Thomas A. Langford - "Penance and Words of Assurance" (March 13, 1977)

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-	Duke University Chapel, Service of Worship.	0:05
	Third Sunday in Lent, March 13th, 1977.	0:08
	(sacred music)	0:17
-	We dedicate our worship to the Lord, God almighty,	4:26
	who has revealed himself in Jesus as divine love	4:31
	and who abides in our hearts as the Holy spirit.	4:38
	Therefore, let us invoke the presence of God,	4:43
	let us pray.	4:47
	Almighty, eternal, and Holy God,	4:50
	who need us not, but desire us the worship of man,	4:55
	we bow before thee,	5:01
	because we acknowledged thee to be our God.	5:03
	Send upon us thy worshiping people,	5:08
	the gift of thy Holy spirit	5:11
	that we may know that thy word here,	5:15
	that we may conduct ourselves becoming late in the house	5:19
	that we may honor thee in our corporate service	5:25
	of prayer and praise and the word.	5:29
	And as we leave this holy place,	5:34
	grant us the assurance of thy blessing	5:38
	as promised unto us by thy son, Jesus Christ,	5:41
	our Lord, amen.	5:47
	(sacred music)	5:52
	If we say we have not sinned,	9:05
	we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.	9:09
	If we confess our sins,	9:15
	God can be trusted to forgive us our sins.	9:18
	Therefore let us offer unto God,	9:24
	our unison prayer of confession.	9:26
	Let us pray.	9:31
	Oh Lord, we are grateful for this place,	9:34
	this moment, this experience,	9:38
	we find it very easy to withdraw from the world	9:41
	and turn our backs on the needs of our neighbor.	9:45
	We know that you have called us to go out from this place	9:50
	into the world,	9:53
	but we lack the courage and conviction	9:55
	our sinfulness and shortcomings handicap out potential.	9:59
	Forgive us, merciful God and move us to mission.	10:05
	Strengthen us to reach out a helping hand,	10:10
	to listen with a sympathetic ear	10:14
	and to be the answer to someone's prayer,	10:17
	help us in our being or God	10:21
	that someone else might become in Jesus name	10:25
	we pray.	10:30
	Now let us have moments of personal confession	10:32
	in quietness.	10:39
	And now hear these words over the assurance of pardon	10:51
	from the 103rd Psalm,	10:55
	as the heaven is high above the earth,	10:59
	so great is God's mercy toward them that fear him.	11:02
	As far as the East is from the West,	11:08
	so far has God removed our transgressions from us.	11:12
	Like as a father pity at his children,	11:18
	so the Lord pity them that worship him,	11:22
	therefore be of good courage.	11:27
	Amen.	11:33
	(sacred music)	11:36
	Let us hear the word of God as it is contained	14:38
	in the scriptures of the Old Testament,	14:42
	in the book of the prophet Isaiah the sixth chapter,	14:45
	the first 10 verses.	14:50
	"The year that king Uzziah died,	14:54
	I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,	14:58
	and his train filled the temple.	15:05
	Above him, stood the seraphim.	15:10
	Each had six wings, with two, he covered His face	15:13
	and with two, he covered His feet.	15:19
	And with two, he flew.	15:22
	And one call to another, and said,	15:25
	holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts.	15:28
	The whole earth is full of his glory.	15:34
	And the foundations of the threshold shook the voice of him	15:40
	who called and the house was filled with smoke.	15:43
	And I said, woe is me for I'm lost.	15:50
	And a man of unclean lips,	15:56
	and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips	15:59
	for my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.	16:03
	Then flew one of the seraphim to me	16:10
	having in his hand, a burning coal,	16:13
	which he had taken with tongs from the altar.	16:18
	And he touched my mouth and said, behold,	16:22
	this has touched your lips,	16:26
	your guilt is taken away and your sin forgiven.	16:30
	And I heard the voice of the Lord saying,	16:38
	whom shall I send and who will go for us?	16:41
	Then I said, here I am, send me.	16:48
	And he said, go and say to this people hear and hear,	16:55
	but do not understand.	17:03
	See and see, but do not perceive	17:06
	make the heart of this people fat	17:12
	and their ears heavy and shut their eyes.	17:16
	Less they see with their eyes and hear with their ears	17:21
	and understand with their hearts	17:24
	and turn and be healed."	17:28
	The end of the morning lesson.	17:34
	(sacred music)	17:37
	Let us affirm what we believe.	18:22
	We believe in God who has created and his creating,	18:27
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	18:33
	to reconcile and make new.	18:36
	Who works in us and others by the spirit	18:40
	we trust God, who calls us to be the church	18:45
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	18:50
	to love and serve others,	18:53
	to seek justice and resist evil,	18:57
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen	19:00
	our judge and our hope, in life, in death.	19:05
	In life beyond death, God is with us.	19:11
	We are not alone.	19:16
	Thanks be to God.	19:18
	The Lord be with you.	19:21
	(congregation applauds)	19:23
	Let us pray.	19:24
	Let our first prayer to be one of Thanksgiving.	19:42
	Most gracious Father, who for every new generation	19:47
	prepare us new life blessing.	19:52
	We thy people offer this prayer of Thanksgiving	19:55
	for the assurance of sins forgiven,	19:59
	for the power that has given us	20:04
	to lay hold of things unseen.	20:06
	For the strong sense we have that this world	20:10
	is not out abiding home for our restless heart,	20:14
	which nothing finite can satisfy.	20:19
	We give thee thanks, Oh God, for the invasion of our souls,	20:23
	by the Holy spirit for all human love and goodness	20:29
	that speak to us of thee,	20:35
	for the fullness of thy high glory outpour in Jesus Christ.	20:38
	We give the thanks so God that author of every good.	20:43
	Let us offer a prayer of intercession for the church.	20:51
	Oh, God, who has built thy church	20:56
	upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles,	20:58
	Jesus Christ, himself being the chief cornerstone	21:04
	save the community of thy people from cowardly surrender	21:09
	to the world, from rendering unto Caesar,	21:14
	what belongs to thee.	21:19
	From forgetting the eternal gospel,	21:22
	emit the temporal pressures about trouble days.	21:24
	We pray for the unity of the church,	21:30
	for a fellowship across embittered lines	21:33
	of race and nation.	21:36
	For a growth in grace, for a building in love	21:39
	for her enlargement in service, for her increase in wisdom,	21:45
	faith, clarity, and power in the spirit of Jesus Christ,	21:50
	whose church it is.	21:57
	And then let us offer prayer supplication for ourselves,	22:01
	for the guidance of God.	22:07
	Oh, God amid the darkness of this world	22:10
	in the ignorance of our own minds	22:13
	and in the feebleness about efforts after truth.	22:17
	We so often lose the way even when we seek to do thy will.	22:21
	Thy who are the way, the truth and the life	22:28
	show us the way that leads to the truth.	22:34
	That knowing the truth, we may inherit life,	22:38
	life that is everlasting	22:43
	and to thee we shall ascribe resist most due	22:47
	praise and the glory through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	22:51
	Brethren these were the prayers as prepared	23:00
	for this morning.	23:02
	Now we should offer the Lord's prayer together.	23:03
	But before we do that, some of you,	23:06
	if not all of you, have heard of two deaths,	23:10
	which affect our University.	23:14
	One is the death of Mike Shedlier,	23:18
	football player and basketball player	23:22
	who died completely unexpectedly in Florida,	23:25
	where he was with the team on a Southern trip.	23:31
	The team canceled one of its games as a knob	23:36
	and is on the way home.	23:38
	His parents have either gone down	23:41
	or they were there with them, I'm not sure of this.	23:43
	The other death was just phoned into me,	23:48
	that I hear it's also in the paper.	23:49
	It's the death of Mr. E power Biggs,	23:52
	the great organist, the authority on BARR,	23:57
	who dedicated the Haute Camp, Oregon,	24:02
	which is over here in the Memorial Chapel.	24:04
	He has given recitals here at Duke.	24:09
	He has been a consultant to us	24:12
	as we work on the question of the Oregon,	24:15
	so let me with you just think of these two deaths	24:19
	and following that, we shall say the Lord's prayer.	24:24
	Oh God, who constantly reveals to us	24:29
	that in the midst of life, we are in death	24:35
	help us not only to realize that, to accept it,	24:40
	but to know that if we are born, we must die.	24:47
	We commend to the this family who so unexpectedly	24:54
	have lost a son.	25:00
	And we come in to the students of this University	25:03
	who will find sorrow on their return to the campus.	25:09
	We remember with gratitude,	25:17
	the life E. Power Biggs, who's meant so much to us	25:19
	in this place, willing to give a wide wide knowledge.	25:24
	We know that the trumpets sounded for him on the other side,	25:30
	and we hope that the Oregon's sounded awesome.	25:36
	And now as our savior Christ has taught us,	25:44
	we pray together, say, our father who art in heaven,	25:46
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.	25:51
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	25:56
	Give us this day, our daily bread	26:00
	and forgive us our trespasses	26:03
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	26:06
	and lead us, not into temptation,	26:09
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom	26:12
	and the power and the glory forever.	26:16
	Amen.	26:21
	Now we welcome to our pulpit one who is no stranger,	26:24
	one whom we are always glad to hear, Dean Thomas Lankford	26:30
	of our Divinity School	26:36
-	In the name of the Father and of the son	26:48
	and of the Holy spirit, amen.	26:52
	This morning, I want to talk about repentance.	27:02
	Not because we were at the end of the spring holidays.	27:07
	Although the spring rights may be cause for some to repent.	27:12
	Rather I've chosen this topic	27:19
	because we are in the season of lent.	27:20
	In the Christian calendar,	27:26
	lent precedes Easter and lent is a time of penitence.	27:27
	I also want to speak about words of assurance,	27:36
	for in our service of worship,	27:41
	our confession of sin is followed by words of assurance,	27:45
	words which speak of God's forgiveness and renewal of life.	27:53
	And we need such words.	28:01
	For without such assurance,	28:04
	our penance would be without a context of support	28:06
	and without a redeeming purpose.	28:11
	Let us begin with Isaiah and our text.	28:18
	It was as Isaiah had a vision of the Lord	28:25
	that he also gained a vantage point	28:30
	from which he could rightly view himself.	28:34
	I saw the Lord high and lifted up	28:40
	and I said, woe is me.	28:45
	I'm a man of unclean lips and live in the midst of a people	28:49
	of unclean lips.	28:55
	We do not in the present day, carry a heavy sense of sin.	29:00
	If in the average American congregation,	29:09
	the preacher were to rail loudly	29:13
	that all persons are sinners.	29:15
	That would be a slight nod of the head,	29:19
	but also a shrug of the shoulders.	29:24
	And some puzzlement, if not indifference,	29:28
	as to what this means.	29:31
	I've attempted to understand this fact,	29:37
	but I'm not sure I do.	29:40
	It's very complicated.	29:43
	In some ways to have a slight sense of sin	29:47
	can be a sign of healthy mindedness	29:51
	to have a morbid sense of sin can be unhealthy.	29:56
	I'm reminded of Nathaniel Hawthorne's parable	30:04
	of the Minister's black veil	30:08
	in which he describes a young minister in Milford	30:15
	who suddenly appeared wearing a veil that covered his face	30:20
	about which no explanation was given	30:25
	and whose presence disconcerted the people.	30:29
	It is healthy to have a view of life,	30:38
	which is not oppressive, self-flagellating,	30:40
	trouble by every word and act and thought.	30:44
	It's good to throw off unnecessary shackles,	30:49
	but a lack of a sense of sin may reflect the shallowness	30:55
	of experience of God and an insensitivity to others.	31:01
	It may on the one hand mean that we have not rightly	31:09
	encountered the holy, claiming, righteous God	31:13
	and the poverty of our experience of God results	31:20
	in a poverty of ourself understanding.	31:24
	On the other hand,	31:31
	the lack of awareness of sin	31:33
	may reflect an insensitivity to others.	31:35
	And in sensitivity to their welfare	31:41
	and to our relationship with them.	31:43
	One does not live in this world without directly	31:49
	and indirectly hurting other people.	31:53
	And to be insensitive to our complicity or direct action	31:57
	is a sad commentary upon the quality of our relationships.	32:03
	There can be an unwholesome sense of sin, let us admit it,	32:12
	but that can also be a wholesome sense of sin.	32:19
	A sense of ourselves as we stand in inappropriate	32:25
	relationship with God or with our neighbor.	32:28
	Part of the greatness of a man like John Bunyan,	32:37
	was that he knew the human condition thoroughly.	32:41
	I knew it from the inside,	32:45
	hence when he personified, sloth and pride	32:49
	and greed and gossip,	32:56
	he wasn't fleshing those forces,	33:01
	which are so terribly real in our actual lives.	33:06
	It reflects a greater sensibility to recognize	33:14
	these negative characteristics that it does to pretend	33:18
	they do not exist.	33:21
	Penance therefore is a recognition	33:26
	of the rich dimensionality of our lives	33:30
	and of our relation to those dimensions.	33:36
	In our religious sensibility and in our theology however,	33:44
	we have tended to interpret God as plausibly loving,	33:49
	as lacking distinctiveness of character, at least,	33:54
	and as a passive receptor,	34:00
	who allows us to be what we want and to do what we will,	34:02
	we have generally lost the sense of God's holiness	34:09
	and of God's demand for holiness.	34:13
	God is love.	34:17
	This is the central reality, but the love, which God is,	34:20
	is a love that by its nature defines evil as it's contrary,	34:28
	that judges evil with the intention of rehabilitation	34:37
	and that redeems evil by burning out the draws.	34:43
	In our religious sensibility and in our theology,	34:52
	we have tended to excuse or explain a way the personal	34:55
	and the corporate evil, which we represent	34:59
	and which we far too quickly express in our activity.	35:04
	We do read evil in the actions of others.	35:10
	We blame society and uncontrollable forces for our plight	35:14
	and they are not unimportant, but we once again,	35:19
	come to a recognition of those very real	35:23
	and vital negative elements of our lives	35:26
	and our duplicity about those elements.	35:31
	The light of all of this, let us look again at repentance,	35:38
	and it words of assurance.	35:46
	Penance always begins with an awareness of God.	35:52
	It's not self-induced,	35:57
	it's not a judgment by any other standard.	36:00
	It is the vision of God,	36:04
	which brings us to an awareness of our own condition.	36:05
	How petty is our pride as we stand before God?	36:11
	How small our achievement?	36:16
	How inconsequential our moral development?	36:18
	Penance is being honest.	36:24
	It involves looking at ourselves straightforwardly.	36:30
	It is taking ourselves seriously, but not ultimately.	36:35
	It is a candid recognition of our person,	36:43
	of our place and of our purpose.	36:46
	A proper view of God brings a proper view of ourselves.	36:52
	Yet such a view is difficult to secure.	36:57
	In the apocrypha book of Ecclesiasticus,	37:04
	the wise writer says,	37:08
	a man's soul is sometimes	37:12
	want to bring him tidings more than seven Watchmen	37:15
	that sit high in a Watchtower.	37:22
	And for a moment,	37:27
	let us explore one of these tidings of the soul.	37:30
	It's native for us to pretend,	37:36
	to pretend that we are strong and able and good and pious	37:38
	it's even natural for us to attempt to deceive ourselves.	37:47
	We overstate our ability and our achievement.	37:51
	We are hypocritical about our virtue	37:57
	and pretentious about our spirituality.	38:00
	We move through life like an arm of night	38:05
	exalting in our appearance issuing our challenges,	38:09
	thinking about ourselves as superior	38:15
	and the seven Watchman in the watch tower	38:19
	announced our coming with appropriate	38:24
	intonations of admiration.	38:26
	Yet the rustle of a dry leaf under our horses hoof,	38:31
	causes a shiver to run down our spine.	38:41
	Our soul has brought its own tidings.	38:46
	Our pretense is shallow and vulnerable	38:50
	beneath the splendid armor, there's a frightful insecurity.	38:55
	In Shakespeare's play, "Henry the Sixth" the second part,	39:04
	that naively wise king	39:08
	comments about one of his retainers	39:14
	and he's but naked though locked up in steel,	39:22
	whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.	39:27
	The proper view of God brings a proper view of ourselves.	39:37
	I saw the Lord, Isaiah said, and I said, woe is me.	39:40
	Traditionally, penance has been composed of four elements,	39:49
	contrition, confession, satisfaction, and absolution.	39:54
	Contrition is a recognition of who we as unworthy persons	40:06
	are in the presence of all nighty, all loving God.	40:11
	Confession is the specifying of those things	40:19
	that have won our love from God	40:24
	and of those ways in which we have violated our relation	40:29
	with God and with our neighbor.	40:32
	Satisfaction is the effort to amend	40:37
	in so far as we were able	40:42
	those destructive things we've done,	40:45
	the relationships we've broken, the hurt we've caused.	40:49
	And absolution is the announcement of God's forgiving grace.	40:56
	All of these elements remain important.	41:04
	In the Protestant tradition,	41:09
	we've replaced absolution as a sacrament	41:11
	with words of assurance,	41:14
	that is the restating of God's forgiveness	41:16
	and gift of new life.	41:21
	Perhaps we can draw these all together.	41:25
	Penance is the offering of life to God	41:30
	in the act of penance, all of one's defenses are dropped.	41:34
	All of one's pretentions are set aside.	41:38
	As penitence we attempt to amend the wrong we have done.	41:43
	And through it all, we are renewed by God's grace.	41:48
	That's another rather strange angle to this,	42:01
	that is we often fear to be repentant.	42:05
	For at one level, we do not want to be found out.	42:12
	And yet at another level, we do want to be known.	42:17
	Perhaps Robert Frost knew this.	42:23
	He writes, "We make ourselves a place apart	42:25
	behind light words, which tease and flout,	42:31
	but all the agitated heart till someone really	42:36
	finds us out."	42:42
	There is great release in being found out by God,	42:45
	and in being able to relax into the relationship with God.	42:52
	To repent is to place God at the center of our lives.	43:02
	Douglas Steel once commented that,	43:07
	"The Saint is the one who is determined	43:08
	from all the things in the world,	43:10
	the one thing he/she really wants."	43:12
	And so in character Yardi Mark,	43:19
	that purity of heart is to will one thing,	43:21
	penance springs about this refocusing of life.	43:26
	Penance is the right ordering of life for the narrow way	43:29
	of which Jesus spoke is the focused way.	43:34
	It is the way which is focused upon God.	43:37
	And the results of penance is pruning	43:46
	the pruning of life, the disciplining of life,	43:53
	which cuts off that, which is excessive,	43:58
	unnecessary, distracting.	44:01
	Pruning is keeping the focus clear.	44:07
	Because the difficulty with pruning	44:13
	is that one must not only cut off dead branches.	44:16
	One must also sometimes cut off attractive,	44:18
	intriguing, new growth.	44:24
	Yet God mercy, also sends leanness	44:30
	and life becomes disciplined by the prime love	44:36
	out of which we live.	44:39
	Just one illustration, opinion analysts, Daniel Yankelovich	44:43
	in a recent survey found that 59% of American citizens	44:50
	were not only willing to attempt conservation measures,	44:55
	but quote, "They would actually welcome a simpler life,	45:00
	less dominated by material possessions."	45:04
	Isn't it strange that we were reluctant to do	45:08
	what we want to do?	45:11
	Perhaps this is one of the places where a penance starts,	45:14
	Penance is being set in right relationship with God	45:21
	and with our neighbor and it is in lent	45:27
	that this event should take place.	45:31
	But now just a few words about assurance	45:39
	for penance as an act before God is an act of love	45:43
	in response to love.	45:48
	Our confession of sin is in the context of grace.	45:52
	We could not confess if there weren't no grace	45:55
	in truth, of course our pennants begins because	45:58
	we know that grace already exist	46:01
	for one does not put one down one's armor	46:05
	in the face of evil.	46:08
	One does not drop one's weapons, fragile as they may be	46:11
	in the face of malevolence	46:15
	penance, which does not know that it's an act	46:19
	in the context of love is foolish.	46:23
	Penance which does not know that it is a confession	46:29
	of a violation of love, is insensitive.	46:34
	But we know that we can honestly reveal ourselves	46:41
	before God, because we know that he cares for us	46:44
	more than we care for ourselves.	46:47
	We can expose our weakness	46:50
	because we can count on God's strength.	46:51
	We can accept ourselves as soon as because	46:54
	we already know God's forgiveness.	46:57
	And this is why penance in our worship service	47:04
	is followed by words of assurance.	47:07
	Consequently, we can be utterly serious about ourselves	47:11
	in penance because we can utterly relax about ourselves	47:17
	in God's grace.	47:25
	To receive words of assurance	47:29
	is to experience a new freedom.	47:31
	We often simply attempt to carry too much.	47:35
	We take our importance too seriously.	47:39
	We pretend too much knowledge, too much virtue,	47:42
	too much spirituality.	47:48
	And we have a desperate sense of trying to hold	47:51
	our lives together	47:54
	to repent is to release our hold upon our lives.	47:57
	Words of assurance, remind us of God's hold upon us.	48:05
	My peace I leave with you, my grace is sufficient for you.	48:14
	Some years ago, an undergraduate came to my office.	48:25
	He sat for a little five minutes without speaking.	48:27
	And finally, when he was able to speak, he said,	48:30
	I can't do everything I'm supposed to do.	48:34
	He would always been responsible,	48:41
	suddenly found that he did not have strength to do	48:45
	what he thought it was his responsibility to do.	48:48
	And he had pushed himself to the point	48:52
	that he could no longer function.	48:56
	And it is here and I'll sense of inadequacy and weakness	49:00
	and our laying bare of our lives before God,	49:07
	that words of assurance are needed	49:11
	cast all your care upon him for,	49:14
	for he cares for you.	49:19
	Penance without assurance is incomplete.	49:26
	If one cleanses the house and simply leaves at seven devils,	49:29
	worse than the first can come in and take up habitation.	49:33
	But words of assurance bring the inrush of God's spirit.	49:39
	We are set free for God and free for our neighbor.	49:45
	And we know that by God's grace,	49:52
	it is well, it is well with our souls.	49:56
	So back to our text, Isaiah saw the Lord.	50:05
	He saw himself and he cried, woe is me,	50:10
	but he also experienced a cleansing.	50:16
	Then flew one of the seraphims to me,	50:20
	holding in his hand, a burning coal,	50:24
	which he had taken with tongs from the altar.	50:28
	And he touched my mouth and he said, behold,	50:31
	this has touched your lips.	50:35
	Your guilt is taken away, your sin is forgiven.	50:38
	There it is the act of forgiveness, words of assurance.	50:43
	And I heard the voice of the Lord saying,	50:52
	whom shall I send and who will go for us?	50:53
	Then I said, here am I send me.	50:57
	Isaiah's vision is complete.	51:02
	A vision of God, a vision of himself,	51:05
	a vision of himself in contrition before God	51:13
	being raised by God	51:19
	and a vision of himself in the service of God.	51:23
	May I close with a prayer of confession	51:31
	and some words of assurance.	51:34
	Oh, all mighty God, give us grace to approach thee	51:38
	at this time with penitent and believing hearts,	51:44
	we confess that we have sinned against thee,	51:52
	and are not worthy to be called our children.	51:54
	Yet do thou in mercy, keep us as thine own.	51:58
	Grant us true repentance	52:04
	and forgive us all our sins through Jesus Christ our Lord.	52:07
	Let us reason together sayeth the Lord	52:17
	though your sins be as Scarlet, they shall be white as snow.	52:21
	Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.	52:25
	For God so loved the world, that he gave His only son	52:33
	that who ever believes in him should not perish,	52:39
	but have everlasting life.	52:47
	Amen.	52:51
	(sacred music)	52:53
-	Oh, God palatable mercies.	1:02:37
	Receive this offering, which we present to thee	1:02:42
	as part of our worship.	1:02:45
	May these gifts be the symbol of our love for thee,	1:02:48
	and for that son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.	1:02:53
	Amen.	1:02:59
	(sacred music)	1:03:21
	Onto God's gracious mercy and protection.	1:06:43
	Do we commit to you	1:06:47
	may the blessing of God come upon you abundantly,	1:06:49
	may it keep you strong and tranquil	1:06:54
	in the truth of his promises through Jesus Christ our Lord	1:06:58
	(sacred music)	1:07:13

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Title:

Thomas A. Langford - "Penance and Words of Assurance" (March 13, 1977)

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Date:

March 13, 1977

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Langford, Thomas A.

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Duke University. Chapel

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