us hear and understand that we may go forth with faith.
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01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.420
Remember this university, oh God,
690
01:00:50.420 --> 01:00:52.900
and the many men and women who through the years
691
01:00:52.900 --> 01:00:56.430
have loved her and given of resources and time
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01:00:56.430 --> 01:01:00.653
and effort and lives that she may be what she is today.
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01:01:03.190 --> 01:01:05.923
Remember your church upon earth.
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01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:10.793
Deepen her influence and extend her power for good.
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01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:19.180
We pray this morning, oh God, for our own nation.
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01:01:19.180 --> 01:01:22.000
For our leaders and governors
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01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:26.083
and for all who have a part in public service.
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01:01:27.980 --> 01:01:30.940
Let the concern of the communal good
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01:01:30.940 --> 01:01:34.173
motivate them and us.
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01:01:36.310 --> 01:01:40.620
On this Earth Day, oh God, we pray that you would
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01:01:40.620 --> 01:01:45.620
look down in mercy upon this distraught and fevered world.
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01:01:46.950 --> 01:01:51.950
Forgive our mistaken ambitions, our selfish passions,
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01:01:52.090 --> 01:01:54.603
and our presumptuous claims.
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01:01:57.290 --> 01:02:01.770
Remove suspicion and bitterness from among the nations
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01:02:03.170 --> 01:02:06.350
and bring us to peace and concord
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01:02:06.350 --> 01:02:08.893
by the redeeming love of Christ.
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01:02:11.890 --> 01:02:14.390
Have mercy, oh God, upon those who are
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01:02:14.390 --> 01:02:17.160
passing through trial.
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01:02:17.160 --> 01:02:22.160
The poor, the sick, the anxious, the oppressed.
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01:02:23.940 --> 01:02:26.870
Those who are in danger from the elements
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01:02:26.870 --> 01:02:29.343
or from the violence of men and women.
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01:02:31.910 --> 01:02:36.910
Heal, protect, and strengthen us all
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01:02:37.090 --> 01:02:41.383
and those who are in need according to their need.
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01:02:43.170 --> 01:02:45.620
Comfort those in sorrow with the comfort
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01:02:45.620 --> 01:02:49.223
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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01:02:51.670 --> 01:02:55.170
We pray for everyone here assembled in this chapel
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01:02:56.370 --> 01:03:00.610
and for our dear ones, wheresoever they are,
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01:03:00.610 --> 01:03:05.000
that surrounded by your love they may be kept in
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01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:09.563
health and joy and abide in safety and peace.
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01:03:10.730 --> 01:03:13.780
And all of these things we pray in the name of
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01:03:13.780 --> 01:03:18.133
Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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01:03:19.390 --> 01:03:24.390
And now let us remember the words of the Lord Jesus Christ
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01:03:24.510 --> 01:03:29.510
and how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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(upbeat organ music)
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♪ The heavens are telling the glory of God ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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01:04:21.640 --> 01:04:26.640
♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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01:05:00.836 --> 01:05:05.836
♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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01:05:07.450 --> 01:05:12.450
♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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(vocalizing)
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♪ Never, never, never ♪
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(vocalizing)
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01:05:51.494 --> 01:05:56.494
♪ Never, never, never ♪
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01:05:57.784 --> 01:06:00.367
♪ Never, never ♪
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01:06:03.890 --> 01:06:06.307
(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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01:06:30.062 --> 01:06:32.278
♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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01:06:32.278 --> 01:06:34.898
♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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01:06:45.870 --> 01:06:48.630
♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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01:07:23.308 --> 01:07:25.725
(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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01:07:33.410 --> 01:07:35.827
(vocalizing)
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♪ The wonders of his work ♪
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01:07:43.505 --> 01:07:48.505
♪ The wonders of his work displays the firmament ♪
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(vocalizing)
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♪ Displays the firmament ♪
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♪ Displays the firmament ♪
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(organ music)
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♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪
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♪ Praise God, all creatures here below ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Praise God above, ye heavenly host ♪
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♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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Oh God, it is from your bounty from which
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we have all received.
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Accept this offering of your people
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and follow it with your blessing that it may
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promote peace and goodwill among men and women
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and advance the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
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who taught us to say,
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01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:15.530
our father who art in heaven,
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hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,
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on earth as it is in heaven.
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01:10:22.940 --> 01:10:25.530
Give us this day our daily bread
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01:10:25.530 --> 01:10:27.670
and forgive us our trespasses
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as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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01:10:31.140 --> 01:10:33.510
And lead us not into temptation
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but deliver us from evil,
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for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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Go in peace to serve God and your neighbor
790
01:10:45.210 --> 01:10:47.239
in all that you do.
791
01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:49.730
(congregation murmuring)
792
01:10:49.730 --> 01:10:52.570
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
793
01:10:52.570 --> 01:10:56.360
the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit
794
01:10:56.360 --> 01:10:57.697
be with you all.
795
01:11:02.117 --> 01:11:07.117
♪ Amen, amen ♪
796
01:11:11.038 --> 01:11:13.455
♪ Amen, amen ♪
797
01:11:25.487 --> 01:11:30.487
♪ Amen ♪
798
01:11:34.073 --> 01:11:35.990
♪ Amen ♪
799
01:11:47.505 --> 01:11:49.422
♪ Amen ♪
800
01:12:04.389 --> 01:12:07.472
(upbeat organ music)
801
01:12:40.213 --> 01:12:44.292
♪ Joyful, joyful, we adore thee ♪
802
01:12:44.292 --> 01:12:48.594
♪ God of glory, Lord of love ♪
803
01:12:48.594 --> 01:12:52.864
♪ Hearts unfold like flowers before thee ♪
804
01:12:52.864 --> 01:12:57.292
♪ Opening to the sun above ♪
805
01:12:57.292 --> 01:13:01.719
♪ Melt the clouds of sin and sadness ♪
806
01:13:01.719 --> 01:13:06.007
♪ Drive the dark of doubt away ♪
807
01:13:06.007 --> 01:13:10.342
♪ Giver of immortal gladness ♪
808
01:13:10.342 --> 01:13:15.342
♪ Fill us with the light of day ♪
809
01:13:17.026 --> 01:13:21.122
♪ All thy works with joy surround thee ♪
810
01:13:21.122 --> 01:13:25.588
♪ Earth and heaven reflect thy rays ♪
811
01:13:25.588 --> 01:13:29.660
♪ Stars and angels sing around thee ♪
812
01:13:29.660 --> 01:13:34.264
♪ Center of unbroken praise ♪
813
01:13:34.264 --> 01:13:38.205
♪ Field and forest, vale and mountain ♪
814
01:13:38.205 --> 01:13:42.414
♪ Flowery meadow, flashing sea ♪
815
01:13:42.414 --> 01:13:46.389
♪ Singing bird and flowing fountain ♪
816
01:13:46.389 --> 01:13:51.389
♪ Call us to rejoice in thee ♪
817
01:13:53.152 --> 01:13:57.224
♪ Thou art giving and forgiving ♪
818
01:13:57.224 --> 01:14:01.697
♪ Ever blessing, ever blessed ♪
819
01:14:01.697 --> 01:14:05.673
♪ Wellspring of the joy of living ♪
820
01:14:05.673 --> 01:14:10.475
♪ Ocean depth of happy rest ♪
821
01:14:10.475 --> 01:14:14.513
♪ Thou our Father, Christ our brother ♪
822
01:14:14.513 --> 01:14:18.507
♪ All who live in love are thine ♪
823
01:14:18.507 --> 01:14:22.673
♪ Teach us how to love each other ♪
824
01:14:22.673 --> 01:14:27.673
♪ Lift us to the joy divine ♪
825
01:14:29.283 --> 01:14:33.321
♪ Mortals, join the happy chorus ♪
826
01:14:33.321 --> 01:14:37.840
♪ Which the morning stars began ♪
827
01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:42.242
♪ Father love is reigning over us ♪
828
01:14:42.242 --> 01:14:46.607
♪ Brother love binds man to man ♪
829
01:14:46.607 --> 01:14:50.773
♪ Ever singing, march we onward ♪
830
01:14:50.773 --> 01:14:54.580
♪ Victors in the midst of strife ♪
831
01:14:54.580 --> 01:14:58.707
♪ Joyful music leads us sunward ♪
832
01:14:58.707 --> 01:15:02.540
♪ In the triumph song of life ♪
833
01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:26.052
Let us go forth in the name of Christ.
834
01:15:26.052 --> 01:15:28.885
Thanks be to God.
835
01:15:30.286 --> 01:15:33.619
(energetic organ music)