Peggy Way - "Promises, Promises" (October 12, 1986)

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	(solemn organ music)	0:03
	(solemn organ music)	2:08
	(solemn organ music)	3:46
	(powerful organ music)	5:10
-	Grace and peace to you in the name	7:37
	of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.	7:39
	We welcome you to this service of worship,	7:42
	particularly our visitors.	7:45
	We welcome you to Duke chapel.	7:46
	Our guest preacher today,	7:48
	we welcome back to the pulpit of this chapel	7:50
	the Reverend Dr. Peggy Brainerd Way.	7:53
	Dr. Way is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology	7:57
	at the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University.	8:01
	She is a distinguished teacher, a lively lecturer,	8:04
	and preacher and it is our pleasure	8:09
	to have her with us again at Duke Chapel.	8:11
	Our chapel choir goes on their full tour next weekend.	8:15
	They will be singing at the Cathedral Church	8:19
	at St. John the Divine in New York	8:22
	and also we'll have engagements in Philadelphia,	8:24
	and we wish them well and we thank those	8:29
	friends of the chapel who have helped	8:32
	make this trip possible.	8:35
	And now let us continue our worship.	8:38
	♪ Beautiful Savior ♪	8:46
	♪ Lord of the nations ♪	8:53
	♪ Son of God ♪	9:00
	♪ And Son of Man ♪	9:06
	♪ Glory and honor ♪	9:15
	♪ Praise, adoration ♪	9:22
	♪ Now and forevermore ♪	9:29
	♪ Be Thine ♪	9:36
	♪ Now and forevermore ♪	9:41
	♪ Be Thine ♪	9:54
	(solemn organ music)	10:05
	(voices drowned by music)	10:59
	Let us pray.	17:26
	Gracious God, You have promised	17:28
	that whenever two or three are gathered in Your name	17:31
	there You will be.	17:36
	You have always kept Your promise to us.	17:38
	And so we gather in expectation and celebration	17:42
	of Your presence among us	17:45
	so that we may praise Your name	17:48
	and hear Your word and examine our lives	17:51
	and the light of the life of our savior Jesus Christ.	17:55
	Amen.	18:01
	Be seated.	18:03
-	Let us pray.	18:14
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	18:17
	by the power of Your Holy Spirit	18:22
	so that as the Word is read and proclaimed	18:25
	we might hear with joy	18:28
	what You say to us this day.	18:30
	Amen.	18:34
	The first lesson this morning is taken from Micah.	18:35
	Hear you peoples, all of you,	18:40
	harken O Earth and all that is in it	18:43
	and let the Lord God be a witness against you	18:48
	the Lord from His holy temple.	18:52
	Woe to those who devised wickedness	18:55
	and worked evil upon their beds.	18:59
	When the morning dawns they perform it	19:02
	because it is in the power of their hand.	19:06
	They covet fields and seize them,	19:10
	and houses and take them away.	19:13
	They oppress a man and his house,	19:17
	a man and his inheritance.	19:21
	Therefore thus says the Lord,	19:25
	behold against this family	19:27
	I am devising evil from which you cannot remove your necks;	19:30
	and you shall not walk haughtily	19:35
	for it will be an evil time.	19:38
	In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you	19:42
	and wail with bitter lamentation,	19:47
	and say, "We are utterly ruined;	19:50
	"he changed the portion of my people;	19:53
	"how he removes it from me!	19:57
	"Among our captors he divides our fields."	20:01
	Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot	20:06
	in the assembly of the Lord.	20:11
	"Do not preach", thus they preach,	20:15
	"one should not preach of such things;	20:18
	"disgrace will not overtake us."	20:22
	Should this be said, O house of Jacob?	20:25
	Is the spirit of the Lord impatient?	20:29
	Are these his doings?	20:33
	Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?	20:36
	But you rise against my people as an enemy;	20:42
	you strip the rich robe from the peaceful;	20:46
	from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.	20:49
	The women of my people you drive out	20:56
	from their pleasant houses;	20:59
	from their young children you take away my glory forever.	21:01
	Arise and go, for this is no place to rest,	21:07
	because of uncleanness that destroys	21:12
	with a grievous destruction.	21:16
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	21:19
	The second lesson is taken from Paul's	21:24
	second letter to Timothy.	21:27
	Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead,	21:32
	descended from David as preached in my gospel,	21:35
	the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters	21:40
	like a criminal.	21:44
	But the word of God is not fettered.	21:46
	Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect,	21:50
	that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus	21:54
	with its eternal glory.	21:59
	The saying is sure:	22:02
	If we have died with him, we will also live with him;	22:04
	if we endure, we shall also reign with him;	22:10
	if we deny him, he also will deny us;	22:15
	if we are faithless, he remains faithful,	22:20
	for he cannot deny himself.	22:24
	Remind them of this, and change them before Lord	22:28
	to avoid disputing about words	22:32
	which does no good,	22:36
	but only ruins the hearers.	22:38
	Do your best to present yourself to God	22:41
	as one approved,	22:44
	a workman who has no need to be ashamed	22:46
	rightly handling the word of truth.	22:50
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	22:54
	(solemn music)	23:01
	♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪	23:08
	♪ With my whole heart ♪	23:12
	♪ I will tell of all Thy wonderful deeds ♪	23:18
	♪ I will be glad and exalt in thee ♪	23:26
	♪ I will sing the praises of your name ♪	23:30
	♪ O Most High ♪	23:34
	♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪	23:43
	♪ With my whole heart ♪	23:47
	♪ I will tell of all Thy wonderful deeds ♪	23:53
	♪ I will be glad and exalt in thee ♪	24:01
	♪ I will be glad and exalt in thee ♪	24:05
	♪ I will sing the praises to Thy name ♪	24:09
	♪ O Most High ♪	24:14
	♪ Be gracious to me, O Lord ♪	24:23
	♪ See my affliction ♪	24:28
	♪ From those who hate me ♪	24:31
	♪ O God you lift us above ♪	24:35
	♪ From gates of death ♪	24:39
	♪ From gates of death ♪	24:42
	♪ That I may recount all your praises ♪	24:45
	♪ That in the gates of the daughter of Zion ♪	24:52
	♪ That I may recount all your praises ♪	24:56
	♪ Daughter of Zion ♪	25:02
	♪ I may rejoice in my deliverer ♪	25:04
	♪ Be gracious to me, O Lord ♪	25:14
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	25:32
	♪ I will give thanks unto the Lord ♪	25:35
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	25:43
	♪ I will give thanks unto the Lord ♪	25:46
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	25:56
	♪ To the Lord ♪	25:59
	(solemn organ music)	26:16
	(voices drowned by music)	26:25
	The Gospel is taken from Luke.	27:27
	On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along	27:33
	between Sumeria and Galilee,	27:37
	and as he entered a village	27:40
	he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance	27:42
	and lifted up their voices and said,	27:47
	"Jesus, master, have mercy on us."	27:50
	When He saw them He said to them,	27:56
	"Go and show your selves to the priests."	27:59
	And as they went they were cleansed.	28:03
	Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed,	28:07
	turned back, praising God with a loud voice.	28:11
	And he fell on his face at Jesus' feet	28:16
	giving Him thanks.	28:20
	Now he was a Samaritan.	28:23
	Then said Jesus, "Were not 10 cleansed?	28:27
	"Where are the nine?"	28:31
	"Was no one found to return and give praise to God	28:33
	"except this foreigner?"	28:37
	And He said to him, "Raise and go your way.	28:40
	"Your faith has made you well."	28:45
	This ends the reading of the Gospel.	28:49
	Before I begin,	29:22
	I invite each of you to think of yourself	29:24
	as promise maker and promise keeper.	29:28
	For us to think of heads of governments	29:35
	coming together to make and keep promise,	29:38
	and for us to reflect upon this God	29:45
	whom we worship here as a promise maker	29:48
	and a promise keeper	29:52
	for those are the things that	29:56
	this morning's sermon are about.	29:57
	Promises, promises.	30:04
	In a world such as this, even so,	30:06
	where God's promises arise from a world of hard facts	30:12
	and through us return to it	30:18
	as we are witnesses to God's promises,	30:23
	promises to finite folk whose tiny testimonies	30:27
	make a difference.	30:32
	Promises, promises.	30:36
	And which of us has not whispered	30:39
	sweet nothing promises to a momentary beloved,	30:42
	or to a transient God	30:48
	or to our friendly addiction.	30:52
	I promise for the moment,	30:55
	I promise tomorrow the rotation diet	30:59
	which all of us at Vanderbilt have to be on,	31:03
	tomorrow jogging, tomorrow no cigarettes,	31:07
	tomorrow a less stressful lifestyle,	31:09
	tomorrow more self-giving acts of justice.	31:13
	So many private promises, promises	31:19
	and publics and communities	31:22
	rightly do not trust them.	31:25
	And so there are constitutions and there are	31:29
	public promises of caring for the dignity of all,	31:33
	and there are scriptures available to all	31:38
	that disclose divine promises	31:41
	and over and over again say that	31:44
	we can count on those,	31:47
	and there are ecclesial communities	31:50
	of great cathedrals and of local churches	31:53
	and of base communities and of ecumenical gatherings	31:56
	that make promises out loud, and in community,	32:02
	and seek to hold us accountable	32:06
	for promises otherwise too lightly made	32:11
	and seek to teach us how to promise	32:16
	and how to experience trust in God's promises	32:20
	and God's persistence in remaining present with us	32:25
	no matter the hard facts of history.	32:30
	Promises made public and deepened	32:35
	state a world of caring for one another,	32:39
	through the hard times	32:44
	with steadfastness and hope,	32:46
	and such promise carries with it	32:49
	the risks of us being witnesses to God's promises,	32:52
	and states a powerful testimony	32:58
	to the possibilities of the very special visions	33:01
	of who we are called to be one with another.	33:05
	Promises, promises.	33:12
	In a world such as this,	33:14
	even God's promises seem to Paul	33:19
	in a world viewed through eyes that sees oppression	33:23
	and sees our own promises to live justly	33:28
	appear too timid and too finite	33:32
	to a prophet's cry of woe to those who oppress	33:37
	such as that we heard this morning from Micah.	33:40
	Or in an alternative reading,	33:46
	the world is simply too complex for promises.	33:49
	There are too many dancers.	33:54
	There are too many strangers.	33:56
	There are too many others that want to dance	33:58
	with us in their strange rhythms.	34:01
	I will read you briefly from a dance review	34:05
	that appeared in the New York Times.	34:07
	Nina Martin kept trying to present a dance	34:11
	called On The Other Hand.	34:15
	It appeared to be a brisk rigorous dance.	34:18
	And between its episodes came solemn films	34:21
	of agitated facial expressions	34:26
	and jolly films of dancers in the street.	34:29
	But it kept being interrupted.	34:33
	When late comers were admitted into the auditorium,	34:36
	they included a panhandler and a bag lady.	34:40
	They were nuisances, embarrassing ones too,	34:44
	for their grubbiness served	34:48
	as a reminder that there are other things	34:51
	in the world than choreographic structures.	34:54
	Then the panhandler joined in the dance	34:58
	and it was clear that he and the bag lady	35:01
	were a part of the cast.	35:04
	Therefore when a gangster entered,	35:06
	no one thought him a real crook	35:09
	and fortunately he wasn't.	35:11
	The dance's order became increasingly disorderly.	35:15
	Two masked figures resembling science fiction robots	35:19
	danced together until one plaintively said to the other	35:24
	"Who are you anyway?"	35:28
	And another sequence turned into a quarrel	35:31
	when dancers started wondering if the phrase	35:35
	this land is my land	35:38
	meant also that this land couldn't be your land.	35:41
	Miss Herman's dance demonstrated that	35:48
	life's messiness can be the subject of art.	35:50
	What was she offering?	35:55
	An aesthetic centipede?	35:58
	Or was she saying that since the world	36:02
	is imperfect both life and art	36:05
	can be unpredictable,	36:09
	and we're supposed to make promise in a world such as this?	36:12
	And to count on something when there	36:17
	are so many dancers with so many different rhythms?	36:19
	Flannery O'Connor spoke of the motley crew of pilgrims	36:25
	on their way to heaven.	36:29
	Promises in a world such as this.	36:33
	And in one more alternate reading,	36:36
	I a stranger and afraid	36:40
	in a world I never made	36:44
	describing and experiencing a world	36:48
	hovering forever on the brink	36:51
	of indifference or despair,	36:54
	the felt indifference of nature,	36:58
	a recent earthquake,	37:01
	the indifference of history where perhaps	37:04
	my sons will punished by promises	37:07
	which were made and not kept	37:10
	in another generation by others.	37:12
	The indifference of other persons who have promised me	37:15
	but then move on to other futures not including me.	37:20
	This makes our private promises	37:28
	and our schemes tiny and absurd	37:30
	when promises made to generations past	37:36
	may mean wars to us today,	37:40
	and where persons, even governments,	37:43
	seem to make promises in untrustworthy ways	37:47
	and where some of us even interpret	37:52
	parts of history as conspiracy itself,	37:54
	certainly a world of hard facts	37:59
	in which some promises made too lightly	38:05
	are all too lightly blown away.	38:10
	Promises, promises.	38:13
	And in relation to which any promise at all	38:16
	might seem foolhardy, foolish, impotent,	38:20
	and any witness or testimony	38:25
	to the trustworthiness	38:29
	and the persistence of God's promise	38:30
	may seem irrelevant or out of date,	38:33
	or conservative.	38:38
	Promises, promises in world such as this,	38:42
	yes, even so,	38:46
	for God's promises arise	38:49
	from a world of hard facts.	38:52
	It is only private promises in their	38:56
	naivetys and good if superficial intents	38:58
	that do not take the world of hard facts seriously.	39:04
	God's promise does.	39:10
	For these are not the promises, promises	39:14
	of camp fires on a warm summer or cool fall evening,	39:16
	but the promises of burning bushes	39:22
	and of visions that are not consumed	39:25
	even when burned by the fires of catastrophe	39:28
	or erosion or the fires of history.	39:32
	And these are not promises of simple fisherfolk	39:37
	before the Lord came down,	39:40
	but of His followers dying alone, stoned,	39:43
	the peace of God on the other side	39:49
	of the hard facts of history,	39:52
	the hard facts of suicide,	39:56
	the hard facts of AIDS, the hard facts of scandal,	39:59
	the hard facts of oppression,	40:03
	the hard facts of nations seeking to make promise	40:05
	to each other about arms control.	40:09
	The Hebrew prophets and the witnesses	40:14
	to Christ Jesus, His life, crucifixion	40:17
	and resurrection,	40:21
	take the hard facts of history	40:22
	with full seriousness,	40:25
	and yet interpret promise in the midst of such a world.	40:28
	No superficiality there or pleasant intents	40:35
	of promises, promises to fleet away on the winds.	40:39
	But depth immersion and commitment	40:44
	and radical trust in promise	40:48
	arising from that world of hard facts	40:52
	and returning to it	40:55
	a promise of centering the pluralisms of the dance	40:59
	no matter how frenetically different their rhythms.	41:02
	The promise as from Timothy today of enduring	41:07
	without losing sight of the vision,	41:11
	the promise of a power to receive others	41:15
	and not lose ourselves,	41:19
	and above all the promise of God's persistence.	41:21
	Promises, promises in a world such as this,	41:29
	even so,	41:34
	where God's promises arise in a world of hard facts,	41:36
	and through us return to it	41:40
	as we are witnesses to God's promises to finite folk	41:45
	whose tiny testimonies, wherever they are made,	41:51
	make a difference.	41:55
	Walter Brueggemann has described God making covenant	41:59
	making promise with us as occurring at the edge of doom	42:03
	and the brink of blessing.	42:07
	And so too a life of promise,	42:10
	risking always an alternative reading at the edge of doom,	42:15
	a hermeneutic of positive testimony	42:22
	in the middle of the hard facts.	42:25
	Trusting that even here as we stand	42:29
	on the brink of doom and the brink of blessing,	42:34
	we can name our own hard fact that we face today,	42:38
	we can describe our own place as brink of doom,	42:45
	and even there we can say	42:51
	indifference is refused	42:54
	for we are created full persons in the sight of God.	42:57
	And even there we can accept God's promise	43:02
	of endurance for the long haul.	43:06
	And even there we remember that	43:10
	even if we are faithless in these moments,	43:13
	in the momentary pains and anguishes,	43:17
	our God remains faithful.	43:19
	And one healed leper turned and praised God,	43:24
	a Samaritan.	43:30
	And that one leper's testimony we remember,	43:32
	even this morning in this place.	43:37
	Promise is for finite folk:	43:43
	individuals, churches, nations,	43:48
	who are living in the middle of history	43:53
	where their witnesses to the promise	43:57
	and their testimonies of the possibility	44:01
	of the promise count	44:04
	until it is finished in God's time.	44:07
	And until that time God's promise	44:11
	is that God persists with us.	44:16
	Amen.	44:22
	(calm organ music)	44:38
-	Let us unite in the historic confession	47:18
	of our faith, the Apostles' Creed.	47:20
	I believe in God, the Father almighty,	47:24
	maker of heaven and earth.	47:28
	And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,	47:30
	who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,	47:34
	born of the Virgin Mary.	47:37

-	Suffered under Pontius Pilate,	0:03
	was crucified, dead and buried.	0:05
	The third day He rose from the dead.	0:08
	He ascended into heaven,	0:11
	and is sitted at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.	0:13
	From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	0:17
	I believe in the Holy Spirit,	0:21
	the Holy Catholic Church,	0:24
	the communion of Saints,	0:26
	the forgiveness of sins,	0:28
	the resurrection of the body,	0:30
	and the life everlasting.	0:32
	Amen.	0:34
	The Lord be with you.	0:37
-	And also with you.	0:39
-	Let us pray.	0:41
	Oh, Eternal God, source of all life,	0:56
	Thou has searched us	1:01
	and known us, and lovest us still.	1:03
	Such knowledge is too high, and we cannot attain it.	1:08
	Yet, trusting in Thy eternal good,	1:13
	which is beyond our comprehension,	1:15
	we bring before Thee our very conditions and concerns,	1:18
	gratefully acknowledging the mystery and the depths	1:24
	of Thy power to save.	1:28
	We bring before Thee, Creating God, the needs of our bodies.	1:32
	We pray for all those weakened by the merciless plague	1:37
	of hunger and malnutrition,	1:41
	for all who are stricken with terminal illness	1:45
	or other disease, especially for all patients	1:47
	at Duke Hospital and for their families,	1:51
	for all who suffer from a lack of self respect	1:56
	and seek to do injury to themselves,	1:59
	for all who discover in the process of aging	2:04
	that their bodies are failing them,	2:07
	we bring before Thee, Redeeming God,	2:12
	the needs of our minds.	2:15
	We pray for all those involved in educational pursuits,	2:18
	students, teachers, administrators, and staff,	2:23
	for all those suffering from the tyranny of mental illness,	2:29
	for all who seek to expand our minds,	2:34
	visionaries, explorers, creative artists.	2:38
	We bring before Thee, Sustaining God,	2:45
	the needs of our relationships.	2:48
	We pray for all those embroiled in conflict,	2:52
	between parent and child, between husband and wife,	2:56
	between friends, and between nations.	3:01
	We pray for all who suffer from a lack	3:06
	of relationships and are burdened by a sense	3:08
	of loneliness, failure or despair.	3:11
	We pray for all who are unable to trust	3:17
	and who have never been fully known by another.	3:20
	And we pray for all who have resisted the opportunity	3:25
	to relate even unto Thee, Gracious God,	3:28
	and who do not accept the acceptance	3:32
	Thou has offered us.	3:35
	We lift these prayers before Thee, Oh God,	3:40
	reassured that Thou has searched us and known us	3:43
	and lovest us still.	3:47
	In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray.	3:52
	Amen.	3:55
	Remember the words of the Lord Jesus,	3:59
	how He said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.	4:01
	Let us acknowledge the blessings of God in our lives	4:06
	as we offer our gifts and ourselves with thanksgiving.	4:10
	(organ music)	4:22
-	And on that day,	6:23
	a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem.	6:25
	And they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea	6:31
	and Samaria, except the apostles,	6:34
	devout men buried Stephen	6:39
	and made great lamentation over him.	6:41
	(choir music)	6:46
	Paul laid waste the church,	6:54
	and entering house after house,	6:56
	he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.	6:59
	Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.	7:06
	Unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed,	7:11
	crying with a loud voice,	7:14
	and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.	7:17
	Saul, bringing threats and murder	7:30
	against the disciples of the Lord.	7:34
	♪ Saul, Saul ♪	7:47
	♪ Saul, Saul ♪	7:51
	♪ Saul, Saul ♪	7:55
	♪ Still bringing threats and murder ♪	7:57
	♪ On the disciples of the Lord ♪	8:00
	(organ music)	8:05
	He went to the high priest and asked him	8:21
	for letters to the synagogues of Damascus	8:24
	so that if any be found belonging to the Way,	8:28
	men or women, he might bring them bound in chains	8:33
	back to Jerusalem.	8:37
	(choir music)	8:39
	♪ Bring them back in chains ♪	8:51
	♪ Bound in chains ♪	8:53
	♪ Back to Jerusalem ♪	8:55
	(organ music)	9:01
	Now as he journeyed, he approached Damascus.	9:11
	And, suddenly, a light from Heaven flashed about him.	9:15
	And he fell to the ground and heard a voice	9:20
	saying to him.	9:24
	♪ Saul ♪	9:26
	♪ Why, why, why ♪	9:39
	♪ Why, why, why ♪	10:17
	♪ Why do you persecute? ♪	10:28
	♪ Why, why do you persecute? ♪	10:33
	♪ Why persecute? ♪	10:41
	♪ Why do you persecute me? ♪	10:44
	(organ music)	10:54
	♪ Why do you persecute me? ♪	10:58
	♪ Why? ♪	11:02
	♪ Why do you persecute? ♪	11:04
	♪ Why, why do you persecute? ♪	11:07
	♪ Why, why do you persecute? ♪	11:12
	♪ Why, why? ♪	11:30
	♪ Why, why? ♪	11:39
	♪ Why? ♪	11:49
	♪ Why? ♪	11:53
	♪ Why do you persecute? ♪	12:10
	♪ Saul ♪	12:26
	♪ Saul ♪	12:29
	And Saul said, "Who are you, Lord?"	12:39
	And the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.	12:44
	"Arise, for you are my chosen vessel,	12:50
	"to carry my name before the Gentiles	12:54
	"and before the kings of the Gentiles,	12:57
	"and before the people of Israel."	13:00
	(organ music)	13:05
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	13:24
	♪ Praise God all creatures here below ♪	13:30
	♪ Alleluia ♪	13:36
	♪ Alleluia ♪	13:39
	♪ Praise God above you heavenly hosts ♪	13:44
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	13:49
	♪ Alleluia ♪	13:56
	♪ Alleluia ♪	13:58
	♪ Alleluia ♪	14:02
	♪ Alleluia ♪	14:05
	♪ Alleluia ♪	14:08
	♪ Amen ♪	14:16
-	Almighty God, we give You thanks	14:28
	for all the blessings of this life,	14:32
	for the fidelity of good friends	14:35
	and faithful parents, of spouses and children,	14:37
	and all the other ones who have kept promises to us.	14:42
	We acknowledge this fidelity as but a mirror	14:46
	of Your constant faithfulness to each of us	14:49
	in giving us what we need for life,	14:53
	in giving us Your presence to sustain us,	14:56
	and offering us this time of worship	15:00
	so that we might better offer of lives as service to You.	15:02
	Our Father, who art in Heaven,	15:07
	hallowed be Thy name.	15:10
	Thy kingdom come.	15:12
	Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.	15:14
	Give us this day our daily bread	15:18
	and forgive us our trespasses,	15:21
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	15:24
	And lead us not into temptation,	15:28
	but deliver us from evil,	15:30
	for Thine is the kingdom and the power	15:32
	and the glory forever.	15:35
	Amen.	15:38
	(organ music)	15:40
	(congregation sings)	16:12
	(organ music)	18:59
	To remind you of the holy Eucharist	19:41
	or Lord's Supper that is celebrated each Sunday	19:44
	after our service in Memorial Chapel,	19:46
	and we invite your attendance.	19:49
	And now may the grace of our Lord and Savior,	19:51
	Jesus Christ, the love of God,	19:55
	and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,	19:56
	be with you now and always.	19:59
	♪ Amen ♪	20:03
	♪ Amen ♪	20:08
	(organ music)	20:26

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Title:

Peggy Way - "Promises, Promises" (October 12, 1986)

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Our world is full of promises, both individual and public. Yet, in such a world as the one we live in, with so many uncertainties and so much suffering, these promises can seem futile. The promises of God, however, take the hard facts of life serious and yet promise hope that we can trust in. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 29:22. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 44:25.
Key quotation: “The Hebrew prophets and the witnesses to Christ Jesus––his life, crucifixion, and resurrection––take the hard facts of history with full seriousness and yet interpret promise in the midst of such a world.”

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October 12, 1986

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Way, Peggy

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