Robert T. Young - "The Glory of the Now" (August 31, 1980)

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-	Duke University Chapel,	0:05
	service of worship,	0:06
	August 31st, 1980.	0:07
	(devotional organ music)	0:12
	♪ Beautiful savior ♪	18:26
	♪ Lord of the nations ♪	18:35
	♪ Son of God and son of man ♪	18:43
	♪ Glory and honor ♪	18:57
	♪ Praise, adoration ♪	19:06
	♪ Now and forever more be Thine ♪	19:12
	♪ Now and forever more be Thine ♪	19:25
	(congregation singing)	20:20
-	If we would honestly seek renewal	23:34
	in order to serve God	23:37
	we must begin by being honest	23:39
	about our past and our present.	23:42
	Let us then honestly confess before God	23:45
	the things that we have done	23:49
	or fail to do	23:51
	which have caused us to be	23:53
	less effective servants, be seated.	23:55
	Lord, we need to be remade	24:06
	in your image.	24:09
	You made us to love,	24:11
	but we let bitterness take root in us,	24:13
	and hate to grow.	24:16
	You made us to bloom with mercy,	24:18
	but we permit the poison of jealously to ruin our spirit.	24:21
	You made us to be people of reason,	24:26
	but we let passions control us.	24:29
	You made us to live in justice toward others,	24:33
	and we devise ways to get ahead of our brothers and sisters.	24:36
	You made us to live in humble gratitude	24:41
	for the gift of life,	24:44
	and we begin to covet what we do not have.	24:46
	Lord, remake us into your likeness,	24:50
	you are the potter,	24:54
	we are the clay.	24:56
	Remold and make us, amen.	24:58
	In a moment of silence,	25:04
	let us make our own personal confession	25:05
	to Almighty God.	25:08
	Beloved in Christ,	25:25
	by God's word we know we are forgiven.	25:27
	We know that God loves us in spite of our failures.	25:31
	By God's grace,	25:35
	the future is always open to us.	25:36
	(choir vocalizing)	25:59
	Let us give thanks,	28:25
	for God is good,	28:27
	and God's love is everlasting.	28:28
	Thanks be to God,	28:31
	who's love has made us.	28:33
	Thanks be to God,	28:35
	who's mercy forgives us.	28:37
	Thanks be to God,	28:40
	who's promise secures us, amen.	28:41
	We welcome each one of you	28:47
	to our orientation Sunday,	28:48
	here in Duke University Chapel.	28:51
	We extend a special word of welcome and greeting	28:54
	to the new class of 1984,	28:57
	who are in our midst this morning.	29:00
	We hope that you will find your way often to the chapel	29:02
	in the years ahead of you here at Duke.	29:06
	For those of you who are student staff,	29:09
	and community people returning to our worship service,	29:12
	we also welcome you,	29:16
	and assure you that we are glad of your presence.	29:18
	We pray that God's spirit will bless you and uplift you,	29:21
	inspire you this morning of worship,	29:25
	here with us.	29:28
	I would like to call to your attention	29:32
	a special opportunity for you this afternoon.	29:34
	There will be an organ recital at 5:00,	29:39
	with Professor Fenner Douglass, university organist,	29:43
	presenting a demonstration recital.	29:47
	This will be here in the chapel,	29:50
	and you are invited and welcome to attend.	29:53
	I would also like to call to your attention,	29:57
	that you may sign up to have auditions for the choir	30:00
	and to participate in this beautiful program of music.	30:04
	There are sign-up sheets at the hostess desk	30:09
	in the back as you leave.	30:12
	We invite you to consider being	30:14
	part of the ministry in this way.	30:16
	As you see in the bulletin,	30:19
	we also need volunteer ushers	30:21
	and volunteer chapel attendants.	30:24
	We encourage you to consider giving your time,	30:26
	your presence, and your own uniqueness to this spot,	30:30
	in the life of our ministry, together.	30:34
-	Let us pray.	30:47
	Prepare our hearts, oh Lord,	30:52
	to accept Your word.	30:55
	Silence in us any voice but Your own.	30:58
	That hearing, we may also obey Your will.	31:01
	Through Jesus Christ,	31:05
	Our Lord, amen.	31:07
	The epistle lesson is from the second letter of Paul	31:12
	to the Corinthians,	31:15
	Chapter six, verses one through 10.	31:17
	"Working together with him,	31:23
	"Then we entreat you,	31:26
	"Not to accept the grace of God in vain,	31:29
	"For He says,	31:32
	"At the acceptable time,	31:34
	"I have listed to you,	31:36
	"And helped you on the day of salvation.	31:38
	"Behold, now is the acceptable time.	31:45
	"Behold, now is the day of salvation.	31:50
	"We put no obstacle in anyone's way,	31:54
	"So that no fault may be found in our ministry.	31:58
	"But as servants of God,	32:02
	"We commend ourselves in every way.	32:04
	"Through great endurance,	32:07
	"In afflictions, hardships,	32:09
	"Calamities, beatings, imprisonment,	32:12
	"Tumults, labors, watching,	32:15
	"Hunger, by purity,	32:19
	"Knowledge, forbearance,	32:21
	"Kindness, the Holy Spirit,	32:24
	"Genuine love, truthful speech,	32:26
	"The powers of God,	32:30
	"With the weapons of righteousness,	32:33
	"For the right and for the left,	32:36
	"In honor and dishonor,	32:40
	"In ill-repute and good repute,	32:43
	"We are treated as impostors,	32:47
	"And yet, we are known.	32:49
	"Yet, always rejoicing as pure,	32:54
	"As poor, yet making rich,	33:00
	"As having nothing,	33:03
	"And yet possessing everything."	33:04
	Here ends the reading from the epistle, amen.	33:09
	Will the congregation please stand	33:15
	for the reading of the Gospel.	33:16
	The Gospel lesson is from the 25th chapter of Matthew,	33:22
	verses one through 13.	33:26
	"Then the Kingdom of Heaven	33:30
	"Shall have been compared to 10 maidens	33:32
	"Who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.	33:35
	"Five of them were foolish,	33:40
	"And five were wise.	33:41
	"For when the foolish took their lamps,	33:44
	"They took no oil with them,	33:46
	"But the wise took flask of oil with their lamps.	33:48
	"As the bridegroom was delayed,	33:53
	"They all slumbered and slept.	33:56
	"But at midnight,	33:59
	"There was a cry,	34:01
	"Behold the bridegroom,	34:02
	"Come out to meet him!"	34:04
	"Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps.	34:07
	"And the foolish said to the wise,	34:11
	"Give us some of your oil,	34:14
	"For our lamps are going out."	34:16
	"But the wise replied,	34:18
	"Perhaps there will not be enough	34:21
	"For us and for you,	34:24
	"Go rather, to the dealers and buy for yourselves."	34:28
	"And while they went to buy,	34:33
	"The bridegroom came.	34:35
	"And those who were ready,	34:37
	"Went in with him,	34:40
	"And a marriage feast began.	34:41
	"And the door was shut.	34:44
	"Afterward, the maidens came also,	34:48
	"Saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us!"	34:51
	"But he replied, "Truly, I say to you,	34:54
	"I do not know you, watch therefore,	34:57
	"For you know neither,	35:01
	"The day nor the hour."	35:03
	Thus ends the reading of the Gospel.	35:06
	(Devotional Organ Music)	35:09
	(choir vocalizing)	35:17
-	Grace to you and peace,	36:10
	from the Lord our God who has made us,	36:13
	who redeems us and sustains us, amen.	36:17
	This, my friends,	36:22
	is a sermon about life.	36:23
	Not life in the hereafter,	36:27
	not life after death,	36:30
	or the judgment,	36:33
	or when the Kingdom of God comes,	36:34
	or at the end of the age.	36:36
	This is a sermon about life,	36:39
	life now, about the glory of the now.	36:43
	The epistle and Gospel lessons	36:50
	which the president of ASDU	36:52
	has read for our hearing this morning,	36:54
	may be familiar to you.	36:55
	I have heard about them	36:58
	and have heard sermons preached based upon them	36:59
	for a long, long time.	37:02
	Five wise and five foolish virgins,	37:05
	a lovely story with a dreadful ending.	37:08
	Five were ready,	37:12
	five were not.	37:13
	Five came in to the wedding feast,	37:15
	five were shut out,	37:17
	because they knew not	37:20
	when the bridegroom was coming.	37:22
	He came at midnight and caught them all,	37:24
	all 10 of them, by surprise.	37:26
	Those who were prepared were saved,	37:29
	those who were not prepared were locked out.	37:31
	Therefore, all of us had better be ready,	37:33
	better be prepared,	37:36
	because we know not when the Lord will come,	37:37
	and if we don't want to get closed out	37:40
	we'd better be prepared.	37:42
	"Now is the acceptable time.", Paul writes.	37:46
	Surely it is,	37:50
	anyone knows that.	37:51
	"Now is the day of salvation."	37:53
	Surely it is,	37:55
	everyone knows that.	37:56
	Now, today, this moment,	37:58
	this very moment.	38:02
	And so I heard it preached,	38:03
	now, this hour,	38:05
	this moment, because tomorrow may be too late.	38:06
	Be ready because the Lord may sneak up on you.	38:14
	Be saved because tomorrow may be too late.	38:19
	That's the way I heard these two passages preached about.	38:23
	And so you ask,	38:26
	"What does all this have to do	38:28
	"with you and me,	38:29
	"and with today, with us	38:30
	"as we begin this new academic year here?"	38:34
	Why this word,	38:39
	as many of you are new,	38:40
	not even settled in yet,	38:42
	as a matter of fact,	38:43
	burning up right now,	38:44
	still sweating from unloading and carrying trunks,	38:46
	and books, and fans,	38:49
	and stereos, and refrigerators, and clothes.	38:51
	Still trying to find a place to park,	38:54
	or figure out the board plan on west campus,	38:57
	not sure where the Great Hall is.	39:00
	Maybe even not sure yet where the chapel is.	39:04
	Certainly still looking for Old Chem and Zener Auditorium,	39:08
	wondering about The Pits,	39:12
	and the Dope Shop,	39:14
	and House P,	39:14
	and benches in front of the dorms.	39:15
	Trying to figure the schedules	39:18
	and how many courses you may drop	39:20
	or how many you may add.	39:21
	Wondering if you can really start all over,	39:24
	even yet, trying to remember the names of your FAC,	39:26
	your R.A., the couple across the hall,	39:30
	even your roommate, maybe.	39:32
	What in the world do these words and The Word	39:35
	have to do with all that's going around us,	39:37
	with us, and to us,	39:41
	and for us now?	39:44
	Roethke, the poet, writes,	39:48
	"Tell me, which is the way I take?	39:50
	"Out of what door do I go?	39:55
	"Where, and to whom?"	39:58
	So, what do these words have to do with you, and me,	40:03
	and with us on this particular day, today?	40:07
	Well, very much, I think.	40:10
	For I hope that you and I are ready	40:12
	to live with renewed interest and committments,	40:15
	and determination, in the here,	40:18
	the now, in the very present moment.	40:21
	So I hope these words have much,	40:25
	have a great deal,	40:26
	have lots to do with you and me,	40:27
	right here, today.	40:29
	For this is a sermon about life now.	40:31
	About the glory of the now.	40:34
	W.H. Auden in "Burnt Norton",	40:40
	one of the four quartets, writes,	40:42
	"At the still point	40:47
	"Of the turning world,	40:51
	"Neither flesh nor fleshless,	40:53
	"Neither from nor towards,	40:58
	"At the still point,	41:02
	"There the dance is.	41:05
	"But neither arrest nor movement,	41:08
	"And do not call it fixity,	41:12
	"Where past and future are gathered,	41:15
	"Neither movement from, nor towards,	41:19
	"Neither ascent nor decline,	41:21
	"Except for the point,	41:24
	"The still point,	41:27
	"There would be no dance,	41:30
	"And there is only the dance.	41:33
	"At the still point,	41:39
	"At the now,	41:42
	"There the dance is,	41:44
	"There life is,	41:47
	"Except for the point,	41:49
	"That is the still point,	41:50
	"There would be no dance,	41:52
	"And there is only the dance,	41:54
	"Just as if there were no still point	41:56
	"For the dancer,	41:58
	"There would be no dance even so	41:59
	"For you and me if there were no present moment,	42:01
	"There would be no dance, no life.	42:05
	"At the still point	42:10
	"Of the turning world,	42:12
	"Neither from nor towards,	42:14
	"Do not call it fixity	42:16
	"Where past and future are gathered,	42:18
	"Neither movement from nor towards,	42:20
	"Neither ascent nor decline,	42:22
	"Except for the point,	42:25
	"There would be no dance,	42:27
	"And there is only the dance.	42:29
	"Except for the now,	42:33
	"There would be no life,	42:36
	"And there is only the life."	42:38
	If being ready,	42:45
	as Jesus told this parable,	42:50
	"If being ready is good for the time,	42:52
	"When the bridegroom comes,	42:54
	"It is good for any moment, every moment.	42:56
	"It is good for the now."	42:59
	If today is the day of salvation,	43:03
	and now is the time,	43:06
	then now is the time for salvation,	43:08
	not because tomorrow may be too late,	43:11
	but because it is good, and fulfilling,	43:14
	and right, and what God desires for you and for me,	43:16
	and every child who belongs to God.	43:20
	We're to be ready,	43:23
	not because the Lord will come,	43:25
	and we may not be ready.	43:27
	Not because the Lord may come unexpectedly.	43:30
	Not because the Lord may come at midnight	43:34
	and find us sleeping.	43:36
	We are to be made ready,	43:38
	we are to be ready because that is life.	43:39
	We are to be saved now,	43:45
	not because tomorrow may be too late,	43:49
	but because being saved means being whole, authentic,	43:51
	obedient, faithful, responsible,	43:57
	integrated, being the child of God	44:01
	you were created, redeemed,	44:04
	and called to be.	44:06
	The still point is now.	44:09
	The dance is life now.	44:13
	For you, for me,	44:18
	for each one of us.	44:21
	I believe that God was,	44:24
	in the beginning, for now.	44:26
	I believe that God created,	44:30
	in the beginning, for now.	44:32
	I believe that Christ came to redeem, for now.	44:33
	I believe that the Holy Spirit	44:37
	is alive and active and well,	44:39
	in this moment, for the now.	44:41
	Be ready for the bridegroom may come, surely.	44:45
	Now is the day of salvation	44:49
	for tomorrow may be too late, surely.	44:51
	That may be true.	44:54
	That may be important.	44:56
	But that is not nearly as important	44:57
	as living life and finding life,	45:00
	and knowing life in the present moment,	45:03
	in the now.	45:05
	And that, I believe is what God wants.	45:08
	That, I believe,	45:11
	is why Christ came,	45:12
	and Christ comes.	45:14
	Whereas I read the New Testament,	45:17
	Jesus came to bring life,	45:20
	and to bring it in the now.	45:23
	Recall with me if you will,	45:27
	Jesus did not tell Jairus' daughter,	45:29
	Jairus that he would heal his daughter,	45:31
	when the Kingdom comes,	45:34
	or some distant tomorrow.	45:35
	But he healed Jairus' daughter now.	45:37
	He did not tell Peter's mother-in-law,	45:42
	"I'll heal you when the Kingdom of God comes,"	45:44
	or "I'll heal you when I come back again."	45:47
	He healed her in the here and the now.	45:49
	He did not tell the woman at the well,	45:52
	"You can have something to drink someday,	45:54
	"Sometime when we get around to it,	45:56
	"Or when I come unexpectedly."	45:58
	He gave her something to drink that would last her forever,	46:00
	in the present moment.	46:03
	He did not tell blind Bartimaeus,	46:05
	"That someday, Bartimaeus, you will see."	46:07
	He healed his blindness in the now.	46:11
	He did not tell the woman taken in adultery,	46:13
	that someday she would know forgiveness and be healed,	46:16
	no, he said,	46:19
	"Your sins are forgiven now.	46:20
	"Go in peace."	46:23
	Jesus did not tell the thief on the cross to get ready,	46:28
	to be ready for His return.	46:33
	No, he said, "This day."	46:36
	Jesus was concerned about ultimate matters,	46:43
	about eternal matters,	46:46
	about the long haul,	46:48
	about the life in the Kingdom of Heaven	46:50
	that will never end.	46:52
	But he was more concerned, I believe,	46:54
	about the here and now,	46:56
	about the present moment.	46:57
	Are you blind now?	47:00
	Do you need something to drink,	47:03
	are you thirsty now?	47:04
	Do you need wholeness,	47:06
	do you need new life now?	47:08
	He did not say,	47:14
	"I have come that you might life,	47:16
	"And have it someday."	47:18
	he said, "I have come that you might have life,	47:20
	and have it abundantly."	47:22
	and I think that means that you might have life now.	47:24
	Because the eternal is now.	47:27
	The ultimate is now.	47:30
	The long haul is now.	47:32
	The Kingdom is now.	47:34
	So I invite you my friends, this morning,	47:36
	a very simple invitation,	47:42
	to each of us:	47:44
	Live not in the past.	47:49
	Live not in the tomorrow.	47:54
	Will you live fully	48:00
	in the here and the now?	48:04
	And so may I say just a word or two about the glory,	48:08
	of the now?	48:11
	The glory of the now,	48:14
	is that now is life,	48:15
	yours and mine.	48:18
	Not yesterday, not tomorrow,	48:19
	not fantasy, but reality,	48:23
	not memory, but present,	48:26
	not hope, but realization,	48:29
	not the dream, but the actual,	48:32
	not the recollection but the real life.	48:34
	The glory of the now	48:39
	is that the now may be very simple and very ordinary,	48:41
	and for most of us,	48:44
	most of the time that's exactly what it is,	48:45
	very simple, and very ordinary,	48:48
	and very plain.	48:51
	The now may be filled with fear,	48:53
	and doubt, and question.	48:56
	And in this moment,	48:59
	I would hazard a guess that for many of us	49:01
	gathered here this morning	49:03
	we are filled with unease and anxiety	49:05
	and doubt and insecurity about	49:10
	what lies ahead.	49:15
	Life may be very simple and very ordinary.	49:19
	In reading recently our own Dr. Wallace Fowlie,	49:24
	in his beautiful book,	49:29
	"The Journal of Rehearsals",	49:31
	his autobiography. Dr. Fowlie is James B. Duke,	49:35
	Emeritus Professor of Romance Languages here.	49:39
	In reading that I came across some lines	49:44
	that I'd like to paraphrase just a little bit for you,	49:46
	if I may.	49:49
	"To live in the now," Dr Fowlie writes,	49:53
	"means to learn to live deeply within one's self.	49:55
	"It means contemplating and understanding	50:02
	"your own life,	50:06
	"no matter how limited, and monotonous,	50:09
	"and prosaic it may be.	50:12
	"It means reading a book,	50:15
	"not for pleasure in the ordinary sense,	50:18
	"but for learning more about others	50:20
	"outside of your own life,	50:22
	"and in a language that ennobles the human spirit.	50:25
	"It means being grateful for every pain in your body,	50:29
	"for every lack in your life,	50:35
	"for every bruise a friend or a foe gives you,	50:39
	"for every heartache and every disappointment,	50:45
	"in love and in life.	50:48
	"Live in the now," he writes,	50:51
	"and it is out of such experiences as these	50:54
	"That you will find and know life."	50:58
	The glory of the now in the university,	51:03
	as in faith and in life,	51:06
	is that the now is unpredictable.	51:09
	It gives ambiguity	51:14
	rather than security or serenity.	51:16
	The now, as does the university,	51:20
	raises more questions than it gives answers.	51:24
	It explores options	51:28
	rather than creates closure.	51:29
	It affirms diversity	51:33
	rather than trying to bring about uniformity.	51:34
	The now is scary and unsure.	51:38
	The now means searching and struggling	51:43
	rather than arriving and settling in.	51:46
	The glory of the now means to live not	51:51
	in a romanticized yesterday,	51:54
	nor to live in an illusory tomorrow.	51:58
	It means, my friends,	52:02
	at least as I understand the now,	52:03
	it means to live in a tough and tiring	52:05
	and tense and troublesome today.	52:07
	Where our stomachs get tied in knots.	52:11
	Where our head aches from front to back.	52:15
	Where our eyes get bloodshot and weary.	52:19
	Where our palms get sweaty,	52:23
	and our muscles twitch,	52:24
	and nervous laughter betrays how we really feel.	52:26
	Where our mind goes blank,	52:31
	and we can't remember what we heard	52:33
	or read or saw in class.	52:35
	Where we can't remember a name or a face	52:37
	or a theory or a formula or a date.	52:40
	Where we hurt others,	52:43
	and others hurt us.	52:45
	The glory of the now	52:47
	is that this is where life is hard, my friends.	52:48
	Where life is very, very hard.	52:53
	All of this, I believe,	53:00
	is why Jesus came,	53:02
	for the now.	53:05
	For it is in the now	53:07
	that God will sit with us by the bedside,	53:09
	walk with us by the roadside,	53:15
	stand with us by the graveside,	53:19
	pray with us and for us	53:23
	in every moments need,	53:25
	help us be wise,	53:29
	but not cynical.	53:30
	Innocent, but not foolish.	53:32
	Strong, but not callous.	53:35
	Weak, but not despairing.	53:38
	Where God will give depth to our speech	53:42
	and significance to our actions.	53:46
	The glory of the now,	53:51
	the glory of the now.	53:54
	In the words of the Three Magi	53:58
	in Auden's "Christmas Oratorio":	54:02
	"The glory of the now,	54:07
	"is that somehow or other,	54:08
	"in the now,	54:10
	"you and I may discover,"	54:11
	as the Magi put it,	54:14
	"How to be helpful,	54:17
	"how to be living,	54:20
	"how to be loving,	54:23
	"how to be human, now."	54:27
	How, my friends,	54:33
	to discover how to be a child of God?	54:34
	How to be real,	54:39
	how to be who God has created you to be.	54:43
	That's all, that's enough.	54:50
	That's real, that's for now.	54:55
	Let us pray.	55:02
	Oh Lord, hold us steady.	55:06
	Give us stamina.	55:11
	Quiet us.	55:16
	Teach us to know you	55:20
	in our stillness	55:21
	and in our activity.	55:23
	In our present,	55:25
	in our now.	55:28
	Through Jesus Christ,	55:31
	the Lord of life,	55:34
	the Lord of the now.	55:37
	Amen.	55:40
	(devotional organ music)	55:43
	(choir vocalizing)	56:20
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	58:59
	We believe in God	59:02
	who has created and is creating.	59:04
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus,	59:07
	to reconcile and make new.	59:11
	Who works in us and others find the Spirit.	59:14
	We trust God,	59:18
	who calls us to be the church,	59:19
	to celebrate life and it's fullness.	59:22
	To love and serve others,	59:25
	to seek justice and resist evil.	59:28
	To proclaim Jesus,	59:31
	crucified and risen,	59:33
	our judge and our hope,	59:35
	in life, in death,	59:38
	in life beyond death,	59:40
	God is with us,	59:42
	we are not alone.	59:44
	Thanks be to God.	59:46
	The Lord be with you.	59:49
	Let us pray.	59:52
	In the glory of the now,	1:00:03
	oh Spirit that is within us,	1:00:06
	be our guide through all that is dark and doubtful.	1:00:09
	Be our guard against all that threatens our honesty.	1:00:15
	Be our strength under pressure,	1:00:21
	and our conciliation in sadness.	1:00:24
	Be our joy in celebration,	1:00:28
	and our comfort in disappointment.	1:00:31
	Oh Spirit within us,	1:00:36
	let not success make us arrogant,	1:00:38
	but rather, grateful.	1:00:42
	Let not failure make us fearful,	1:00:45
	but rather, wiser.	1:00:48
	Let not pain or malice embitter us,	1:00:51
	but enlarge our capacity to endure and to overcome.	1:00:55
	Keep us vulnerable to others,	1:01:01
	and so, oh God,	1:01:05
	that Spirit within us, to You.	1:01:07
	For we pray in the name of Jesus, the Christ,	1:01:10
	who taught us to pray, saying,	1:01:14
	"Our Father who art in Heaven,	1:01:17
	"Hallowed be Thy name,	1:01:21
	"Thy Kingdom come,	1:01:23
	"Thy will be done,	1:01:25
	"On earth as it is in Heaven.	1:01:27
	"Give us this day,	1:01:29
	"Our daily bread,	1:01:31
	"And forgive us our trespasses,	1:01:32
	"As we forgive those	1:01:35
	"Who trespass against us.	1:01:36
	"And lead us not into temptation,	1:01:39
	"But deliver us from evil.	1:01:42
	"For Thine is the Kingdom,	1:01:44
	"And the power,	1:01:46
	"And the glory,	1:01:47
	"For ever, amen."	1:01:49
	(devotional organ music)	1:02:01
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:42
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:44
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:48
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:03:51
	♪ Oh praise ye the Lord, ♪	1:04:04
	♪ Praise God in His temple ♪	1:04:10
	♪ Praise ye the Lord, ♪	1:04:16
	♪ In the firmament of His heart ♪	1:04:21
	♪ Oh praise the Lord His heart, ♪	1:04:27
	♪ And the greatness of His wonders ♪	1:04:32
	♪ Oh praise, praise him, ♪	1:04:38
	♪ According to his majesty ♪	1:04:44
	♪ Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, ♪	1:04:50
	♪ With the sound of the trumpets ♪	1:04:52
	♪ Praise the Lord, ♪	1:04:54
	♪ With the lute and the harp, ♪	1:04:57
	♪ Praise the Lord, ♪	1:05:00
	♪ With the timbrel and the dance, ♪	1:05:03
	♪ Oh praise Him with the organ, ♪	1:05:10
	♪ And the instruments of strings ♪	1:05:15
	♪ Praise him, praise him, ♪	1:05:26
	♪ Upon the mountain, ♪	1:05:31
	♪ Praise him, praise him, ♪	1:05:44
	♪ Upon the high sounding cymbals ♪	1:05:49
	♪ Let everything that has breath ♪	1:05:55
	♪ Everything that has breath ♪	1:06:00
	♪ Praise, praise the Lord, ♪	1:06:06
	♪ Praise, praise the Lord ♪	1:06:11
	♪ Oh praise ye the Lord, ♪	1:06:19
	♪ Praise God in His temple ♪	1:06:23
	♪ Oh praise ye the Lord, ♪	1:06:29
	♪ In the firmament of His heart ♪	1:06:34
	♪ Oh praise the Lord His heart, ♪	1:06:39
	♪ And the greatness of His wonders ♪	1:06:44
	♪ Oh praise, praise him, ♪	1:06:50
	♪ According to his majesty ♪	1:06:55
	♪ Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, ♪	1:07:00
	♪ With the sound of the trumpets ♪	1:07:02
	♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪	1:07:05
	♪ With the lute and the harp, ♪	1:07:08
	♪ Praise the Lord, ♪	1:07:10
	♪ With the timbrel and the dance, ♪	1:07:14
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:07:21
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:07:25
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:07:29
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:07:34
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪	1:08:16
	♪ Praise God, all creatures here below ♪	1:08:22
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:27
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:30
	♪ Praise God above, ye heavenly host, ♪	1:08:34
	♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost, ♪	1:08:40
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:46
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:48
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:52
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:55
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:09:07
-	Open wide your hands, oh God,	1:09:18
	to receive these gifts	1:09:21
	of ourselves and our resources.	1:09:22
	To be used in Your name	1:09:25
	and through Your power.	1:09:27
	In the name of Christ we pray, amen.	1:09:29
-	Will you join with me	1:09:34
	in this responsive prayer	1:09:36
	for our university family,	1:09:39
	let us pray.	1:09:42
	Oh Lord, our God,	1:09:44
	help us to acknowledge those things	1:09:46
	which divide us,	1:09:48
	and to experience that love	1:09:50
	which unites us.	1:09:52
	(congregation praying)	1:09:55
	when we disagree or misunderstand,	1:10:06
	help us to listen to each other	1:10:09
	and to discover Your truth together.	1:10:11
	(congregation praying)	1:10:15
	in sadness let us put our arms around each other,	1:10:26
	in joy let us sing and laugh	1:10:30
	and dance together,	1:10:33
	in life let us celebrate our health and wholeness,	1:10:35
	in death let us celebrate our hope,	1:10:40
	in the year ahead, oh God,	1:10:43
	let us give ourselves in love	1:10:46
	to you and to one another,	1:10:48
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	1:10:51
	(devotional organ music)	1:10:56
	(congregation singing)	1:11:24
-	Go now with confidence	1:15:35
	in the presence of the Lord,	1:15:37
	into a world that is waiting	1:15:39
	for your spark of life and hope, amen.	1:15:41
	♪ Amen, amen, ♪	1:15:52
	♪ Amen, amen, ♪	1:16:06
	♪ Amen, amen, amen ♪	1:16:21
	(devotional organ music)	1:17:06

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Robert T. Young - "The Glory of the Now" (August 31, 1980)

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Sermon start time: 36:10. Sermon end time: 55:43.
We should live in the present and not be stuck in the past nor only hope for the future. We don't focus enough on "the glory of the now," for all its heartaches and despairs, because every moment is precious. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "The glory of the now means to live not in a romanticized yesterday nor to live in an illusory tomorrow."

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August 31, 1980

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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