Carlyle Marney - "The Sign of Jonah" (March 2, 1975)

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	(choir music playing)	0:03
Deaconess	Oh God	1:53
	We acknowledge your presence	1:55
	and pray that our time of worship may be acceptable to you.	1:58
	We need your strength and your truth in our prayers.	2:04
	In our speaking, in our singing.	2:09
	Teach us and in your goodness direct our worship	2:13
	that during this time we may grow in grace and love.	2:19
	(choir singing)	2:29
	(choir music playing)	4:00
	(choir singing)	4:33
-	Let us make our corporate confession of our sin	9:36
	in the presence of our holy God and our neighbor.	9:40
	Let us pray.	9:46
Congregation	O God! Lord of the nations.	9:48
	You have given life to the world.	9:52
	We humbly confess our failure to love and to serve.	9:55
	Forgive our foolish ways.	10:00
	Forgive our hardheartedness.	10:03
	Forgive our love of effluence.	10:06
	Forgive our love of self.	10:10
	Forgive our complacent ways.	10:13
	Forgive our weak commitments.	10:16
	Forgive our uncaring attitude.	10:20
	We have become captives of this age	10:24
	of the status quo and the pleasure seeker.	10:27
	Our eyes no longer see the world in need	10:32
	of your life giving love.	10:35
	Untie the chords of fear.	10:39
	Fear of ridicule.	10:41
	Fear of loss of status.	10:44
	Fear of failure.	10:46
	Which bind our hands,	10:48
	keeping them from your work and your kingdom.	10:51
	Send your fire of purification to cleanse us	10:55
	and inspire us to go forth to those	11:00
	who yet need your word of hope.	11:03
	We have received, but have not given.	11:06
	We have heard, but not responded.	11:10
	We have been loved, but not loved in return.	11:13
	Help us, we cry.	11:18
	Let your forgiveness melt our cold hearts	11:21
	and send us on your errands of mercy	11:25
	to the peoples of the earth.	11:28
	In the name of Christ	11:31
	who was sent that we might believe in love, we pray.	11:33
Deaconess	O Lord, hear us.	11:39
	As we make our personal confession to you.	11:42
	Amen.	12:01
	God offers to us pardon and forgiveness.	12:03
	Rejoice in this good news.	12:08
	Become the obedient people of God.	12:11
	Forgiven people who can now be loving and caring.	12:15
	Amen and amen.	12:21
	(choir music playing)	12:27
	(choir singing)	13:18
	(choir music playing).	21:15
Deacon	Let us hear the word of God.	21:54
	First from the Book of Jonah,	21:58
	chapter three, verses one through five.	21:59
	These words.	22:02
	Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time	22:05
	saying, "Arise go to Nineveh that great city,	22:08
	and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."	22:15
	So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh.	22:21
	According to the word of the Lord.	22:26
	Now, Nineveh was an exceedingly great city.	22:29
	Three days journey in breadth.	22:34
	Jonah began to go into the city going a day's journey.	22:37
	And he cried, "Yet 40 days	22:42
	and Nineveh shall be overthrown."	22:45
	And the people of Nineveh believed God.	22:49
	They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth.	22:53
	From the greatest of them to the least of them.	22:58
	Then from the Gospel, according to	23:06
	Matthew, chapter 16, versus one through four.	23:08
	Will you stand for the reading of the Gospel.	23:12
	And the Pharisees and Sadducees came	23:23
	and to test him, Jesus.	23:27
	They asked him to show them a sign from heaven.	23:30
	He answered them, "When it is evening, you say,	23:36
	it will be fair weather, for the sky is red."	23:41
	"And in the morning, it will be stormy today,	23:47
	for the sky is red and threatening."	23:49
	"All you know how to interpret the appearance of the sky,	23:53
	but you cannot interpret the signs of the times."	23:58
	"An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign,	24:03
	but no sign shall be given to it,	24:08
	except the sign of Jonah."	24:12
	So, he left them and departed.	24:18
	Here ends the reading of the lessons for today.	24:24
	(choir music playing)	24:28
	(congregation singing)	24:38
	With one voice, let us affirm our faith.	25:15
Congregation	We are not alone.	25:20
	We live in God's world.	25:22
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	25:24
	who has come in the true man to Jesus,	25:29
	to reconcile and make new,	25:32
	who works in us and others by his spirit.	25:35
	We trust him.	25:39
	He calls us to be his church,	25:41
	to celebrate his presence	25:44
	to love and serve others,	25:47
	to seek justice and resistive evil,	25:50
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	25:53
	Our judge and our hope.	25:57
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	26:00
	God is with us.	26:04
	We are not alone.	26:07
	Thanks be to God.	26:09
Deacon	The Lord be with you.	26:12
Congregation	And with your spirit.	26:14
Deacon	Let us pray.	26:16
	oh God, creator, redeemer and life giving spirit.	26:23
	You have shown us in the works	26:31
	and the words of Jesus the Christ	26:33
	that you are for all persons.	26:35
	And that do you care for each of us body and soul.	26:39
	We thank you oh God for your presence with us	26:44
	at all times and in all places,	26:47
	for you are indeed our refuge and our strength.	26:48
	We trust ourselves to your love and to your care,	26:53
	and know that your grace is indeed equal to any change,	26:57
	or demand the future may bring to us, or to all persons.	27:00
	And yet, oh God we confess	27:05
	that we believe in many other powers	27:07
	and are led by other forces around us.	27:10
	So our lives are fragmented	27:15
	and our affections are uncertain.	27:18
	We want things for our ourselves	27:21
	because they make us feel secure.	27:23
	We use others for our purposes	27:27
	instead of being useful to others.	27:29
	Forgive our temporary and compulsive loyalties,	27:35
	and call us back to assure faith in you.	27:38
	It gives meaning and wholeness, and hope to life.	27:42
	oh God as those of us who are a part of this university,	27:50
	think of the days of the past week	27:53
	and the past few weeks, we realize that these are hard	27:55
	and demanding times for our university community.	27:58
	And so we pray, O God for our university today.	28:02
	For those in authority,	28:09
	who because of changing times and conditions,	28:12
	and because of the prospect of less funds	28:14
	for the operation of this place in the future,	28:17
	must make difficult and painful decisions	28:21
	affecting their lives and the lives of us all.	28:24
	Give wisdom, oh God	28:31
	and direction, for the best possible decisions	28:35
	for all persons to the President, the Chancellor,	28:39
	the Provost, Vice President.	28:44
	And all others who have charge over us.	28:48
	Give strength and patience to those	28:52
	who wait on their decisions.	28:55
	And may there be hope and assurance.	28:58
	A way to continued work	29:02
	and satisfaction for all who love this university.	29:04
	And who give to themselves to serve it.	29:08
	As we think of ourselves oh God	29:14
	make us always mindful of the needs of others.	29:19
	Remind us one by one and all together	29:25
	of our calling to love you, to serve you,	29:30
	to love our neighbor and to serve our neighbor.	29:35
	And as we wait now, oh God,	29:42
	in this place and in this moment	29:45
	bind us together in one spirit of expectancy,	29:49
	as we wait for the light	29:55
	and the grace of your word to come upon us.	29:58
	Hear us in the name of Jesus the Christ,	30:06
	who died for us.	30:11
	Whose presence gives us meaning and whose way shows us life.	30:14
	Even him who taught us to pray as we've pray together.	30:22
Congregation	Our father, who art in heaven,	30:26
	hallowed be thy name.	30:30
	Thy kingdom come,	30:32
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	30:34
	Give us this day our daily bread	30:39
	and forgive us our trespasses,	30:42
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	30:45
	And lead us not in the temptation.	30:49
	Deliver us from evil.	30:52
	For thine is the kingdom,	30:54
	and the power and the glory, forever.	30:56
	Amen.	31:01
Deacon	As I welcome each of you to this	31:07
	service of worship this day.	31:09
	As we come together to praise God and to hear his word,	31:12
	may I issue a special word of welcome to	31:15
	the Director and the members	31:20
	of the University of North Carolina	31:21
	at Wilmington Concert choir.	31:24
	We indeed pleased to have you with us	31:27
	to help lead us in the worship of almighty God	31:31
	in this place, in this hour.	31:34
	And may his blessing be upon each of you and all of you.	31:37
	I've been asked to announce that	31:43
	Chaplain Bill Coffin, Chaplain at Yale university,	31:45
	one known to all of us	31:49
	for his leadership in many important causes	31:52
	will be in Chapel Hill on Wednesday	31:54
	of this week at eight o'clock	31:56
	at the Wesley Foundation to speak	31:58
	on world hunger and emerging nations.	31:59
	You are invited and I can assure you,	32:04
	it will be a most stimulating	32:06
	and worthwhile experience for all of us who can make it.	32:08
	Last summer, we were privileged in this community	32:14
	to have the appointment of Mr. Finner Douglas Made	32:20
	as professor of music in the music department	32:24
	and as university organist related to the chapel.	32:28
	He has played previously for services in this chapel,	32:33
	this afternoon at four o'clock,	32:38
	he will present his first concert for all of us.	32:40
	So, I invite you to come for what I am sure will be	32:44
	a joyous and enriching musical experience for us all.	32:49
	The program for this afternoon,	32:54
	you will find on the back of the bulletin.	32:56
	The service will begin at four o'clock here in the chapel.	32:58
	It's a joy to have Carlyle Marney among us.	33:04
	It's a joy to be in his presence at any time.	33:08
	One never knows what's coming when one's around him	33:12
	but it's always exciting and worthwhile.	33:15
	Dr. Marney is presently Director of Interpreters House	33:19
	and Ecumenical Retreat Worship and Renewal center,	33:23
	located at Lake Junaluska assembly at Lake Junaluska.	33:28
	He has served pastorates at Austin, Texas	33:33
	in Charlotte, North Carolina.	33:38
	He has been pastor to	33:40
	countless numbers of laypersons surely,	33:43
	and probably has been pastor to more pastors	33:46
	than any person at least whom I know.	33:50
	It's a real privilege for me, Dr. Marney.	33:54
	On behalf of this university	33:58
	and on behalf of this worshiping congregation to say,	34:00
	welcome to you this morning,	34:02
	and we look forward to God's word	34:04
	as you share it with us in the sign of Jonah.	34:06
Dr. Marney	When they pressed him	34:22
	for some confirmation of their suspicions.	34:23
	When they asked for indubitable evidence	34:28
	that he was more than a carpenter son.	34:31
	When they crowded around taunting him for some affirmation,	34:36
	that he was more than a prophet.	34:41
	When they wish to gouge him to the point	34:45
	that he would ride back and pass a miracle.	34:48
	He said, "You adulterers of a culture."	34:52
	"I'll give you a sign."	34:58
	"As plain as a red sky in the evening,	35:01
	as readable as a lauding sky at dawn."	35:06
	The sign all to come see used to comet.	35:12
	The British agents had said would cross Alabama	35:18
	while the five nations were in council.	35:21
	The sign Constantine saw across in the sky	35:27
	and had his sergeants carry a banner,	35:32
	clear to Milvian bridge.	35:35
	The sign, some of the crusaders followed a goose	35:39
	and some ran behind Peter the hermit's mule	35:45
	pulling the sacred hair,	35:49
	till the mule was bald behind.	35:51
	William the conqueror used a handful of English mud.	35:56
	Moses used a stick and some snakes	36:02
	and manner from the bountiful sky they said.	36:06
	Sherman used the smoke of Atlanta,	36:11
	visible for 60 miles to keep his contraband slaves in line.	36:15
	But when they pressed the carpenter's son	36:23
	for a sign he said at last, "I'll give you a sign."	36:26
	"Jonah has been here."	36:33
	'Jonah has come and you cannot hear."	36:36
	And so like you, me, everybody thought about the whale.	36:42
	Even the editors of Matthews, gospel	36:50
	thought he meant the fish.	36:52
	And so they made a sign of resurrection	36:55
	from the vomitous of a troubled fish,	36:59
	but he meant both much more and much, much less than this.	37:04
	He meant that the only sign of its end,	37:11
	a culture may expect is a man who speaks his peace.	37:15
	This is Pericles at Athens	37:23
	for telling the 400 year decline of the Republics.	37:25
	This is Elijah on Carmel.	37:31
	This is Cicero against Catiline.	37:33
	This is Savonarola and Florence.	37:36
	This is Churchill and the British parliament.	37:39
	This is Dibilius Hanz and (indistinct) to the Nazis.	37:41
	This is Tom Paine to the New York Torres.	37:45
	This is Charles Mallek to Vichinsky at United Nations.	37:49
	It's all the same.	37:52
	No whale, no miracle,	37:54
	no sizzling sign from the sky,	37:57
	just a kind of reluctant foreigner speaking his peace.	38:01
	This is always the sign of Jonah	38:07
	Nineveh, the boiling pot on Israel's northern flank.	38:12
	Capital of the Assyrian empire of Sennacherib,	38:17
	requiring a three day walk to get downtown.	38:21
	Sprawled across its own landscape,	38:25
	like a giant from the sea and represented the power	38:28
	that would swallow the tribes of Israel, like an octopus.	38:32
	She would withdraw her widespread exploring tentacles	38:38
	only at Jerusalem's outer wall.	38:43
	After some calamitous trouble had befallen Sennacherib.	38:46
	Her ten ton black bulls skipped like rams	38:52
	on the backs of millions of devoted Patriots	38:57
	who believed in the Assyrian genius.	39:01
	And Jonah, reluctant, truculent, unwilling,	39:05
	human, battered, half-digested, ill willed preacher,	39:12
	walking and crying 40 days.	39:17
	40 days and Nineveh will be destroyed	39:21
	Like George Fox, the quaker crying,	39:26
	"Whoa, whoa" to Lichfield	39:29
	and their common word is (speaks foreign language).	39:33
	Turn, turn back.	39:39
	Unlike Lichfield, Nineveh did turn the play says.	39:44
	But history denies it.	39:51
	With a story of more than 20 civilizations.	39:54
	History denies that Nineveh turned.	39:58
	She has been an uninhabited heap these 2,700 years.	40:03
	She did not turn for long.	40:09
	Neither did Rome or Persia or Germany.	40:13
	And what sign do we get here?	40:18
	The sign of Jonah and that's all.	40:22
	All the sign any culture gets of its end.	40:27
	Leo the (X) had determined to be a different kind Pope	40:36
	from his predecessor Julius the (II).	40:40
	Julius, who had had himself painted	40:44
	as a warrior with a sword.	40:47
	Patron of Michelangelo.	40:50
	Nearer an emperor than a pastor of the pastors of God.	40:53
	But he would be hard to follow.	40:59
	For Rome had bloomed with his largest.	41:02
	Now Leo huge, brilliant elected Pope at 37	41:07
	helped along by a planted rumor	41:14
	that he had an incurable fistula,	41:17
	known as a library and a museum in his own person.	41:21
	Born Giovanni de' Medici,	41:28
	with all de' Medici power to drop on.	41:30
	He made his rooms a place for Artists, sculptors, poets	41:34
	and crown their efforts	41:41
	by installing Rafael as his favorite.	41:42
	Under Leo and de' Medici,	41:47
	Rome would at last be fulfilled.	41:50
	With hosts to entertain such as Shiggy,	41:55
	who would throw his silver service into the Tiber	42:00
	after meals as a sign of his largest,	42:04
	but had nets under the water	42:07
	to retrieve his grandiosity.	42:09
	And with buffoons such as Friar Mariano	42:12
	who could eat 400 eggs	42:17
	at a single sitting, Rome would come into her own.	42:19
	Yet when Leo (X) came to sit in the high people chair	42:26
	under the freeze commissioned, by his predecessor Julius	42:32
	he probably never looked up to see that above his symbol	42:37
	of every medieval power Michelangelo had long ago	42:43
	put the sign, he'd put the sign on him.	42:49
	The sign of the prophet, Jonah,	42:54
	It's enough to make any man	42:59
	from any culture.	43:01
	Look up and ask what heavy, heavy hand hangs	43:04
	over my head for Jonah has been here too.	43:10
	Sometimes Jonah is a newspaper columnist	43:18
	or even an editor, or a political candidate,	43:22
	or an economics professor, or an historian.	43:27
	And once I heard an Australian evangelist	43:32
	who was a Jonah but no American one.	43:36
	The matter is not that we have no Jonas,	43:43
	Jonas are everywhere.	43:47
	Most all of us freshman or graduate, have prophesied	43:50
	some reluctant call to repent.	43:54
	Indeed, there are those who like Jonah are aghast.	43:59
	If repentance should come for really, we'd rather see some	44:02
	of these Nineveh of ours blow up than to get well.	44:07
	The problem is not to find Jonahs rather	44:13
	it is how a church, and a people	44:16
	and a culture should hear its Jonahs.	44:19
	Men and brethren they said when Simon Peter	44:23
	had preached, what shall we do?	44:26
	Well, we could turn against religion.	44:31
	That religion which is the end of something	44:35
	instead of the beginning middle and end of everything.	44:38
	We could turn	44:44
	from that prayer wheel of endlessly repeated platitudes	44:44
	which diverts us from up proper work	44:49
	and watch That religion of lip service to values	44:51
	we do not really serve.	44:56
	We could remove ourselves	44:59
	from our institutional monstrosities, which swallow	45:01
	up like malloc our human responsibilities	45:05
	for being changers of the world.	45:08
	We could renounce a temple centered	45:12
	and ended repository of hopes.	45:16
	That is a dead end street for any real becoming	45:19
	because it provides no exit into a life of real involvement	45:23
	with any need that matters.	45:27
	We could seek another faith than our religion	45:31
	of easy alignment, which lets us live such loosely	45:35
	stewarded lives in the service of such temporary desires.	45:39
	We could begin to deny that federal theology	45:45
	that releases us of any responsibility for our time	45:50
	and state, by claiming a sovereignty of God.	45:55
	So removed from us that our manhood disappears	45:58
	in mere puppetry.	46:02
	We could turn against that Protestantism	46:06
	of a pious upper class walled and respected do	46:10
	nothing status.	46:14
	We could become again, Pilgrim people looking	46:16
	for the springtime of the human race,	46:20
	instead of smothering in this never ending winter.	46:23
	We could postpone our reaching for a comfortable	46:30
	and righteous divinity until we had realized something	46:34
	of our humanity.	46:39
	We could give our city more calls to ask,	46:43
	are they not mere cart to sons?	46:47
	How do they know these thing?	46:51
	I used to say, we may be called to turn	46:55
	from a dying religion to a real humanity within our grasp.	46:59
	A kingdom of God within our reach	47:05
	by frankly using the tools and structures	47:09
	we have to serve the secular as if it were holy already.	47:12
	This was the driving stance of the incredibly	47:20
	human Jesus who with tools he took from his own culture	47:24
	made an exit for humanity through the temple walls	47:32
	of a religion that blocked the way as Dorothy Sayers put it.	47:37
	He drove a coach	47:43
	and horses through those sacred precincts	47:45
	leaving his hard tracks everywhere.	47:49
	Is he not the carpenter son?	47:54
	They queried?	47:57
	Is there not here a manhood available to us all?	47:58
	Who would save us from our fake leisures	48:05
	and the ignorance that distort our lives?	48:09
	Who will begin to ask the questions that would	48:13
	build us to become full blown sons of carpenters	48:16
	who would inspire us to become that rarest	48:21
	human being a man whose drives all serve worthy values.	48:26
	This is the human Jesus, the Jew	48:36
	his drives all serve the one.	48:40
	He is the collected man or Saint Augustine.	48:44
	He is the gathered man.	48:48
	He, is the man at home	48:51
	in this here world who is free to live	48:53
	for the true, the beautiful, the just	48:57
	and the holy rather than for the profitable, the successful	49:00
	the attractive and the popular.	49:05
	He is free to serve the completion of our humanity.	49:07
	He is the carpenter's son.	49:12
	You who are inclined to do your revolt against the religion	49:17
	by simply cursing these walls and stones.	49:23
	That's no proper revolution.	49:28
	It was a revolution	49:31
	against evil religion that built this place.	49:33
	The proper revolution requires us to take our human powers	49:38
	and our secular connections as redemptive instruments	49:44
	in the service of our holy secular	49:48
	and some of this your a generation is seeing.	49:52
	I know a neighbor who expressed his revolt 10 years ago	49:58
	against tyranny by taking a 14 year old Castro refugee	50:02
	as his son.	50:07
	I know an older couple who revolt	50:09
	against religious intolerance and ignorance	50:11
	by prowling shells for the books, a man dressed	50:14
	in the power of much property whispered to me	50:19
	in the crowd at this door that he had discovered what kind	50:23
	of church God does not want and has since	50:28
	used his strength to demand cleaner rows	50:31
	of tenant housing.	50:36
	I know a retired duke engineer who took	50:38
	on the distribution problems of a Ghana mission	50:41
	where the trouble is, how do you get 230 volts	50:45
	of electricity along 2,400 feet of wire	50:49
	without turning out the lights in a crude surgery	50:54
	or shutting down the laundry in the orphanage.	50:58
	I know an eye surgeon who has gone to west Africa to do that	51:02
	of operations, no one there yet is trained to do.	51:06
	And I know a local construction expert who opened a door	51:11
	in Iran for some advanced agents of a hospital program.	51:15
	And at coffee hour a while ago, someone handed me	51:20
	a cheque to give a timid boy his set semester at school.	51:24
	And I buried recently a taxi franchise operator	51:29
	who used to spend his spare time prowling the back sides	51:34
	of our city, looking for half a dozen places to	51:40
	put a house church and a big mama to courage	51:44
	and character in the pools of our poverty.	51:48
	Your proper revolution may be to become one	51:54
	of several hundred here who have a private pupil	51:57
	in the literacy program.	52:01
	These are all timid evidences of a spreading revolt	52:04
	and a beginning awareness as to how the secular	52:09
	serves the human in a holy way.	52:13
	And time would fail me.	52:18
	If I were to tell you of a day,	52:20
	when a chamber of commerce became for a minute at least	52:23
	a temple of the God who lives in the service	52:28
	of a suffering ray.	52:33
	But let me give you a caution about joining revolt	52:35
	against religion.	52:39
	It could be a dangerous enterprise in finding yourself,	52:41
	fed up with a Merry go round of our religious vanity fares	52:46
	in turning your faces away from the trapes acts	52:51
	that have been used to keep us in our pews.	52:56
	You could find yourself involved with what God has	53:00
	been doing at least since that first Isaiah,	53:04
	all along he's been raising up revolutionaries to shake	53:10
	up his temples, to recover their function and relation	53:14
	to join this revolution in which God has been involved	53:19
	might force you to transcend categories that are precious	53:24
	and to shed adjectives that are welded to your self image.	53:29
	And this is frightening, words, adjectives,	53:34
	mere adjectives, such as white or Baptist or Anglo sex	53:39
	or Christian or the names of your other various sororities	53:47
	might begin to drop from your consciousness.	53:53
	To join this revolution could put us on far shores	53:58
	with no decent temple, more religious than ever.	54:03
	It might make me use what technical know-how I have	54:09
	in the secular to serve those.	54:13
	I meet in the secular without need	54:16
	of the fake slogans as dead as main street or babbitt.	54:18
	It could leave me so bereft of a structured faith.	54:25
	I would be forced to find a church	54:29
	in my own house with my own wife or even pray God.	54:32
	It could have the effect	54:39
	of causing me to learn what church is for.	54:41
	To spark my revolt against the bonds of my enslaving	54:48
	love of mammon, or race, or status, or flesh,	54:55
	or whatever God lesser God I have loved,	55:02
	as I heard to my consternation	55:09
	George Butrick put it once at Cambridge, he said,	55:13
	"I better be careful coming to church like this."	55:19
	"I might have a hand laid on me to apprehend me for that	55:25
	for which I had already been apprehended by God."	55:33
	It could be a hand that calls you	55:40
	into this revolution,	55:42
	may lead you	55:47
	to where you have to become a man for others too.	55:48
	When Jonah had made his sign against Nineveh	55:56
	and rested under the gourd vine it died.	56:01
	And Jonah Cursed the gourd,	56:08
	still truculent after preaching.	56:13
	But we didn't set out here to make gourds,	56:18
	trees planted by the rivers of water that bring forth fruit	56:24
	in seas a different kind of timber for this setting.	56:31
	We are a carpenter sir,	56:39
	and we're involved with a different timber than gourd.	56:43
	(choir music playing)	57:01
	(choir singing)	57:44
	♪ From out of my depths ♪	1:01:25
	♪ From out of my depths ♪	1:01:31
	♪ To the I cry ♪	1:01:33
	♪ To the I cry ♪	1:01:36
	♪ To the I cry ♪	1:01:38
	♪ With lamenting ♪	1:01:40
	♪ With lamenting ♪	1:01:41
	♪ Oh my God. ♪	1:01:43
	♪ Oh my God. ♪	1:01:47
	♪ Oh my God ♪	1:01:56
	♪ Lord who shall stand ♪	1:02:46
	♪ Who shall stand ♪	1:02:49
	♪ But with thee ♪	1:02:59
	♪ But with thee ♪	1:03:00
	♪ But with thee ♪	1:03:02
	♪ There is grace ♪	1:03:03
	♪ There is grace ♪	1:03:04
	♪ Our God whom we fear ♪	1:03:11
	♪ Our God whom we fear ♪	1:03:14
	♪ Our God whom we fear ♪	1:03:21
	♪ Our God whom we fear ♪	1:03:24
	♪ My soul redemption ♪	1:03:26
	♪ My soul waits for the Lord ♪	1:03:52
	♪ I wait for him ♪	1:03:54
	♪ Oh Lord I wait for- ♪	1:03:55
	♪ And in his word is my hope ♪	1:03:57
	♪ And in his word is my hope ♪	1:03:59
	♪ I wait ♪	1:04:00
	♪ From the dark ♪	1:04:11
	♪ From the dark ♪	1:04:13
	♪ Mercy and redemption are to be found ♪	1:05:05
	♪ We shall redeem ♪	1:05:09
	♪ We shall redeem ♪	1:05:11
	♪ We shall redeem ♪	1:05:14
	♪ We shall redeem ♪	1:06:22
	♪ Amen ♪	1:06:27
	(choir music playing)	1:06:50
Deaconess	Oh, holy God.	1:08:08
	Receive our offerings, which we present to you.	1:08:11
	And with them, ourselves, our souls, our bodies	1:08:15
	as a living sacrifice holy	1:08:22
	and acceptable to you through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	1:08:25
	Amen.	1:08:30
	(choir music playing)	1:08:33
	May the blessing of God, our creator,	1:13:26
	redeemer, and sustainer rest upon us	1:13:30
	and upon all our work and worship.	1:13:35
	And may God give us light to guide us	1:13:39
	courage to support us	1:13:44
	and love to unite us now and forever more.	1:13:46
	♪ Amen ♪	1:13:57
	♪ Amen ♪	1:14:14
	♪ Amen ♪	1:14:39
	(church bell ringing)	1:15:03
	(choir music playing)	1:15:19

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Title:

Carlyle Marney - "The Sign of Jonah" (March 2, 1975)

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March 2, 1975

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Marney, Carlyle, 1916-1978

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