Gaylord Lehman - "Wonder Bread" (August 7, 1988)
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| (whimsical church organ music) | 0:01 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 0:32 | |
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| - | Good morning, and welcome to Duke University chapel. | 3:38 |
| We're glad you are with us today. | 3:41 | |
| Our preacher for this morning | 3:44 | |
| is the Reverend Dr. Gaylord Lehman, | 3:46 | |
| who comes to us from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. | 3:49 | |
| We welcome him him here to the chapel | 3:53 | |
| and look forward to hearing him. | 3:56 | |
| We also this Sunday bid farewell | 4:00 | |
| to our summer choir that's been under | 4:04 | |
| the direction of Dr. Rodney Wynkoop, | 4:06 | |
| and we thank those who've so faithfully served | 4:09 | |
| in the summer choir throughout this summer. | 4:12 | |
| Next Sunday we will have a community choir | 4:16 | |
| and our preacher is the founder of | 4:19 | |
| Habitat for Humanity, Millard Fuller. | 4:22 | |
| If you're interested in the Habitat for Humanity walk | 4:25 | |
| or house raising that is to occur in Durham | 4:28 | |
| as part of his visit, | 4:31 | |
| brochures are located back on the attendance desk | 4:32 | |
| here in the chapel and we invited you to pick up one. | 4:37 | |
| And now let us continue our worship. | 4:41 | |
| (choir singing) | 4:53 | |
| (choir singing) | 5:12 | |
| (choir singing) | 5:55 | |
| (choir singing) | 6:36 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 7:02 | |
| (choir singing) | 7:41 | |
| (choir singing) | 8:11 | |
| (choir singing) | 8:51 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 9:31 | |
| (choir singing) | 10:15 | |
| - | Gracious God, | 10:34 |
| whose son Jesus has become bread of our lives. | 10:36 | |
| Come to us in this hour of worship, | 10:41 | |
| and feed us. | 10:45 | |
| Feed us with your word, read and preached | 10:47 | |
| with your praise in music and song. | 10:50 | |
| Our hungers might be met and our deepest thirst quenched | 10:55 | |
| by your love. | 10:59 | |
| This we pray. | 11:02 | |
| Amen. | 11:04 | |
| Be seated. | 11:05 | |
| - | Let us pray. | 11:13 |
| Open our hearts and minds o' God. | 11:16 | |
| By the power of your holy spirit. | 11:20 | |
| So that as the word is read and proclaimed | 11:23 | |
| we might hear with joy what you say to us this day. | 11:27 | |
| Amen. | 11:32 | |
| The first lesson is taken from the second book of Samuel. | 11:35 | |
| Then David, mustered the men who were with him, | 11:40 | |
| and sat over them commanders of thousands | 11:44 | |
| and commanders of hundreds. | 11:46 | |
| And the King ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, | 11:50 | |
| "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." | 11:55 | |
| And all the people heard when the King gave orders | 12:01 | |
| to all the commanders about Absalom. | 12:05 | |
| And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. | 12:10 | |
| Absalom was riding upon his mule. | 12:14 | |
| And the mule went under the thick branches | 12:17 | |
| of a great oak and his head caught fast in the oak, | 12:19 | |
| and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, | 12:24 | |
| while the mule that was under him went on. | 12:28 | |
| And a certain man saw it and told Joab, | 12:32 | |
| "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak." | 12:36 | |
| And Joab said to the man who told him, "what? | 12:41 | |
| You saw him? | 12:45 | |
| Why then, did you not strike him there to the ground? | 12:47 | |
| I would've been glad to give you ten pieces of silver | 12:51 | |
| and a girdle." | 12:54 | |
| But the man said to Joab, | 12:58 | |
| "Even if I felt in my hand the weight | 13:00 | |
| of a thousand pieces of silver, | 13:04 | |
| I would not put forth my hand against the King's son. | 13:07 | |
| For in our hearing the King commanded you | 13:12 | |
| and Abishai and Ittai, for my sake, | 13:15 | |
| protect the young man Absalom. | 13:19 | |
| On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously | 13:22 | |
| against his life and there is nothing hidden | 13:26 | |
| from the king, then you yourself would've stood aloof." | 13:30 | |
| Joab said "I will not waste time like this with you." | 13:36 | |
| And he took three darts in his hand | 13:41 | |
| and thrust them into the heart of Absalom | 13:44 | |
| while he was still alive in the oak. | 13:48 | |
| And ten young men, Joab's armor bearers, | 13:51 | |
| surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him. | 13:55 | |
| This ends the reading of the first lesson. | 14:00 | |
| - | Let us stand for the Psalm. | 14:10 |
| Oh god, thou art my god I seek thee. | 14:25 | |
| (congregation replying) | 14:29 | |
| My flesh faints before thee. | 14:31 | |
| (congregation replying) | 14:34 | |
| So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary. | 14:39 | |
| (congregation replying) | 14:42 | |
| Because thy steadfast love in better than life. | 14:45 | |
| (congregation replying) | 14:49 | |
| So I will be bless thee as long as I live. | 14:51 | |
| (congregation replying) | 14:54 | |
| My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat. | 14:58 | |
| (congregation replying) | 15:01 | |
| When I think of thee upon my bed. | 15:05 | |
| (congregation replying) | 15:08 | |
| For thou has been my help. | 15:12 | |
| (congregation replying) | 15:14 | |
| My soul clings to thee. | 15:18 | |
| (congregation replying) | 15:21 | |
| (church organ music) | 15:23 | |
| (choir singing) | 15:32 | |
| (choir singing) | 16:07 | |
| - | The second lesson is taken | 16:29 |
| from Paul's letter to the Ephesians. | 16:31 | |
| Therefor, putting away falsehood, | 16:36 | |
| let everyone speak truth with his neighbor. | 16:39 | |
| For we are members, one of another. | 16:44 | |
| Be angry, but do not sin. | 16:48 | |
| Do not let the sun go down on your anger. | 16:50 | |
| And give no opportunity to the devil. | 16:54 | |
| Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, | 16:58 | |
| doing honest work with his hands, | 17:03 | |
| so that he may be able to give to those in need. | 17:05 | |
| Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, | 17:11 | |
| but only such as is good for edifying, | 17:14 | |
| as fits the occasion. | 17:18 | |
| That it may impart grace to those who hear. | 17:20 | |
| And do not grieve the holy spirit of God, | 17:25 | |
| in whom you are sealed for the day of redemption. | 17:28 | |
| Let all bitterness and wrath and anger | 17:32 | |
| and clamor and slander be put away from you | 17:36 | |
| with all malice and be kind to one another. | 17:41 | |
| Tender hearted, forgiving one another, | 17:46 | |
| as God and Christ forgave you. | 17:50 | |
| Therefor, the imitators of God, | 17:54 | |
| as beloved children and walk in love, | 17:57 | |
| as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us | 18:01 | |
| a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. | 18:06 | |
| This ends the reading of the second lesson. | 18:12 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 18:37 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 19:08 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 19:39 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 20:14 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 21:02 | |
| The gospel is taken from John. | 21:45 | |
| Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. | 21:48 | |
| He who comes to me shall not hunger. | 21:53 | |
| And he who believes in me shall never thirst." | 21:57 | |
| The Jews then murmured at him because he said, | 22:03 | |
| "I am the bread of life which came down from heaven." | 22:06 | |
| They said, "is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, | 22:11 | |
| whose father and mother we know? | 22:16 | |
| How does he now say 'I have come down from heaven'?" | 22:19 | |
| Jesus answered them, "do not murmer among yourselves. | 22:24 | |
| No one can come to me unless the father | 22:29 | |
| who sent me draws him. | 22:32 | |
| And I will raise him up at the last day | 22:35 | |
| it is written in the prophets | 22:39 | |
| and they shall all be taught by God. | 22:42 | |
| Everyone who has heard and learned from the father | 22:46 | |
| comes to me, not that anyone has seen the father, | 22:50 | |
| except him who is from God. | 22:55 | |
| He has seen the father. | 22:58 | |
| Truly truly, I say to you, | 23:02 | |
| he who believes has eternal life. | 23:05 | |
| I am the bread of life. | 23:10 | |
| Your fathers ate mana in the wilderness | 23:13 | |
| and they died. | 23:16 | |
| This is the bread which comes down from heaven. | 23:18 | |
| That a man may eat of it, and not die. | 23:22 | |
| I am the living bread, which came down from heaven. | 23:27 | |
| If anyone eats of this bread, | 23:31 | |
| he will live forever. | 23:34 | |
| And the bread which I shall give for the life of the world | 23:36 | |
| is my flesh." | 23:40 | |
| This ends the reading of the gospel. | 23:43 | |
| - | The ad in the classified section said, | 23:59 |
| "for sale, hot tub. | 24:03 | |
| Complete with plumbing. | 24:07 | |
| Will trade for pick-up truck. | 24:11 | |
| Call after 5 p.m." | 24:14 | |
| You don't have to have an advanced degree | 24:19 | |
| in clinical psychology to suspect that | 24:22 | |
| behind these words there lies | 24:24 | |
| a life in major transition. | 24:27 | |
| Away with the gold chains, | 24:31 | |
| the wine coolers, the avocado dip. | 24:34 | |
| In with the baseball cap, the Bud Light, | 24:39 | |
| and the flannel shirt. | 24:44 | |
| Out with public television, | 24:47 | |
| and in with The Nashville Network. | 24:48 | |
| Out with the teal and purple of Alexander Julian, | 24:52 | |
| and in with the red and white of the good old boys. | 24:57 | |
| Away with the hot tub, | 25:03 | |
| and in with the half ton. | 25:07 | |
| We live in a culture that is filled with | 25:12 | |
| all kinds of lifestyle changes. | 25:16 | |
| There are all kinds of searches and longings | 25:20 | |
| going on among us. | 25:23 | |
| Some people become vegetarians, others join the Nautilus. | 25:26 | |
| Some become computer literate, | 25:33 | |
| others fly hot air balloons. | 25:36 | |
| Some go into therapy, others join a bible study group. | 25:40 | |
| People are all the time making | 25:47 | |
| adjustments to the compass setting of their lives. | 25:49 | |
| These changes are not usually advertised | 25:54 | |
| in the classifieds. | 25:57 | |
| They are not as dramatic as trading | 26:00 | |
| hot tubs for half tons. | 26:04 | |
| Some of our adjustments are rather trivial and superficial. | 26:08 | |
| But very often they are the signs of a crucial | 26:14 | |
| and sometimes courageous search. | 26:18 | |
| Push the hold button on that for just a moment. | 26:25 | |
| And let me take you back to the gospel of John. | 26:30 | |
| The section of scripture that was just read. | 26:35 | |
| Where for the last several Sundays | 26:40 | |
| in the lectionary lessons from the gospel we have been | 26:44 | |
| kneading the dough and shaping the loaf | 26:47 | |
| which speaks of Jesus as the bread of life. | 26:51 | |
| John had a split level communications system. | 26:58 | |
| He used a lot of words with double meaning. | 27:04 | |
| Bread, | 27:08 | |
| water, | 27:10 | |
| life, | 27:12 | |
| wine, | 27:14 | |
| birth. | 27:15 | |
| To John, Jesus' miracles were signs. | 27:18 | |
| They pointed beyond the physical reality | 27:24 | |
| to a life changing substance. | 27:27 | |
| For example, | 27:32 | |
| Jesus' mother wanted him to provide | 27:34 | |
| some additional wine for the wedding guests. | 27:37 | |
| Instead he produced an abundance that | 27:42 | |
| would've made Ernest and Julio Gallo proud. | 27:44 | |
| And he pointed beyond the wine, | 27:47 | |
| to the matter of believing. | 27:50 | |
| Nicodemus came to Jesus after hours. | 27:55 | |
| They discussed birth. | 28:00 | |
| But Jesus moved it beyond the maternity ward to talk | 28:03 | |
| about spiritual birth and re-birth. | 28:08 | |
| The Samaritan woman who too many hands had handled, | 28:15 | |
| and too many feet left trampled in the dust. | 28:19 | |
| She talked about drawing water from a well. | 28:24 | |
| While Jesus talked about living water. | 28:29 | |
| That Perrier of the spirit which ends all thirst. | 28:34 | |
| Mary and Martha had already taken all the dishes | 28:43 | |
| back to those that brought the food after | 28:47 | |
| their brother's death. | 28:50 | |
| But Jesus went well beyond resuscitating Lazarus, | 28:53 | |
| to offering resurrection and life for the whole world. | 28:59 | |
| Always a double meaning. | 29:06 | |
| Wine beyond wine. | 29:10 | |
| Birth beyond birth. | 29:13 | |
| Water beyond water. | 29:16 | |
| Life beyond life. | 29:17 | |
| And bread beyond bread. | 29:21 | |
| We who are Southern Baptists could live | 29:27 | |
| up to all of our negative billing | 29:31 | |
| with the feeding of the five thousand story. | 29:33 | |
| Nothing points up any better the way | 29:38 | |
| we can do battle over the Bible | 29:40 | |
| than the story of the loafs and the fish. | 29:43 | |
| Those who prefer their religion straight | 29:48 | |
| and literal would tell you that Jesus | 29:51 | |
| had a kind of magic basket | 29:55 | |
| from which he pulled loaf after loaf, | 29:57 | |
| like running copies off a Xerox machine. | 30:00 | |
| The more liberal among us would focus on | 30:05 | |
| the little boy's unselfishness. | 30:08 | |
| His willingness to share his Big Mac and his small fries. | 30:13 | |
| Which prompted others in the crowd to break out | 30:18 | |
| their lunches and to share them with their needy neighbors. | 30:21 | |
| And then in fascination with fast food production, | 30:28 | |
| we would emphasize the peripheral and we would | 30:33 | |
| miss the punchline, | 30:36 | |
| that Jesus calls us to receive | 30:40 | |
| a life giving bread from heaven. | 30:43 | |
| A truly wonder bread. | 30:48 | |
| Which will not merely build strong bodies twelve ways, | 30:52 | |
| but will meet the hunger beneath all other hungers, | 30:59 | |
| the longing for a knowledge of God. | 31:06 | |
| "I am the bread of life", said Jesus. | 31:12 | |
| He who comes to me shall not hunger. | 31:18 | |
| If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. | 31:22 | |
| And that brings us back to the world | 31:29 | |
| of hot tubs and half tons. | 31:31 | |
| And it leads us to confront our own hungers. | 31:37 | |
| Our search for meaning. | 31:42 | |
| The quest to discover our best selves. | 31:45 | |
| Sometime ago, Garrison Keillor of Lake Wobegon fame | 31:53 | |
| talked about his son, | 31:57 | |
| who at the time was 15 years old. | 31:59 | |
| He said that his son had taken up the electric guitar, | 32:04 | |
| and that his music tended toward | 32:08 | |
| the heavy metal blues variety. | 32:10 | |
| When Keillor was working at home, | 32:15 | |
| writing at the typewriter downstairs, | 32:19 | |
| he could hear his son playing. | 32:21 | |
| And he was distressed because the music was, | 32:24 | |
| as he put it, "soul wrenchingly sad." | 32:27 | |
| Keillor went on to wonder about the source | 32:34 | |
| of his son's anguish. | 32:36 | |
| Where did he learn that? | 32:40 | |
| I give him enough money. | 32:43 | |
| I'm a nice dad. | 32:46 | |
| We get along well. | 32:49 | |
| I give him lots of things, he does well in school. | 32:52 | |
| Where's he get this anguish? | 32:56 | |
| And then he answered his own question. | 33:01 | |
| I guess we all got it inside of us. | 33:05 | |
| We all got it inside of us. | 33:13 | |
| We all got this anguish. | 33:19 | |
| We all search the desire to know who am I, | 33:22 | |
| and why am I here, and what am I for | 33:27 | |
| is inherent in all of us. | 33:31 | |
| We want the wheel of fortune to stop on the big money, | 33:35 | |
| but we'll take any number so long as it promises | 33:40 | |
| a framework of identity and purpose. | 33:43 | |
| We're all hungry people | 33:49 | |
| looking for bread. | 33:53 | |
| Living bread. | 33:58 | |
| "If anyone eats this bread," said Jesus, | 34:01 | |
| he will live forever." | 34:04 | |
| Forever? | 34:10 | |
| Not any of us wants to die. | 34:13 | |
| But who wants to live forever? | 34:18 | |
| Have you walked down the corridors | 34:22 | |
| of the veteran's hospital across the way lately? | 34:24 | |
| Have you visited the nursing home recently? | 34:29 | |
| Who wants to carry all of that baggage | 34:34 | |
| down some eternal hallway? | 34:36 | |
| My sermon on eternal life had been much too futuristic. | 34:43 | |
| Too much sweet by and by, | 34:49 | |
| not enough tough here and now. | 34:52 | |
| Parishioners have a way of injecting their ministers | 34:55 | |
| with massive doses of humility. | 34:58 | |
| As did the one who said on the way out of the church, | 35:02 | |
| "all of those things may be nice, | 35:05 | |
| but I'm mostly interested in making it till Friday." | 35:09 | |
| And so are you. | 35:16 | |
| We tend to spot those short terms goals | 35:19 | |
| and have a way of moving from crisis to crisis. | 35:22 | |
| If I can just get through this exam. | 35:29 | |
| If I can just make it through the summer. | 35:34 | |
| If I can just get through this wedding. | 35:39 | |
| And it won't be long before you hear people saying, | 35:44 | |
| "if I can just make it through Christmas." | 35:46 | |
| Getting through to our own next Friday | 35:52 | |
| has become, for most of us, a way of life. | 35:56 | |
| When you've got a station wagon full of screaming kids | 36:02 | |
| and you're headed for the pool, | 36:05 | |
| you're not vitally concerned about the next life. | 36:06 | |
| You're mostly interested in escaping this one. | 36:10 | |
| Jesus talked about living bread, | 36:16 | |
| producing eternal life. | 36:20 | |
| And he celebrated the dailyness of it. | 36:25 | |
| Eternal life in the future? | 36:30 | |
| Yes it has that dimension. | 36:32 | |
| But also eternal life in the now. | 36:36 | |
| And we're not so much concerned | 36:42 | |
| with life that has no end as we are with | 36:44 | |
| life that has no quality. | 36:47 | |
| In New York City's Hayden Planetarium, | 36:53 | |
| that yankee counterpart of our Morehead, | 36:57 | |
| there's a sign that grabbed my attention | 37:01 | |
| and wouldn't let go. | 37:05 | |
| Down at the end of the concourse, | 37:08 | |
| there is a directional marker which says, | 37:11 | |
| "to the solar system and restrooms." | 37:15 | |
| Now that's a magnificent combination | 37:23 | |
| of the earthy and the heavenly. | 37:26 | |
| The far off-ness of the eternal, | 37:31 | |
| and the urgency of the right now. | 37:34 | |
| And most of us are far more concerned | 37:39 | |
| about finding the restrooms than we are about exploring | 37:42 | |
| the solar system. | 37:46 | |
| Life has a daily-ness and an earthiness about it. | 37:50 | |
| And God meets us in the midst of that daily-ness | 37:54 | |
| and that earthiness and says | 37:57 | |
| he is the bread of life | 38:01 | |
| and offers us a quality of life | 38:06 | |
| that he called eternal. | 38:09 | |
| It's quite remarkable how this feeding story ends. | 38:15 | |
| The people dispersed. | 38:21 | |
| Jesus and his disciples went off to some | 38:24 | |
| forgotten and unpronounceable place. | 38:26 | |
| There was no basking in the afterglow | 38:31 | |
| of a great event. | 38:33 | |
| No follow up to get the people | 38:37 | |
| enlisted in a cause. | 38:39 | |
| No plans to meet again and | 38:42 | |
| do it next year. | 38:45 | |
| The party's over. | 38:49 | |
| It's back to the drawing boards. | 38:51 | |
| Back to the classrooms and the offices | 38:55 | |
| and the community meetings. | 38:57 | |
| For Jesus having fed us sends us | 39:01 | |
| back into the real world from which we came. | 39:04 | |
| With the assurance that God is our host. | 39:09 | |
| Or hostess, if you prefer. | 39:15 | |
| And that he is present at every table from the kitchen | 39:19 | |
| to the dining hall, from Bacchus to Burger King. | 39:24 | |
| One of North Carolina's up and coming | 39:32 | |
| young authors is Kaye Gibbons. | 39:35 | |
| A young woman from Rocky Mount | 39:41 | |
| who as a teenager was in and out | 39:43 | |
| of our house like a member of our family. | 39:46 | |
| Kaye Gibbons is the author of a very successful | 39:51 | |
| first novel titled Ellen Foster. | 39:55 | |
| Sweet, spunky Ellen is an 11 year old orphan | 40:00 | |
| who tells her story about | 40:06 | |
| going to live with her foster family. | 40:08 | |
| In good, colorful, Southern but childlike prose, | 40:14 | |
| she says her father drank his self to death | 40:20 | |
| and her mother had a bad heart dating back to | 40:26 | |
| romantic fever when she was young. | 40:29 | |
| She talks about the meager rations | 40:34 | |
| and the biscuits that were on her table | 40:36 | |
| in her natural home. | 40:39 | |
| How the food was scarce during her childhood years | 40:43 | |
| and how all of that gave way to a greater abundance | 40:46 | |
| in her new family. | 40:50 | |
| And she told about eating her breakfast | 40:54 | |
| and sitting at the breakfast table | 40:58 | |
| and comparing what she had on her plate | 41:00 | |
| with the picture on the cereal box. | 41:04 | |
| Toast, | 41:09 | |
| eggs, | 41:11 | |
| juice, | 41:13 | |
| milk, | 41:15 | |
| cereal. | 41:17 | |
| It all matches. | 41:19 | |
| It all matches. | 41:23 | |
| Thou preparest us a table before me. | 41:29 | |
| Bread for our hunger. | 41:37 | |
| Purpose for our aimlessness. | 41:41 | |
| Strength for our weakness. | 41:46 | |
| Grace for our sins. | 41:51 | |
| It all matches. | 41:57 | |
| It's all bread from heaven | 42:03 | |
| to feed a hell of a world | 42:09 | |
| like ours. | 42:14 | |
| (church organ music) | 42:29 | |
| (choir singing) | 43:17 | |
| (choir singing) | 43:57 | |
| (choir singing) | 44:22 | |
| (choir singing) | 45:10 | |
| - | Let us unite in this historic confession | 45:41 |
| of the Christian faith. | 45:44 | |
| I believe in God the father almighty, | 45:47 | |
| maker of heaven and earth, | 45:50 | |
| and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our lord, | 45:53 | |
| who is conceived by the holy spirit, | 45:56 | |
| born of the Virgin Mary, | 45:59 | |
| suffered under Pontius Pilate, | 46:01 | |
| was crucified dead and buried. | 46:03 | |
| The third day he rose from the dead. | 46:06 | |
| He ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand | 46:09 | |
| of God the father almighty. | 46:13 | |
| From thence he shall to judge the quick and the dead. | 46:15 | |
| I believe in the holy spirit, | 46:19 | |
| the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, | 46:22 | |
| the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, | 46:26 | |
| and the life everlasting, amen. | 46:30 | |
| The lord be with you. | 46:34 | |
| Let us pray. | 46:38 | |
| Bread of the world. | 46:50 | |
| God satisfies our hungers beneath our hungers, | 46:54 | |
| and quenches our thirst beyond our thirst. | 46:57 | |
| We have looked at you and your work, | 47:04 | |
| and seen none other than the living God. | 47:09 | |
| This is why we pray to you. | 47:14 | |
| Because we have come before you so many times, | 47:18 | |
| and you have not sent us empty away. | 47:22 | |
| We pray for those who suffer this day, | 47:29 | |
| because of the inhumanity of war. | 47:32 | |
| Extinguish fires of hate, flamed by the passions | 47:35 | |
| of men and women. | 47:39 | |
| We pray for people for whom their nation is God, | 47:43 | |
| and their flag is holy. | 47:48 | |
| Silence the guns, increase international understanding | 47:51 | |
| and convict us of our own complicity in the violence | 47:55 | |
| and war around us. | 48:01 | |
| We pray for those who suffer from illness | 48:06 | |
| of the body or the mind. | 48:09 | |
| Particularly we pray for those who worship with us | 48:11 | |
| in Duke hospitals. | 48:15 | |
| We pray for sufferers from cancer or AIDS | 48:17 | |
| or depression or alcoholism and all other sicknesses. | 48:20 | |
| People whom we often ignore. | 48:27 | |
| Because their illness reminds us of our own vulnerability. | 48:31 | |
| But we pray because we know you never ignore. | 48:38 | |
| We pray for people on vacation. | 48:43 | |
| Praying especially for those whose vacation | 48:46 | |
| includes worship here in this chapel. | 48:49 | |
| Give us times in life when we busy people | 48:52 | |
| are set free from daily responsibilities, | 48:57 | |
| and have the time to enjoy the wonder of family. | 49:01 | |
| The gift of good friends. | 49:07 | |
| The grace to do nothing. | 49:09 | |
| We pray for those who suffer from lack of rain | 49:14 | |
| or excessive heat. | 49:17 | |
| Nature has reminded us this summer of the | 49:20 | |
| fragility of our existence. | 49:23 | |
| And our dependency upon forces we do not control | 49:26 | |
| for life itself. | 49:31 | |
| Oh God in time like these, | 49:36 | |
| when quiet, overwhelmed by sowing arches | 49:39 | |
| of this great chapel, | 49:44 | |
| or inundated by life's great problems. | 49:47 | |
| Trapped in our bad habits and addictions | 49:53 | |
| or depressed over the future of this | 49:55 | |
| fragile island Earth home of ours. | 49:58 | |
| It's time like these that we are made | 50:03 | |
| to acknowledge our weakness. | 50:07 | |
| Our emptiness. | 50:10 | |
| Our hungers and thirst. | 50:13 | |
| And thus cry out to you for shelter. | 50:16 | |
| We cry out to you to feed us. | 50:23 | |
| And to do for us those things which we | 50:27 | |
| cannot do for ourselves. | 50:32 | |
| And thus we pray. | 50:35 | |
| Amen. | 50:38 | |
| As a forgiven and reconciled people, | 50:41 | |
| let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God. | 50:44 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 50:55 | |
| (upbeat church organ music) | 51:45 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 52:23 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 52:29 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 52:34 | |
| (choir singing) | 52:41 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 52:51 | |
| ♪ Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice ♪ | 53:00 | |
| (choir singing) | 53:06 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 53:20 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 53:25 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 53:30 | |
| (choir singing) | 53:37 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 53:44 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 53:48 | |
| ♪ Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice ♪ | 53:53 | |
| (choir singing) | 54:03 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah halle-halle-hallelujah amen ♪ | 54:29 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 54:37 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 54:41 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 54:44 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 54:47 | |
| (church organ music) | 55:09 | |
| (church organ music) | 55:35 | |
| (choir singing) | 56:24 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪ | 56:38 | |
| (choir singing) | 56:44 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪ | 56:56 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪ | 57:01 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪ | 57:08 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 57:15 | |
| Thanks be to God. | 57:26 | |
| As near be to us as bread and family | 57:28 | |
| and good jobs and good friends. | 57:32 | |
| Thanks be to God who gives us what we need. | 57:35 | |
| Who does not desert us when we are unlovable or unlovely. | 57:38 | |
| Thanks be to God who shelters us when we are weak and small. | 57:43 | |
| Thanks be to God who prods us when we are complacent. | 57:49 | |
| Who judges us when we would excuse ourselves. | 57:52 | |
| Who shows us truth when we would be | 57:58 | |
| content to live by error. | 58:01 | |
| Thanks be to God who blesses us | 58:04 | |
| as we go forth. | 58:07 | |
| Thanks be to God who has taught us by his blessed son | 58:10 | |
| Jesus to pray. | 58:14 | |
| Our father, who art in heaven, | 58:17 | |
| hallowed be they name. | 58:20 | |
| Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, | 58:22 | |
| on earth as it is in heaven. | 58:26 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread, | 58:28 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses, | 58:31 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 58:34 | |
| And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | 58:38 | |
| For thine is the kingdom, and the power | 58:43 | |
| and the glory forever. | 58:46 | |
| Amen. | 58:49 | |
| (triumphant church organ music) | 58:55 | |
| (choir singing) | 59:22 | |
| (choir singing) | 59:54 | |
| (choir singing) | 1:00:28 | |
| (choir singing) | 1:00:59 | |
| The grace of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, | 1:02:01 | |
| the love of God and the fellowship of the holy spirit | 1:02:04 | |
| be with you now and always. | 1:02:07 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 1:02:15 | |
| (choir singing a cappella) | 1:02:57 | |
| (fast church organ music) | 1:03:35 | |
| (fast church organ music) | 1:03:50 | |
| (church organ music) | 1:04:28 | |
| (soft church organ music) | 1:05:03 | |
| (soft church organ music) | 1:05:55 |