William H. Willimon - "Ordinary Sin" (March 28, 1999)

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Sermon start time: 00:09. Sermon end time: 16:57.
We are like Simon Peter, ordinary in our sin. People in Nazi Germany’s time were ordinary people too. We should not be surprised by the great evil that ordinary people are capable of. Yet God’s redemption is for the ordinary people and will transform ordinary people into the Church. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “We are, most of us, quite ordinary in our sin. And no redemption would do people like us any good if it first required us to be pure or heroic. We need a higher power willing to get its hands dirty in the ordinary.”

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March 28, 1999

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Willimon, William H.

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Luke

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Duke University. Chapel

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