Donald Coggan - "The Sermon Preached in Duke University Chapel" (June 3, 1984)

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	(church organ playing softly)	0:03
	(crowd chattering distantly)
-	Choir, president of Duke, President Sanford,	6:07
	don't clap, don't clap.	6:10
-	So glad to see you.	6:13
	I won't speak either except to say welcome,	6:14
	we're just delighted to have you at Newcomb,	6:17
	appreciate so much you taking a part in the program.	6:20
	(harp playing softly)	6:23
	(crowd chattering distantly)
	(choir singing gently)	11:02
	(church organ playing gently)	12:14
	(choir singing)	12:56
	(church organ continuing)
	(church organ continuing)	15:46
	(choir singing)	19:15
	(church organ continuing)
	(church organ concluding)	19:58
-	God, whom we gather to worship,	20:15
	loved into being Abraham and Sarah,	20:18
	Peter and Andrew and Mary,	20:22
	placed into our midst that we hear God's call	20:26
	to do justice and be merciful	20:29
	Jeremiah and Isaiah and Micah and Amos,	20:32
	visited us in the persons of John Knox and John Wesley,	20:39
	Martin Luther and John Cranmer,	20:43
	Pope John the 23rd and Martin Luther King,	20:47
	Saint Columba and Mother Theresa,	20:52
	was word become flesh in Jesus of Nazareth,	20:56
	yearns to be word become flesh in you and in me.	21:01
	This same God challenges us to know our traditions,	21:07
	that our vision be expanded, our faith deepened,	21:12
	our discipleship made more lively.	21:17
	Come, let us respond to God's bidding	21:21
	to worship in the spirit of joy and truth,	21:23
	and to God, let us make our confession.	21:27
	Oh majestic, gracing God,	21:50
	Lord of all seasons, hear now our confession.	21:53
	We declare our sin and seek your pardon, our need is great.	21:58
	We are a disobedient people.	22:04
	The gods of this age claim our loyalty.	22:07
	The values of this age have become the tenets of our faith.	22:10
	Afraid of death, we are yet careless with life.	22:15
	War is tolerated, people become but a means to an end.	22:19
	Your creation, we neglect and abuse.	22:25
	Oh Yahweh, we regret our sin.	22:28
	Startle us now by your divine foolishness.	22:32
	By your outrageous grace, redeem us.	22:35
	Make us to know our oneness with your created order.	22:39
	In saving us, cause us to hunger for what is right,	22:43
	to be merciful indeed	22:48
	and to bring shalom to this, your world,	22:50
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	22:54
	My sisters, my brothers, hear.	23:18
	Believe the good news.	23:21
	There is no power, no person,	23:24
	no thing that can separate us from the love of God	23:26
	come to each of us in Christ Jesus, our Lord	23:30
	in him we are saved, made whole, brought to life again.	23:35
	On this new morning,	23:42
	experience God's presence, savor God's grace.	23:43
	You are forgiven, you are free,	23:49
	free to live life afresh and with hope.	23:54
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	24:01
	and God's love is everlasting.	24:04
	Thanks be to God, whose love creates us.	24:07
	Thanks be to God, whose mercy redeems us.	24:11
	Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.	24:15
	It is a delight, a pleasure to welcome each of you	24:24
	to Duke Chapel on this very special occasion	24:27
	as we celebrate those things which bring us together,	24:31
	the bonds that tie us together as a people	24:36
	and as a people of faith.	24:40
	This is indeed an ecumenical occasion.	24:45
	What else could it be	24:50
	when we celebrate 400 years of British American heritage,	24:51
	how at one we are,	24:56
	and yet how many are the traditions,	24:59
	political and literary and social and religious among them	25:03
	all so rich in their diversity	25:08
	that are born out of this oneness.	25:12
	To help us honor this day,	25:15
	we have several distinguished guests this morning,	25:19
	each representing his or her denomination.	25:22
	Dr. Dennis Campbell is here	25:27
	representing the United Methodist Church.	25:29
	James Chesky, minister of operations and support	25:33
	for the Lutheran Church in America	25:37
	is here representing that denomination.	25:39
	Mr. William Marsh,	25:43
	who is secretary to the Judicial Council of the AME Church,	25:45
	is here representing	25:49
	each of the congregations of that denomination.	25:50
	Senior Warden John Thomas has been designated	25:54
	by Bishop Robert Estel	25:57
	to represent the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina,	25:59
	and ruling elder Peggy Witherspoon	26:03
	is here to represent the Presbyterian church USA.	26:05
	Peggy is a member of the staff	26:11
	of the Presbyterian Senate of North Carolina.	26:14
	We are grateful to each of you for being here this morning,	26:18
	and we will hope that you will return	26:21
	to your various denominations and adjudicatories	26:22
	with the assurance of continuing friendship	26:27
	and the assurance of our prayers.	26:30
	This morning's guest preacher is a gentle priest	26:38
	who can and has spoken a tough and prophetic word.	26:44
	He is, at heart, a pastor,	26:49
	a man whose ministry is born out of an understanding	26:52
	of the human condition	26:55
	and a sense of compassion for the human family.	26:57
	His is a Catholic spirit, realizing as he does	27:02
	that there is but one God whom we worship and serve	27:06
	out of our several and diverse traditions.	27:10
	He is a scholar pursuing God's truth	27:15
	from within the disciplines of the academy.	27:20
	Indeed, it was each of these qualities	27:24
	that Lord Donald Coggan took with him	27:26
	into the office and work of Archbishop of Canterbury,	27:29
	the 101st person to occupy that office	27:33
	since its creation in the year 597.	27:38
	Augustine and Selma, Beckett, Cranmer, William Temple.	27:45
	These are but some of Lord Coggan's predecessors,	27:56
	each of them leaders of the Anglican communion	28:00
	wherever it exists throughout the world.	28:03
	On this occasion, when we celebrate those things	28:08
	of our faith and our culture that do wed us together,	28:12
	it is most appropriate that Lord Coggan be our guest	28:17
	and our preacher, for he personifies, I think,	28:20
	the spirit that these moments of worship represent.	28:24
	Lord Coggan, it is a pleasure to welcome you	28:31
	to Durham and to this university.	28:34
	It is an honor to welcome you to the pulpit of Duke Chapel,	28:38
	and we look forward to your proclamation of the gospel.	28:42
-	Let us pray.	29:06
	Fulfill now, oh Lord, we pray you,	29:09
	your gracious promise that your word	29:12
	shall not return to you empty,	29:14
	but shall accomplish that which you purpose and prosper	29:17
	toward the end for which you have sent it.	29:22
	For your name's sake, amen.	29:25
	The Old Testament lesson is from Psalm chapter 68,	29:33
	verses 1 through 10.	29:38
	"God arises and his enemies are scattered.	29:43
	Those who hate him flee before him,	29:47
	driven away like smoke in the wind	29:50
	Like wax melting at the fire,	29:53
	the wicked perish at the presence of God,	29:56
	but the righteous are joyful.	30:00
	They exalt before God.	30:02
	They are jubilant and shout for joy.	30:05
	Sing the praises of God. Raise a psalm to his name.	30:10
	Extol him who rides across the desert plains.	30:15
	Be joyful and exalt before him,	30:19
	father of the fatherless, the widow's champion,	30:22
	God in his holy dwelling place.	30:27
	God gives the friendless a home	30:31
	and brings out the prisoner safe and sound,	30:33
	but rebels must live in the scorching desert.	30:36
	Oh God, when thou does go forth before thy people	30:43
	marching across the wilderness, earth trembled.	30:46
	The very heavens quake before God, the Lord of Sinai,	30:51
	before God, the God of Israel.	30:57
	Of thy bounty, oh God,	31:01
	thou does refresh with rain thy own land in its weariness,	31:03
	the land which thou thyself did provide,	31:07
	where thy own people make their home, which thou, oh God,	31:11
	in thy goodness provide us for the poor."	31:17
	Here it ends the reading from the Old Testament.	31:23
	The epistle lesson is from First Peter chapter four,	31:30
	verses 12 through 14, and chapter 5, verses 6 through 11.	31:34
	"My dear friends, do not be bewildered	31:44
	by the fiery ordeal that is upon you	31:47
	as though it was something extraordinary.	31:50
	It gives you a share in Christ's sufferings,	31:54
	and that is called for joy.	31:58
	And when his glory is revealed, your joy will be triumphant.	32:01
	If Christ's name is flung at your teeth as an insult,	32:06
	count yourselves happy	32:10
	because then that glorious spirit which is the spirit of God	32:12
	is resting upon you.	32:18
	Humble yourselves then under God's mighty hand,	32:21
	and he will lift you up in due time.	32:26
	Cast all your cares on him, for you are his charge.	32:29
	Awake, be on the alert.	32:35
	Your enemy, the devil, like a roaring lion prowls around	32:39
	looking for someone to devour.	32:44
	Stand up to him firm in faith,	32:47
	and remember that your brother Christians	32:50
	are going through the same kinds of suffering	32:52
	while they are in this world.	32:55
	And the Lord of all grace,	32:59
	who called you into his eternal glory in Christ,	33:01
	will himself, after your brief suffering,	33:05
	restore, establish and strengthen you on a firm foundation.	33:08
	He holds dominion forever and ever, amen."	33:14
	Here ends the reading from the epistle lesson.	33:23
	(symphony playing brightly)	33:49
	Would the congregation stand	38:03
	for the reading of the gospel lesson?	38:06
	The gospel lesson is from John chapter 17,	38:17
	verses 1 through 11.	38:21
	"After these words, Jesus looked up to heaven and said,	38:26
	Father, the hour has come.	38:31
	Glorify thy son that the son may glorify thee,	38:34
	for thou has made him sovereign over all mankind	38:40
	to give eternal life to all whom thou has given him.	38:44
	This is eternal life, to know thee, who alone are truly God,	38:48
	and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent.	38:55
	I have glorified thee on earth	39:00
	by completing the work which thou gavest me to do.	39:02
	And now, Father, glorify me in thy presence	39:06
	with the glory which I had with thee	39:10
	before the world began.	39:13
	I have made thy name known to men	39:16
	who thou did give me out of the world.	39:19
	They were thine, thou gavest them to me,	39:23
	and they have obeyed my command.	39:26
	Now they know that all thy gifts have come to me from thee,	39:30
	for I have taught them all that I learned from thee,	39:36
	and they have received it.	39:40
	They know with certainty that I came from thee.	39:43
	They have faith to believe that thou did send me.	39:46
	I pray for them.	39:52
	I am not praying for the world,	39:55
	but for those whom thou has given me,	39:57
	because they belong to thee.	40:01
	All that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine,	40:04
	and through them has my glory shown.	40:11
	I am to stay no longer in this world,	40:17
	but they are still in the world,	40:21
	and I am on my way to thee.	40:23
	Holy Father, protect by the power of thy name	40:27
	those whom thou has given me	40:33
	that they may be one as we are one."	40:35
	Here ends the reading from the gospel lesson, amen.	40:41
	(church organ playing softly)	40:49
	(choir singing gently)	40:57
	May my words and our thoughts be acceptable in thy sight.	41:50
	Oh Lord, our strength and our edema.	41:56
	It is surely a mark of great grace	42:12
	on the part of those who planned this festival	42:16
	that an Englishman should be invited to preach the service,	42:21
	the sermon at its openings service.	42:26
	I take this as a symbolic act.	42:30
	I think that America is saying to the old country,	42:34
	"All is forgiven, welcome."	42:38
	I accept the invitation with warmth and gratitude,	42:45
	even if with trembling	42:50
	in the face of the opportunity given me	42:51
	to speak to this great congregation.	42:54
	From many visits to this country	42:59
	and from years spent in Canada,	43:01
	I know something of the generosity of hospitality	43:05
	of the peoples of North America,	43:09
	and I sense it here again this morning.	43:11
	I want to congratulate those responsible	43:16
	for the conceiving and bringing to birth of this festival,	43:19
	for the creative imagination	43:25
	which has gone into its planning,	43:28
	the fruits of which we shall enjoy in rich measure	43:30
	during this week.	43:34
	Even if I were an historian, which I'm not,	43:38
	this would not be the occasion	43:42
	nor would a pulpit be the place for me to tell in any detail	43:44
	the story which, four centuries ago,	43:49
	provided the events we now commemorate.	43:52
	But perhaps you will allow me to share with you	43:57
	some thoughts which have exhilarated me and saddened me	44:00
	as I pondered the events themselves	44:06
	and the happenings which have occurred	44:10
	between 1584 and 1984.	44:13
	As a minister of the gospel,	44:18
	I've tried to set these events against the background	44:21
	of the revelation of himself that God has given us	44:25
	in the face of Jesus Christ.	44:29
	All great discoveries,	44:34
	all ventures into the unknown seem to be made at great cost.	44:38
	Man seeks to explore Everest, man learns to fly,	44:46
	man ventures into space,	44:54
	but not without initial setbacks and even disasters.	44:58
	It was so with the adventurers,	45:04
	so many of them from the county of Devon,	45:07
	who sought to find out	45:11
	and eventually to colonize the new world.	45:13
	Rally himself must have looked back	45:17
	with a sense of profound disappointment	45:19
	at what seemed to him the failure of a vision	45:23
	which he shared with his sovereign lady, Queen Elizabeth.	45:27
	The unmapped world beyond the ocean	45:32
	seemed an archipelago of fairy islands,	45:36
	each waiting to be discovered by some adventurous knight	45:41
	vowed to leave his bones far away	45:45
	or to come back rich and tell his tail in the tavern.	45:48
	But there was many a grief and many a loss of men and ships	45:56
	before the vision of a new England beyond the seas	46:00
	gained a semblance of reality.	46:04
	Perhaps Rally, as he looked back on his intention	46:08
	peacefully to settle the land	46:11
	and bring the advantages of England to the native people,	46:13
	thought of the words of Jesus about a grain of wheat	46:18
	falling to the ground and dying	46:21
	before ever it could bring forth a rich harvest.	46:25
	Four centuries later and with a perspective	46:32
	which only the passage of years can give, we look back,	46:36
	and it is a very mixed story that we see.	46:43
	On the one hand, there is venture enough	46:49
	to stir the blood of any reader.	46:52
	There was a good intent.	46:55
	According to their lights, many of the adventurers	46:58
	thought less of making private fortunes	47:02
	than of rendering service to their loyal mistress	47:05
	and of upholding true religion against hope and Spaniard.	47:09
	I'm not quite sure that was true of Drake, but let that go.	47:14
	But all human endeavor is marked and marred by sin,	47:19
	personal greed, acquisitiveness, and a desire for glory.	47:27
	These things led to inhuman treatment of natives,	47:34
	and again and again, history has shown glaring instances	47:39
	in its sometimes beneficent,	47:45
	often shameful story of colonization.	47:47
	Glory and shame are inextricably mixed, one with the other,	47:53
	but in the long run,	48:03
	out of the midst of the blood and the sweat and the tears,	48:06
	where you see the emergence of certain factors	48:11
	which have proved of immense benefit.	48:13

-	In the 17th century, this newly discovered land	0:05
	was to prove a place of freedom	0:11
	for the pilgrim fathers and their descendants.	0:14
	And later, after conflicts which we would like to forget	0:18
	if history allowed us,	0:23
	we see the emergence of an alliance	0:26
	of two great peoples,	0:28
	which was to ensure through two world wars	0:31
	the triumph of justice over tyranny.	0:36
	Now,	0:41
	against that very sketchy background,	0:43
	there are two matters which I want to share with you today.	0:45
	First, the immense importance	0:52
	of maintaining and strengthening the alliance	0:57
	between America and Europe,	1:01
	and more particularly between America and Britain.	1:04
	And in stressing this, I refer not merely to matters	1:10
	of defense, important as these are,	1:15
	but to cultural ties,	1:19
	the things of the mind and of the spirit.	1:21
	Down these centuries we have learned much from one another	1:27
	in the spheres of science, literature, music,	1:32
	the arts, craftsmanship.	1:36
	We have much to learn today.	1:40
	We have much to learn this week.	1:42
	We have much to learn in the coming years.	1:46
	The stretch of water that separates us,	1:51
	is steadily growing narrower.	1:55
	The Atlantic is little more now than a pond.	1:58
	If you think I exaggerate, very well, have it your own way,	2:03
	but consider the journey which involved Raleigh	2:08
	and Drake and the others.	2:11
	In weary weeks and dangerous months of travel,	2:13
	and which now is accomplished, as I know well,	2:18
	in luxury and comfort in little over three hours.	2:22
	This you may say constitute a danger,	2:28
	for willy nilly, America is thereby implicated	2:31
	in the follies created by a mounting arms race.	2:35
	Itself surely the example	2:40
	of scientific man's lack of wisdom	2:45
	in spite of his ever increasing knowledge	2:49
	and the two things are very different.	2:52
	That is true and it's a sobering thought,	2:55
	but the proximity of America to Britain	3:00
	and of Britain to America affords both of us	3:03
	vast opportunities for mutual friendship,	3:08
	mutual care, mutual enrichment,	3:12
	and I see this festival as an example	3:17
	of what I'm now stressing.	3:20
	We learn from one another, we two peoples,	3:22
	we share with one another.	3:26
	And secondly, I wish to urge the importance	3:33
	of sharing our joint inheritance	3:38
	and our abundance with others across the world.	3:41
	In doing so, I think particularly	3:48
	of the so-called third world,	3:51
	more accurately called two-thirds world	3:55
	or as Willie Brandt in his two reports	4:00
	has taught us to think of it the south,	4:04
	the underprivileged south	4:08
	against the privileged north.	4:10
	In addressing ourselves	4:14
	with this huge section of our one world,	4:15
	we speak from a position of privilege and wealth,	4:19
	which may or may not be thereby	4:24
	a position of advantage,	4:28
	for there are alarming signs	4:31
	on both sides of the Atlantic	4:35
	that the rich are growing richer	4:38
	and the poor are growing poorer.	4:41
	And when that is so, the seeds are being sown,	4:45
	necessarily so of strife,	4:50
	of war, of devastation,	4:54
	And when that is so, as it undoubtedly is,	4:59
	men and women of conscience are forced	5:04
	to ask awkward questions.	5:07
	How long can a nation go on	5:11
	increasing its own wealth,	5:14
	careless of the starvation and deprivation of others?	5:17
	What sort of nation produces a government	5:24
	which allows this to happen?	5:27
	What sort of people prefers physical ease to moral decline?	5:32
	How long can we go on harping on the theme	5:39
	of raising our standards of living, heaven help us,	5:43
	when millions only a few flight hours from us starve?	5:48
	One world, yes,	5:56
	but a world riven down the middle	6:00
	by the divide of famine and illiteracy on the one hand	6:04
	and luxury and carelessness on the other.	6:10
	We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak	6:15
	and not to please ourselves.	6:20
	The words of St. Paul are uncomfortable in their directness,	6:22
	but they are neglected not only at the peril	6:27
	of the underprivileged,	6:32
	but also at the peril of the poor little rich men	6:35
	and women of the north.	6:39
	Now, I'm fully aware that in sharing our wealth,	6:46
	be it of material goods	6:51
	or of things of mind and spirit,	6:53
	we are engaging in a task	6:56
	of considerable difficulty and delicacy.	6:58
	To go to the nations of the south in a spirit of superiority	7:03
	is to invite disaster.	7:08
	India and China to take but two examples	7:11
	had high civilizations before we were so much as thought of,	7:15
	and we shall do well to bear this in mind,	7:22
	not least in regard to China	7:25
	now that that one fifth of the world population	7:28
	is opening up again.	7:34
	That warning, however, taken with all seriousness	7:38
	must not hinder us from offering all we have	7:42
	while at the same time it makes us aware	7:46
	of how much we need the insights	7:49
	which these nations alone can give us.	7:52
	Africa has much to offer us and Asia too	7:57
	and Latin America also if we are humble enough	8:03
	to receive at their hands and to learn from them.	8:08
	Do I need to say more this morning about the millions	8:16
	of starving people including children?	8:19
	Do I need to stress the pathos of illiterate multitudes	8:23
	who cannot read the instructions on a medicine bottle	8:29
	or the headings of a newspaper	8:34
	or the peril of the millions of adults as well as children	8:38
	who in a given year learn to read,	8:42
	but because we do not provide them	8:46
	with the good news of life in Christ,	8:50
	fall victims to creeds which can only degrade.	8:54
	We complain if we have to wait half an hour for the doctor	9:00
	or half a week for an operation.	9:06
	My daughter living in Pakistan	9:11
	ministers every day	9:15
	to patients who have traveled on foot	9:18
	or on donkey for many days	9:20
	before they can receive her help,	9:24
	and then it often comes to late	9:27
	for the baby is dead and the mother is dying.	9:31
	But the most precious part	9:40
	of our joint inheritance	9:44
	is the gospel	9:47
	of the grace of God,	9:49
	the lineaments of whose face	9:53
	were partially seen by the prophets	9:56
	and the fullness of whose revelation	10:00
	is seen in Jesus Christ our Lord.	10:03
	God forgive us,	10:08
	we've grown so accustomed to this,	10:11
	the greatest story in the world,	10:14
	so used to the ministry of Word and sacrament,	10:17
	so deafened by custom to the message of the Bible	10:22
	that we've ceased to marvel	10:27
	at the miracle of Bethlehem and Nazareth	10:30
	and Calvary and the empty tomb	10:35
	and even more.	10:40
	More of us	10:41
	have ceased to care deeply about the spreading of the gospel	10:44
	intended for the whole of mankind.	10:49
	Now this carelessness, I believe,	10:55
	has arisen in part because we confuse two concepts:	10:58
	that of proselytizing and that of evangelizing.	11:04
	Proselytizing has about it,	11:10
	at least in its present day usage, a note of coercion,	11:12
	of pressurizing someone probably against his will	11:17
	to believe as you do,	11:21
	to convert him to your religious position	11:24
	so that he swallows whole your religious faith.	11:26
	And so far as that's a true definition,	11:30
	there must remain to that word a very sinister connotation.	11:33
	But evangelism on the contrary	11:41
	is essentially something positive	11:45
	and non-coercive.	11:48
	It is sharing with others	11:52
	something you have found almost unbelievably good.	11:54
	And precisely because you love the person	12:01
	with whom you are in contact,	12:05
	you long to share that good thing	12:07
	or as the Christian would put it,	12:11
	that supremely good person,	12:13
	and so you engage in evangelism.	12:16
	Now, it is true that sometimes evangelism appears	12:21
	on the scene of history in very distorted forms.	12:25
	At the worst it becomes proselytism	12:30
	and at its very worst, it has appeared in history,	12:33
	in the form of forced baptisms and similar horrors.	12:36
	But at its best, the church has gone on its mission	12:42
	to preach the gospel, to baptize, to teach,	12:47
	to make disciples, sharing of faith, hope, and love,	12:51
	which are the hallmarks of genuine Christianity.	12:57
	Holding forth the word of life,	13:01
	Bible and sacraments in one hand,	13:04
	the instruments of compassion, medicine,	13:07
	literacy, education in the other.	13:10
	Today, the nations of the world	13:16
	are heaving with unrest	13:20
	and the map of the world will look very different	13:24
	at the end of the century from what it did at its beginning.	13:27
	It may well be that the powers of this century	13:32
	will give way to new forces,	13:37
	for it is the lot of all civilizations to crumble and fall.	13:39
	But the kingdom of God remains,	13:46
	sure, unshakeable,	13:50
	and I believe	13:54
	that if we are humble enough	13:56
	and penitent enough to go to the world	13:59
	holding in our hand the light of the eternal gospel	14:04
	centered in Christ and Him crucified and risen,	14:08
	God in his mercy	14:14
	may yet have a work for us	14:17
	on both sides of the Atlantic to do	14:20
	and perhaps by a miracle of his great goodness,	14:25
	he may allow us, even us	14:31
	to have a share in it,	14:36
	and that would be to enter our destiny	14:39
	together,	14:44
	one with another,	14:45
	and together with God,	14:49
	so be it.	14:57
	Amen.	14:59
	(solemn organ music)	15:05
	♪ A charge to keep I have ♪	15:29
	♪ A God to glorify ♪	15:35
	♪ A never-dying soul to save ♪	15:41
	♪ And fit it for the sky ♪	15:47
	♪ To serve the present age ♪	15:54
	♪ My calling to fulfill ♪	16:00
	♪ O may it all my powers engage ♪	16:06
	♪ To do my Master's will ♪	16:11
	♪ Arm me with watchful care ♪	16:19
	♪ As in Thy sight to live ♪	16:25
	♪ And now Thy servant, Lord ♪	16:31
	♪ Prepare a strict account to give ♪	16:35
	♪ Help me to watch and pray ♪	16:44
	♪ And on Thyself rely ♪	16:50
	♪ Assured if I my trust betray ♪	16:56
	♪ I shall forever die ♪	17:02
-	Let us now affirm what we believe.	17:15
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	17:20
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	17:25
	to reconcile and make new,	17:28
	who works in us and others by the Spirit.	17:31
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	17:35
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	17:39
	to love and serve others,	17:43
	to seek justice and resist evil,	17:45
	proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,	17:49
	our judge and our hope	17:53
	in life, in death, in life beyond death,	17:55
	God is with us.	18:00
	We are not alone.	18:02
	Thanks be to God.	18:05
-	The Lord be with you.	18:07
-	And also with you.	18:09
-	Let us pray.	18:11
	Almighty God, creator,	18:23
	this morning is Yours rising to fullness.	18:27
	The spring is Yours dipping into summer.	18:31
	Eternity is Yours dipping into time.	18:36
	The vibrant grasses, the scent of flowers,	18:40
	the lichen on the rocks, the tang of seaweed,	18:44
	all are Yours.	18:48
	Here in this world, we live in a garden	18:51
	of Your creating and we are Yours.	18:54
	Generous Lord, who brings us again	18:59
	to the warm days of dreaming,	19:01
	who sets us free in the green pastures,	19:05
	and beside the still waters,	19:07
	who allows the lolling sun for a season	19:10
	and lends us the miracle of trees,	19:14
	find in us now a rejoicing among the tastes and the sounds,	19:18
	the flights of the imagination and the returnings,	19:23
	the music and the poetry,	19:28
	and encourage in us those gestures	19:31
	of the mind and soul and flesh.	19:33
	Whereby over and over we make the days of thanksgiving	19:37
	and the years of constant praise.	19:43
	Oh Lord God,	19:49
	we praise Your name for the rich variety	19:51
	that is found in the human family, your children.	19:54
	We thank you for the different songs	19:59
	by which we sing our joys and sorrows to one another,	20:01
	for the different languages	20:06
	in which we speak our hopes and hungers,	20:07
	for the contrasts of color	20:12
	and stature and sex that catch our eye	20:14
	and make us want to know each other.	20:18
	Glory be to you for the many faces and voices of our family,	20:22
	now teach us to treasure our differences,	20:27
	Great God, as evidence,	20:30
	evidence of the unending richness	20:33
	of your love for the world.	20:35
	We pray in the name of our Lord,	20:39
	the Jew who praised a Samaritan,	20:41
	who interceded for an adulteress,	20:44
	who ministered alike to Jew and to gentile,	20:47
	female and male,	20:51
	and feared not your love and its requirements	20:53
	Merciful God who bears the suffering of your creation,	21:00
	by your power our Lord Jesus healed the sick,	21:06
	gave new hope to hopeless people	21:10
	that we cannot command or possess your power.	21:13
	We pray for those who desire to be healed,	21:17
	close their wounds, cure their sickness,	21:21
	make broken people whole again,	21:26
	and where healing cannot occur,	21:29
	grant them strength to bear their burdens and not despair,	21:32
	mindful that your love does not fail,	21:38
	and that you are the destination of each of us	21:41
	through Jesus, the Christ, our risen redeeming Lord,	21:47
	the one who gives us the gift of this prayer	21:52
	to pray together.	21:56
-	Our Father who art in heaven,	21:59
	hallowed be Thy name,	22:02
	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done	22:05
	on earth as it is in heaven.	22:09
	Give us this day our daily bread	22:12
	and forgive us our trespasses	22:15
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	22:17
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	22:21
	for Thine is the kingdom and the power	22:26
	and the glory forever, amen	22:30
	(gentle organ music)	22:35
	(gentle organ music continues)	23:05
	(gentle organ music continues)	23:34
	(gentle organ music continues)	24:04
	(gentle organ music continues)	24:34
	(gentle organ music continues)	25:04
	(hopeful brass music)	25:22
	(hopeful music brightens)	25:44
	(moves to triumphant music)	26:00
	♪ Praise the Lord ye heavens adore Him ♪	26:21
	♪ Praise Him, angels, in the height ♪	26:29
	♪ Sun and Moon, rejoice before Him ♪	26:38
	♪ Praise Him, all ye stars of light ♪	26:46
	♪ Praise the Lord, for He has spoken ♪	26:54
	♪ Worlds His mighty voice obeyed ♪	27:03
	♪ Laws which never shall be broken ♪	27:11
	♪ For their guidance He hath made ♪	27:19
	♪ Praise the Lord, for He is glorious ♪	27:31
	♪ Never shall His promise fail ♪	27:39
	♪ God has made His saints victorious ♪	27:47
	♪ Sin and death shall not prevail ♪	27:56
	♪ Praise the God of our salvation ♪	28:05
	♪ Hosts on high His power proclaim ♪	28:14
	♪ Heaven and Earth and all creation ♪	28:24
	♪ Laud and magnify His name ♪	28:33
	(stirring organ music)	28:55
	(stirring organ music continues)	29:25
	(stirring organ music continues)	29:54
	(stirring organ music continues)	30:24
	♪ Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow ♪	30:39
	♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪	30:45
	♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪	30:52
	♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪	31:00
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	31:07
	♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪	31:13
	♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪	31:20
	♪ Alleluia ♪	31:27
	♪ Alleluia ♪	31:36
	Forbid, oh Lord, that our giving should flow from duty,	31:51
	but rather let our gifts fulfill our dreams	31:57
	and reflect Your will,	32:00
	and teach us to follow our gifts with our love,	32:03
	our prayers, our lives,	32:07
	through Jesus the Christ, amen.	32:11
	(triumphant brass music)	32:17
	♪ Rejoice, the Lord is King ♪	32:40
	♪ Your Lord and King adore ♪	32:46
	♪ Rejoice, give thanks and sing ♪	32:51
	♪ And triumph evermore ♪	32:55
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	33:02
	♪ Lift up your voice ♪	33:07
	♪ Rejoice, again I say, rejoice ♪	33:10
	♪ Jesus, the Savior, reigns ♪	33:19
	♪ The God of truth and love ♪	33:24
	♪ When He has purged our stains ♪	33:29
	♪ He took His seat above ♪	33:34
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	33:40
	♪ Lift up your voice ♪	33:45
	♪ Rejoice, again I say, rejoice ♪	33:48
	♪ His kingdom cannot fail ♪	33:57
	♪ He rules o'er earth and heaven ♪	34:02
	♪ The keys of death and hell ♪	34:07
	♪ Are to our Jesus given ♪	34:12
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	34:18
	♪ Lift up your voice ♪	34:23
	♪ Rejoice, again I say, rejoice ♪	34:26
	♪ Rejoice in glorious hope ♪	34:36
	♪ Our Lord and judge shall come ♪	34:41
	♪ And take His servants up ♪	34:46
	♪ To their eternal home ♪	34:50
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	34:57
	♪ Lift up your voice ♪	35:02
	♪ Rejoice, again I say, rejoice ♪	35:05
	(triumphant brass music)	35:18
	Our deepest appreciation to the five choirs	35:35
	that have come together this morning	35:38
	and brought with them their magnificent voices and song.	35:40
	And now deep peace of the running wave to you.	35:46
	Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.	35:52
	Deep peace of the flowing air to you.	35:55
	Deep peace of the shining stars to you,	35:59
	deep and abiding peace of the Prince of Peace	36:03
	to each of you this day and forever.	36:08
	Amen.	36:12
	(gentle organ chord ringing)	36:13
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	36:18
	♪ Amen ♪	36:27
	♪ Amen ♪	36:35
	♪ Amen ♪	36:41
	♪ Amen ♪	36:49
	♪ Amen ♪	37:00
	(hopeful organ music)	37:17
	(hopeful organ music continues)	37:47
	(hopeful organ music continues)	38:16
	(moves to bright organ music)	38:43
	(bright music continues)	39:22
	(bright music continues)	39:52
	(bright music continues)	40:21
	(bright music continues)	40:43
	(bright music continues)	41:22
	(congregation chatting)	41:52
	(congregation continues chatting)	42:22
	(congregation continues chatting)	42:49

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Donald Coggan - "The Sermon Preached in Duke University Chapel" (June 3, 1984)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 42:11. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 15:02.
On the occasion of celebrating 400th anniversary of the settling of North Carolina, this sermon calls for continued cooperation between Britain and North America, for cultural enrichment and most of all for the sake of the gospel; the sermon asks those to hear to recommit themselves to the tasks of evangelism and benevolence in the developing world. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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June 3, 1984

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Coggan, Donald

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