Edwin R. Garrison - "Lent Is for Rehearsal Thinking" (March 16, 1975)

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	(mellow music playing)	0:03
-	Now unto the king eternal, immortal,	3:49
	invisible, the only wise God be honored	3:53
	and gloried forever and ever, amen.	3:58
	Let us pray.	4:02
	Oh the high and lofty one who inhabited eternity,	4:06
	whose name is Holy,	4:12
	who dwellers in the high and holy place,	4:14
	with those also have contrite and humble spirit,	4:18
	speak now thy word to us in Jesus Christ,	4:22
	full of grace and truth.	4:26
	To renew us in humility and faith,	4:29
	and awaken us to new life of grateful devotion,	4:33
	let thy present spirit unite our spirits in true worship,	4:38
	obedient, love, and faithful discipleship.	4:44
	Oh Lord open our lips that our mouths may show forth	4:49
	thy praise through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	4:54
	(uplifting music)	5:04
	In the presence of God, in the realization of his goodness	8:40
	and his grace, in company with one another,	8:46
	we offer our unison prayer of confession.	8:52
	Let us pray.	8:55
	Forgive us oh Lord.	9:00
	We acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man,	9:02
	of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire,	9:06
	who fear the blessing of God,	9:11
	the loneliness of the night of God.	9:14
	The surrender required the deprivation inflicted,	9:17
	who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God,	9:22
	who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch,	9:28
	the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal,	9:33
	less than we fear the love of God.	9:38
	We acknowledge our trespass, our weakness, our fault.	9:42
	We acknowledge that the sin of the world is upon our heads,	9:49
	that the blood of martyrs and the agony of his saints	9:54
	is upon our heads.	9:59
	Lord have mercy upon us,	10:02
	Christ have mercy upon us,	10:05
	Lord have mercy up on us.	10:10
	Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself,	10:26
	and God our father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort	10:29
	and good hope through grace.	10:35
	Comfort our hearts and establish them	10:38
	in every good work and word, amen.	10:41
	(uplifting music)	10:53
	♪ We sing to him whose wisdom ♪	11:51
	♪ Our songs let him who gave us voices hear ♪	11:59
	♪ We joy in God, who is the spring of mirth ♪	12:09
	♪ Who loves the harmony of heaven and earth ♪	12:17
	♪ Our humble sonnets shall that praise rehearse ♪	12:27
	♪ Who is the music of the universe ♪	12:36
	♪ And whilst we sing, and whilst we sing ♪	12:47
	♪ We consecrate our art ♪	12:51
	♪ And offer up with every tongue a heart ♪	12:55
	♪ And whilst we sing, and whilst we sing ♪	13:00
	♪ We consecrate our art ♪	13:06
	♪ And offer up and offer up, with every tongue a heart ♪	13:10
	♪ And whilst we sing, and whilst we sing ♪	13:19
	♪ We consecrate our art ♪	13:24
	♪ And offer up and offer up, with every tongue a heart ♪	13:29
-	The old Testament lesson is found in the book of Isaiah,	13:59
	the 53rd chapter.	14:03
	Who has believed what we have heard	14:08
	and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed,	14:11
	For he grew up before him like a young plant	14:16
	and like a root out of dry ground.	14:20
	He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him	14:23
	and no beauty that we should desire him.	14:28
	He was despised and rejected by men,	14:32
	a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.	14:36
	And as one from whom men hide their faces,	14:40
	he was despised and we esteemed him not.	14:43
	Surely he has born our and carried our sorrows.	14:48
	Yet, we esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted,	14:54
	but he was wounded for our transgressions,	15:01
	he was bruised for our iniquities.	15:04
	upon him was the chastisement that made us whole,	15:07
	and with his stripes, we are healed.	15:11
	All we like sheep have gone astray,	15:16
	we've turned everyone to his own way.	15:19
	And the Lord has laid on him, the iniquity of us all,	15:22
	he was oppressed and he was afflicted.	15:27
	Yet, he opened not his mouth,	15:31
	like a lamb that is led to the slaughter	15:34
	and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb.	15:36
	So he opened not his mouth.	15:40
	By oppression and judgment, he was taken away.	15:44
	And as for his generation who considered that he was cut off	15:48
	out of the land of the living stricken for the transgression	15:53
	of my people.	15:57
	And they made his grave with the wicked	15:59
	and with a rich man in his death,	16:01
	although he had done no violence and there was no deceit	16:04
	in his mouth, yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him,	16:09
	he has put him to grief.	16:16
	When he makes himself an offering for sin,	16:19
	he shall see his offspring,	16:22
	he shall prolong his days.	16:25
	The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand,	16:27
	he shall see the fruit of the travel	16:31
	of his soul and be satisfied.	16:33
	By his knowledge shall the righteous one,	16:36
	my servant make many to be accounted righteous	16:39
	and he shall bear their iniquities.	16:43
	Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the great,	16:47
	and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,	16:51
	because he poured out his soul to death	16:55
	and was numbered with the transgressors.	16:58
	Yet he bore the sin of many and made intercession	17:01
	for the transgressors.	17:06
	That's a stand for the reading of the gospel.	17:10
	The gospel lesson is from the 16th chapter of the gospel	17:21
	according to Matthew, the 13th through the 25th verses.	17:25
	Now, when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi,	17:32
	he asked his disciples,	17:37
	"Who do men say that the son of man is?"	17:39
	And they said, "Some say John, the Baptist,	17:43
	others say Elijah and others, Jeremiah,	17:46
	or one of the prophets."	17:50
	And he said to them, "And who do you say that I am?"	17:52
	Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ,	17:57
	the son of the living God."	18:01
	And Jesus answered him,	18:04
	"Blessed are you Simon Bar Jonah for flesh and blood	18:06
	has not revealed this to you,	18:11
	but my father who is in heaven,	18:14
	and I tell you, you are Peter.	18:17
	And on this rock,	18:21
	I will build my church and the powers of death	18:23
	shall not prevail against it.	18:25
	I will give you the keys of the kingdom	18:28
	and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.	18:31
	And whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."	18:34
	Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one,	18:38
	but he was the Christ.	18:42
	From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples	18:45
	that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things	18:48
	from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed.	18:52
	And on the third day he raised and Peter took him	18:58
	and began to rebuke him saying, "God forbid, Lord,	19:01
	this shall never happen to you."	19:05
	But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan,	19:08
	you are a hindrance to me for you are not on the side	19:13
	of God, but of men."	19:15
	Then Jesus told his disciples.	19:19
	"If any man would come after me,	19:21
	let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me,	19:24
	for whoever would save his life will lose it.	19:32
	And whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."	19:36
	Amen.	19:43
	(uplifting music)	19:45
	Let us affirm our faith.	20:29
	We are not alone.	20:33
	We live in God's world.	20:35
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	20:38
	who has come in the true man Jesus	20:44
	to reconcile and make new,	20:47
	who works in us and others by his spirit.	20:50
	We trust him, he calls us to be his church,	20:55
	to celebrate his precedence,	21:00
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	21:02
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	21:08
	our judge and our hope in life, in death,	21:13
	in life beyond death.	21:18
	God is with us we are not alone.	21:21
	Thanks be to God.	21:25
	The Lord be with you.	21:28
	Let us pray.	21:32
	Oh, eternal God our creator and our father	21:44
	who has given us life in this thy world,	21:50
	among thy many peoples and nations,	21:52
	we praise and bless thee for thy good earth	21:57
	on which we constantly depend	22:01
	for the sustaining of our life.	22:03
	and thus depend on thee.	22:06
	Keep us responsible and faithful in this thankfulness	22:09
	that we may not selfishly destroy	22:17
	and exploit this one earth.	22:18
	And move us all God to share its blessings	22:22
	with all thy needy children, now, and yet to come.	22:26
	Oh God creator, we thank thee for giving us life together	22:31
	in deep belongings to families and communities,	22:37
	through which our needs are met, our love we vote.	22:43
	The welfare of thy children served and justice sought,	22:47
	enable us to know our belonging to all peoples	22:54
	and to seek for ways to live in peace and joy together.	22:57
	Oh God creator we're grateful for the gift of minds	23:04
	to seek understanding of thy world,	23:08
	of thy truth of thy ways among us,	23:11
	for the heritage of human learning and the faithfulness	23:15
	to fact, and the search for further light.	23:20
	Let our knowledge and understanding become wisdom	23:25
	in thy way that we may know what is good for all	23:29
	and follow it for their sake.	23:35
	Oh eternal God manifests savingly in Jesus Christ, our Lord,	23:39
	that life which was the light of all mankind.	23:45
	We praise thee for the new life together,	23:50
	to which he brings us in which he incorporates us,	23:55
	in which he constantly calls us to deny ourselves	24:00
	and take up our cross and follow him.	24:05
	Save us then oh Lord from petty preoccupation,	24:10
	with our enjoyments our privileges our fulfillments,	24:15
	our needs, and disturb and change us	24:22
	to self giving devotion,	24:25
	to sharing in his ministry of reconciliation,	24:28
	of going about doing good, of seeking and helping the lost,	24:31
	and troubled, and suffering.	24:37
	Oh eternal God present spirit	24:41
	working here among us in the establishing guiding reforming	24:45
	of thy church, awaken us to thy presence	24:52
	and remake us for the tasks committed to us.	24:57
	Let thy spirit bring to light our sin,	25:02
	challenge our complacency rebuke and transform	25:07
	our prejudice, illuminates our blindness with new sight,	25:13
	to see our ways and thy way,	25:18
	move us to love and serve together.	25:22
	Let thy spirit give comfort and strength	25:29
	to those in suffering and despair in discouragement	25:34
	and failure, in temptation and sin.	25:39
	Let thy spirit strengthen all those who minister	25:46
	to such needs of body and spirit in hospital,	25:49
	home, or church,	25:52
	speaking or doing thy healing, helping work.	25:54
	give us that vulnerable openness	26:00
	to the struggles, the poverty, the famine,	26:04
	and starvation of thy troubled children in this world,	26:07
	that we may be continually awakened to profound concern,	26:12
	intelligent caring, sacrificial sharing	26:17
	of the goods of life, we so boundlessly enjoy.	26:21
	Give us the joy of new life in this ministering community	26:26
	that we may help one another to restrain our self seeking	26:32
	to sharpen our sensitivity,	26:38
	to envision vine mission and ministry for us,	26:39
	following him who came not to be ministered unto,	26:44
	but to minister and to give his life	26:48
	for the new life of others.	26:51
	And now as our savior Christ has taught us,	26:55
	we pray together.	26:59
	Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	27:01
	thy kingdom come,	27:07
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	27:09
	Give us this day our daily bread	27:14
	and forgive us our trespasses,	27:17
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	27:20
	and lead us not into temptation,	27:23
	but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom	27:26
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	27:29
-	In the name of the father and of the son	27:51
	and of the holy spirit, amen.	27:55
	Passenger train rolling across Northern Indiana	28:03
	struck a gasoline truck and tank trailers	28:07
	splitting them apart.	28:10
	The diesel was drenched with burning gasoline,	28:13
	there was a furious fire on either side of the track,	28:17
	but the train ran on until the last car	28:21
	had cleared the blazing crossing.	28:25
	The critically burned engineer could not be quieted	28:29
	until he was assured that all the passengers were safe.	28:35
	And then he said, "Well, thank God, thank God,	28:40
	for years, I have imagined this kind of an accident,	28:46
	and I had always known that if it did happen,	28:50
	I must never touched the brakes until the last coach	28:57
	had passed the fire."	29:02
	He had imagined he had projected himself into the situation,	29:07
	he had made up his mind.	29:15
	It was this rehearsal thinking which had saved lives	29:19
	in the moment of crisis.	29:24
	Well, of course we do rehearsal thinking every day,	29:29
	I suppose, in all kinds of situations,	29:31
	preparation for exams at its best is not panic, cramming,	29:36
	but thoughtful consideration of what is the essence	29:41
	of the course.	29:43
	Before the excitement of the ball game,	29:46
	the team members quietly think through their strategy,	29:49
	the surgeon scrubbing before the operation,	29:55
	reviews his procedures and lamp provides opportunity	29:59
	for our rehearsal thinking about the ultimate issues	30:05
	of our lives.	30:09
	As we watched Jesus press toward Jerusalem and the cross,	30:12
	we project ourselves into the scene.	30:17
	We are there with the disciples, listening to Jesus.	30:22
	Those 12 persons wanted to follow Jesus,	30:28
	but they were afraid of what people would say, so are we.	30:32
	They bought the idea that the Messiah would come	30:37
	as a conquering hero to make everything all right.	30:42
	Often our idea of God is a kind of a big daddy.	30:48
	We see what happened to Jesus and his disciples.	30:54
	And we ask ourselves, am I ready for that?	30:57
	For one thing, we need this rehearsal thinking	31:07
	because we've so much inner conflict.	31:09
	St. Paul call on Christians to be good soldiers	31:14
	of Jesus Christ.	31:17
	But they experienced that a good many of us have	31:19
	is that we're more like a battlefield than soldiers	31:22
	with our good and evil impulses fighting	31:26
	for the mastery of our soul.	31:29
	Our interior battle is personified in the dramatic	31:33
	confrontation between Jesus and Peter.	31:37
	Jesus was saying that he must suffer many things	31:41
	and be killed.	31:44
	When Peter blurted, "God forbid, Lord,	31:46
	this shall never happen to you.	31:50
	The masters reply is akin to violence.	31:55
	"Get thy behind me, you Satan, you're a hindrance to me,	31:59
	you're not on the side of God, but of men."	32:04
	The vehemence of Jesus is all the more startling	32:09
	because moments before he had praise Peter	32:12
	for his declaration of faith, that Jesus was the Messiah.	32:16
	But Peter had used the term Messiah in the context	32:23
	of his inherited belief.	32:28
	That Messiah would be an invincible military leader	32:30
	come to set the people free,	32:34
	suffering had no place in that picture.	32:37
	My rehearsal thinking reveals that this conflict	32:43
	is a battle front that runs right through my life.	32:46
	On the one hand, I feel that Jesus was right,	32:50
	that he who takes a sword,	32:55
	will perish by the sword,	32:57
	that the meek do inherit the earth.	33:01
	That the people who really experience abiding joy	33:03
	and a sense of fulfillment, are the humble, the merciful,	33:06
	the pure in heart,	33:13
	the kind of people who show Goodwill even to their enemies,	33:15
	yet they're persecuted, jailed, killed,	33:20
	the cost frightens me.	33:26
	On the other hand, I want ease and pleasure,	33:29
	there are hungry people everywhere. I know,	33:34
	but I wanna eat my fill,	33:38
	I don't wanna make sacrifices for the people	33:39
	on the other side of the tracks.	33:42
	I want my children to go to the top,	33:45
	no matter who's head they bruise or hearts they break.	33:48
	If I got ahead by pushing other people around what happened?	33:53
	I have no bleeding heart.	33:57
	So the battle rages between my two selves,	34:02
	as I survey the passion of Jesus and consider	34:07
	my response to it.	34:11
	Watching the drama unfold,	34:16
	I see that Jesus was tempted and tried as I am.	34:17
	Right down, to Gethsemane he prayed that the cross	34:23
	might not be necessary,	34:26
	you remember his temptation in the wilderness.	34:29
	He could have ease and power.	34:33
	If only he would bow to the methods of the world.	34:36
	Jesus had settled that long ago,	34:41
	but now comes Peter harping on the same tool	34:45
	as if to say, "Play it safe Jesus,"	34:50
	small wonder the master spoke sharply,	34:55
	"Out of my sight, you Satan."	34:59
	I am helped when I remember that Jesus experienced	35:04
	inner conflicts like mine.	35:08
	In the second place, we need this rehearsal thinking	35:12
	to help us count the cost of discipleship.	35:15
	When Jesus asks us to deny ourselves,	35:19
	he's doing more than asking us to do without	35:24
	meat during lamb, our social events.	35:28
	He's speaking to our pension for keeping ourself	35:32
	at the center of attention at all costs.	35:36
	Ever come to think of it?	35:42
	Even our social problems are variations of the human	35:44
	tendency to grab all the advantages we can grab	35:47
	and deny them to others.	35:51
	What else is discrimination of race or class,	35:53
	but a form of closed society,	35:57
	which it shows advantages to some people,	35:59
	why enforcing disadvantages on other people?	36:02
	So in our rehearsal thinking,	36:08
	the fundamental charge we must make	36:11
	is whether from this point in time,	36:14
	we will live as beasts of prey or as children of God,	36:17
	obligated to humankind.	36:23
	Of course, sometimes we think we can have it both ways.	36:29
	Once upon a time,	36:34
	there was a contractor who built a church	36:35
	for a highly emotional congregation,	36:40
	and then he couldn't get them to pay for it.	36:42
	He decided to scare them into honesty	36:46
	and he rented an iridescent devil suit complete with fork,	36:48
	tail and spear.	36:53
	And one Sunday night,	36:56
	when the preacher had been threatening the congregation	36:57
	with hell and fire, the builder,	37:00
	all that doubt and his new outfit pulled the master switch	37:01
	and bounded down the aisle, pandemonium broke out,	37:05
	people streaked and ran for the doors.	37:11
	One little lady stumbled and fell at his feet.	37:14
	The disguise builder loomed threateningly over her	37:18
	with his trident spear in his hand, straggling to her knees.	37:24
	She said in a quavering voice, "Oh Mr devil, hear me please.	37:28
	I bake more cakes, washed more dishes,	37:35
	sold more rummage than any other woman in this church.	37:38
	But all the time I've been on your side."	37:41
	(congregation laughing)	37:45
	Like the little lady,	37:49
	we try to work both sides of the street.	37:50
	We gloss over the persistent teaching of Jesus	37:55
	that whoever would save his life will lose it,	37:58
	and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.	38:01
	Mark you, if you back away from sacrifice,	38:08
	you back away from God.	38:11
	Discipleship requires the denial of self.	38:16
	And Jesus said, "Take up your cross."	38:24
	The cross is a symbol of the punishment you take	38:31
	from people who have a stake in keeping things as they are,	38:34
	or you take it from neutral people who would condone	38:40
	any monstrous wrong rather than risk their safety	38:43
	to stop the wrong.	38:47
	As James Baldwin reminds us,	38:50
	civilization is not destroyed by wicked people.	38:53
	It's not necessary to be that people be wicked,	38:57
	but only that they be spineless	39:01
	or put it another way.	39:07
	The cross is a metalanguage of being abandoned	39:10
	by persons whom we had thought we could depend on	39:13
	to understand and support us.	39:17
	As Isaiah said of the suffering servant,	39:22
	he was despised and rejected by men,	39:25
	a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.	39:29
	And we hid, as it were our faces from him,	39:32
	he was despised and we esteemed him not.	39:36
	But whatever form it takes,	39:41
	the cross falls in the line of obedient discipleship.	39:45
	You take it up, it is service and care.	39:50
	The cross is not something that befalls you by accident	39:57
	or without your consent.	40:01
	You have your Gethsemane where you face the appalling	40:05
	fact that discipleship means not so much making a sacrifice	40:10
	as being the sacrifice.	40:17
	And then, and there you say yes or no,	40:22
	it's as simple, and as terrible as that.	40:29
	Martin Luther king Jr. described an experience	40:38
	during the Montgomery bus protest.	40:41
	He had received many telephone threats,	40:45
	which he had dismissed as the work of crank.	40:47
	But one night after his wife had gone to sleep,	40:51
	he received a particularly savage threat.	40:53
	Later he wrote about it.	40:58
	He said, "I hung up, but I could not sleep.	41:00
	It seemed that all my fears had come down on me at once.	41:06
	I had reached the saturation point.	41:10
	I got out of bed and began to walk the floor.	41:13
	Finally, I went down to the kitchen	41:18
	and made a pot of coffee.	41:20
	I was ready to give up.	41:23
	I tried to think of a way to move out of the picture	41:26
	without appearing to be a coward,	41:30
	in this state of exhaustion,	41:34
	my courage had almost gone.	41:36
	Then I decided to take my problem to God.	41:40
	My head in my hands,	41:44
	I bowed over the kitchen table and prayed aloud	41:45
	the words I spoke to God that midnight are still vivid	41:49
	in my memory."	41:54
	He writes, "Oh Lord, I'm here taking a stand	41:56
	for what I believe is right,	41:58
	but now I'm afraid the people are looking	42:01
	to me for leadership.	42:06
	And if I stand before them without strength	42:08
	and courage, they'll folder.	42:11
	I am at the end of my power, I have nothing left.	42:16
	I've come to the point where I can't face it alone."	42:22
	He continues, "At that moment.	42:28
	I experienced the presence of the divine as never before.	42:32
	It seemed as though I could hear the quiet assurance	42:37
	of an inner voice saying, 'Stand up for righteousness,	42:40
	stand up for truth, God will be on your side forever.'	42:45
	Almost at once my fears began to pass from me.	42:53
	My uncertainty disappeared.	42:58
	I was ready to face anything.	43:02
	The outer situation remains the same,	43:06
	but God has given me an inner calm."	43:09
	That was Martin Luther King's Gethsemane.	43:15
	The fundamentals were saddled,	43:21
	the rest of his life was commentary,	43:26
	but above all, let us remember this,	43:32
	bearing, the cross is not unmitigated pain and sorrow.	43:36
	The letter to Hebrews says of Jesus who for the joy	43:43
	that was set before him endured the cross.	43:47
	cross bearing isn't aggressive thrusting of one self	43:52
	into a crucial situation whose outcome matters	43:58
	more than life.	44:03
	And it brings its own reward, a deep sense of fulfillment.	44:06
	I'm one of four sons, as youngsters we were disorganized	44:15
	hot tempered, ready to resort to our fists.	44:21
	Our parents almost gave up hope for us,	44:26
	almost, but they never did thank God.	44:30
	In later years, I tried to tell my father	44:35
	that I had begun to realize what a costly process	44:38
	it had been for him.	44:43
	With a Misty smile, he simply said,	44:46
	"Well, that's the joy of being a father."	44:50
	Rehearsal thinking is decision-making,	44:57
	whether it's the engineer and the cam,	45:02
	the surgeon as he scrubs, or you here now.	45:05
	You look ahead, make up your mind.	45:15
	Jesus said, "If anyone would be my disciple,	45:20
	let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me."	45:26
	You are the only person qualified to say	45:34
	what that entails for you, and you say yes or no.	45:38
	Let us pray.	45:54
	Oh, our father God grant that there may be some person	46:03
	here this day who we'll have the grace to say to you.	46:10
	"Yes, I will take up my cross and follow you," amen.	46:19
	(uplifting music)	46:35
	♪ In the hour of my distress ♪	49:24
	♪ When my temptations me opress ♪	49:30
	♪ And when my sins confess ♪	49:36
	♪ Sweet spirit comfort me ♪	49:42
	♪ When I lie in my bed, sick in heart and sick in head ♪	49:54
	♪ And with doubt discomforted ♪	50:06
	♪ Sweet spirit comfort me ♪	50:12
	♪ And the house doth sigh and weep ♪	50:23
	♪ And the world is drowned in sleep ♪	50:30
	♪ Yet my eyes the watch do keep ♪	50:36
	♪ Sweet spirit comfort me ♪	50:44
	♪ When the passing bell doth toll ♪	51:00
	♪ And the Furies in a shoal ♪	51:05
	♪ Come to fright a parting soul ♪	51:12
	♪ Sweet Spirit, comfort me ♪	51:18
	♪ When the tapers now burn blue ♪	51:35
	♪ And the comforters are few ♪	51:42
	♪ And that number more than true ♪	51:49
	♪ Sweet Spirit, comfort me ♪	51:55
	♪ When the Judgment is revealed ♪	52:11
	♪ And that open's which was sealed ♪	52:21
	♪ When to Thee I have appealed ♪	52:31
	♪ Sweet Spirit, comfort me ♪	52:43
	(uplifting music)	53:09
	Thine oh Lord is the greatness and the power	54:39
	and the glory and the victory and the majesty	54:44
	for all that is in the heaven	54:47
	and then the earth is thine.	54:49
	Thine is the kingdom oh Lord, and thou art exalted	54:53
	as head above all, amen.	54:56
	(uplifting music)	55:03
	Now to him who by the power at work within us	58:51
	is able to do far more abundantly	58:55
	than all that we ask or think.	58:57
	To him, be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus	59:01
	to all generations, forever and ever.	59:05
	The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ,	59:11
	be with you all, amen.	59:14
	(bell chimes)	59:24
	(uplifting music)	59:42

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Title:

Edwin R. Garrison - "Lent Is for Rehearsal Thinking" (March 16, 1975)

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In this sermon, the preacher uses the theme of "rehearsal" to explain how to live the Christian life. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "Lent provides opportunity for rehearsal thinking about the ultimate issues of our lives."

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March 16, 1975

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Garrison, Edwin R.

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