Charlene P. Kammerer - "Clues from the Good Shepherd" (May 13, 1984)

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	(soft music)	0:03
	(audience member coughs)	1:45
	(soft music)	1:50
	(audience member coughs)	6:15
	(soft music)	6:39
	(audience member coughs)	9:30
	(audience member coughs)	9:44
	(soft music)	9:55
	(quick footsteps)	15:43
	(soft music)	16:11
	(organ music)	18:27
	(choir singing off mic)	19:09
-	Greetings to you from the Lord God Almighty,	22:51
	creator of earth and the heavens.	22:53
	We gather here today to worship God,	22:57
	and to that same and only God	23:00
	we present our fears and our hopes,	23:03
	regarding the boycott of the summer Olympics	23:04
	regarding the production of the MX Missile,	23:11
	regarding our concern for the studies	23:15
	in which we are again involved,	23:17
	our plans for a summer change of pace,	23:20
	our desire to hear afresh God's word of chastisement,	23:24
	forgiveness, direction, encouragement.	23:29
	Come let us eagerly worship God,	23:34
	and to God let us make our honest confession of our sin.	23:38
	(audience rustling)	23:43
	Oh God, the source of our being,	23:56
	our very destiny.	24:00
	The guide of our pilgrim days.	24:02
	By your power is Jesus raised to be Savior of all people,	24:05
	Lord of all nations,	24:10
	but now we confess other allegiances.	24:12
	Too often we give our substance	24:16
	to capture the mirage,	24:17
	our affections to things that perish.	24:20
	We are careless in our relationships with others.	24:24
	We would rather believe the rumor,	24:27
	than be set free by the truth.	24:30
	So now, we cry pardon for idolatries,	24:33
	mercy upon our failures,	24:36
	make us a people who lives to bare you,	24:39
	women and men who heed Jesus's call to lively discipleship.	24:43
	In the name of him who is the Christ,	24:48
	and brother to all, Amen.	24:50
	For this declaration is true and worthy of our acceptance.	25:22
	That Christ Jesus came into the world to redeem sinners.	25:26
	Our sin we have confessed,	25:31
	our desire to be forgiven we have acknowledged.	25:35
	Our longing to be changed we have proclaimed.	25:39
	Praise be to God for the miracles of pardon,	25:44
	of restoration, of new strength.	25:48
	Through Jesus Christ these miracles happen.	25:53
	In him and through him, we are forgiven.	25:56
	Let us give thanks for God is good,	26:03
	and God's love is everlasting.	26:07
	Thanks be to God who's love creates us.	26:10
	Thanks be to God who's mercy redeems us.	26:14
	Thanks be to God who's grace leads us into the future.	26:18
	To parents, to students returning for summer classes,	26:27
	to newlyweds, to those into their marriages for many years,	26:34
	to each of you and to all of you,	26:42
	in Christ name greeting on this fourth Sunday at Easter.	26:45
	It is good to have you worship in this place,	26:50
	to be apart of the worship of God.	26:53
	To hear God's word proclaimed.	26:57
	And a special word of welcome	27:00
	to the Immaculate Conception Ringers and Bell Choir	27:01
	and to their director.	27:06
	It is a delight to have their music	27:08
	in the chapel this morning,	27:10
	music at once grand and so very delicate.	27:12
	We thank you for being here this day.	27:17
-	Let us pray.	27:35
	Oh Lord our God, open our eyes,	27:38
	that we may behold wondrous things in your word.	27:41
	And let the words of my mouth, and the mediations	27:46
	of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, oh Lord,	27:49
	our strength and our redeemer, amen.	27:53
	The Old Testament lesson is the 23rd Psalm.	28:00
	The Lord is my shepherd,	28:05
	I shall not want.	28:07
	He makes me lie down in green pastures,	28:10
	he leads me beside still waters.	28:13
	He restores my soul.	28:17
	He leads me in paths of righteousness,	28:20
	for his name's sake.	28:23
	Even though I walk through	28:26
	the valley of the shadow of death,	28:27
	I fear no evil,	28:31
	for thou art with me.	28:33
	Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.	28:36
	Thou preparest a table before me	28:40
	in the presence of my enemies.	28:43
	Though anointest my head with oil,	28:46
	my cup overflows.	28:49
	Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me	28:52
	all the days of my life	28:56
	and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.	28:59
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	29:04
	The epistle lesson is from 1 Peter 2:19-25.	29:09
	For one is approved if mindful of God	29:20
	he endures pain while suffering unjustly.	29:24
	For what credit is if when you do wrong	29:29
	and are beaten for it you take it patiently?	29:33
	But, if you right and suffer for it,	29:37
	you take it patiently,	29:41
	you have God's approval.	29:43
	For to this you have been called	29:46
	because Christ also suffered for you	29:49
	leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps.	29:53
	He committed no sin, no guile was found in his lips.	30:00
	When he was reviled, he did not revile in return.	30:06
	When he suffered, he did not threaten,	30:12
	but he trusted to him who judges justly.	30:16
	He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree	30:22
	that we might die to sin	30:27
	and live to righteousness.	30:30
	By his wounds you have been healed,	30:34
	for you were straying like sheep,	30:39
	but have now returned to the shepherd	30:42
	and guardian of your souls.	30:44
	Here ends the reason from the epistle lesson.	30:48
	(audience rustling)	30:56
	(soft music)	31:33
	(soft footsteps)	34:20
	Will the congregation please stand	34:37
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	34:39
	The gospel lesson is from John 10:1-10.	34:48
	Truly, truly I say to you,	34:55
	he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door,	34:58
	but climbs in by another way,	35:02
	that man is a thief and a robber.	35:05
	But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.	35:09
	To him the gatekeeper opens.	35:15
	The sheep hear his voice, and he calls	35:18
	his own sheep by name and leads them out.	35:21
	When he has brought out all his own,	35:26
	he goes before them, and the sheep follow him,	35:28
	for they know his voice.	35:32
	A stranger they will not follow,	35:35
	but they will flee from him,	35:38
	for they do not know the voice of strangers.	35:40
	This figure Jesus used with them,	35:45
	but they did not understand what he was saying,	35:48
	so Jesus again said to them,	35:52
	truly, truly I say to you I am the door of the sheep,	35:56
	all who came before me are thieves and robbers,	36:02
	but the sheep did not heed them.	36:06
	I am the door, if anyone enters by me	36:10
	he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.	36:15
	The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy.	36:23
	I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.	36:29
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson, amen.	36:35
	(organ music)	36:40
	(choir singing off mic)	36:48
	Let us pray.	37:59
	Oh Lord, may the words of my mouth	38:04
	and the meditations of our hearts	38:07
	be acceptable in your sight,	38:10
	oh Lord, our strength and our redeemer, amen.	38:12
	The time between Easter and Pentecost	38:21
	has been called the Significant Pause by Karl Barth.	38:24
	The lessons today for us,	38:30
	about the shepherd images in scripture,	38:32
	lift up an essential part of our life of faith	38:35
	together as a community.	38:38
	Together, for me, they have functioned	38:41
	like a kaleidoscope of images about Jesus,	38:44
	and hearing them anew, I hope that they can	38:49
	help us to remember who Jesus is.	38:52
	I'm struck by the fact that Jesus had a way with language.	38:58
	It seemed in his hand,	39:04
	figures of speech exploded into new meaning.	39:06
	Just when we think we can predict	39:11
	a conclusion from Jesus' words,	39:13
	the meaning itself shifts, and the image,	39:16
	like the colors and patterns of a kaleidoscope.	39:20
	And like the original hearers,	39:25
	just when we feel like we have grasped the true meaning,	39:28
	Jesus seems to break it open, turn it over for us,	39:32
	and it explodes again for us in his careful hand.	39:37
	He took the objects that were most familiar	39:44
	in his listeners lives,	39:47
	and he gave them new depth of meaning.	39:50
	This is exactly what happens as Jesus shares his insight	39:53
	on the familiar figures of sheep and shepherds.	39:58
	In John's gospel we are shepherds,	40:04
	and yet we are also sheep, Jesus is gate,	40:07
	and Jesus is shepherd,	40:13
	Jesus is shepherd and lamb.	40:16
	The sheep are guarded, and yet they are led to slaughter.	40:20
	Jesus makes it clear to us that there is simply no imagery	40:27
	that can satisfy either the glory or the anguish	40:31
	that he has for his people.	40:36
	According to John, the images that Jesus presents of himself	40:40
	are the door and the shepherd.	40:45
	Now they are both characteristic in our ears	40:48
	of biblical language.	40:51
	Long before the time of Jesus,	40:54
	King David was himself described	40:57
	as the shepherd ruler of his nation.	41:00
	Moses too was acclaimed in pastoral language	41:04
	in the Old Testament as shepherding a flock,	41:08
	the children of God.	41:12
	But primarily for Israel, the God Yahweh	41:14
	had been the true shepherd of his people,	41:18
	portrayed unforgettably in the shepherd's Psalm	41:22
	which we heard read for us this morning.	41:26
	But in the New Testament then it is Christ himself	41:30
	who becomes identified as the good shepherd,	41:35
	the one who finally gave his life for the sheep.	41:39
	The parable that Jesus speaks,	41:45
	seems to me to contain some acid criticisms	41:47
	of false shepherds, or what he called thieves and robbers.	41:51
	It reminds of similar prophetic indictments	41:57
	of incompetent leadership.	42:01
	The evangelist John probably had in mind	42:05
	both the bogus messiahs of his time,	42:09
	and some of the more headstrong leaders	42:13
	of the church in his day.	42:16
	Perhaps they fulfilled in the original hearing,	42:19
	the warning words of our Lord,	42:23
	beware of false prophets	42:26
	who come to you in sheep's clothing,	42:29
	but inwardly are ravenous as wolves.	42:32
	Today I'm aware that a rural Appalachian town in Kentucky	42:37
	is still reeling from the shock	42:42
	of discovering that a man without a license	42:45
	has been practicing medicine in their community now	42:49
	at their mission hospital for a year and a half.	42:53
	This particular man had worked	42:58
	for another doctor in another state,	43:00
	and upon the death of that physician,	43:03
	he forged his own medical credentials.	43:06
	These simple mountain people had placed their faith in him,	43:11
	had taken him at his word,	43:16
	and indeed had entrusted their lives to him,	43:19
	and now they are stunned and crushed.	43:23
	It seems that society is never	43:27
	without it's messianic pretenders,	43:30
	and salvation hucksters.	43:33
	The scriptures remind us	43:36
	that only Christ is the good shepherd.	43:38
	He alone will lay down his life for the sheep,	43:42
	and this he does in the eyes of John,	43:47
	willingly and gladly.	43:50
	For his only concern is their welfare.	43:52
	The true leader among us must share	43:57
	that spirit of sacrificial service,	44:01
	concerned for the welfare of all those in his or her care,	44:04
	rather than for personal safety or prestige.	44:10
	I'm reminded that on the occasion of my ordination	44:17
	a favorite aunt of mine gave me a present of a statue.	44:21
	The statue is a shepherdess	44:26
	enfolding a lamb to her breast,	44:29
	and in that image for me says that always	44:33
	it is the servants role and that of a shepherd	44:37
	to be in ministry,	44:41
	and I hope that I shall never forget that image.	44:43
	Alternating with this appealing figure	44:48
	of the good shepherd for us in the scriptures	44:51
	is yet another figure,	44:55
	for to speak of Christ as the door to the sheepfold	44:58
	begins to sound rather strange to our ears,	45:02
	but in a simple agrarian society	45:07
	this was also a familiar word picture.	45:10
	To speak of Christ as the door is also	45:15
	a striking way of describing	45:18
	the gathering of the people of God.	45:21
	And the church itself, within the security of this fold,	45:24
	is under God's and Christ's protection.	45:29
	What Jesus was trying to say	45:34
	in even using this language though,	45:36
	is that the door is also a means of exit,	45:40
	as well as entrance.	45:44
	For the sheep go in and they come out.	45:46
	The church and this chapel too,	45:50
	whose doors only open inward and not outward,	45:54
	will become an insulated ghetto.	45:59
	That kind of church will simply be a refuge from the world,	46:03
	rather than an entrance into it.	46:09
	The people of God must not only be called together	46:13
	to worship in the community of the church,	46:16
	but somehow we must also be involved in a society	46:20
	where the good shepherd is abundantly at work.	46:25
	Now for many of us I'm aware that sheep and shepherds	46:30
	are not familiar images for us out of our own experience.	46:34
	If you are anything like me,	46:40
	most of my contact with sheep has occurred	46:42
	in petting zoos in different communities across our country,	46:46
	and I'm aware then for many of us it is quite possible	46:52
	to end up with a romanticized view	46:56
	of what life must have been like	46:59
	for the Palestinian shepherd and the wooly lambs.	47:02
	I remember distinctly, being in a classroom one day	47:08
	where a group of us were trying in vain to relate,	47:12
	to really experience the shepherd image of scripture.	47:16
	Our professor was attempting mightily	47:21
	to open our eyes and minds to a new experience,	47:24
	but then something else happened.	47:29
	A quiet voice spoke from the back row of the room,	47:33
	"I was a shepherd boy while growing up".	47:38
	It was the voice of Henry Mizerewah,	47:43
	who was an exchange student to us from Zimbabwe.	47:47
	Henry began talking, and he filled us	47:51
	with stories from his childhood	47:54
	of what it meant to be a shepherd.	47:57
	He talked to us about being alone at a young age,	48:00
	of tending his flock,	48:06
	of providing and finding their pasture,	48:09
	of leading them through dangers and storms,	48:13
	of clearing away endlessly poisonous plants	48:17
	so that they could graze on safe pasture,	48:22
	of nursing and binding up their wounds,	48:26
	of delivering their lambs.	48:30

-	And on, the stories poured forth,	0:03
	and, suddenly, for all of us in that room,	0:06
	the image took on new life	0:10
	as it was enfleshed with the person of Henry Miseroa.	0:13
	It was apparent to us that this shepherd knew his sheep	0:19
	and he was willing to be responsible for their welfare.	0:24
	He agonized over the nurture of his flock	0:29
	and he risked his own life to protect them.	0:33
	It was like finally seeing a whole new perspective	0:37
	in the kaleidoscopic images of John's gospel.	0:42
	Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life	0:49
	"and have it to the full."	0:53
	It is Jesus that offers the gift	0:56
	of this new quality of existence.	0:59
	For the synoptic gospels out of the eyes of Matthew,	1:03
	Mark, and Luke, we call it the Kingdom of God.	1:08
	For the apostle Paul, he called it salvation.	1:14
	For Tillich, a theologian, he called it the new being.	1:19
	For Bultmann, he called it authentic existence.	1:25
	For this evangelist, John, the other gospel,	1:30
	he calls it life, eternal life.	1:34
	Life to the full.	1:39
	What specific, then, does this passage offer	1:42
	regarding that gift of life	1:45
	which John considers so precious?	1:48
	Jesus himself did not invent the imagery of shepherding,	1:53
	but we see that he did turn that image	1:58
	to his own important use.	2:02
	Upon hearing Jesus talk,	2:05
	the first hearers already carried	2:08
	their own connotations of what he must have been saying.	2:10
	You see, they would have remembered Ezekiel's contrast	2:15
	between false and true shepherds out of their scriptures.	2:19
	They would have remembered the self-aggrandizing	2:24
	political leaders of the time	2:28
	had been branded as false prophets.	2:31
	The coming Messianic King out of the scriptures	2:35
	would be the one and only true shepherd.	2:39
	Jesus' use of this kind of language surely recalled	2:43
	these associations of the people.	2:48
	Immediately after his sharing them,	2:52
	the people demanded of him,	2:55
	"If you are this Messianic King,	2:58
	"if you are the Christ, then just tell us plainly."	3:01
	The Synoptics remembered Jesus moved by the crowds	3:08
	who seemed to gather around him like shepherdless sheep.	3:13
	And the Synoptics also point out to us the Pharisees	3:19
	who are described as having very little care	3:24
	for these same crowds and the same outcasts.	3:27
	It is to their callousness that Jesus responds	3:32
	with a parable about a shepherd.	3:37
	In contrast with these, whose religion seemed to be	3:41
	more concerned with doctrine and rules	3:45
	than with needs of persons,	3:48
	Jesus and his movement and life of loving concern	3:51
	brought abundant life to those people around him.	3:56
	I've discovered that there are three parables	4:02
	packed into this kaleidoscopic passage of John.	4:06
	The first shows to us that there is only one way	4:12
	to enter the sheep fold, the way of the true shepherd,	4:16
	for whom that gate is opened.	4:21
	So, any violent Messianic pretender	4:25
	or even rule-bound religious leader	4:29
	has tried other ways to enter this state of life,	4:34
	and yet has done so, often, with disastrous results.	4:39
	The second image out of the parable comes to us	4:45
	reminding us of Joshua.	4:49
	For out of the scriptures of the Old Testament,	4:53
	Joshua, like the shepherd, led his people out.	4:56
	The strong soldier in him, Joshua,	5:01
	had been commissioned as the one who would lead them out	5:05
	and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord	5:08
	may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.	5:12
	Jesus seemed to think of his ministry in these terms.	5:18
	The third parable out of John	5:23
	is his "I am the door" saying.	5:26
	The one point of this saying is that	5:30
	the door leads to salvation	5:33
	found by passing through and living in the life of Jesus.	5:37
	Being led by him, we are told that we can lead life	5:43
	to the full.	5:48
	Now, my question for us today is the question	5:50
	that Jesus asked of the original hearers.	5:54
	Do we, my friends, have the ears to hear	5:59
	this very simple message about Jesus	6:03
	as the door and Jesus as the shepherd?	6:08
	You see, the critics of Jesus' day could not hear,	6:13
	much less understand these words.	6:17
	We are told that they assume that any legitimate leader	6:22
	must first win the endorsement of the academic	6:27
	and ecclesiastical community.	6:31
	However, Jesus' life and ministry and words	6:36
	proved that truth was respecter of persons.	6:41
	It may well be shunned by those who are sophisticated	6:46
	and somehow incredibly find hospitality	6:51
	among the commoners.	6:55
	Jesus, the good shepherd, comes to us again today	6:59
	with this promise.	7:04
	"I am come that you might have life	7:07
	"and have it to the full."	7:10
	And so we say together as a community of faith,	7:13
	thanks be to God for such a gift of life.	7:17
	And now I simply want to share with you,	7:27
	just for a moment, a pastoral word.	7:31
	It has been my privilege and joy	7:37
	to share in ministry with you and among you	7:40
	for these four years.	7:44
	(struggling back tears)	7:48
	I have more I want to say.	8:12
	(solemn chuckle)	8:16
	I am grateful for this special place	8:28
	called Duke University Chapel,	8:32
	for you have called forth from me and so many others	8:37
	gifts of ministry and blessed me and so many others	8:42
	on our way.	8:48
	And as I go to serve a local church,	8:51
	I know that I will carry you with me in my heart.	8:56
	Your lives, your ministry, and this place.	9:02
	Also, I have every confidence that the future	9:09
	of Duke Chapel will be great.	9:14
	It will keep faith with its past	9:19
	and it will continue to call for the very best	9:23
	in lives of service from everyone here	9:27
	and I simply want to say, for that,	9:33
	God's blessings be with you all.	9:36
	Amen and Amen.	9:39
	("The King of Love My Shepherd Is")	9:50
	♪ The King of love my shepherd is, ♪	10:22
	♪ Whose goodness faileth never; ♪	10:29
	♪ I nothing lack if I am his ♪	10:37
	♪ And he is mine forever. ♪	10:44
	♪ Where streams of living water flow, ♪	10:55
	♪ My ransomed soul he leadeth ♪	11:02
	♪ And, where the verdant pastures grow, ♪	11:09
	♪ With food celestial feedeth. ♪	11:17
	♪ Perverse and foolish oft I strayed, ♪	11:28
	♪ But yet in love he sought me, ♪	11:35
	♪ And on his shoulder gently laid, ♪	11:43
	♪ And home, rejoicing, brought me. ♪	11:50
	♪ In death's dark vale I fear no ill, ♪	12:01
	♪ With thee, dear Lord, beside me, ♪	12:08
	♪ Thy rod and staff my comfort still; ♪	12:16
	♪ Thy cross before to guide me. ♪	12:24
	♪ Thou spreadst a table in my sight; ♪	12:33
	♪ Thine unction grace bestoweth; ♪	12:41
	♪ And, oh, what transport of delight ♪	12:49
	♪ From thy pure chalice floweth! ♪	12:56
	♪ And so, through all the length of days, ♪	13:06
	♪ Thy goodness faileth never. ♪	13:13
	♪ Good Shepherd, may I sing thy praise ♪	13:21
	♪ Within thy house forever. ♪	13:29
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	13:47
-	We believe in God	13:50
	who has created and is creating,	13:53
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	13:56
	to reconcile and make new,	13:59
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	14:02
	We trust God who calls us to be the Church	14:05
	to celebrate life in its fullness,	14:10
	to love and serve others,	14:13
	to seek justice and resist evil,	14:16
	proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	14:19
	our Judge and our Hope.	14:22
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	14:25
	God is with us.	14:30
	We are not alone.	14:32
	Thanks be to God.	14:35
-	The Lord be with you.	14:37
-	And also with you.	14:39
-	Let us pray.	14:40
	Come, Holy Spirit,	14:54
	come into the prayers that we cry out for all peoples	14:56
	for their healing, for their redemption,	15:01
	for their being surprised by your presence	15:05
	and the laughter of your mercy.	15:10
	Do overcome our meager faith.	15:14
	Empower our words, yes, but also our silences	15:17
	with that love which loves without fear.	15:22
	Brood in us and sigh in us those grievances and sorrows,	15:27
	the ache and loneliness of all who need our intercession.	15:33
	Take us out of our obsessions with ourselves	15:39
	and into their need.	15:43
	Give us the trust that knows that beyond our asking	15:47
	is yourself	15:50
	gathering, comforting, mending, causing us to be,	15:53
	and giving meaning to our existence.	16:04
	Lord God, in a world still awaiting the justice	16:11
	that rolls down as waters, righteousness is a mighty stream.	16:15
	Where knowledge is plentiful, but wisdom's scarce.	16:22
	We pray for this University,	16:27
	its students, faculty, administrators,	16:30
	employees and many friends.	16:37
	As together our understanding increases,	16:41
	quicken and deepen, also, our sense of responsibility.	16:45
	That we become more humane	16:51
	and, through us, the world more habitable.	16:54
	Oh, God who makes nations to rise and fall,	16:59
	we pray for our nation in this time of political campaigning	17:04
	and decision making.	17:07
	Deliver us from apathy, or cynicism,	17:10
	or neglect of opportunity.	17:16
	Make us mindful that a future is being created.	17:20
	Remembering how often we pray that your Kingdom come,	17:25
	your Will be done on earth as in Heaven.	17:29
	Do, now, enable us to examine with fresh and open minds	17:34
	all issues and persons.	17:39
	Being neither captive to past commitments,	17:43
	nor ensnared by narrow self-interest.	17:47
	May the great hopes of our faith motivate our choices.	17:53
	The cause of peace, of justice,	17:57
	of mercy for all of your children	18:02
	be strengthened by what we do.	18:05
	Oh, God, from whose first fire came the light	18:11
	that dispelled primeval darkness	18:15
	and gave creation its birth,	18:18
	the pillar whose fire led your captive people	18:22
	from slavery into freedom,	18:25
	whose tongues of fire burned away a confusion of tongues	18:29
	and left one new people the Church.	18:33
	Abide, we pray, with your daughter and servant, Shirley,	18:39
	going soon to a new place to minister among	18:44
	and with a different people.	18:47
	Grant her continued energy and courage	18:50
	and that sacred vision from whence all caring comes	18:56
	and without which our labor is in vain	19:00
	and which brings a joy above all joy.	19:04
	Accompany her and her family in their journey	19:09
	away from this place and to that new place	19:11
	that will be their home.	19:15
	We pray in the name of Jesus Christ,	19:19
	in whom we are called to be both free and responsible,	19:22
	and whom we received this prayer that we declare together,	19:27
-	Our Father, who art in Heaven,	19:32
	hallowed be thy name.	19:36
	Thy Kingdom come,	19:38
	thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.	19:40
	Give us this day our daily bread,	19:45
	and forgive us our trespasses	19:48
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	19:50
	And lead us not into temptation,	19:54
	but deliver us from evil.	19:56
	For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory	19:58
	forever, Amen.	20:04
	(footsteps)	20:14
	(hand bell choir playing lightly)	21:07
	("Sheep May Safely Graze" by J.S. Bach)	21:13
	(organ slowly building)	26:29
	("All Creatures of Our God and King")	27:19
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	27:38
	♪ Praise him all creatures here below ♪	27:45
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	27:52
	♪ Praise him above, ye heavn'ly host ♪	28:01
	♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪	28:08
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	28:15
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	28:22
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	28:29
	♪ Amen ♪	28:38
-	Called, oh God, to be your people,	28:50
	to do justice, to love kindness,	28:55
	and to walk humbly with you, our creator.	28:59
	Give us now those things that we need	29:04
	to minister and to be a faithful people.	29:07
	That our discipleship might be full and fruitful.	29:11
	In your Son's name we work and minister and pray,	29:18
	Amen.	29:22
	("Lead On, O King Eternal!")	29:26
	♪ The day of resurrection! ♪	30:09
	♪ Earth, tell it out abroad, ♪	30:14
	♪ The passover of gladness, ♪	30:19
	♪ The passover of God. ♪	30:24
	♪ From death to life eternal, ♪	30:29
	♪ From sin's dominion free, ♪	30:34
	♪ Our Christ has brought us over ♪	30:40
	♪ With hymns of victory. ♪	30:45
	♪ Let hearts be purged of evil ♪	30:52
	♪ That we may see aright ♪	30:57
	♪ The Lord in rays eternal ♪	31:03
	♪ Of resurrection light, ♪	31:08
	♪ And list'ning to his accents, ♪	31:13
	♪ May hear, so calm and plain, ♪	31:18
	♪ His own "All hail!" and hearing, ♪	31:24
	♪ May raise the victor strain. ♪	31:29
	♪ Now let the heav'ns be joyful, ♪	31:36
	♪ Let earth its song begin, ♪	31:41
	♪ Let all the world keep triumph ♪	31:47
	♪ And all that is therein. ♪	31:52
	♪ Let all things, seen and unseen, ♪	31:57
	♪ Their notes of gladness blend; ♪	32:02
	♪ For Christ the Lord has risen, ♪	32:08
	♪ Our joy that has no end! ♪	32:13
-	And, now, may the love of God	32:26
	and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ	32:28
	and the strength which comes from the Holy Spirit	32:32
	be with you this day and empower you always,	32:34
	Amen.	32:39
	(organ playing slow building fugue)	32:45

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Charlene P. Kammerer - "Clues from the Good Shepherd" (May 13, 1984)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 37:59. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 09:42.
In Jesus' words in John 10, there are three parables with three messages: First, there is only one way to enter into the sheepfold, and that is the way of the true shepherd, Jesus; Second, Jesus' ministry was to shepherd the people of God; Third, as the door to salvation, Jesus offers us life to fullest. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Jesus, the good shepherd, comes to us again today with this promise: ‘I am come that you might have life and have it to the full.’”

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May 13, 1984

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Kammerer, Charlene P.

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