Dennis M. Campbell - "Hearts Aflame" (June 10, 1984)

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	(melancholic horn music)	0:03
	(adventurous orchestral music)	4:26
	(soft enchanting music)	9:00
	(choir singing)	11:39
	(worship organ music)	12:46
	(choir singing)	13:18
-	On behalf of the Duke University Chapel staff,	19:03
	it pleases me to welcome each of you	19:08
	to the chapel this morning.	19:10
	I am aware that this is alumni weekend.	19:13
	And as a member of the Classes of '72, '75, and '82,	19:18
	I share your joy and pleasure at being on campus today.	19:24
	I am also aware that it is a bit warm in here.	19:33
	I asked Dick Maxwell if somehow all the other,	19:37
	the alumni association had planned not to have	19:41
	the air conditioning in place in time	19:44
	in order that a subtle message might be relayed	19:46
	to visiting alumni.	19:51
	He assured that that's not the case.	19:53
	But please feel free to remove your jackets	19:55
	if you wish to do so.	19:58
	And I would also like to call your attention	20:01
	to the envelope in your bulletin.	20:04
	This fall, the Duke Chapel Choir	20:08
	will be participating in a service,	20:12
	and you will find this announcement on the back	20:15
	of your bulletin, in the Washington National Cathedral.	20:17
	And those who wish to help with that trip	20:22
	may feel free to do so.	20:25
	Let us now confess our sins in unison.	20:30
	Merciful God, we confess to You that we have sinned.	20:36
	We confess the sins that no one knows,	20:41
	and the sins that everyone knows.	20:45
	The sins that burden us, and the sins that do not bother us	20:48
	because we are ease with them.	20:53
	We confess our sins as a congregation.	20:56
	We have not loved one another as Christ loves us.	21:00
	We have not comforted one another as Christ comforts us.	21:04
	We have not forgiven one another as we have been forgiven.	21:09
	We have not given ourselves in service for the world	21:15
	as Christ gives himself for us.	21:18
	O gracious God, forgive us.	21:22
	Send to us Your Holy Spirit,	21:25
	that we be strengthened to live as by Your mercy;	21:28
	You call us to live through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	21:33
	Amen.	21:38
	Let us give thanks for God is good	21:53
	and God's love is everlasting.	21:56
	Thanks be to God whose love creates us.	22:00
	Thanks be to God whose mercy redeems us.	22:04
	Thanks be to God whose grace leads us into the future.	22:09
-	Fulfill now, O Lord, we pray You.	22:35
	Your gracious promise that Your word	22:39
	shall not return to You empty,	22:41
	but shall accomplish that which You propose and prosper;	22:44
	toward the end for which You have sent it,	22:48
	for Your namesake.	22:52
	Amen.	22:54
	The Old Testament lesson is from Joel,	22:58
	chapter two verses 28 through 32.	23:00
	"And it shall come to pass afterward	23:07
	"that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.	23:11
	"Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.	23:15
	"Your old men shall dream dreams.	23:20
	"And your young men shall see visions,	23:24
	"even upon the men servants and maid servants.	23:28
	"In those days, I will pour out my spirit.	23:33
	"And I will give portance in the heavens	23:40
	"and on the earth;	23:42
	"blood and fire and columns of smoke.	23:44
	"The sun shall be turned to darkness,	23:50
	"and the moon to blood.	23:54
	"Before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes,	23:56
	"and it shall come to pass that all men who call upon	24:01
	"the name of the Lord shall be delivered.	24:04
	"For in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,	24:09
	"there shall be those who escape.	24:13
	"As Lord has said, and among the survivors	24:16
	"shall be those whom the Lord calls."	24:19
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament lesson.	24:26
	Let us read responsibly Psalm 96,	24:30
	solar number 583 in your hymnals.	24:35
	"O, sing to the Lord a new song."	24:56
	(congregation speaking)	25:00
	"Sing to the Lord, bless His name."	25:03
	(congregation speaking)	25:06
	"Declare His glory among the nations."	25:10
	(congregation speaking)	25:13
	"For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised."	25:17
	(congregation speaking)	25:21
	"For all the gods of the peoples are idols."	25:24
	(congregation speaking)	25:28
	"Honor and majesty are before him."	25:31
	(congregation speaking)	25:34
	"A scribe to the Lord, o families of the peoples."	25:37
	(congregation speaking)	25:42
	"A scribe to the Lord, the glory due His name."	25:45
	(congregation speaking)	25:49
	"Worship the Lord in holy array."	25:52
	(congregation speaking)	25:56
	"Say among the nations, 'the Lord reigns.'"	25:58
	(congregation speaking)	26:02
	"He will judge the peoples with equity."	26:07
	(congregation speaking)	26:10
	"Let the sea roar and all that fills it."	26:14
	(congregation speaking)	26:18
	"Then shall all the trees of the wood	26:22
	"sing for joy before the Lord."	26:24
	(congregation speaking)	26:27
	"He will judge the world with righteousness."	26:31
	(congregation speaking)	26:34
	The New Testament lesson is from Acts chapter two,	26:45
	versus one through 21.	26:48
	"When the day of Pentecost had come,	26:53
	"they were altogether in one place.	26:55
	"And suddenly a sound came from heaven	26:59
	"like the rush of a mighty wind.	27:01
	"And it filled all the house where they were sitting.	27:03
	"And there appeared to them tongues as of fire,	27:08
	"disturbed and resting on each one of them.	27:11
	"And they were all filled with The Holy Spirit	27:16
	"and began to speak in other tongues,	27:19
	"as a spirit gave them utterance.	27:23
	"Now, they were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews,	27:27
	"devout men from every nation under heaven.	27:31
	"And at this sound, the multitude came together.	27:35
	"And they were bewildered because each one heard	27:40
	"them speaking in his own language.	27:42
	"And they were amazed and wondered saying,	27:45
	"'Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?'	27:49
	"'And how is it that we hear each of us	27:55
	"'in his own native language?	27:57
	"'Parthians and Meads and Elamites	28:01
	"'and residents of Mesopotamia.	28:06
	"'Judea and Cappadocia,	28:10
	"'Pontus and Asia,	28:14
	"'Phrygia and Pamphylia,	28:17
	"'Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene,	28:21
	"'and visitors from Rome,	28:27
	"'both Jews and Crosalites,	28:29
	"'Cretians and Arabians;	28:32
	"'we hear them telling in our own tongues	28:36
	"'the mighty works of God.'	28:39
	"And all were amazed and perplexed saying to one another,	28:41
	"'What does this mean?'	28:46
	"But others mocking said,	28:48
	"'They are filled with new wine.'	28:52
	"But Peter, standing with the 11,	28:56
	"lifted up his voice and addressed them.	29:00
	"'Men of Judea, and all who dwell in Jerusalem,	29:05
	"'let this be known to you	29:10
	"'and give ear to my words,	29:12
	"'for these men are not drunk as you suppose,	29:15
	"'since it is only the third hour of the day.	29:19
	"'But this is what was spoken	29:24
	"'by the prophet Joel:	29:26
	"'And in the last days it shall be, God declares,	29:33
	"'that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,	29:38
	"'and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,	29:42
	"'and your young men shall see visions,	29:46
	"'and your old men shall dream dreams.	29:49
	"'Ye, and on my man servants and maid servants	29:52
	"'in those days I will pour out my Spirit,	29:55
	"'and they will prophesy.	30:00
	"'And I will show wonders in the heavens above	30:02
	"'and signs on the earth beneath;	30:05
	"'blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.	30:08
	"'The sun shall be turned to darkness	30:13
	"'and the moon to blood,	30:15
	"'before the day of the Lord comes,	30:19
	"'the great and manifest day.	30:20
	"'And it shall be that whoever calls on	30:24
	"'the name of the Lord shall be saved.'"	30:26
	Here ends the reading of the New Testament.	30:32
	(triumphant orchestral music)	30:47
	(choir singing)	31:31
	Will the congregation please stand	36:27
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	36:30
	The gospel lesson is from John chapter 20	36:40
	verses 19 through 23.	36:43
	"On the evening of that day, the first day of the week,	36:50
	"the doors being shut where the disciples were	36:54
	"for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them	36:58
	"and said to them, 'Peace be with you.'	37:01
	"When he had said this, he showed them his hands	37:07
	"and his side.	37:11
	"Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.	37:14
	"Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you.	37:17
	"'As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.'	37:24
	"And when he had said this, he breathed on them	37:29
	"and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.	37:34
	"'If you forgive the sins of any,	37:41
	"'they are forgiven.	37:46
	"'If you retain the sins of any,	37:49
	"'they are retained.'"	37:53
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson.	37:56
	Amen.	38:01
	(worship organ music)	38:03
	(choir singing)	38:11
	"Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,	39:17
	"With all Thy quickening powers.	39:20
	"Kindle a flame of sacred love	39:24
	"in these cold hearts of ours."	39:27
	Amen.	39:32
	I welcome you to Duke Chapel on this great day of Pentecost.	39:34
	This is the fulfillment and culmination	39:40
	of the 50 days of Easter.	39:43
	In Judaism, Pentecost is the feast of weeks.	39:47
	Historically, 50 days after Passover	39:54
	to signify the tradition that the Israelites	39:58
	arrived at Sinai 50 days	40:02
	after their escape from pharaoh in Egypt.	40:06
	And ever since that time, Judaism has celebrated	40:12
	the gift of God's presence unto the Jews	40:16
	and the gift of God's law unto Moses and his people	40:19
	at Mount Sinai.	40:23
	And so it was that the disciples of Jesus	40:25
	were gathered together on the day of Pentecost	40:28
	in the holy city of Jerusalem,	40:31
	50 days after his resurrection.	40:34
	And on that great Pentecost day,	40:38
	as our gospel text, which you heard read this morning,	40:41
	accounts, The Holy Spirit was given unto them.	40:46
	And ever since the day of Pentecost has been known	40:51
	to Christians as the birthday of the church.	40:54
	It is the inauguration of the New Age	40:58
	promised in the Old Testament,	41:02
	now made sure in the wonders of Easter.	41:04
	The gift of The Holy Spirit propelled those gathered	41:09
	in Jerusalem that day outward	41:14
	to spread the good news of Jesus Christ	41:18
	as lord and savior.	41:22
	St. Luke wrote both the Gospel of Luke	41:25
	and the Book of Acts, which in the second chapter,	41:28
	records the story of Pentecost.	41:32
	And Luke was fond of the image	41:36
	of burning hearts and fire	41:39
	for the gospel message.	41:43
	Indeed, on the day of Easter itself,	41:45
	Luke tells us that some of the disciples were	41:50
	walking toward Emmaus on the Emmaus road,	41:53
	and Jesus appeared to them but they didn't recognize him.	41:56
	But after he talked with them and explained	42:00
	the Scriptures to them, suddenly their eyes	42:04
	were open and their hearts burned within them.	42:07
	And after he disappeared from them,	42:11
	they said to one another, "Did not our hearts burn within	42:14
	"as he opened the Scriptures to us?"	42:18
	And so there is, on this Pentecost day,	42:22
	a tremendous since of excitement;	42:25
	a burning fire of the presence of God.	42:28
	And there are three clear themes that Luke	42:32
	tries to explore in his Book of Acts concerning Pentecost.	42:35
	The first is that he is clearly convinced	42:41
	that Pentecost indicates that this new faith in Christ	42:45
	is to be a universal worldwide faith.	42:50
	Pentecost is the inauguration of a world consciousness;	42:56
	a mission to all people,	43:01
	Christianity was not to be limited to Israel.	43:03
	And secondly, there is in the text that	43:08
	Dick Maxwell read this morning,	43:10
	the interesting note that tongues were distributed.	43:13
	And those who were present spoke in a variety of languages,	43:18
	but all heard and understood; this was not gibberish.	43:24
	This was languages which were meaningful.	43:30
	And the message got across.	43:34
	And so there has been from Pentecost on	43:37
	a concern in the church that Christianity	43:39
	is a religion which is not confused,	43:43
	but clear and rational and compelling.	43:47
	There is a message and a meaning to be communicated.	43:50
	And thirdly, the theme of reversing of expectations.	43:55
	The disciples, after all, were devastated	44:00
	before the Easter experience,	44:03
	and confused during the 50 days	44:06
	before the gift of the Spirit.	44:08
	But now wit the the gift of the Spirit,	44:11
	their expectations were reversed and they knew	44:13
	that now they were to go forth with	44:16
	the proclamation of the good news of Christ.	44:17
	A sudden turn around, if you will,	44:23
	of what they expected to what they were now	44:26
	called to do.	44:30
	What appeared at first to be defeat and confusion	44:31
	turns out to be victory and new life,	44:35
	and new life for the community of Christ.	44:40
	Let's look at these three themes	44:43
	present in the Scriptures about Pentecost.	44:46
	First of all, this world character.	44:50
	You see from the beginning, because of the Pentecost	44:54
	experience and Christians' understanding of it,	44:56
	Christianity was not a religion to be limited	45:00
	to any one people.	45:03
	It was not to be limited to any one race,	45:05
	but rather proclaimed in every tongue,	45:08
	in every place.	45:12
	And the Christian gospel is a universal message	45:14
	which breaks down all barriers.	45:18
	As St. Paul would say later in Galatians 3:28,	45:21
	"There is neither Jew nor Greek;	45:25
	"there is neither slave nor free;	45:28
	"there is neither male nor female,	45:32
	"for you are all one in Christ Jesus."	45:35
	Beginning a little more than a week ago,	45:42
	we at Duke have been celebrating	45:44
	the British-American festival,	45:45
	and to this campus have come tens of thousands of people	45:48
	from all over North Carolina and indeed the world	45:51
	to celebrate with us the coming 400 years ago	45:55
	in 1584 of the first Englishmen	45:58
	to the shores of North Carolina in those famous	46:03
	Roanoke Island landings, directed by Sir Walter Raleigh	46:06
	and sponsored by the first Queen Elizabeth.	46:11
	And those of us who've been participating in	46:16
	the British-American festival have been reminded again	46:18
	that we now live in a world which is but a global village.	46:21
	Those first settlers, when they set sail	46:27
	from Plymouth, England took months to get here.	46:30
	And to set forth into a new world of	46:34
	untried expectations and uncertainties.	46:36
	Now we can go anywhere in the world in a matter of hours.	46:41
	And everything in every place	46:45
	depends on every other place.	46:49
	We have direct communications	46:53
	and instantaneous implications.	46:55
	We live in a world which is indeed a global village.	46:59
	And Christianity has understood that from its beginning.	47:04
	This is a faith that proclaims	47:08
	that consciousness of particularity is unacceptable.	47:11
	Christian people are first and foremost	47:17
	at home in Christ.	47:21
	Christians are a pilgrim people	47:24
	whose true home is not of any nation,	47:27
	indeed, not even of this world.	47:31
	And so we who celebrate this British-American festival	47:35
	would do well to think about it in terms of	47:39
	a world consciousness.	47:42
	And we have the Smokey Mountain British Brass Band	47:44
	with us today that helps us raise our sights	47:48
	and see the world in which we live as one community.	47:52
	That's the vision of the Christian faith.	47:57

-	Actually the founder of Methodism,	0:03
	always said, the world is my parish	0:05
	and how true that 18th century divine	0:09
	would come to be.	0:13
	Today the world is one parish	0:15
	and the Christian faith propels us to see that	0:18
	and not to think in small ways.	0:21
	Nation and nation mean nothing anymore	0:27
	and then secondly, there is this concern	0:32
	in the Pentecost story for understanding	0:35
	and communication.	0:38
	You see, the scripture writer purposely dealt	0:40
	with this matter of tones	0:44
	as a contra-distinction with the story	0:46
	in the Old Testament of the Tower of Babel,	0:51
	when men and women were separated	0:55
	into nations and when languages	0:58
	symbolically came into being,	1:01
	which could not be understood by one another.	1:03
	The New Testament passage about Pentecost	1:07
	says that everyone understood the message	1:10
	and so, there is a movement toward understanding	1:15
	and meaning and that concern	1:19
	for clarity and meaning and purpose	1:22
	has informed Christianity, therefore, since its foundation	1:25
	and that's the reason that the Christian faith	1:30
	has been so concerned with the development	1:33
	of learning and educational institutions.	1:36
	We who are alumni of this great institution	1:40
	are reminded today that the founders of this school	1:43
	intended it that way.	1:47
	That was indeed the purpose for the founding of this school.	1:50
	At an alumni occasion, Friday night,	1:55
	one alumnus said to me that she had been	1:58
	in the chapel Friday afternoon for the organ demonstration	1:59
	and she said every time I go in there,	2:03
	the presence of God strikes me	2:06
	most vividly.	2:10
	And I said, that's what Mr. Duke wanted.	2:11
	William Blackburn, in his great book	2:15
	on the architecture of Duke University	2:17
	tells us very clearly that from the beginning,	2:19
	Mr. Duke said, I want the central building,	2:22
	the central building to be a great towering church,	2:25
	which will dominate all the surrounding buildings	2:30
	because such an edifice would be bound	2:33
	to have a profound influence on the spiritual life	2:37
	of the young men and women who come here.	2:41
	It has and it does.	2:45
	Every time I come onto this campus,	2:47
	especially as I drive onto the traffic circle	2:49
	and look up at that great tower,	2:52
	which was placed there so that it would give	2:54
	the image at the most central place.	2:57
	I'm struck by the awesomeness, not just of the building	3:01
	but of what the building symbolizes,	3:05
	the presence of God in the midst	3:08
	of an educational community.	3:10
	Christianity moves us to clarity	3:12
	and it moves us to learning, the uniting	3:16
	of piety and knowledge,	3:20
	our eruditio et religio, the motto of this university.	3:25
	We live in a time when American higher education,	3:30
	in the words of one major university president,	3:33
	is dominantly secular and materialistic.	3:36
	And it shouldn't surprise us that things	3:40
	are bad with higher education	3:43
	if that's the case.	3:46
	We need to reflect anew, on what it is	3:50
	that we are here for, what our purpose is.	3:52
	What values are about	3:56
	and what education is for, anyway?	3:58
	In the May 30th edition of Christian Century,	4:03
	just a few weeks ago, the very scintillating writer,	4:07
	Will Campbell, no relation to me,	4:11
	was quoted as saying about American higher education,	4:16
	this interesting sentence.	4:19
	"I think, he said, most kids today"	4:21
	"want to know what you're betting on,"	4:24
	"what you're staking your life on"	4:28
	but educators are cagey because they're not betting	4:31
	on a damn thing, except maybe scholarship	4:35
	and that's a pretty shaky read.	4:40
	What is it that we're betting our life on?	4:45
	The Christian faith from Pentecost on has bet its life	4:48
	that God has given us a world that we can understand	4:55
	and that we can move in with effectiveness	4:59
	and therefore it has cultivated education	5:02
	and learning and thirdly,	5:05
	the great theme of Pentecost	5:08
	is this amazing theme of reversing	5:10
	the expectations of experience.	5:14
	Here at Pentecost, was the restoration of lost hopes,	5:18
	that was the gift through the grace of God	5:23
	of a new vision, so that the early church	5:26
	could go forth literally and turn	5:29
	the world upside down.	5:32
	The church was innervated with God's grace,	5:35
	to go and spread the good news.	5:39
	Well, this day is the celebration of Pentecost.	5:42
	We're celebrating the British-American festival.	5:45
	We're celebrating Duke alumni	5:48
	and this University and it is also another thing	5:51
	in the Christian community across this nation today.	5:55
	Some of you may know about it.	5:58
	It's what some have called Peace Pentecost.	6:00
	Some weeks ago on an airplane,	6:05
	I picked up an article in The New York Times	6:07
	about a Roman Catholic	6:09
	lay theologian named Jim Douglas.	6:12
	I was interested in this because about 15 years ago,	6:15
	I happened to meet this man	6:19
	and I was enormously impressed with his vision	6:22
	and with his commitment.	6:26
	As some of you may know, that Jim Douglas	6:29
	is now leading the efforts on the part	6:31
	of Christians in this nation,	6:34
	to oppose the so called White Train,	6:36
	that amazing snow-white train of the Department of Energy	6:40
	that plies the country from the Pantex plant	6:44
	in North Texas near Amarillo,	6:47
	up to Washington State	6:50
	or down to Charleston, South Carolina,	6:53
	carrying the latest shipment of nuclear warheads.	6:55
	And some Christians have been opposed	7:00
	to the proliferation of nuclear warheads	7:03
	and have formed a witness teams	7:08
	along the tracks of the White Train and today,	7:12
	as Peace Pentecost dawned, there were thousands	7:16
	of Christians bearing silent witness	7:20
	along the tracks, all across this nation,	7:23
	raising their heads and saying,	7:27
	the proliferation of nuclear	7:31
	warheads must stop	7:34
	for the future of the world,	7:38
	is not literally in man's hand	7:41
	but partially so.	7:44
	Today is Peace Pentecost and the church	7:49
	has always stood for the reversing of expectations,	7:51
	believing that there could be surprises	7:55
	and new life possible.	7:59
	So, Pentecost comes but not only to us	8:02
	as an event of the past that happened to the early church.	8:06
	It comes, I tell you, to you and me today	8:11
	and to the church today just as surely,	8:15
	for the good news is that Pentecost	8:18
	is not just some historical matter	8:21
	that allows us to reflect on these great themes	8:24
	but today, our hearts	8:29
	can burn with the same flame	8:31
	of new life and possibility,	8:35
	to give us a world vision,	8:38
	to seek to make clear	8:40
	the great message	8:43
	of values and concern,	8:46
	to change our hopes and expectations	8:49
	into reality and give us new life.	8:53
	The power of the Holy Spirit is as surely with us	8:57
	in this day as it was for the first disciples.	9:01
	This is the good news, that we can have this presence,	9:06
	God's promise and power.	9:10
	The 20th century British theologian J.S. Whale,	9:14
	said not too many years ago,	9:18
	without this fire of Pentecost,	9:21
	religion is dead ashes.	9:26
	Amen.	9:31
	(church organ music)	9:39
	(congregation singing)	10:25
-	I'm sure you'll join me in saying	13:50
	how great it is to have is one of our own,	13:52
	one of the great and outstanding young leaders	13:55
	in the worldwide church today.	13:58
	Dean Campbell will be at the back of the chapel	14:00
	at the conclusion of the service	14:03
	for those of you who wish to greet him.	14:04
	Let us now unite in this historic confession	14:07
	of the Christian faith.	14:10
	I believe in God, the Father Almighty.	14:12
-	Maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ,	14:16
	His only son, our Lord,	14:19
	who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,	14:21
	born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,	14:24
	was crucified, dead, and buried.	14:29
	The third day, he rose from the dead.	14:32
	He ascended into heaven and sitteth	14:34
	at the right hand of God, the father almighty.	14:37
	From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	14:40
	I believe in the Holy Spirit,	14:45
	the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,	14:46
	the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body,	14:51
	and the life everlasting, amen.	14:55
-	The Lord be with you.	14:59
-	And also with you.	15:01
-	Let us pray.	15:03
	Please be seated.	15:05
	The almighty,	15:16
	all-wise creator of the world,	15:19
	and thou who art our light and our salvation,	15:25
	and thou who brings wholeness to the world,	15:32
	we give thee thanks.	15:35
	We were sore afflicted.	15:41
	Our bodies were torn from limb to limb.	15:46
	We were racked with pain.	15:49
	Life seemed at an end	15:52
	but you brought healing.	15:57
	We were sore distressed.	16:01
	Our spirits were low.	16:06
	We were at odds with ourselves and our neighbors.	16:09
	Loneliness alone seemed our plight	16:15
	but you brought comfort through the care	16:22
	and attention of friends,	16:24
	old and new.	16:28
	We were sore confused.	16:33
	Our minds were trampled upon by the ways of this world	16:37
	and the trials of this life.	16:44
	Our every thought was divided	16:49
	but you brought understanding and direction.	16:54
	We were sore, put down.	17:01
	We despaired over the loss of loved ones.	17:06
	The separation seemed too great to bear.	17:10
	We cried out from the depths of hardship	17:13
	and disappointment but you brought us up.	17:17
	You set us high upon a rock	17:23
	and renewed our strength.	17:26
	Our brothers and our sisters,	17:30
	some old some new born, many in their prime,	17:32
	were cut down by unholy acts of war,	17:37
	killed over petty differences,	17:41
	but you brought peace.	17:45
	And so, for these things and more, we give thanks.	17:48
	And yet there remains sickness.	17:55
	There remains loneliness, confusion,	17:58
	despair and war.	18:02
	And so, then again, we call upon you,	18:06
	O God of our light and salvation,	18:08
	stay ever near us, we pray.	18:13
	Do not forsake us, we pray.	18:18
	Even when we should stray from thee	18:23
	or wander far afield,	18:27
	gather us again into your fold,	18:29
	perform again the work of divine reunion,	18:35
	for unless we be one with thee,	18:41
	we shall never be one with each other.	18:47
	We shall never know the wholeness	18:52
	which comes with healing	18:55
	or the healing which comes with friendship,	18:59
	life's direction, joy, and peace.	19:03
	Reunite us, we pray, to the end	19:11
	and that we ever attend to the sick,	19:15
	the lonely and the despairing,	19:18
	to the end that we live in peace,	19:22
	ever praying the prayer of our Lord Christ Jesus,	19:28
	our father who art in heaven.	19:33
-	Hallowed be thy name.	19:36
	Thy kingdom come.	19:39
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	19:41
	Give us this day, our daily bread	19:45
	and forgive us our trespasses,	19:49
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	19:51
	and lead us not into temptation	19:55
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom,	19:58
	the power, and the glory.	20:03
-	Amen.	20:06
	(instrumental church music)	20:40
	(church organ music)	25:05
	(congregation singing)	26:50
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:04
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:07
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:33
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:37
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:41
	♪ Amen ♪	27:50
-	Accept, O Lord, these offerings	28:02
	thy people make unto thee	28:05
	and grant that the work to which they are devoted	28:09
	may prosper under thy guidance,	28:12
	to the glory of thy name through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	28:15
	Amen.	28:20
	(church organ music)	28:23
	(congregation singing)	29:15
	The Lord bless you and keep you.	32:51
	The Lord make his face to shine upon you	32:55
	and be gracious to you	32:58
	and the Lord lift up his countenance upon you	33:01
	and give you peace.	33:04
	♪ Amen ♪	33:19
	♪ Amen ♪	33:27
	♪ Amen ♪	33:34
	♪ Amen ♪	33:44
	(dramatic instrumental music)	33:58
	(crowd applauding)	37:09
	(crowd chattering)	37:22

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Title:

Dennis M. Campbell - "Hearts Aflame" (June 10, 1984)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 39:34. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 9:32.
three themes that Luke explores in his book of Acts pertaining the Pentecost:1) that Pentecost indicates that this new faith in Christ is to be a universal worldwide faith. Not to stay in Israel but to spread throughout the world 2) tongues that everybody understood: Christianity as a religion is which is not confused, but clear and rational and compelling.3) the theme of reversing of expectations. The expectations of the disciples changed from confusion to a mission on to spread the gospel around the world. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The good news is that Pentecost is not just a historical event that allows us to reflect on these great themes. Today our hearts can burn with the flame of new life and possibility to give us a world vision, to make clear Christ’s great message of value and concern, to change our hope and expectation into reality and new life. The power of the Holy Spirit is with us as surely this day as it was with the early church not he first Christian Pentecost”

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June 10, 1984

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Campbell, Dennis M.

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