William H. Willimon - Homecoming" (October 25, 1992)

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	(organ music)	0:09
-	Welcome to this service of worship	1:45
	here in Duke University Chapel	1:46
	on this Sunday of Reformation and here, homecoming.	1:48
	We welcome back all of our alumni and we welcome	1:54
	our visitors to this service.	1:58
	Today at two o'clock, the St. Francis Day service,	2:02
	of the blessing of the animals, which had to be postponed,	2:06
	will be held in front of the chapel at 2 p.m.	2:09
	And then at 5 p.m. today you're all invited to something	2:13
	that has not happened in this chapel in many, many years.	2:16
	A full concert on our carillon will be offered by	2:21
	University Carillonneur Samuel Hammond, and the public	2:27
	is cordially invited to this service of rededication	2:31
	of our newly renovated carillon and to the concert.	2:35
	On Thursday this week there's a discussion sponsored	2:39
	by the chapel of Christians and politics and many	2:42
	other events that we call your attention to in the bulletin.	2:46
	Now, let us worship.	2:50
	(orchestral hymn music)	3:02
	Stand for the greeting.	4:03
	The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.	4:06
	The risen Christ is with us.	4:12
	(organ playing)	4:16
	(orchestral hymn music)	5:17
-	Let us pray.	10:39
	Oh Lord we gather today, after we've been	10:44
	scattered to many places.	10:47
	We have come home, seeking to find	10:49
	something of our past, our youth, our vision, our hope.	10:53
	We ask your blessing presence among us.	11:00
	Help us celebrate the memories,	11:03
	the relationships, the gifts that we have received	11:05
	through Duke University.	11:09
	We pray that you will sharpen our sense	11:12
	of vision and purpose, guide us in your will	11:14
	that we may become your people gathered together for renewal	11:18
	and then sent into the world as your disciples,	11:23
	recognizable through our committed service to you	11:26
	and one another, in the name of Jesus Christ,	11:30
	who calls us home, and sends us forth as new people, amen.	11:34
	You may be seated.	11:41
-	Let us pray together the prayer for elimination.	11:52
	Open our hearts and minds oh God,	11:57
	by the power of your holy spirit,	12:00
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	12:03
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day, amen.	12:07
	This reading is from the prophet Hosea.	12:15
	The first of three verses from chapter 14.	12:18
	We return to Israel to the Lord oh God,	12:22
	for you have stumbled	12:26
	because of your inequity, take words with you	12:27
	and return to the Lord, say to Him,	12:31
	take away all guilt except that which is good	12:34
	and we will offer the fruit of our lips.	12:39
	The serious shall not save us.	12:41
	We will not ride upon horses.	12:45
	We will say no more, our God, to the work of our hands.	12:48
	This is the word of the Lord.	12:54
Audience	Thanks be to God.	12:57
-	Today's psalm is number three,	13:07
	found on page 740 in the hymnal.	13:09
	Please stand and sing the song In Gloria responsively.	13:12
	(orchestral music)	13:17
	♪ Oh Lord ♪	13:24
	♪ How many are my foes ♪	13:25
	♪ Many are rising against me ♪	13:29
	(orchestral hymn music)	13:33
	♪ But you, oh Lord, are a shield around me ♪	13:44
	♪ My glory and the lifter of my hands ♪	13:50
	(orchestral music)	13:56
	♪ I lie down and sleep ♪	14:08
	♪ I wake again for the Lord sustains me ♪	14:12
	(orchestral music)	14:17
	♪ Arise oh Lord ♪	14:31
	(orchestral music)	14:34
	♪ For you strike all my enemies on the cheek ♪	14:40
	♪ You'll break the teeth of the wicked ♪	14:45
	(orchestral music)	14:49
	♪ Oh glory be to you ♪	15:00
	♪ Creator and to Jesus Christ our savior ♪	15:03
	(orchestral music)	15:08
	♪ As it was ere' time began ♪	15:15
	(orchestral music)	15:19
	You may be seated.	15:27
-	This reading is from the 18th chapter of the gospel	15:39
	according to St, Luke, starting with the ninth verse.	15:42
	He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves,	15:47
	that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt.	15:51
	Two men went up to the temple to pray.	15:56
	One a pharisee, and the other, a tax collector.	15:59
	The pharisee standing by himself was praying thus.	16:03
	God, I thank you that I am not like other people.	16:06
	Thieves, rogues, adulterers,	16:11
	or even like this tax collector.	16:14
	I fast twice a week, I give a 10th of all my income.	16:17
	But the tax collector standing a far off,	16:21
	would not even look to heaven, but was beating his breast	16:25
	and saying God, be merciful to me, a sinner.	16:29
	I tell you, this man went down to his home	16:34
	justified rather than the other	16:37
	for all who exalt themselves will be humbled,	16:40
	and all who humble themselves will be exalted.	16:44
	This is the word of the Lord.	16:48
Audience	Thanks be to God.	16:51
	(soft orchestral music)	17:03
	(soft hymnal music)	17:21
-	This past week,	21:49
	on his return to professional basketball,	21:51
	Magic Johnson said,	21:57
	"I've been lost,	22:01
	"and I'm back home,	22:04
	"I've followed the yellow brick road	22:07
	"I'm back home."	22:11
	Our scripture today,	22:17
	return O Israel,	22:21
	to the lord your God,	22:23
	for you have stumbled because of your inequity,	22:25
	take words with you.	22:29
	Return, return to the Lord.	22:32
	When my mother died, for the longest time thereafter	22:39
	I had these dreams,	22:44
	I had almost the same dream every night.	22:48
	In my dream I was back home	22:53
	in the house where I'd grown up.	22:57
	The same house which my mother	23:00
	had designed and built.	23:02
	My dreams were memorable, even startling,	23:07
	because I hardly ever dream	23:13
	and when I dream I can never remember what I dream	23:14
	but in these dreams of home,	23:18
	everything was so vivid,	23:23
	and specific	23:26
	that it was unnerving.	23:28
	And sometimes I would find myself	23:32
	in the basement of my home and I'd be dragging out	23:34
	the old lawn mower as I did so often as a teenager	23:37
	and kicking over the gas can and I would look	23:41
	and I would be stunned that is was the same gas can.	23:43
	I turned it over and in my dream	23:46
	it had the same dents and scratches in it.	23:48
	Other times in the dream I would be in the living room	23:52
	and I would get up from the sofa,	23:55
	I would go over to the bookshelves	23:56
	and I would take out a volume	23:58
	and I would open it up and leaf through it	23:59
	just to be sure and yes it was the same book	24:02
	that I remembered and there was	24:05
	a little pencil marks and I had made in it as a child.	24:07
	It was all so vivid and	24:11
	particular.	24:16
	Every night, there were these dreams.	24:18
	Vivid, specific, it was pleasant,	24:22
	but it was all very strange.	24:26
	My mother never appeared in these dreams.	24:30
	I kept thinking that she might.	24:32
	After all, it seemed reasonable to me	24:35
	that these dreams were some sort of mechanism	24:37
	triggered by my grief at her death.	24:40
	But no,	24:45
	the dreams were always just of me,	24:47
	in the house, alone.	24:50
	That house is still there, that house designed	24:55
	and built from the field rock.	25:00
	From countless chimneys of abandoned tenants.	25:04
	Houses on the farm,	25:07
	but my mother isn't there,	25:12
	nor are the books on the shelves, or the sofa.	25:14
	Nothing is there in that house.	25:19
	Nothing is there for me.	25:23
	I visited that house once or twice since then	25:25
	and I can tell you for sure, nothing is there.	25:27
	It's all gone.	25:31
	And yet the interesting to me was in my dream,	25:35
	home is there.	25:38
	Home is where the heart is, we say.	25:43
	About six months after my mothers death	25:47
	these dreams of home ceased.	25:51
	Now what do you make of my dreams?	25:57
	A way of grief's work with me, yes.	26:02
	But I think there was more.	26:08
	Perhaps my grief was a kind of catalyst,	26:12
	a door, opening up to a hidden room	26:16
	deep in the subconscious.	26:19
	A room called remember.	26:23
	Opening up deep,	26:27
	onto the other side of dreams door	26:30
	into a lost place called home.	26:33
	Homelessness is much on our minds these days.	26:40
	In a sermon after World War II,	26:45
	a German preacher Helman Kitike	26:46
	said that the saddest of all possible designations	26:49
	he knew was the phrase much in use then,	26:53
	"displaced person."	26:57
	Now I can tell you a sadder name is	27:01
	"homeless person."	27:05
	Our hearts are rightly ripped for those	27:08
	within our society who have no home,	27:11
	in a society where people have so much,	27:14
	there are people who have no place to go.	27:17
	When a homeless family huddles	27:21
	in a vacant lot at night,	27:23
	do they dream as I, of home?	27:25
	I think they do,	27:31
	and when the epithet is written for our age,	27:35
	I believe that we should be remembered	27:39
	as that generation willing for vast numbers	27:41
	of our fellow citizens to be without home.	27:45
	And maybe one reason we have such a high tolerance	27:48
	for homelessness, and maybe one reason	27:53
	we don't trouble ourselves over the plight of the homeless	27:57
	is that many of us,	28:04
	more than we admit,	28:06
	are homeless.	28:09
	The novelist Walker Percy called us lost,	28:14
	in the cosmos.	28:18
	We live in a world ruled by anonymous bureaucrats	28:23
	who send us computerized letters addressed	28:27
	Dear Mr. Williamson, they explained to us	28:29
	dispassionately that these rules	28:34
	are not made for us but that they're made for everybody.	28:37
	We fought for equality and we got anonymity.	28:42
	We fought for and got the right to be treated	28:47
	just like everybody else.	28:51
	Alas, a person just like everybody else is a nobody.	28:55
	Technology has required us to fragment our world	29:02
	into smaller and smaller bites.	29:05
	Here in academia, reality is divided into departments.	29:09
	Living in different kingdoms, speaking different languages.	29:15
	Inhabited by people who have devoted	29:19
	their entire lives to knowing everything	29:21
	there is to know about one species of lemur,	29:24
	or one year in the history of Albania.	29:28
	Graduate school becomes a search	29:33
	for something small enough to write a dissertation upon.	29:35
	Intellect is defined as a very big dissertation	29:41
	on a very trivial subject.	29:44
	Most students find that we faculty	29:48
	tend to know more and more about less and less.	29:50
	Our modern proof wrought lives	29:56
	are measured out in teaspoons, said Elliot.	29:59
	In a world committed to being free of all commitments,	30:05
	fiercely intolerant of everything but tolerance.	30:10
	Open minded rather than well informed.	30:14
	No wonder we feel a drift so we cut you loose	30:18
	from mama and daddy as first year students	30:22
	in the hope that you will come	30:25
	to view this condition as normal.	30:27
	As normal, to be severed from family	30:31
	and neighborhood, and tradition, and story,	30:33
	and home, GM needs mobile workers.	30:35
	The modern world has managed to give us freedom	30:40
	and independence and autonomy but thereby	30:42
	made necessary bureaucracy, ruthlessness,	30:45
	and anonymity, we've got nowhere to even lay our head.	30:48
	As a modern poet writes,	30:54
	"on this dirty patch,	30:58
	"once stood a tree,	31:01
	"shedding it's incense on the infant corn,	31:05
	"it's bowels stretched forth to heaven,	31:09
	"brightened by the last fires of a tribe.	31:13
	"But they sent surveyors, and builders,	31:18
	"who cut that tree, planting in its place,	31:22
	"a huge senseless cathedral of doom."	31:25
	Southern mill houses, Alabama farmer shacks,	31:33
	Brooklyn neighborhoods, row houses in Philadelphia,	31:38
	Iowa farms, gingerbread Victorian porches	31:41
	are now parking lots, parties,	31:46
	we feel adrift, lost, nowhere to go,	31:50
	South Square Mall.	31:55
	What I'm saying is that homelessness	31:59
	has become metaphysical.	32:00
	Now we're not just lost in north Raleigh,	32:03
	but in the cosmos as well.	32:06
	Without a home, each of us inhabit a kind of	32:09
	do it yourself universe,	32:13
	a place patched together	32:16
	from whatever impressions	32:18
	life has made on us up to this point,	32:19
	held together by a thin string of consciousness,	32:22
	mixed with something we saw on TV last week,	32:26
	the wisdom of Shirley McClain,	32:29
	thoughts from Rolling Stones balanced by Reader's Digest,	32:31
	wisdom Jared built personally by us	32:34
	between September and October 1990	32:38
	when we happened to be living in Cleveland.	32:40
	South Square Mall is our mind.	32:42
	We have removed the explanations	32:48
	once offered to us by religion,	32:52
	but we have not removed the experiences.	32:56
	Those baffling, confusing,	32:59
	threatening experiences,	33:01
	which made us ask for explanation in the first place.	33:06
	So AIDS is attributed to inadequate funding	33:13
	by the Bush administration, or the greed	33:17
	of Burr's welcome, or the breakdown of family values.	33:20
	The philosophical equivalent to South Square Mall.	33:27
	Oh it's not much for theodicy,	33:31
	but it's about the best we could muster	33:35
	having flattened the world down to our size,	33:37
	having burned down the ancient habitations,	33:40
	sold the farm sort to speak.	33:43
	We have vacated the temple for the mall.	33:47
	Now,	33:52
	people in the bible were convinced	33:55
	that it took at least 3000 years of experience	34:00
	to know how to build a home.	34:06
	Home was a gift of the ages.	34:09
	Not something conjured anew in each generation.	34:13
	Alas, most of us don't know how to construct the world,	34:19
	and we are frustrated or frightened by the need to do so.	34:23
	Home used to protect us from having	34:28
	to make too many choices,	34:31
	choices beyond our competence.	34:33
	Home used to be certainty that did not have to be doubted.	34:37
	But alas, now most of us find ourselves	34:42
	fairly much on our own.	34:45
	Mom is with her new boyfriend.	34:50
	The same guy we used to hang out with in high school.	34:53
	And dad needs so much fortification after five	34:58
	that he is not to be trusted around machinery	35:01
	or giving advice,	35:03
	and you go over the river and through the woods	35:07
	to find grandmothers house	35:10
	abandoned for a condo in Palm Beach,	35:12
	and Jarvis is the name for a refugee camp, not a dorm.	35:17
	My last church was next to the synagogue in Greenville.	35:25
	And as was our custom, the rabbi and I	35:29
	would get together for coffee on Mondays.	35:31
	And one morning over coffee, the rabbi and I	35:35
	were noting the rather surprising influx	35:38
	of young adults, young adults coming back	35:43
	to the synagogue, back to the church.	35:46
	Young adults, traditionally the hardest group	35:49
	in the world for the church or the synagogue	35:52
	to get ahold of, what were they doing, I asked.	35:54
	Is this some sort of spin off from the Reagan years?	35:57
	Some sort of new conservatism among the youth,	36:00
	what's going on here?	36:03
	Said the rabbi to me,	36:07
	they are looking for their parents.	36:11
	Having been raised by a generation so unsure	36:16
	of its own values, we didn't dare	36:19
	pass them on to our young	36:23
	and now they are on a search for home,	36:27
	and one of my theories is that some of these students here	36:35
	can not understand your teachers because	36:38
	a majority of the Duke faculty	36:41
	are children of the 60s, where the main	36:46
	educational agenda was detachment.	36:49
	Breaking away, cutting loose, dropping out,	36:52
	tuning in to the age of Aquarius,	36:54
	and now we middle aged tenured radicals brunch	36:58
	in faculty commons and we complain	37:02
	about how conservative today's students are.	37:05
	Not perceptive enough are we to know	37:10
	that they are on a courageous,	37:13
	risky pilgrimage towards home.	37:15
	A search we wouldn't know how to make,	37:22
	since we had only one life project educationally,	37:26
	leaving home.	37:31
	I tell you the results of our home wrecking	37:36
	are all around us, whole whims of homelessness,	37:38
	threaten fragile constructions we call our lives.	37:41
	No wonder to hear that so many are drunk	37:47
	Friday through Sunday, but I'm here	37:50
	to tell you that a mere refuge	37:54
	be it daddy's bottles or momma's pills is not home.	37:57
	Nothing is home which can not orient us	38:03
	truthfully and courageously to the world.	38:07
	Nothing is worth returning to that doesn't give us	38:10
	somewhere to stand, a place from which to venture forth,	38:14
	return back to that home.	38:20
	And for something like 150 verses,	38:27
	the bible calls people home.	38:32
	A frequently used bible word is turn-return.	38:38
	Return is a prophetic synonym for the word repent.	38:43
	Return, repent, prophets like Isaiah,	38:49
	like Hosea, were not prepping social critics	38:54
	or radical social innovators.	38:59
	They were poets of return, the prophets	39:03
	are poets of return.	39:06
	Hear Hosea today,	39:08
	"return oh Israel to the lord your God,	39:11
	"return to the Lord."	39:14
	And nor is this prophetic call to return home	39:16
	some kind of empty nostalgia, the way back home	39:20
	admits Hosea is going to be hard	39:24
	and it will be painful because the word return	39:27
	means repent, for you have stumbled	39:30
	because of your inequities said Hosea.	39:35
	Say to God, take away our guilt,	39:39
	accept that which is good, we will offer you	39:41
	the fruit of our lips.	39:43
	Assyria is not going to save us.	39:45
	We will not ride upon horses.	39:48
	We will say no more our God	39:51
	to the mere work of our hands.	39:54
	Would you note,	39:58
	confession of sin leads back home.	40:00
	And the confession being made here	40:07
	is not just any old confession,	40:10
	it is a confession of idolatry.	40:11
	Confession of somehow we got lost.	40:14
	Confession that we trusted our defense systems	40:17
	and smart weapons, Assyrian war horses.	40:21
	Democrats, Republicans, our pension fund.	40:24
	You got your own idols, I got mine.	40:28
	Gods of our own creation,	40:31
	but the way home, lies, said the prophet,	40:35
	in letting go of false gods	40:42
	and relinquishing proud autonomy	40:44
	and return to that place that God wherein	40:47
	is our true source of being, our home.	40:52
	Our hearts are restless,	40:59
	homeless	41:04
	until they find a home in thee.	41:07
	The prophet Jeremiah portrays repentance,	41:13
	conversation, salvation, as one great big homecoming.	41:16
	See, he hears God say, see am I going to gather them	41:21
	from the farthest parts of the earth.	41:27
	I'm going to gather the blind, and the lame,	41:29
	and those with trial, and those in labor,	41:31
	to gather one great company, they shall return home.	41:33
	No matter where you've been since home,	41:41
	Isaiah the prophet says home is very close to you.	41:45
	I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud,	41:52
	like a morning mist, return home.	41:55
	You see I'm betting that the reason	42:03
	you're here today	42:05
	even if you do not know it's the reason.	42:08
	Is that you that wants to come back home.	42:14
	The home you had but you left.	42:19
	The home that you had not, but still seek.	42:24
	Home, I think when you dream,	42:30
	you dream of homecoming,	42:35
	and I'm telling you,	42:41
	you will never be at home until you turn,	42:43
	until you return to God.	42:48
	So Jesus portrayed God as a waiting father.	42:56
	The father who waited at home to embrace	43:01
	the returning prodigal son and I'm betting	43:05
	that you remember that bible story	43:09
	even if you've forgotten every other bible story	43:13
	because you know in your heart of hearts	43:17
	that that story of the returning prodigal son to home,	43:21
	you know that that's your story.	43:26
	It's about home.	43:31
	(soft orchestral music)	43:42
	(soft hymnal music)	44:29
-	The lord be with you, let us pray.	47:36
	Oh God, we give you thanks, that Jesus called you father	47:52
	and made it possible for us to become your children.	47:57
	Though you are as far above us as the stars	48:01
	and the heavens, you have chosen to come as close	48:04
	as our own parents.	48:08
	You are as a father and mother to us,	48:10
	and you have named us daughter and son.	48:13
	Even though we have strayed from you,	48:17
	you have called us to come back home.	48:20
	We do not have the words to express	48:25
	how grateful we are to be included in your family,	48:27
	for in you we learn what it means to be forgiven,	48:31
	and in you we learn what it means to be fully human.	48:36
	In you we learn what it means to be truly loved.	48:39
	In you we experience the fulfillment of being at home	48:44
	in whatever circumstances we find ourselves in life.	48:48
	Thank you for making us a part of your family,	48:53
	and for calling us home.	48:56
	We offer special prayers for those among us	48:59
	who are searching for a place to call home.	49:03
	For those who have come to this homecoming weekend,	49:07
	we ask that they may find renewed relationships,	49:10
	new energy to carry out their responsibilities,	49:14
	and a renewed vision for the future.	49:18
	For those who find themselves alone in the world,	49:21
	that they may develop meaningful, loving relationships	49:25
	and find relief of loneliness	49:29
	through the experience of community.	49:32
	We pray also for those among us	49:35
	who are far away from home, for those who are traveling,	49:38
	that they will have safe journeys.	49:42
	For those who fill our hospitals and nursing homes,	49:45
	that they may be healed from their illnesses	49:49
	and that they may find comfort	49:52
	through the love and care of others.	49:54
	We pray for those who find home	49:57
	an uncomfortable place to be.	49:59
	For those who are a part of broken families,	50:02
	that they might find wholeness and peace	50:05
	even in the midst of brokenness.	50:07
	For those who have estranged relationships,	50:10
	that they may know reconciliation.	50:14
	For those who have lost loved ones,	50:17
	that they may know comfort and the renewal	50:20
	of the relationship through the memories	50:24
	that they cherish, we pray for those	50:27
	who are experiencing the roller coaster of addiction,	50:31
	that they may find freedom from the bondage	50:35
	and healing from the pain, we pray for those	50:39
	who live in fear of violence in the home,	50:42
	that they may find safety and comfort.	50:46
	We pray also for those who have no home,	50:50
	for those who are homeless, that they may find	50:54
	not just temporary shelter,	50:57
	but a place to call their own home,	50:59
	and a way to sustain themselves and their families.	51:01
	We pray for those who have been driven from their homes	51:06
	through war or famine or apartheid.	51:09
	That they would find safe haven	51:13
	in the right and way to return to their own homes.	51:16
	Oh God we offer these prayers	51:21
	knowing that you are seeking ways to bless us	51:24
	even before we ask you, knowing that	51:27
	as we see the home and the world,	51:30
	you call us to return home in you.	51:33
	Bring us home Lord, bring us home	51:36
	and use us as your disciples in the world	51:40
	to bless on another as members together	51:43
	of your human family, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.	51:46
	God has dealt wondrously with us, how shall we respond?	51:54
	Let us respond as people who see and feel	51:59
	the plight of our sisters and brothers in the world.	52:02
	Let us give our resources and ourselves to God.	52:06
	(upbeat orchestral hymnal music)	52:10
	(organ music)	56:39
	(orchestral hymn music)	57:39
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	57:49
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	57:52
	(orchestral hymn music)	57:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	58:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	58:16
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	58:19
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	58:22
-	Let us pray.	58:36
	Oh God we give thanks for all the many ways	58:39
	that you have blessed us.	58:42
	You have given us life and love.	58:44
	You have given us talents and resources.	58:47
	You have given us everything we need	58:50
	for abundant living, help us to share your abundance	58:52
	with our brothers and sisters.	58:57
	May your truth be proclaimed through our offerings,	58:59
	and may lives be changed as your light	59:02
	and love is shared and may this moment of giving	59:05
	be crowned with our renewed commitment	59:09
	to be your sons and daughters in the world, amen.	59:11
	Let us pray as members of God's family.	59:16
	Our Father, who art in heaven.	59:20
	Hallowed be thy name.	59:22
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	59:24
	on earth as it is in heaven.	59:28
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	59:30
	and forgive us our trespasses,	59:33
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	59:35
	Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,	59:39
	for thy is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory	59:43
	forever, amen.	59:47
	(organ music)	59:51
	(orchestral hymn music)	1:00:23
-	Now may the grace of our lord and savior	1:03:34
	Jesus Christ, the love of God,	1:03:36
	and the fellowship of the holy spirit,	1:03:39
	be with you now and always.	1:03:41
	(orchestral hymn music)	1:03:47

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Title:

William H. Willimon - Homecoming" (October 25, 1992)

Description:

Sermon start time: 21:49. Sermon end time: 43:36.
The preacher speaks to the universal mind of homelessness and considers it as the cause of family disruptions. He argues that confession of sin is a return to God, our eternal home. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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Date:

October 25, 1992

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

Liturgical Calendar:

Ordinary Time

Biblical Book:

Hosea

Chapter and Verse:

Hosea 14:1-3a

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

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