Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (April 24, 1994)

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-	Good morning.	0:26
	We'd like to welcome you to Duke Chapel	0:27
	on this 4th Sunday of Easter.	0:28
	We're grateful to the Reverend Karen Westerfield-Tucker,	0:31
	assistant professor of liturgy	0:33
	at the Duke Divinity School	0:36
	for serving as presiding minister for our service today.	0:38
	We're also pleased to welcome	0:42
	the Charlotte Children's Choir and their conductor,	0:43
	Miss. Sandy Holland.	0:46
	They got a very early start this morning	0:47
	to be here with us,	0:50
	and we appreciate their music leadership.	0:51
	Today, immediately following the service,	0:54
	the congregation at Duke Chapel invites you to join them	0:56
	for an after church coffee on the arcade	0:59
	immediately to the right.	1:03
	We hope that you will be able to join them.	1:04
	Now, let us continue our worship with a greeting.	1:07
	Please stand.	1:09
	Christ is risen.	1:18
Congregation	The Lord still lives in me.	1:19
-	Glory and honor, dominion and power,	1:22
	be to God forever and ever.	1:25
Congregation	Christ is risen, amen.	1:28
	(organ music)	1:32
	(congregation and choir singing)	2:06
-	Our prayer confession is found on page 890 in the hymnal.	4:43
	Let us pray together.	4:59
Everyone	Most merciful God,	5:01
	we confess that we have sinned against you	5:03
	in thought, word indeed, by what we have done	5:07
	and by what we have left undone.	5:11
	We have not loved you with our whole heart.	5:14
	We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.	5:18
	We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.	5:22
	For the sake of your son Jesus Christ,	5:26
	have mercy on us and forgive us,	5:29
	that we may delight in your will	5:32
	and walk in your ways to the glory of your name.	5:35
	Amen.	5:40
-	Almighty God have mercy on us,	5:53
	forgive all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ,	5:56
	strengthen us in all goodness,	6:00
	and by the power of the Holy Spirit,	6:03
	keep us in eternal life.	6:06
	Amen.	6:09
	Please be seated.	6:11
-	Let us pray together.	6:23
Everyone	Open our hearts and minds O God	6:26
	by the power of your Holy Spirit	6:29
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed	6:32
	we might hear your word with joy this day.	6:36
	Amen.	6:40
-	Our first lesson is taken from John's first epistle,	6:43
	Chapter three, beginning with the 16th verse.	6:47
	"We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us	6:53
	"and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.	6:59
	"How does God's love abide in anyone	7:04
	"who has the world's goods	7:07
	"and sees a brother and sister in need	7:08
	"and yet refuses to help?	7:11
	"Little children, let us love not in word or speech	7:15
	"but in truth and action.	7:20
	"And by this we will know that we are from the truth	7:22
	"and we'll reassure our hearts before him	7:26
	"whenever our hearts condemn us.	7:29
	"For God is greater than our hearts	7:32
	"and he knows everything.	7:35
	"Beloved, if our heart do not condemn us,	7:37
	"we have confidence before God	7:41
	"and we receive from him whatever we ask	7:43
	"because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.	7:46
	"And this is his commandment, that we should believe	7:52
	"in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another,	7:55
	"just as he has commanded us.	8:00
	"All who obey his commandments abide in him	8:03
	"and he abides in them.	8:06
	"And by this we know that he abides in us,	8:09
	"by the Spirit that he has given us."	8:12
	This is the word of the Lord.	8:17
Congregation	Thank be to God.	8:19
-	The Holy Gospel comes to us this day from John,	8:27
	the 10th Chapter, beginning with the 11th verse.	8:31
	"I am the good shepherd.	8:37
	"The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.	8:40
	"The hired hand who is not the shepherd	8:44
	"and does not own the sheep sees the wolf coming	8:47
	"and leaves the sheep and runs away.	8:51
	"And the wolf snatches them and scatters them.	8:54
	"The hired hand runs away	8:58
	"because the hired hand does not care for the sheep.	9:00
	"I am the good shepherd.	9:05
	"I know my own and my own know me,	9:07
	"just as the Father knows me and I know the Father.	9:11
	"And I lay down my life for the sheep.	9:16
	"I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.	9:20
	"I must bring them also	9:24
	"and they will listen to my voice.	9:26
	"So there be one flock, one shepherd.	9:29
	"For this reason the Father loves me	9:34
	"because that I lay down my life	9:36
	"in order to take it up again.	9:38
	"No one takes it from me,	9:42
	"but I lay it down of my own accord.	9:44
	"I have power to lay it down	9:47
	"and I have power to take it up again.	9:49
	"I have received this command from my Father."	9:53
	This is the word of the Lord.	9:59
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	10:02
-	Amen.	10:03
	For this is the message you have heard from are beginning	10:14
	that you should love one another.	10:18
	We must not be like Kane who murdered his brother	10:21
	because his own deeds were evil	10:25
	and his brothers righteous.	10:27
	Whoever does not love abides in death.	10:30
	All who hate a brother or sister are murderers.	10:34
	These verses are the dramatic background,	10:41
	the context for the passage of scripture read today	10:45
	from 1st John about love.	10:49
	A brother kills a brother.	10:53
	Murder is declared the inevitable consequence	10:55
	from the lack of love.	10:58
	In this letter it was John's intention to shake up	11:01
	the Christian community with the realization	11:05
	that the absence of Love leads to emotional,	11:09
	spiritual, and physical death.	11:12
	The command to love one another is not just	11:16
	a nice sentiment, but the identifying mark of Christians	11:19
	and the foundation for genuine human community and life.	11:25
	The message never changes.	11:31
	Love one another.	11:34
	It is the irreducible requirement	11:37
	for being a new person in Christ.	11:39
	We've all heard it before.	11:43
	Perhaps, too many times before.	11:46
	So that we are at risk of becoming death	11:49
	to its demand and promise.	11:52
	John reminds us that the command to love	11:56
	is integral to life and its absence leads only to death.	11:58
	The signs of love's absence are all around us.	12:05
	War, violence on the streets and in our homes,	12:10
	child abuse, hunger in the midst of plenty,	12:15
	loneliness and fear,	12:19
	people everywhere are starved for love.	12:22
	The young and old, the rich and poor,	12:26
	the extrovert and the introvert,	12:30
	the healthy and sick, the Christian and non-Christian,	12:32
	people everywhere are starved for love.	12:38
	When the command to love is so simple and wrecked,	12:42
	why is there such scarcity of love?	12:47
	In this passage John offers instruction	12:52
	in how to overcome the scarcity	12:55
	and how to obey the command and become a loving people.	12:58
	The first thing he teaches us	13:03
	is that the starting place for any expression	13:05
	of human love is God's love for us.	13:08
	We know love by this, that Jesus Christ	13:13
	laid down his life for us.	13:17
	God's love isn't an abstract idea,	13:20
	but an embodied concrete act.	13:23
	Today, we will celebrate the sacrament of the Lord's super.	13:27
	The communion feast reminds us that the word became flesh.	13:31
	Christ didn't offer salvation by proclamation,	13:36
	but by active costly love.	13:41
	Christ died for us while we were yet sinners,	13:46
	and that proves God's love for us.	13:50
	The starting place for our love is the deep down knowledge	13:53
	that God loves us just as we are.	13:58
	Our difficulty in loving others is so often linked	14:01
	to our own feelings of unlovableness.	14:05
	Many of us, perhaps most of us,	14:10
	come to maturity with the scars of childhood on our psyche.	14:13
	Hurt and rejection makes us cautious	14:18
	and lacking in self-esteem.	14:21
	We internalize every rejection	14:23
	until it becomes self-rejection.	14:26
	And as a consequence we become emotionally malnourished	14:29
	and find it difficult to give or receive love.	14:33
	When our past failures haunt us,	14:39
	they rob us of the delight of the present	14:43
	and of the excitement for the future.	14:46
	It's difficult for us to be up for life	14:49
	when we're down on ourselves.	14:52
	Self-condemnation is the result of not measuring up	14:55
	to our own expectations and standards.	14:58
	And when we condemn ourselves, our lives become filled	15:02
	either with anxious attempts to prove ourself worth	15:05
	or to escape the things that make us feel unworthy.	15:10
	In the story of Kane and Abel,	15:15
	the scripture says that Kane killed his brother	15:18
	because his deeds were evil	15:21
	and his brothers were righteous.	15:23
	Because Kane judged himself unworthy and unlovable,	15:26
	he couldn't bare to be in the presence of God	15:31
	or his brother and he acted to remove the one	15:34
	who made him feel inferior.	15:37
	Self-condemnation so often stems from our tendency	15:41
	to compare ourselves with others	15:45
	and to judge ourselves short.	15:48
	Through Christ God acts to overcome our self-rejection	15:52
	and prove in an inescapable way God's love for us.	15:57
	It isn't enough to believe in salvation	16:03
	as an intellectual concept.	16:06
	The idea of forgiveness can't free us	16:09
	from the chains of self-doubt.	16:12
	It takes a concrete act on the part	16:15
	of an embodied living Lord to assure us	16:17
	deep down where it cannot be shaken	16:21
	that God really loves us just as we are.	16:25
	As amazing as that may be it really is true.	16:30
	And we can't begin to offer love to anyone else	16:36
	until we can accept for ourselves that God loves us.	16:40
	The experience of God's love	16:47
	also opens us to receive love from others.	16:49
	Even as the love of parents, friends, or spouses,	16:53
	can help us learn to trust God's love,	16:58
	but only the experience of being loved divinely	17:01
	and humanly can set us free to be lovers.	17:04
	There is simply no other way that we have any love to give.	17:08
	We must allow ourselves to be renewed	17:12
	and filled by the love of God	17:15
	and the love of those who care about us.	17:17
	Then and only then are we empowered	17:21
	to become loving people in the world	17:24
	who lay down our lives for one another.	17:26
	As John goes on to say, "Let us love not in word or speech,	17:30
	"but in truth and action."	17:34
	You see our theology and ethics are inextricably bound.	17:38
	What we believe to be true about God must motivate	17:42
	how we act as people of God in the world.	17:46
	Otherwise, we're at risk of developing	17:49
	a Christian ideology and theory that subverts	17:51
	the radical nature of the Christian faith.	17:54
	Ours is an embodied faith.	17:58
	To speak of the love of God made manifest	18:01
	in the gift of God's son has no meaning whatsoever	18:04
	apart from our love made manifest	18:08
	in our own acts of self-giving.	18:11
	We don't live abstract lives.	18:15
	We live in a particular place and time	18:17
	with particular families and communities	18:20
	and relationships and jobs and skills.	18:23
	Our love must be acted out	18:28
	in the particular circumstances of our lives.	18:30
	For to refuse to perform the acts of love	18:35
	that are uniquely available to us	18:38
	is to close our hearts to love	18:41
	and diminish life and abide in death.	18:43
	Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the needs around us	18:49
	and hesitate to act for fear	18:53
	that we won't be able to make a difference.	18:55
	But what is at stake is not the outcome of our actions,	18:59
	but our willingness to act.	19:02
	In C.S. Lewis' wonderful book, "The Screwtape Letters",	19:06
	he explores the role that embodied love	19:10
	plays in maintaining a life of faith.	19:13
	Screwtape, the senior devil is advising his nephew,	19:16
	Wormwood, a junior tempter, about how to undermine	19:19
	the faith and repentance of a young Christian.	19:24
	He says, "It remains to consider	19:27
	"how we can retrieve this disaster.	19:30
	"The great thing is to prevent his doing anything.	19:33
	"As long as he does not convert it into action,	19:37
	"it does not matter how much he thinks	19:39
	"about this new repentance.	19:41
	"Let the little brute wallow in it.	19:44
	"Let him if he has a knee bent that way	19:47
	"write a book about it.	19:49
	"That is often an excellent way of sterilizing	19:51
	"the seeds which the enemy plants in the human soul.	19:54
	"Let him do anything, but act.	19:58
	"No amount of piety in his imagination	20:01
	"and affections will harm us	20:04
	"if we can keep it out of his will.	20:06
	"As one of the humans has said	20:09
	"active habits are strengthened by repetition,	20:11
	"but passive ones are weakened.	20:15
	"The more often he feels without acting,	20:17
	"the less he will be able ever to act,	20:21
	"and in the long run the less he will be able to feel.	20:24
	"It is not enough that we feel compassion	20:31
	"for those who suffer.	20:35
	"Love is not just a special way of feeling.	20:37
	"It is an orientation of life and action.	20:41
	"It must be demonstrated in our everyday	20:45
	"common place actions.	20:48
	"The evidence that we belong to Christ	20:51
	"is that we express healing love to one another."	20:53
	This text invites you and I to evaluate our capacity	20:58
	to transmit God's love for us to the people in our lives.	21:03
	This particular passage isn't talking about	21:10
	the unnamed needy in a foreign land,	21:12
	although they too are within the circle of God's love,	21:15
	but John was concerned with a particular Christian community	21:19
	and their lack of love for one another.	21:23
	The starting place for us to become more loving people	21:26
	is with our own community with the people we see everyday.	21:30
	Who has a need that we could easily satisfy?	21:36
	What of the world's good has been given to us to share?	21:41
	Picture the people in your world, your family, you friends,	21:46
	those you work with, the clerk you see at the grocery.	21:51
	Who needs a sign of the human incarnation of God's love?	21:56
	A helping hand, an act of thoughtfulness,	22:02
	a share in your abundance,	22:06
	an act of your presence,	22:10
	people in our lives need specific expressions	22:14
	of the fact that we love and cherish them.	22:17
	Friends and acquaintances often signal the need	22:20
	they have for us to listen and care profoundly.	22:23
	There are so many opportunities to express love	22:28
	to people starved for love,	22:32
	but it means involvement, caring and openness.	22:35
	Loving people takes time.	22:39
	Sometimes it means surrender of our schedules	22:42
	and relinquishment of our aloofness.	22:45
	Our judgementalism, our faces, our body language,	22:49
	our attitudes, all communicate whether or not	22:53
	we are available to others.	22:56
	Sometimes taking the time to sit down	22:59
	and listen is enough.	23:02
	Part of the preaching responsibility	23:06
	is to make the scripture lively and relevant,	23:08
	to illustrate in ways that help the congregation	23:12
	make sense of it and apply it to their own lives.	23:15
	When I was thinking about how to do that	23:18
	for this particular text, about how to help you see the ways	23:21
	that you can become more loving,	23:24
	what I kept thinking of are the ways	23:27
	that I can become more loving.	23:29
	That often happens to me in preaching.	23:33
	Before there is anything to say in the sermon,	23:35
	the text goes to work on me.	23:38
	So when I was thinking about	23:42
	what you could do to be more loving,	23:43
	I realized what I could do.	23:45
	Like the time last week when I was on my way out of town	23:47
	and I felt irritated when an employee asked	23:50
	for help with their rent,	23:54
	or the time recently when I passed by a friend	23:56
	who I can tell was distressed,	23:58
	but I was late and on my way to a meeting,	24:01
	or the letter of encouragement I've been meaning to send	24:04
	to a student who is doing mission work in Bolivia,	24:06
	or the phone call I owe my mom.	24:10
	There are so many opportunities for me to be more loving.	24:12
	All that is needed is my willingness to act.	24:17
	I know that I can't make this command come alive for you.	24:21
	Only you can decern the people and the places in your life	24:27
	that call for your loving response.	24:32
	You must open your ears to hear the appeals for help.	24:35
	You must open your eyes to see	24:40
	those in need of a loving touch.	24:43
	When you see and hear what is already there,	24:47
	then the ways you need to respond will become evident.	24:51
	The key is your willingness to act.	24:56
	Don't worry about what difference	25:00
	it might make to their life.	25:02
	It will make all the difference in the world to your life	25:04
	as you will become one of the lovers	25:09
	with Christ who bring life to the world.	25:11
	Brother and sisters in Christ,	25:16
	the message is always the same.	25:19
	Let us love one another.	25:23
-	[Rev.Westerfield-Tucker] The Lord be with you.	25:44
Congregation	And also with you.	25:46
-	Let us pray.	25:48
	Glory be to you O God,	25:56
	for all your goodness to us and all your creation.	25:58
	We give you thanks for the world in which you have placed us	26:04
	with all its wonder and beauty,	26:07
	for life and health, for food, shelter, and clothing,	26:11
	for friends, for families, for colleagues,	26:19
	for your care that guards us always	26:25
	and your faithfulness that never fails.	26:28
	Most of all we thank you for Jesus Christ	26:33
	who came into this world,	26:36
	died for us upon the cross	26:38
	and revealed for us a love that surpasses all human knowing.	26:40
	Almighty and ever living God,	26:48
	by your apostle you taught us to pray,	26:51
	not only for ourselves, but for others.	26:53
	Hear now our prayers that you may shed light	26:59
	where there is darkness, clarity where there is confusion.	27:03
	Silently, let us pray for the church.	27:12
	Gracious God, you have called us	27:30
	to be the church of Jesus Christ.	27:33
	Keep us one in faith and service,	27:36
	breaking bread together	27:39
	and telling the good news to the world	27:42
	that all may believe your love	27:45
	and live to give you glory.	27:47
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	27:51
	Let us pray for the world.	27:57
	Creating God, you made all things in your wisdom.	28:16
	By your spirit breathe new life	28:22
	into the human family.	28:25
	That hatred may be turned into love,	28:27
	sorrow into joy	28:30
	and war into peace.	28:33
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	28:38
	Let us pray for the sick and the disabled.	28:45
	God of healing and hope, in Jesus Christ	29:07
	you cared for those who are blind or death,	29:11
	crippled or infirm.	29:15
	Enable us by your mercy to comfort the distressed,	29:19
	to help the helpless, to mend the broken of body and will.	29:24
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	29:33
	Let us pray for the anxious of heart and mind.	29:40
	Source of peace, your spirit restores our anxious spirits.	29:58
	In our labor give us rest.	30:06
	In our temptation, strength.	30:11
	In our sadness, consolation.	30:16
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	30:23
	Eternal God, accept the prayers of your people	30:29
	and strengthen us to do your will	30:34
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	30:37
	Amen.	30:41
	And now let us share signs	30:47
	and words of reconciliation and love.	30:49
	Would you stand?	30:53
	(congregation murmuring)	30:57
	As forgiven and reconciled people	31:27
	let us offer our gifts of life and labor to the Lord.	31:31
	Please be seated.	31:36
	(organ music)	31:37
	(choir singing)	32:54
-	The Lord be with you.	40:32
Congregation	And also with you.	40:33
-	Lift up your hearts.	40:35
Congregation	We lift them to the Lord.	40:37
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	40:39
Congregation	It is right to give our thanks and praise.	40:42
-	It is right, and a good and joyful thing,	40:45
	always and everywhere to give thanks to you almighty God,	40:48
	creator of heaven and earth.	40:53
	You formed us in your image	40:55
	and breathed into us the breath of life.	40:57
	When we turned away and our love failed,	41:00
	your love remained steadfast.	41:03
	You delivered us from captivity,	41:07
	made covenant to be our sovereign God,	41:09
	brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey,	41:12
	and set before us the way of life.	41:16
	And so with your people on earth	41:19
	and all the company in heaven	41:21
	we praise your name and join their unending hymn.	41:23
Everyone	Holy, holy, holy Lord.	41:27
	God of power and might,	41:29
	heaven and earth are full of your glory.	41:32
	Hosanna in the highest.	41:35
	Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.	41:37
	Hosanna in the highest.	41:40
-	Holy are you and blessed is your son, Jesus Christ.	41:43
	By the baptism of his suffering death and resurrection,	41:47
	you gave birth to your church,	41:50
	delivered us from slavery to sin and death,	41:53
	and made with us a new covenant by water and the spirit.	41:56
	By your great mercy we have been born anew	42:01
	to a living hope through the resurrection	42:04
	of your son from the dead,	42:07
	to an inheritance that is imperishable,	42:09
	undefiled and unfading.	42:12
	Once we were no people, but now we are your people	42:15
	declaring your wonderful deeds in Christ	42:19
	who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.	42:22
	When the Lord Jesus ascended,	42:26
	he promised to be with us always	42:28
	in the power of your word and Holy Spirit.	42:30
	On the night in which he gave himself up for us,	42:35
	he took bread, gave thanks to you,	42:38
	offered to his disciples and said, "Take, eat.	42:41
	"This is my body.	42:44
	"Do this in remembrance of me."	42:46
	And when the supper was over, he took the cup,	42:50
	gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples	42:52
	and said, "Drink from this all of you	42:55
	"for this is the blood of the new covenant	42:58
	"poured out for you	43:00
	"and for many for their forgiveness of sins.	43:01
	"Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me."	43:04
	On the day you raised him from the dead,	43:12
	he was recognized by his disciples	43:14
	in the breaking of the bread	43:16
	and in the power of your Holy Spirit,	43:18
	your church has continued in the breaking of the bread	43:21
	and the sharing of the cup.	43:24
	And so in remembrance of these,	43:25
	your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,	43:27
	we offer ourselves in praise and thanks giving	43:30
	as a holy and living sacrifice,	43:33
	in union with Christ offering for us as we proclaim	43:36
	the mystery of faith.	43:40
Everyone	Christ has died.	43:42
	Christ has risen.	43:44
	Christ will come again.	43:46
-	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here	43:48
	and on these gifts of bread and wine.	43:51
	Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ.	43:53
	That we may be for the world the body of Christ	43:57
	redeemed by his blood.	44:00
	By your spirit make us one with Christ,	44:02
	one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world,	44:05
	until Christ comes in final victory	44:09
	and we feast at his heavenly banquet.	44:12
	Through your son Jesus Christ,	44:15
	with the Holy Spirit in your Holy church,	44:17
	all honor and glory is yours almighty God,	44:20
	now and forever.	44:24
	Amen.	44:26
	And now let us pray with confidence	44:28
	as the children of God.	44:30
Everyone	Our Father, who art in heaven,	44:32
	hallowed be thy Name,	44:34
	thy kingdom come,	44:36
	thy will be done,	44:38
	on earth as it is in heaven.	44:40
	Give us this day our daily bread.	44:42
	And forgive us our trespasses,	44:45
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	44:47
	Lead us not into temptation,	44:51
	but deliver us from evil.	44:53
	For thine is the kingdom	44:55
	and the power and the glory forever.	44:57
	Amen.	45:00
-	Because there is one loaf we who are many	45:03
	are one body for we all partake of the one loaf.	45:07
	When we break the bread,	45:11
	is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?	45:13
	When we give thanks over the cup,	45:20
	is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ,	45:22
	the cup of salvation?	45:25
	Would you come forward?	45:29
	The body of Christ given for you.	45:35
	The blood of Christ given for you.	45:41
-	The body of Christ given you.	45:54
-	Amen.	45:56
	(whispers)	46:02
	Amen.	46:03
	These are the gifts of God for the people of God.	46:21
	Come and feast at the Lord's table.	46:24
	(organ music)	46:30
	Are you bread or wine?	46:33
	(organ music)	46:34
	(choir singing)	47:57
	Please stand.	56:20
	Let us pray.	56:28
	Gracious God, you have made us one	56:32
	with all your people in heaven and on earth.	56:35
	You have fed us with the bread of life	56:39
	and renewed us for your service.	56:41
	We give ourselves to you	56:44
	and ask that our daily living	56:46
	may be part of the life of your kingdom.	56:48
	May our love be your love	56:52
	reaching out into the life of all the world	56:54
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	56:58
	Amen.	57:00
	(organ music)	57:04

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Title:

Debra K. Brazzel - Sermon Untitled (April 24, 1994)

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Sermon start time: 10:14. Sermon end time: 25:27.
God loves and cares for us completely. We must pass this love on because people are staved for love and love brings about shalom. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The starting place for us to become more loving people is with our own community with the people we see every day.”

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Date:

April 24, 1994

Speaker:

Brazzel, Debra K.

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Easter

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Duke University. Chapel

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