Nancy Ferree-Clark - "Is That All There Is?" (November 26, 1989)

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-	Morning, and welcome to this service of worship	0:00
	here at Due University Chapel	0:02
	on this Christ the King Sunday.	0:04
	We extend warm greetings to each of you,	0:06
	and especially those of you in our	0:08
	radio and television audiences.	0:11
	I would like to thank the Reverend David Oli Jenkins,	0:12
	campus minister for the Wesley Fellowship here at Duke,	0:15
	for serving as this mornings presiding minister,	0:18
	and Mr. Robert Freund, president of Duke campus ministry,	0:21
	for serving as our lector today.	0:25
	We are also grateful to members of our chapel choir	0:27
	who are in town over the Thanksgiving break,	0:30
	for breaking with tradition by coming to church today	0:32
	and providing music for our service.	0:35
	We also thank Mr. David Arcus,	0:38
	who will be conducting them, and Mr. David Kirkland	0:40
	for accompanying the choir as guest organist.	0:43
	Please note the remaining announcements	0:47
	as they are printed in your bulletins.	0:49
	And now let us stand and lift our voices together in song.	0:50
	(organ music)	0:56
	♪ Crown Him with many crowns ♪	1:36
	♪ The Lamb upon His throne ♪	1:40
	♪ Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns ♪	1:45
	♪ All music but it's own ♪	1:49
	♪ Awake my soul and sing ♪	1:55
	♪ Of Him who died for thee ♪	1:59
	♪ And hail Him as thy matchless king ♪	2:04
	♪ Through all eternity ♪	2:09
	♪ Crown him the Lord of life ♪	2:17
	♪ Who triumphed o'er the grave ♪	2:22
	♪ And rose victorious in the strife ♪	2:26
	♪ For those He came to save ♪	2:31
	♪ His glories now we sing ♪	2:36
	♪ Who died and rose on high ♪	2:41
	♪ Who died eternal life to bring ♪	2:47
	♪ And lives that death may die ♪	2:52
	♪ Crown Him the Lord of peace ♪	3:00
	♪ Whose power a scepter sways ♪	3:04
	♪ From pole to pole that wars may cease ♪	3:09
	♪ And all be prayer and praise ♪	3:14
	♪ His reign shall know no end ♪	3:19
	♪ And round His pierced feet ♪	3:24
	♪ Fair flowers of glory now extend ♪	3:29
	♪ Their fragrance ever sweet ♪	3:34
	♪ Crown Him the Lord of years ♪	3:42
	♪ The potentate of time ♪	3:48
	♪ Creator of the rolling spheres ♪	3:53
	♪ Ineffably sublime ♪	3:58
	♪ All hail Redeemer hail ♪	4:04
	♪ For Thou hast died for me ♪	4:08
	♪ Thy praise shall never never fail ♪	4:14
	♪ Throughout eternity ♪	4:19
-	Would you remain standing and join me	4:32
	in the opening callage, number 721.	4:34
	Almighty and everlasting God,	4:40
	it is Your will to restore all things to Christ,	4:43
	Whom You have anointed priest forever,	4:47
	and ruler of creation.	4:50
	Grant that all the people of the earth	4:53
	now divided by the power of sin,	4:55
	may be united under the glorious	4:59
	and gentle rule of Jesus Christ,	5:01
	who lives and reigns forever and ever, amen.	5:04
-	Let us pray.	5:24
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	5:26
	by the power of Your Holy Spirit,	5:30
	so that as the Word is read and proclaimed,	5:33
	we might hear with joy what You say to us this day, amen.	5:36
	Our first lesson this morning	5:43
	comes from the book of Second Samuel,	5:45
	chapter five versus one through five.	5:47
	Then all the tribes of Israel	5:51
	came to David at Hebron and said,	5:53
	behold, we are your bone and flesh,	5:55
	in times past, when Saul was king over us,	5:58
	it was you that led out and brought in Israel,	6:02
	and the Lord said to you,	6:05
	you shall be shepherd of my people, Israel,	6:07
	and you shall be prince over Israel.	6:10
	So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron,	6:13
	and King David made a covenant	6:17
	with them at Hebron before the Lord.	6:18
	And they anointed David king over Israel.	6:21
	David was 30 years old when he began to reign,	6:24
	and he reigned 40 years.	6:28
	At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months,	6:30
	and Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah 30 years.	6:34
	This is the word of the Lord.	6:40
	(organ music)	7:06
	♪ The Lord is a mighty God ♪	7:13
	♪ And a mighty ruler ♪	7:18
	(angelic music)	7:29
-	Please stand and join me in	9:22
	a responsive reading of the 95th Psalm.	9:27
	Oh come let us sing to the Lord,	9:35
	let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.	9:39
	Let us come into God's presence with thanksgiving,	9:43
	let us make a joyful noise with psalms of praise.	9:48
	For the Lord is a great God,	9:51
	and a great ruler above all gods,	9:54
	in whose hands are the depths of the earth,	9:57
	and also the heights of the mountains,	10:00
	the sea belongs to God, who made it,	10:03
	in the dry land because God formed it.	10:06
	Oh come, let us worship and bow down.	10:09
Congregation	Let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.	10:12
-	For the Lord is our God.	10:16
Congregation	And we are the people of God's pasture,	10:19
	and the sheep of God's hand.	10:22
-	Hear the voice of the Lord today.	10:24
	Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,	10:27
	as on the day at Massah when your forebears tested me	10:30
	and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.	10:37
Congregation	For 40 yer I loathed that generation	10:42
	and said, they are a people whose hearts go astray.	10:45
-	And they do not regard my ways.	10:49
	Therefore, I swore in my anger,	10:51
	that they should not enter my rest.	10:54
	(organ music)	10:57
	(angelic choir music)	11:10
-	The second lesson comes from the book	12:05
	of Colossians chapter one, versus 11 through 20.	12:07
	May you be strengthened with all power,	12:12
	according to GOd's glorious might,	12:15
	for all endurance and patience with joy,	12:17
	giving thanks to God, who has qualified us to share	12:21
	in the inheritance of the saints in light.	12:25
	God has delivered us from the power of evil,	12:28
	and transferred us to the kingdom of God's beloved child.	12:31
	In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,	12:36
	who is the image of the invisible God,	12:40
	the firstborn of all creation,	12:43
	for in Christ all things were created.	12:45
	In heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,	12:48
	whether thrones or dominions,	12:52
	or principalities or authorities,	12:54
	all things were created through Christ and for Christ.	12:57
	Christ is before all things,	13:00
	the one in whom all things hold together.	13:03
	Christ is the head of the body, the church,	13:06
	and is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,	13:09
	that in everything Christ might be preeminent.	13:12
	For in Christ, all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell	13:15
	and through Christ to reconcile for Christ all things,	13:20
	whether on earth or in heaven,	13:23
	making peace by the blood of the cross.	13:26
	The Word of the Lord.	13:29
-	Please stand for the reading of the Gospel.	13:44
	A reading from the Gospel according to Saint John.	13:51
	When the great crowd of the Jews	13:56
	learned that Jesus was there,	13:58
	they acme, not only on account of Jesus,	14:01
	but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.	14:03
	So the Chief Priest planned to put Lazarus also to death,	14:08
	because on account of him,	14:12
	many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.	14:15
	The next day, a great crowd who had come to the feast	14:19
	heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.	14:22
	So they took branches of palm trees	14:24
	and went out to meet him, crying, hosanna,	14:27
	blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,	14:30
	even the king of Israel.	14:33
	And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it,	14:35
	as it is written, fear not, daughter of Zion,	14:39
	behold your king is coming, sitting on an asses colt.	14:42
	His discipled did not understand this at first,	14:47
	but when Jesus was glorified,	14:50
	then they remembered that this had been written of him	14:53
	and this had been done to him.	14:56
	The crowd that had been with him	14:59
	when he called Lazarus out of the tomb	15:00
	and raised him from the dead bore witness.	15:02
	The reason why the crowd went to meet him	15:05
	was that they heard he had done this sign.	15:07
	The pharisees then said to one another,	15:10
	you see that you can do nothing,	15:13
	look, the world has gone after him.	15:16
	This is the Word of the Lord.	15:19
	Please be seated.	15:23
	About this time of year I always have the feeling	15:35
	that people become acutely aware of the passing of time.	15:39
	Now I suppose to a great extent	15:44
	that's because holiday seasons are often accompanied	15:46
	by a profound sense of nostalgia.	15:49
	We just can't help reminiscing about	15:52
	all that's happened in the past year,	15:54
	how long it's been since we've seen certain people.	15:57
	How much their children must have grown,	16:00
	and how much we would enjoy seeing them soon.	16:03
	We're also painfully aware of the absence	16:06
	of those who have died in the past year.	16:09
	Each holiday, each birthday,	16:13
	each passage from one year to the next reminds us	16:15
	of the unrepeatable nature of time,	16:18
	in which everything passes away, including ourselves.	16:21
	Such is the nature of time,	16:26
	at least in the quantitative sense,	16:28
	with which our lives are inextricably bound.	16:30
	Paradoxically, our Gospel lesson for today,	16:35
	while marking the last Sunday of the church year,	16:38
	points at the same time toward another kind of time.	16:42
	(speaking in foreign language),	16:47
	as opposed to (speaking in foreign language) in the Greek,	16:48
	time in the qualitative sense.	16:50
	It's what you mean when you say the time is right,	16:54
	or, it's time to tell you something.	16:57
	It's like being with someone you love	17:01
	when you have little if any sense of the passing of time.	17:02
	Today's Gospel celebrating Christ the king,	17:07
	when seen in it's proper context	17:11
	has such a timelessness about it,	17:13
	as thought the chronological time stopped flowing,	17:16
	and it's rippled surface grew so smooth and still	17:19
	that if you opened your eyes	17:23
	you would be able to see deep down into the water,	17:24
	deep down into time, and what you would see	17:28
	you would not be able to distinguish as past or present,	17:32
	but simply as what is,	17:36
	because in (speaking in foreign language) time,	17:39
	past and present have a way of melting into each other,	17:41
	and finally of melting away completely.	17:45
	Perhaps you've had a similar experience	17:49
	when an event such as a birth, a death,	17:51
	perhaps a marriage or a baptism,	17:54
	brought about such an unusual joy or pain,	17:57
	that you caught a glimpse of not only what life	18:01
	is all about in the present,	18:03
	but in the past and the future too.	18:05
	A great crowd had gathered in the	18:10
	heat of the day in Jerusalem	18:11
	to catch a glimpse of the man who had reportedly	18:14
	raised Lazarus from the dead,	18:16
	and maybe even of Lazarus too,	18:19
	if the Chief Priest hadn't gotten to Him first.	18:22
	There He comes, someone yells at the front of the crowd.	18:25
	As Frederick Buechner describes this scene,	18:29
	the donkeys hooves raised little puffs of dust	18:32
	as it jogs along the sun baked streets,	18:34
	the rider sits with His bare feet tucked in tight,	18:38
	under it's soft round underbelly.	18:42
	In a gesture of extravagance,	18:45
	one of the men who has gathered along the way to watch	18:47
	rushes forward and spreads his cloak out	18:50
	in the street in front of the donkey.	18:53
	This takes him by surprise	18:55
	and causes him to break into a trot,	18:57
	thrown off guard, the rider is	19:00
	jolted backwards at a crazy angle,	19:02
	and for a second it looks as though	19:04
	He will lose His balance and fall.	19:06
	But then, grabbing a fist full of the mane,	19:09
	He pulls Himself straight again.	19:11
	A woman lifts a child off her shoulders	19:14
	and sets him down by the roadside.	19:18
	Several of the onlookers are waving branches of myrtle	19:21
	and willow and sprays of palm leaf.	19:23
	The face of the rider is shiny with sweat.	19:27
	It is a motley crowd that has come to watch him.	19:31
	Many have heard of the riders miraculous deeds	19:34
	and expected to see something more.	19:36
	Others have no idea what the fuss is all about	19:40
	and couldn't care less,	19:42
	it's something to do to pass the time of day, that's all.	19:44
	It's this mysterious rider, human yet divine,	19:50
	who gives our glimpse into Holy Week	19:54
	on this last Sunday of the church year,	19:56
	it' past, present, and future quality.	19:59
	For as we recall his dramatic entrance into Jerusalem,	20:04
	we recognize the terms under which He became King.	20:07
	Not those of the people, not those of His own design,	20:12
	but under God's authority.	20:15
	Even the disciples did not understand this until later	20:18
	that same week when the rider would eat His last meal	20:21
	together with His friends.	20:24
	It is in a large room, upstairs,	20:27
	somewhere in that seething, unpredictable city.	20:30
	The room is filled with sounds of men eating,	20:33
	one of them wipes his hand across his bearded mouth,	20:37
	another is solemn, never once taking his eyes	20:41
	off the one face of all their faces that is still	20:44
	in the way air, just before a storm, is still.	20:48
	As was the custom, the rider gets up to bless the bread,	20:53
	and gives thanks for it.	20:55
	And was the custom, He takes the loaf up into His hands,	20:57
	and breaks it for them.	21:01
	Then the unaccustomed part,	21:04
	He gives the loaf a name, His body,	21:06
	the dark wine a name, His blood.	21:10
	Whatever He means by that, and tells them to eat and drink,	21:13
	although one wonders how they could have any stomach for it,	21:18
	now while their mouths are dry with fear.	21:20
	In other words, He tells them to take His life	21:24
	into themselves and live it for Him.	21:27
	Live it for Him.	21:32
	I try to picture this rider in a more contemporary setting,	21:35
	making a similar request of His friends	21:39
	over dinner in a pub somewhere perhaps,	21:42
	and I wonder how far He would get.	21:45
	I'm sorry friend, I'm up to my ears in commitments.	21:48
	You're sounding a little disoriented.	21:53
	Are You keeping in touch with Your therapist?	21:55
	Yeah, live my life for You,	21:59
	have You noticed how difficult it is	22:01
	just living it for myself?	22:03
	In a recent conversation with several campus ministers,	22:07
	it was noted that cynicism is the mood of the day	22:11
	on most college campuses, at least among many seniors.	22:15
	Whereas freshmen my begin their college careers	22:19
	with the innocent expectation that life will hold for them	22:22
	virtually everything that the admissions brochures promised.	22:26
	The ups and downs of the next four years	22:29
	have a way of challenging those expectations.	22:31
	Broken promises, unrelenting competition,	22:35
	disappointing relationships,	22:39
	or any seemingly unfair occurrence	22:42
	have a way of eating away at the sense of invulnerability	22:45
	so prevalent among youth.	22:48
	Is that all there is?	22:51
	Many begin to ask of life.	22:53
	Interviews with a group of college students	22:57
	concerning their reactions to	22:59
	the spread of AIDS in our society	23:00
	revealed their deep anxiety about the disease	23:03
	and in many cases resentment	23:06
	that they have to live with a death threat which was	23:08
	unknown to their parents when they were in college.	23:11
	While information is widely available about the virus,	23:15
	and how it is spread, some students are more inclined	23:18
	to ignore such information in hopes of simply	23:21
	never being confronted with it.	23:24
	In terms of AIDS testing, I've heard it said,	23:27
	better to avoid the test and live happily	23:30
	for another five or six years than to know I'm going to die.	23:33
	Perhaps we all have known the feeling.	23:39
	We'll do anything to avoid a discussion about our own death	23:41
	lest we be left with the same question,	23:44
	is that all there is?	23:47
	It is today's Gospel lesson that gives us	23:50
	the courage to raise such a question	23:52
	even in light of our own mortality.	23:55
	Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem	23:58
	points Him straight toward His suffering on the cross.	24:00
	But also toward the victory which	24:04
	He claimed over sin and death,	24:06
	He was not made King by the whims of a crowd,	24:08
	that shouted hosanna at the beginning of the week,	24:12
	and crucify Him by the end of it.	24:14
	He is King by virtue of His unerring obedience to God.	24:17
	As the evangelist emphasized in his	24:23
	telling of the passion account,	24:25
	Jesus found His own colt to ride,	24:28
	He carried His own cross, He gave His own life freely for us	24:30
	as a shepherd gives his life for his sheep,	24:36
	as a man lays down his life for his friends,	24:39
	as Pilot himself posted above the cross in three languages	24:44
	for all the world to understand,	24:48
	Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.	24:51
	In that act he was cynical, sarcastic, and vengeful,	24:54
	and he was also right.	24:59
	So if everyone in Jerusalem recognized that fact,	25:02
	why can't we?	25:06
	What does it take for Jesus to be acknowledged	25:07
	as ruler over all in 1989,	25:10
	and not simply in the first century?	25:13
	The problem, it seems to me has a great deal to do	25:16
	with the magnitude of the gift He has given us.	25:19
	Let me explain.	25:23
	Have you ever noticed how much more difficult it is	25:25
	to receive a gift than to give one?	25:28
	Especially when that gift is another life?	25:32
	The man whose life is saved in warfare	25:36
	at the expense of another, for example,	25:38
	carries a special burden,	25:41
	for it is clear that he only has a life,	25:43
	because another gave his for him.	25:46
	Perhaps he, the survivor, would wish that he would have	25:49
	been the one to throw himself onto the hand grenade,	25:52
	or into a nest of machine gunners,	25:56
	or whatever the means of self sacrifice might be.	25:58
	Who knows why anyone ever does such a thing?	26:03
	If you're a cynic you might say that a person might be	26:05
	temporarily insane to do such a thing,	26:09
	because no one in his or her right mind	26:11
	would ever willingly give ones life away,	26:14
	hardly even for someone he loved,	26:17
	let alone for people he barely knows.	26:20
	Or perhaps he acted out of a crazy thirst for glory,	26:24
	believing that not even death was	26:26
	too high a price to pay for heroes honor.	26:28
	Now if you're an idealist, you might insist	26:32
	that although the human spirit is full of darkness,	26:34
	every once in a while it is capable of a godlike act.	26:37
	Whatever the reason, it is impossible for us to know.	26:42
	But what we do know is that the one	26:46
	who must go on living for that one he is destined to live	26:48
	for the one who died as though, in some sense,	26:52
	the dead one lives through the living one.	26:56
	If someone dies so that I might live,	27:00
	then I feel compelled to do with my life	27:03
	whatever that person might have done.	27:05
	My debt to him or her is so great,	27:08
	that the only way I can approach paying it	27:11
	is by living a life as brave and as beautiful	27:15
	as that persons death.	27:18
	I can only live my life for what it truly is	27:21
	not a life that is mine by natural right,	27:25
	to live anyway I choose, but a life that is mine	27:27
	only because it has been given to me.	27:31
	We know the culmination of Jesus entry into Jerusalem	27:35
	was death for the sake of another.	27:38
	And there is no mystery about His motive.	27:41
	As He understood it, He died for all of us.	27:44
	He died because His death would make all the difference	27:47
	until the end of time, but does it really?	27:51
	Does that single noble death make any difference	27:55
	to people like us who live in a world	27:59
	infinitely more complicated	28:01
	than He ever would have imagined?	28:03
	A world where the church is considered by many	28:05
	to be a mere shard of ancient history,	28:09
	mildly interesting, but hopelessly irrelevant?	28:12
	Yes, it does make a difference.	28:17
	When the cross of Christ becomes our own,	28:19
	as Jesus told His disciples,	28:22
	if we relive it every day of our lives	28:24
	by turning away from idolatry and all that it entails,	28:27
	and by obeying his command to give up ourselves,	28:30
	in selfless obedience to God,	28:34
	the death of Christ is tied to a moment	28:37
	in history 2000 years ago,	28:39
	but His reconciling work I expanding through the church.	28:42
	While Christ was glorifying on a cross,	28:47
	a once for all event of history,	28:49
	His reign continues for all time when we live in faith.	28:52
	It's a different kind of royalty	28:58
	than we're used to hearing about, to be sure.	29:00
	Where there would normally be a storehouse of treasures	29:04
	for a king to possess, Jesus had only the robe on His back.	29:06
	Where there would be soldiers to protect Him,	29:12
	He carried only a spirit of love.	29:14
	Where there would be whole nations to acclaim Him,	29:17
	there was only a small band of apostles to follow Him,	29:19
	who did so at the risk of their own lives.	29:23
	Where there would be monuments and archives to remember Him,	29:26
	there is only the church.	29:30
	Hosanna, blessed is the one who	29:34
	comes in the name of the Lord.	29:37
	His future depends on us, thanks be to God.	29:39
	(organ music)	29:47
	(angelic choir music)	30:20
-	The Lord be with you.	33:54
Congregation	And also with you.	33:56
-	Let us pray.	33:58
	Lord, in this silence we offer You our confession.	34:09
	Laying before You our lives, which have not loved you	34:15
	with our whole heart	34:19
	which have not loved you with our soul,	34:22
	which have not loved You with our minds,	34:26
	and which have not loved You with our strength.	34:30
	That You receive these lives we offer You	35:09
	and forgiveness is good news for us.	35:12
	And as forgiven people we offer You our prayers of joy,	35:18
	praise, and thanksgiving.	35:22
	For all the suffering in our lives	35:26
	which draws us nearer the cross, we give You thanks.	35:30
	For our hunger and thirst for You, we give You thanks.	35:43
	For the silence in our lives that you give us as gift,	35:57
	the silence in which we can wait for You.	36:02
	Hear Your still small voice, we give You thanks.	36:07
	We thank You for the Holy Spirit,	36:19
	who prays for us with sighs too deep for words,	36:22
	who comforts us, who gives us memory of You,	36:28
	who gives us our past, and present, and future in You.	36:35
	Who gifts us all for the church.	36:42
	We thank You Lord for Matthew, and Mark,	36:52
	Luke and John,	36:58
	for all those who gave to us our story,	37:02
	who tell us who we are.	37:07
	For all the children of our lives and their faith.	37:14
	We give You thanks and ask Your blessings.	37:19
	We thank You for the friends who would die for us.	37:28
	For those friends who through their mercy,	37:33
	forgiveness, grace, challenge, and devotion,	37:38
	teach us about our friendship with You.	37:46
	For this world that it might know Your rule	37:55
	we ask Your blessings.	38:01
	And especially for the church that it might be the church.	38:04
	We ask Your blessings.	38:09
	That we would be unafraid of those who need us,	38:15
	those on the streets, those with AIDS,	38:19
	those in our homes,	38:25
	we do pray.	38:27
	For the joy of Your salvation we give You thanks.	38:35
	In the name of the blessed Trinity,	38:42
	world without end, amen.	38:45
	(organ music)	39:37
	(angelic choir music)	39:47
	(organ music)	43:24
	♪ Praise God from Whom all blessing flow ♪	43:35
	♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪	43:41
	♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪	43:47
	♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪	43:54
	♪ Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost ♪	44:00
	♪ Hallelujah hallelujah ♪	44:06
	♪ Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah ♪	44:12
-	Oh Lord we pray that You would	44:32
	transform us into thankful people,	44:33
	ever responding to Your rule in the world,	44:36
	ever responding with thanks to Your work on the cross.	44:39
	Transform our humble gifts into the ministry of Your church	44:47
	that we might ever proclaim Your thanksgiving,	44:53
	Your love and sacrifice for us.	44:57
	Transform us into prayerful people,	45:02
	and teach us to pray as Your son taught us,	45:05
	saying, our Father who art in heaven,	45:08
	hallowed be Thy name.	45:12
	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,	45:14
	on earth as it is in heaven.	45:18
	Give us this day our daily bread,	45:21
	and lead us not into temptation,	45:24
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	45:26
	Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.	45:30
	For Thine is the kingdom, and the power,	45:35
	and the glory, amen.	45:38
	Go in peace, to love and serve the Lord	45:43
	who does rule over this cosmos,	45:47
	and who does rule over our lives.	45:49
	In the name of the blessed Trinity, amen.	45:53
	(angelic choir music)	46:02
	(organ music)	51:35

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Title:

Nancy Ferree-Clark - "Is That All There Is?" (November 26, 1989)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 15:35. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 29:44.
Meditating on the theme of death, the preacher emphasizes God's sacrifice and encourages greater faithfulness to God. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: If we relive [Jesus’s death] every day of our lives by turning away from idolatry and all that it entails and by obeying his command to give up ourselves in selfless obedience to God. The death of Christ is tied to a moment in history 2000 years ago but his reconciling work is expanding through the church…[Christ’s] reign continues for all time when we live in faith.

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November 26, 1989

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Ferree-Clark, Nancy

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Duke University. Chapel

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Nancy Ferree-Clark - "Is That All There Is?" (November 26, 1989)

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