Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (June 20, 1993)

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-	Good morning.	0:35
	We'd like to welcome you to Duke Chapel.	0:36
	There are a couple of wonderful happenings	0:37
	at the chapel we hope you'll be able to make this week.	0:39
	At 5:00 today, there is a recital by Don Eagle,	0:42
	who will be playing the trumpet and Mary Ellis Bragg,	0:46
	who will be performing on the organ.	0:50
	Then, on Thursday night, at 7:00 PM,	0:52
	our university carillonneur, Professor J. Samuel Hammond,	0:55
	will give a demonstration of the carillon	1:00
	in the chapel tower.	1:02
	The elevator will be open, and those	1:03
	who come will be able to go up into the tower	1:05
	and see him perform.	1:08
	This is a rare opportunity,	1:10
	and we hope you'll take advantage of that.	1:11
	Please stand as we continue our worship with a greeting.	1:13
	Oh God, our God, how glorious is your name	1:24
	and all the Earth?	1:28
	(congregation chants)
	When we look to the heavens, the work of your fingers,	1:34
	the moon and the stars, we wonder.	1:38
	(congregation chants)	1:41
	You are the God of light, crowning us with glory	1:46
	and honor to serve you all our days.	1:50
	Oh God, our God, how glorious is your name in all the Earth.	1:55
	(hymnal music)	2:03
	(vocalizing)	2:42
-	Please remain standing and turn to selection number 890	5:57
	in your hymnal.	6:03
	Let us pray in unison the prayer of confession.	6:12
	Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned	6:16
	against you in thought, word, and deed by	6:20
	what we have done and by what we have left undone.	6:24
	We have not loved you with our whole heart,	6:28
	we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	6:32
	We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent.	6:36
	For the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us	6:40
	and forgive us that we may delight in your will and walk	6:45
	in your ways to the glory of your name, Amen.	6:51
	Almighty God, have mercy on you.	7:07
	Forgive all your sins through our Lord, Jesus Christ.	7:09
	Strengthen you in all goodness.	7:13
	And by the power of the Holy Spirit, keep you	7:15
	in eternal life, Amen.	7:18
-	Let us pray together the prayer of illumination.	7:36
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God.	7:41
	By the power of your Holy Spirit so that,	7:44
	as your Word is read and proclaimed,	7:48
	we may hear your message with joy this day, Amen.	7:51
	This reading is taken from the 21st chapter of the book	7:58
	of Genesis, starting with the eighth verse.	8:02
	The child grew, and he was weaned.	8:08
	And Abraham made a great feast on the day	8:11
	that Isaac was weaned, but Sarah saw the son of Hagar,	8:14
	the Egyptian who she had born to Abraham playing	8:20
	with her son, Isaac.	8:25
	So she said to Abraham, cast out the slave woman	8:26
	with her son for the son	8:31
	of this slave woman shall not inherit along	8:34
	with my son, Isaac.	8:37
	The matter was very distressing to Abraham on the account	8:40
	of his son, but God said to Abraham,	8:44
	do not be distressed because of the boy and because	8:49
	of your slave woman.	8:53
	Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you	8:56
	for it is through Isaac	9:00
	that offspring shall be named for you.	9:03
	As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation	9:07
	of him also because he is your offspring.	9:11
	So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread	9:17
	and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar.	9:22
	Putting it on her shoulder along with the child	9:26
	and sent her away, and she departed and wandered about	9:30
	in the wilderness of Bathsheba.	9:37
	When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child	9:39
	onto one of the bushes.	9:45
	Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off,	9:48
	about a distance of a bow shot.	9:52
	For she said, do not let me look on the death of the child.	9:56
	And she sat opposite him.	10:02
	She lifted up her voice and wept, and God heard the voice	10:05
	of the boy.	10:10
	And the angel of God called to Hagar from Heaven and said	10:12
	to her, what troubles you, Hagar?	10:17
	Do not be afraid for God has heard the voice	10:21
	of the boy where he is.	10:25
	Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with you	10:30
	in your hand for I will make a great nation of him.	10:35
	Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water.	10:41
	She went and filled the skin with water	10:48
	and gave the boy a drink.	10:50
	God was with the boy, and he grew up.	10:54
	He lived in the wilderness and became an expert	10:59
	with the bow.	11:02
	He lived in the wilderness of Paran,	11:04
	and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.	11:07
	This is the Word of the Lord.	11:14
	(congregation chants)
	This reading is taken from the Gospel according	11:23
	to St. Matthew.	11:26
	Chapter 10, beginning with the 28th verse.	11:28
	Do not fear those who kill the body	11:37
	but cannot kill the soul.	11:39
	Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Hell.	11:43
	Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?	11:50
	Yet, not one of them will fall to the ground apart	11:54
	from your father.	11:58
	And even the hairs on your head are all counted.	12:00
	Do not be afraid.	12:05
	You are of more value than many sparrows.	12:07
	Everyone, therefore, who acknowledge me before others,	12:12
	I will also acknowledge before my Father in Heaven.	12:17
	But whoever denies me before others, I also will deny	12:23
	before my Father in Heaven.	12:29
	Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the Earth.	12:33
	I have not come to bring peace but a sword.	12:37
	I have come to set a man against his father	12:42
	and a daughter against her mother	12:45
	and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.	12:49
	And one's foes, will be members of one's household.	12:54
	Whoever loves father	12:59
	and mother more than me is not worthy of me,	13:00
	and whoever loves son	13:06
	and daughter more than me is not worthy of me.	13:08
	And whoever does not take up the cross	13:13
	and follow me is not worthy of me.	13:15
	Those who find their life will lose it, and those	13:21
	who lose their life for my sake will find it.	13:25
	This is the Word of God.	13:31
	(congregation chants)	13:35
-	Hello.	13:50
	Come on in.	13:51
	Welcome.	13:52
	Welcome to my home.	13:53
	Can you believe it?	13:56
	The home that you see about me,	13:59
	who would have ever thought that I, Hagar,	14:01
	would have a home like this.	14:06
	The walls, look at the walls.	14:09
	They're made of stone, and there's even glass	14:12
	in the windows and furniture that you see.	14:15
	It's wood,	14:20
	the finest hand-crafted furniture from Egypt.	14:21
	Who would have ever believed it?	14:27
	And my son, Ishmael, my son.	14:29
	The son of a slave, he is the father of 12 sons.	14:33
	12 princes,	14:39
	12 tribes spread out all over this land.	14:41
	And they have houses and tents and animals and slaves.	14:45
	Who would have ever thought that it would have come to this?	14:51
	Oh, life is funny.	14:56
	I never expected this.	14:59
	How did it come to be?	15:03
	Well, that is quite a story.	15:05
	You say you have time?	15:10
	Pull up a chair.	15:12
	Make yourself comfortable, and I will tell you	15:13
	how this happened.	15:17
	Now, as you know, I was born a slave in Egypt.	15:19
	I never knew who my father was, and I was taken	15:24
	from my mother and sold into slavery at a very young age.	15:28
	You know they don't want you to get very close, attached,	15:33
	to your mother.	15:37
	This was the hardest thing about those early days,	15:39
	missing my mama.	15:41
	And the loneliness.	15:44
	When I was still a young girl, I was sold	15:46
	in the marketplace to a man named Abraham.	15:49
	He had come a long way off, and he was a rich man	15:53
	with much property.	15:57
	He bought me, he said, to be a slave girl	16:00
	for his wife, Sarah.	16:02
	And we traveled many days until we came to his tent	16:04
	in the land of Canaan.	16:08
	Sarah wasn't a bad mistress as mistresses go.	16:12
	She was an old woman like Abraham and childless	16:16
	for many years.	16:20
	This had caused her much pain, and I saw her weep	16:22
	about this many times.	16:25
	Abraham tried to comfort her saying	16:28
	that God had promised that their descendants would be	16:31
	as the stars in the heavens.	16:35
	As far as I could see, they might as well be reaching	16:37
	for the stars.	16:39
	For it had ceased to be with Sarah after the way	16:41
	of women for more than two decades.	16:43
	But one night, I heard her talking to Abraham	16:47
	about me, Hagar.	16:51
	And I heard her tell him, I want you to go	16:53
	in to my slave girl and take her to bed so	16:57
	that I may get children through her.	17:00
	Now this may shock some of you, but it was customary in	17:04
	that day that if a woman was childless,	17:08
	that she would give her husband to another wife so	17:10
	that his line might be continued.	17:14
	And Sarah chose me, and Abraham came in.	17:17
	And he lied with me, and I became pregnant.	17:21
	And I have to tell you that I was so proud to know that I,	17:25
	Hagar, a slave girl, would be the one to bear the child	17:31
	for my master, a rich man of much property.	17:36
	For a slave girl, there can be nothing better than this,	17:42
	the possibility of escaping slavery through the birth	17:45
	of a child.	17:48
	In looking back, I'm a little ashamed to say	17:51
	that I did gloat it over my mistress Sarah	17:55
	that she was barren and I was to bear a child.	17:59
	But she took it way too hard, and she came down on me	18:03
	and was cruel to me.	18:07
	And I could no longer stand it in the house,	18:09
	so I ran away into the wilderness.	18:11
	And I came upon a spring, and I knelt	18:14
	to the spring to drink.	18:18
	And then I heard a voice, a voice calling to me.	18:20
	And I must tell you that it scared me, and I got up	18:24
	to run away.	18:27
	But the voice said, Hagar, do not be afraid.	18:28
	Return to the home of your master, Abraham, and submit	18:32
	to Sarah and all will be well with you and with the child.	18:37
	You will give birth to a son.	18:43
	And you will call the son Ishmael,	18:46
	which means God hears.	18:49
	Not knowing what else to do, I returned	18:53
	to my master's dwelling.	18:56
	And it came to pass	18:58
	that everything the angel had told me was true.	19:00
	Those were good days in my life.	19:05
	I can tell you that I was so excited to know	19:08
	that I was the one to bear the child, the son,	19:12
	the inheritor for my master.	19:16
	My son would be a free man.	19:20
	And, perhaps, with his inheritance, I too might be free.	19:23
	These were good years, but then a strange thing happened.	19:28
	Three men came to see Abraham,	19:33
	and they told him	19:38
	that Sarah would give birth to a son.	19:39
	Now Sarah was listening at the door of the tent,	19:42
	and she laughed.	19:46
	Though she later denied it to the men.	19:47
	But I too was listening, and I knew better than	19:51
	to laugh out loud.	19:55
	But I thought, how stupid these men are.	19:56
	Don't they realize it is beyond the way of women with Sarah?	19:59
	Her womb, her womb is dried up.	20:02
	But to my amazement, she began to grow big with child.	20:07
	And in nine months, she gave birth to a son.	20:12
	And they called him Isaac, which means laughter.	20:17
	I began to feel a little bit nervous about	20:23
	what this might mean for my own son, Ishmael.	20:27
	But in our culture, the law protects the inheritance	20:31
	of the firstborn even if there was another son	20:34
	that is born later.	20:37
	So I tried to put my worry aside.	20:40
	And for the next three years, things went along fine.	20:43
	Sarah was excited about finally having a child of her own,	20:48
	and so she was a little bit easier to live with.	20:52
	And as the children grew, Isaac	20:55
	and Ishmael played together as brothers.	20:57
	And it was so exciting for me to see my son happy	21:01
	and playful as a child.	21:05
	For childhood was something that I had never known.	21:07
	But all of a sudden, things began to change.	21:11
	It happened after the feast.	21:16
	A great feast that Sarah and Abraham gave	21:19
	and invited all their friends and their family and all	21:22
	of us slaves to come to celebrate the weaning of Isaac	21:25
	when he was three.	21:30
	Now weaning was a big deal for us because	21:32
	so many children died before they were weaned.	21:35
	There was no weaning celebration given for my son,	21:39
	but all the same, it was a great party for Isaac.	21:43
	And there was much food and music and dancing	21:47
	into the night, and the children,	21:51
	the children were also playing and running around	21:53
	in the yard and enjoying themselves.	21:57
	And as I watched them playing, I saw Sarah	21:59
	across the way staring at Isaac and Ishmael.	22:03
	And she looked up, and she caught my eyes.	22:08
	And in that moment, the smile froze in my throat.	22:12
	And I felt a shiver of fear run down my back.	22:17
	In that moment, I had the feeling	22:22
	that something bad was about to happen.	22:26
	And I tried to put my uneasiness away.	22:29
	But from that moment, things began to change.	22:32
	Whenever Sarah would see Isaac and Ishmael playing together,	22:37
	she would take Isaac away.	22:41
	And whenever she saw me, she would turn the other way.	22:43
	And if we happened to meet, she was angry and short with me.	22:46
	And at night,	22:50
	at night I heard her arguing with Abraham	22:53
	in tense whispers.	22:57
	So I knew, I knew that something was up.	23:00
	But when Abraham came to me to tell me that Ishmael	23:05
	and I had to leave his house, had to leave his house	23:10
	for good, I was amazed.	23:15
	I pleaded with him for his son, Ishmael.	23:20
	Your son, your firstborn.	23:24
	I told him the law.	23:28
	The law said that you cannot disinherit the firstborn child,	23:29
	but Abraham said to me, God has said that he would provide.	23:35
	So you must go.	23:41
	I can't begin to tell you what it was like to go back	23:45
	to my tent that night, to look around to decide	23:48
	what I would take with me into the wilderness.	23:54
	What would you take?	23:57
	Leaving a home after 10 years.	24:00
	The next morning, when Abraham came to meet us,	24:05
	I saw a tear in his eye.	24:10
	And I knew that my dreams for our son were crumbling	24:12
	as the dust.	24:17
	I knew that the decision had been made and	24:20
	that Ishmael was cut off from the inheritance,	24:23
	and he placed water and bread upon my shoulders.	24:28
	And he picked up our son, and he put him in our arms.	24:34
	And he sent us away.	24:40
	As he turned away from us, and I turned to go	24:44
	into the wilderness.	24:49
	Tears running down my face.	24:51
	I can hardly see to walk, and I thought,	24:55
	what will I do?	25:00
	A woman, a slave woman, alone in the desert	25:02
	with a child with no one to turn to	25:07
	and nowhere to go?	25:11
	I don't mind telling you that I was scared.	25:14
	More scared than I have ever been in my life.	25:17
	The next few days are a blur.	25:23
	We wandered around.	25:26
	It was hot and dry in the day and cold at night.	25:28
	We would lay down in our blankets, shivering together,	25:34
	waiting for the day.	25:38
	And sometimes I was so filled with anger	25:41
	that I felt I could kill at the injustice	25:45
	that was done to us.	25:48
	Ishmael, the firstborn, had been cut off.	25:51
	It was against everything that was legal, everything	25:56
	that was fair.	25:59
	And I wanted to go back, and I wanted to fight.	26:01
	And I wanted to make them do what was right, but	26:03
	what could I do?	26:07
	A slave woman.	26:09
	It was unfair and cruel, but I was powerless	26:12
	to do anything about it.	26:16
	And so we wandered in the desert.	26:20
	Sometimes the darkness was so dark,	26:23
	and I felt such despair that I just wanted to lay	26:26
	down and die.	26:29
	But then when Ishmael would cry, I remembered the child.	26:33
	And I knew that I had to keep going on for the child.	26:39
	We would stop and take a small bit of bread,	26:45
	hoarding our water in sips, trying to make it last.	26:49
	But then when the water ran out, I didn't know	26:55
	what else to do.	26:59
	I ran about in the desert like a crazy woman, looking	27:01
	for a spring, a settler, a traveler, anything	27:05
	that would help us survive.	27:09
	And there was nothing, and Ishmael cried,	27:12
	Mommy, I'm thirsty!	27:16
	I'm thirsty, Mommy!	27:18
	And then, as the hours turned into days,	27:21
	he no longer cried.	27:26
	And his silence frightened me more than anything.	27:29
	I could not bear to see my son die,	27:35
	so I took him.	27:40
	And I put him under a bush, hoping that	27:41
	at least his last few hours would be shaded.	27:45
	Maybe he would be comfortable when the end came,	27:49
	and then I walked about a bow shot.	27:53
	And I sat down to wait with the buzzards circling	27:57
	over my head, and I put my head in my lap.	28:01
	And I wept, why, God?	28:06
	Why have you done this?	28:09
	Help my son!	28:11
	Help us!	28:14
	And then there was a voice that came to me,	28:17
	and I didn't know if it was real or if it was coming	28:22
	from my own mind.	28:25
	But the voice said, Hagar, why are you troubled?	28:27
	Why are you troubled?	28:33
	Why?	28:34
	My son is dying.	28:35
	You ask me why I'm troubled, and the voice,	28:36
	the angel of God continued,	28:42
	come and pick up the boy and lift him	28:45
	up for God has heard the voice of the boy crying.	28:49
	And I will make a great nation of him.	28:54
	And suddenly, my eyes were opened.	28:59
	And I saw a well, and I went.	29:02
	And I picked up my son, and I held him close	29:06
	for a long time.	29:11
	And then we went over to the well, and we drank.	29:14
	And our thirst was satisfied.	29:19
	Well, this was the beginning of a new life for us.	29:26
	I won't go into all the details of those days.	29:31
	They weren't always easy,	29:35
	but this God, this God	29:38
	who hears provided for us.	29:42
	And we were able to make our way in the wilderness,	29:46
	and my son grew up strong to manhood.	29:50
	And he was good with a bow, and he was able to provide	29:55
	for us enough even for trade.	29:59
	And when he was grown, I went to Egypt.	30:03
	And I got a wife for him there, and he had 12 sons	30:06
	by his wife.	30:10
	And we began to acquire some of what you see	30:12
	around you today.	30:15
	Some people have asked me how could I continue	30:18
	to worship the God of Abraham, the God who was so unjust	30:22
	to me that he cast me out into the desert?	30:27
	Well, I have to tell you truthfully	30:32
	that I am not convinced that Abraham was following God	30:36
	when he cast me out.	30:41
	Like I said before, it seemed to me, living	30:44
	in the household, that he was listening much more	30:46
	to Abraham than to God in those days.	30:49
	I don't blame him so much anymore really.	30:54
	I think it's easy to get confused with the voices	30:58
	in our mind, and sometimes we don't know what's our voice.	31:03
	And what are other voices, and what's God's voice?	31:06
	But I can tell you this.	31:10
	I know that the God who hears is not a cruel God,	31:13
	and I don't believe that that God would have sent	31:19
	out a helpless woman and child into the desert	31:22
	with nothing but a skin of water and a loaf of bread.	31:26
	Abraham was a rich man.	31:31
	He could have done better by his firstborn child than that.	31:34
	Even if he had been determined to send him out and	31:40
	to deny the inheritance,	31:44
	he could have given him more than that.	31:46
	And I can't blame God for that,	31:50
	but maybe,	31:56
	maybe it was better this way.	31:58
	We were cast out, exiled, thrown	32:00
	into the wilderness with nothing.	32:03
	We got nothing from Abraham,	32:05
	but I know without a doubt	32:09
	who saved us.	32:12
	And I can tell you with absolute certainty that	32:14
	without the God who hears, we would have died	32:17
	in the wilderness.	32:21
	And you know what I think?	32:24
	I think that Sarah and Abraham, they knew about this God	32:26
	and the blessings that this God provides.	32:30
	But they wanted to keep the blessings for themselves.	32:34
	They wanted to keep their bloodline pure	32:37
	to keep the promise in the family,	32:41
	but I don't believe this God can be contained in that way.	32:44
	I mean, look at me, Hagar, a slave woman.	32:50
	Look at what God has done for me who was cast out	32:55
	with nothing and no one to turn to, and my son, Ishmael,	33:00
	who was raised from the point of death	33:05
	to become the father of	33:08
	12 tribes, 12 princes.	33:10
	He has made his descendants as the stars in the sky,	33:14
	and so I have come to be grateful to this God.	33:21
	This God, the God of Abraham and Isaac,	33:26
	the God of Ishmael,	33:31
	the God of the promise.	33:34
	So you see, I have much to be grateful for.	33:38
	And this home that you see about you, this home, I try	33:41
	to remember that it hasn't always been this way and	33:46
	that this is a gift, a gift from the God who hears.	33:50
	Well, I've taken up enough of your time.	33:59
	But I hope you'll stay for dinner.	34:03
	God has made a wonderful feast for us,	34:05
	and there's plenty for all.	34:09
-	The Lord be with you.	34:31
	(congregation chants)
	Let us pray.	34:35
	We give thanks, oh Lord, that your ways are not our ways.	34:40
	We are sometimes good, we are sometimes just.	34:45
	You are always good and just.	34:51
	Tempering your justice with your unfathomable love	34:55
	and deepening your love with the high price of justice.	34:58
	Our presence here is our testimony to your goodness	35:04
	and justice, which have relentlessly pursued us	35:08
	without counting the cost.	35:12
	Oh, Heavenly Father, who wept over Jerusalem we pray	35:17
	for children whose fathers know neither	35:22
	goodness nor justice.	35:25
	We pray for mothers and children abandoned, forgotten,	35:28
	or simply neglected by fathers	35:33
	who have repudiated their vocation as father.	35:36
	Lord, in your mercy.	35:43
	(congregation chants)
	Oh Lord who submitted the back of your son	35:49
	to the repeated blows of his persecutors	35:52
	to redeem those you love, we pray for women	35:54
	and children abused physically and sexually by husbands	35:59
	and fathers, beaten, subjected, intimidated, harassed,	36:04
	physically and sexually abused.	36:12
	Lord, in your mercy.	36:18
	(congregation chants)
	Oh now whose only begotten one went about doing good,	36:23
	blessing women and children and calling all persons	36:26
	to goodness and justice, we pray for our society	36:30
	which is confused about the true role of men, men	36:35
	in relation to women, men in relation to children and	36:39
	to other men.	36:44
	Help our men to find their way to true manliness,	36:47
	to tenderness as well as toughness, to sensitivity	36:50
	as well as sensuality, to the value	36:57
	of person more than the value of property,	37:02
	to the vocation of fatherhood as well	37:08
	as the vocation of profession.	37:10
	Bring the men of our culture to justice and to goodness,	37:15
	to the elevation, preservation, dignity, and ennoblement	37:18
	of human life as you alone can do.	37:24
	Lord, in your mercy.	37:29
	(congregation chants)
	Oh God who rules and governs the nations,	37:35
	who humbles the mighty and lifts up the forgotten	37:38
	and seemingly insignificant ones, we pray for those	37:42
	who literally have no place and no one to turn to,	37:47
	who have been cast aside and abandoned	37:53
	by family, neighbor, community, for those who have no one	37:56
	to pray for them.	38:03
	May our prayer and our communion service count for them	38:06
	to comfort, to console, to encourage, to lift up.	38:10
	And may our act of love, adoration, and obedience	38:20
	in this service reshape our hearts and lives	38:24
	that we may love you and these more dearly and serve you	38:28
	and them more clearly.	38:34
	Lord, in your mercy.	38:39
	(congregation chants)
	Amen.	38:44
	As a forgiven and reconciled people, let us stand	38:48
	and greet one another with signs	38:51
	of our reconciliation and love.	38:54
	Please be seated.	39:21
	It is both our privilege and our duty to worship God	39:30
	with our tides and offerings.	39:34
	Let us worship God.	39:36
	(spiritual music)	39:39
	(vocalizing)	41:05
-	The Lord be with you.	46:50
	(congregation chants)
	Lift up your heart.	46:53
	(congregation chants)
	Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.	46:57
	(congregation chants)	47:00
	It is right
	and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere,	47:04
	to give thanks to you, God Almighty, creator	47:08
	of Heaven and Earth.	47:12
	You formed us in your image and breathed	47:13
	into us the breath of life.	47:16
	When we turned away and our love failed,	47:19
	your love remained steadfast.	47:21
	You delivered us from captivity, made covenant	47:24
	to be our sovereign God, and spoke to us	47:27
	through the prophets.	47:30
	And so with your people on Earth and all the company	47:32
	of Heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn.	47:34
	(spiritual music)	47:39
	(vocalizing)	47:48
	Holy are you and blessed is your son, Jesus Christ.	48:27
	Your spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,	48:30
	to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering	48:34
	of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those	48:37
	who are oppressed, and to announce	48:41
	that the time had come when you would save your people.	48:43
	He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners.	48:47
	By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection,	48:52
	you gave birth to your church, delivered us from slavery	48:55
	to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant	49:00
	by water and the Spirit.	49:03
	When the Lord, Jesus, ascended, he promised to be	49:06
	with us always in the power of your Word and Holy Spirit.	49:09
	On the night in which he gave himself up for us,	49:13
	he took bread, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples,	49:17
	and said, take, eat.	49:22
	This is my body which is given for you.	49:24
	When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks	49:27
	to you, gave it to his disciples and said, drink from this,	49:32
	all of you, for this is the blood	49:36
	of the new covenant poured out for you and for many	49:38
	for the forgiveness of sins.	49:41
	Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me,	49:43
	and so in remembrance of these, your mighty acts	49:50
	in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise	49:52
	and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice.	49:56
	In union with Christ offering for us	49:59
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	50:01
	(spiritual music)	50:05
	(vocalizing)	50:09
	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and	50:23
	on these gifts of bread and wine.	50:26
	Make them be, for us, the body and blood of Christ	50:29
	that we may be, for the world, the body	50:32
	of Christ redeemed by his blood.	50:35
	By your Spirit, make us one with Christ, one	50:38
	with each other, and one in ministry to all the world	50:41
	until Christ comes in final victory.	50:44
	And we feast at his heavenly banquet through your son,	50:48
	Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,	50:51
	all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father,	50:55
	now and forever.	50:59
	(spiritual music)	51:01
	(vocalizing)	51:05
	And now with the confidence of the children of God,	51:18
	let us pray together.	51:21
	Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.	51:23
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth	51:28
	as it is in Heaven.	51:32
	Give us this day our daily bread	51:34
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	51:36
	who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation	51:40
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom,	51:44
	and the power, and the glory forever, Amen.	51:48
	Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body	51:55
	for we all partake of the one loaf.	51:59
	The cup over which we give thanks is a sharing	52:08
	in the body of Christ.	52:12
	Won't you come and feast at the Lord's banquet.	53:00
	(spiritual music)	53:05
	(vocalizing)	53:27

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Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (June 20, 1993)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 13:50. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 34:14.
Assuming the role of Hagar, Brazzel retells the casting out of Hagar and Ishmael and explores the problem of evil. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: It’s easy to get confused with the voices in our mind and sometimes we don’t know what’s our voice and what are other voice and what’s God’s voice. But I can tell you this: I know that the God who hears is not a cruel God and I don’t believe that God would have sent out a helpless woman and child into the desert with nothing but a skin of water and a loaf of bread…Abraham could have done better by his first-born child…I can’t blame God for that

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June 20, 1993

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Brazzel, Debra K.

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