Peggy Way - "Promises, Promises" (October 12, 1986)
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(solemn organ music) | 0:03 | |
(solemn organ music) | 2:08 | |
(solemn organ music) | 3:46 | |
(powerful organ music) | 5:10 | |
- | Grace and peace to you in the name | 7:37 |
of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | 7:39 | |
We welcome you to this service of worship, | 7:42 | |
particularly our visitors. | 7:45 | |
We welcome you to Duke chapel. | 7:46 | |
Our guest preacher today, | 7:48 | |
we welcome back to the pulpit of this chapel | 7:50 | |
the Reverend Dr. Peggy Brainerd Way. | 7:53 | |
Dr. Way is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology | 7:57 | |
at the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. | 8:01 | |
She is a distinguished teacher, a lively lecturer, | 8:04 | |
and preacher and it is our pleasure | 8:09 | |
to have her with us again at Duke Chapel. | 8:11 | |
Our chapel choir goes on their full tour next weekend. | 8:15 | |
They will be singing at the Cathedral Church | 8:19 | |
at St. John the Divine in New York | 8:22 | |
and also we'll have engagements in Philadelphia, | 8:24 | |
and we wish them well and we thank those | 8:29 | |
friends of the chapel who have helped | 8:32 | |
make this trip possible. | 8:35 | |
And now let us continue our worship. | 8:38 | |
♪ Beautiful Savior ♪ | 8:46 | |
♪ Lord of the nations ♪ | 8:53 | |
♪ Son of God ♪ | 9:00 | |
♪ And Son of Man ♪ | 9:06 | |
♪ Glory and honor ♪ | 9:15 | |
♪ Praise, adoration ♪ | 9:22 | |
♪ Now and forevermore ♪ | 9:29 | |
♪ Be Thine ♪ | 9:36 | |
♪ Now and forevermore ♪ | 9:41 | |
♪ Be Thine ♪ | 9:54 | |
(solemn organ music) | 10:05 | |
(voices drowned by music) | 10:59 | |
Let us pray. | 17:26 | |
Gracious God, You have promised | 17:28 | |
that whenever two or three are gathered in Your name | 17:31 | |
there You will be. | 17:36 | |
You have always kept Your promise to us. | 17:38 | |
And so we gather in expectation and celebration | 17:42 | |
of Your presence among us | 17:45 | |
so that we may praise Your name | 17:48 | |
and hear Your word and examine our lives | 17:51 | |
and the light of the life of our savior Jesus Christ. | 17:55 | |
Amen. | 18:01 | |
Be seated. | 18:03 | |
- | Let us pray. | 18:14 |
Open our hearts and minds, oh God, | 18:17 | |
by the power of Your Holy Spirit | 18:22 | |
so that as the Word is read and proclaimed | 18:25 | |
we might hear with joy | 18:28 | |
what You say to us this day. | 18:30 | |
Amen. | 18:34 | |
The first lesson this morning is taken from Micah. | 18:35 | |
Hear you peoples, all of you, | 18:40 | |
harken O Earth and all that is in it | 18:43 | |
and let the Lord God be a witness against you | 18:48 | |
the Lord from His holy temple. | 18:52 | |
Woe to those who devised wickedness | 18:55 | |
and worked evil upon their beds. | 18:59 | |
When the morning dawns they perform it | 19:02 | |
because it is in the power of their hand. | 19:06 | |
They covet fields and seize them, | 19:10 | |
and houses and take them away. | 19:13 | |
They oppress a man and his house, | 19:17 | |
a man and his inheritance. | 19:21 | |
Therefore thus says the Lord, | 19:25 | |
behold against this family | 19:27 | |
I am devising evil from which you cannot remove your necks; | 19:30 | |
and you shall not walk haughtily | 19:35 | |
for it will be an evil time. | 19:38 | |
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you | 19:42 | |
and wail with bitter lamentation, | 19:47 | |
and say, "We are utterly ruined; | 19:50 | |
"he changed the portion of my people; | 19:53 | |
"how he removes it from me! | 19:57 | |
"Among our captors he divides our fields." | 20:01 | |
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot | 20:06 | |
in the assembly of the Lord. | 20:11 | |
"Do not preach", thus they preach, | 20:15 | |
"one should not preach of such things; | 20:18 | |
"disgrace will not overtake us." | 20:22 | |
Should this be said, O house of Jacob? | 20:25 | |
Is the spirit of the Lord impatient? | 20:29 | |
Are these his doings? | 20:33 | |
Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly? | 20:36 | |
But you rise against my people as an enemy; | 20:42 | |
you strip the rich robe from the peaceful; | 20:46 | |
from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war. | 20:49 | |
The women of my people you drive out | 20:56 | |
from their pleasant houses; | 20:59 | |
from their young children you take away my glory forever. | 21:01 | |
Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, | 21:07 | |
because of uncleanness that destroys | 21:12 | |
with a grievous destruction. | 21:16 | |
This ends the reading of the first lesson. | 21:19 | |
The second lesson is taken from Paul's | 21:24 | |
second letter to Timothy. | 21:27 | |
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, | 21:32 | |
descended from David as preached in my gospel, | 21:35 | |
the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters | 21:40 | |
like a criminal. | 21:44 | |
But the word of God is not fettered. | 21:46 | |
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, | 21:50 | |
that they also may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus | 21:54 | |
with its eternal glory. | 21:59 | |
The saying is sure: | 22:02 | |
If we have died with him, we will also live with him; | 22:04 | |
if we endure, we shall also reign with him; | 22:10 | |
if we deny him, he also will deny us; | 22:15 | |
if we are faithless, he remains faithful, | 22:20 | |
for he cannot deny himself. | 22:24 | |
Remind them of this, and change them before Lord | 22:28 | |
to avoid disputing about words | 22:32 | |
which does no good, | 22:36 | |
but only ruins the hearers. | 22:38 | |
Do your best to present yourself to God | 22:41 | |
as one approved, | 22:44 | |
a workman who has no need to be ashamed | 22:46 | |
rightly handling the word of truth. | 22:50 | |
This ends the reading of the second lesson. | 22:54 | |
(solemn music) | 23:01 | |
♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪ | 23:08 | |
♪ With my whole heart ♪ | 23:12 | |
♪ I will tell of all Thy wonderful deeds ♪ | 23:18 | |
♪ I will be glad and exalt in thee ♪ | 23:26 | |
♪ I will sing the praises of your name ♪ | 23:30 | |
♪ O Most High ♪ | 23:34 | |
♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪ | 23:43 | |
♪ With my whole heart ♪ | 23:47 | |
♪ I will tell of all Thy wonderful deeds ♪ | 23:53 | |
♪ I will be glad and exalt in thee ♪ | 24:01 | |
♪ I will be glad and exalt in thee ♪ | 24:05 | |
♪ I will sing the praises to Thy name ♪ | 24:09 | |
♪ O Most High ♪ | 24:14 | |
♪ Be gracious to me, O Lord ♪ | 24:23 | |
♪ See my affliction ♪ | 24:28 | |
♪ From those who hate me ♪ | 24:31 | |
♪ O God you lift us above ♪ | 24:35 | |
♪ From gates of death ♪ | 24:39 | |
♪ From gates of death ♪ | 24:42 | |
♪ That I may recount all your praises ♪ | 24:45 | |
♪ That in the gates of the daughter of Zion ♪ | 24:52 | |
♪ That I may recount all your praises ♪ | 24:56 | |
♪ Daughter of Zion ♪ | 25:02 | |
♪ I may rejoice in my deliverer ♪ | 25:04 | |
♪ Be gracious to me, O Lord ♪ | 25:14 | |
♪ I will give thanks ♪ | 25:32 | |
♪ I will give thanks unto the Lord ♪ | 25:35 | |
♪ I will give thanks ♪ | 25:43 | |
♪ I will give thanks unto the Lord ♪ | 25:46 | |
♪ I will give thanks ♪ | 25:56 | |
♪ To the Lord ♪ | 25:59 | |
(solemn organ music) | 26:16 | |
(voices drowned by music) | 26:25 | |
The Gospel is taken from Luke. | 27:27 | |
On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along | 27:33 | |
between Sumeria and Galilee, | 27:37 | |
and as he entered a village | 27:40 | |
he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance | 27:42 | |
and lifted up their voices and said, | 27:47 | |
"Jesus, master, have mercy on us." | 27:50 | |
When He saw them He said to them, | 27:56 | |
"Go and show your selves to the priests." | 27:59 | |
And as they went they were cleansed. | 28:03 | |
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, | 28:07 | |
turned back, praising God with a loud voice. | 28:11 | |
And he fell on his face at Jesus' feet | 28:16 | |
giving Him thanks. | 28:20 | |
Now he was a Samaritan. | 28:23 | |
Then said Jesus, "Were not 10 cleansed? | 28:27 | |
"Where are the nine?" | 28:31 | |
"Was no one found to return and give praise to God | 28:33 | |
"except this foreigner?" | 28:37 | |
And He said to him, "Raise and go your way. | 28:40 | |
"Your faith has made you well." | 28:45 | |
This ends the reading of the Gospel. | 28:49 | |
Before I begin, | 29:22 | |
I invite each of you to think of yourself | 29:24 | |
as promise maker and promise keeper. | 29:28 | |
For us to think of heads of governments | 29:35 | |
coming together to make and keep promise, | 29:38 | |
and for us to reflect upon this God | 29:45 | |
whom we worship here as a promise maker | 29:48 | |
and a promise keeper | 29:52 | |
for those are the things that | 29:56 | |
this morning's sermon are about. | 29:57 | |
Promises, promises. | 30:04 | |
In a world such as this, even so, | 30:06 | |
where God's promises arise from a world of hard facts | 30:12 | |
and through us return to it | 30:18 | |
as we are witnesses to God's promises, | 30:23 | |
promises to finite folk whose tiny testimonies | 30:27 | |
make a difference. | 30:32 | |
Promises, promises. | 30:36 | |
And which of us has not whispered | 30:39 | |
sweet nothing promises to a momentary beloved, | 30:42 | |
or to a transient God | 30:48 | |
or to our friendly addiction. | 30:52 | |
I promise for the moment, | 30:55 | |
I promise tomorrow the rotation diet | 30:59 | |
which all of us at Vanderbilt have to be on, | 31:03 | |
tomorrow jogging, tomorrow no cigarettes, | 31:07 | |
tomorrow a less stressful lifestyle, | 31:09 | |
tomorrow more self-giving acts of justice. | 31:13 | |
So many private promises, promises | 31:19 | |
and publics and communities | 31:22 | |
rightly do not trust them. | 31:25 | |
And so there are constitutions and there are | 31:29 | |
public promises of caring for the dignity of all, | 31:33 | |
and there are scriptures available to all | 31:38 | |
that disclose divine promises | 31:41 | |
and over and over again say that | 31:44 | |
we can count on those, | 31:47 | |
and there are ecclesial communities | 31:50 | |
of great cathedrals and of local churches | 31:53 | |
and of base communities and of ecumenical gatherings | 31:56 | |
that make promises out loud, and in community, | 32:02 | |
and seek to hold us accountable | 32:06 | |
for promises otherwise too lightly made | 32:11 | |
and seek to teach us how to promise | 32:16 | |
and how to experience trust in God's promises | 32:20 | |
and God's persistence in remaining present with us | 32:25 | |
no matter the hard facts of history. | 32:30 | |
Promises made public and deepened | 32:35 | |
state a world of caring for one another, | 32:39 | |
through the hard times | 32:44 | |
with steadfastness and hope, | 32:46 | |
and such promise carries with it | 32:49 | |
the risks of us being witnesses to God's promises, | 32:52 | |
and states a powerful testimony | 32:58 | |
to the possibilities of the very special visions | 33:01 | |
of who we are called to be one with another. | 33:05 | |
Promises, promises. | 33:12 | |
In a world such as this, | 33:14 | |
even God's promises seem to Paul | 33:19 | |
in a world viewed through eyes that sees oppression | 33:23 | |
and sees our own promises to live justly | 33:28 | |
appear too timid and too finite | 33:32 | |
to a prophet's cry of woe to those who oppress | 33:37 | |
such as that we heard this morning from Micah. | 33:40 | |
Or in an alternative reading, | 33:46 | |
the world is simply too complex for promises. | 33:49 | |
There are too many dancers. | 33:54 | |
There are too many strangers. | 33:56 | |
There are too many others that want to dance | 33:58 | |
with us in their strange rhythms. | 34:01 | |
I will read you briefly from a dance review | 34:05 | |
that appeared in the New York Times. | 34:07 | |
Nina Martin kept trying to present a dance | 34:11 | |
called On The Other Hand. | 34:15 | |
It appeared to be a brisk rigorous dance. | 34:18 | |
And between its episodes came solemn films | 34:21 | |
of agitated facial expressions | 34:26 | |
and jolly films of dancers in the street. | 34:29 | |
But it kept being interrupted. | 34:33 | |
When late comers were admitted into the auditorium, | 34:36 | |
they included a panhandler and a bag lady. | 34:40 | |
They were nuisances, embarrassing ones too, | 34:44 | |
for their grubbiness served | 34:48 | |
as a reminder that there are other things | 34:51 | |
in the world than choreographic structures. | 34:54 | |
Then the panhandler joined in the dance | 34:58 | |
and it was clear that he and the bag lady | 35:01 | |
were a part of the cast. | 35:04 | |
Therefore when a gangster entered, | 35:06 | |
no one thought him a real crook | 35:09 | |
and fortunately he wasn't. | 35:11 | |
The dance's order became increasingly disorderly. | 35:15 | |
Two masked figures resembling science fiction robots | 35:19 | |
danced together until one plaintively said to the other | 35:24 | |
"Who are you anyway?" | 35:28 | |
And another sequence turned into a quarrel | 35:31 | |
when dancers started wondering if the phrase | 35:35 | |
this land is my land | 35:38 | |
meant also that this land couldn't be your land. | 35:41 | |
Miss Herman's dance demonstrated that | 35:48 | |
life's messiness can be the subject of art. | 35:50 | |
What was she offering? | 35:55 | |
An aesthetic centipede? | 35:58 | |
Or was she saying that since the world | 36:02 | |
is imperfect both life and art | 36:05 | |
can be unpredictable, | 36:09 | |
and we're supposed to make promise in a world such as this? | 36:12 | |
And to count on something when there | 36:17 | |
are so many dancers with so many different rhythms? | 36:19 | |
Flannery O'Connor spoke of the motley crew of pilgrims | 36:25 | |
on their way to heaven. | 36:29 | |
Promises in a world such as this. | 36:33 | |
And in one more alternate reading, | 36:36 | |
I a stranger and afraid | 36:40 | |
in a world I never made | 36:44 | |
describing and experiencing a world | 36:48 | |
hovering forever on the brink | 36:51 | |
of indifference or despair, | 36:54 | |
the felt indifference of nature, | 36:58 | |
a recent earthquake, | 37:01 | |
the indifference of history where perhaps | 37:04 | |
my sons will punished by promises | 37:07 | |
which were made and not kept | 37:10 | |
in another generation by others. | 37:12 | |
The indifference of other persons who have promised me | 37:15 | |
but then move on to other futures not including me. | 37:20 | |
This makes our private promises | 37:28 | |
and our schemes tiny and absurd | 37:30 | |
when promises made to generations past | 37:36 | |
may mean wars to us today, | 37:40 | |
and where persons, even governments, | 37:43 | |
seem to make promises in untrustworthy ways | 37:47 | |
and where some of us even interpret | 37:52 | |
parts of history as conspiracy itself, | 37:54 | |
certainly a world of hard facts | 37:59 | |
in which some promises made too lightly | 38:05 | |
are all too lightly blown away. | 38:10 | |
Promises, promises. | 38:13 | |
And in relation to which any promise at all | 38:16 | |
might seem foolhardy, foolish, impotent, | 38:20 | |
and any witness or testimony | 38:25 | |
to the trustworthiness | 38:29 | |
and the persistence of God's promise | 38:30 | |
may seem irrelevant or out of date, | 38:33 | |
or conservative. | 38:38 | |
Promises, promises in world such as this, | 38:42 | |
yes, even so, | 38:46 | |
for God's promises arise | 38:49 | |
from a world of hard facts. | 38:52 | |
It is only private promises in their | 38:56 | |
naivetys and good if superficial intents | 38:58 | |
that do not take the world of hard facts seriously. | 39:04 | |
God's promise does. | 39:10 | |
For these are not the promises, promises | 39:14 | |
of camp fires on a warm summer or cool fall evening, | 39:16 | |
but the promises of burning bushes | 39:22 | |
and of visions that are not consumed | 39:25 | |
even when burned by the fires of catastrophe | 39:28 | |
or erosion or the fires of history. | 39:32 | |
And these are not promises of simple fisherfolk | 39:37 | |
before the Lord came down, | 39:40 | |
but of His followers dying alone, stoned, | 39:43 | |
the peace of God on the other side | 39:49 | |
of the hard facts of history, | 39:52 | |
the hard facts of suicide, | 39:56 | |
the hard facts of AIDS, the hard facts of scandal, | 39:59 | |
the hard facts of oppression, | 40:03 | |
the hard facts of nations seeking to make promise | 40:05 | |
to each other about arms control. | 40:09 | |
The Hebrew prophets and the witnesses | 40:14 | |
to Christ Jesus, His life, crucifixion | 40:17 | |
and resurrection, | 40:21 | |
take the hard facts of history | 40:22 | |
with full seriousness, | 40:25 | |
and yet interpret promise in the midst of such a world. | 40:28 | |
No superficiality there or pleasant intents | 40:35 | |
of promises, promises to fleet away on the winds. | 40:39 | |
But depth immersion and commitment | 40:44 | |
and radical trust in promise | 40:48 | |
arising from that world of hard facts | 40:52 | |
and returning to it | 40:55 | |
a promise of centering the pluralisms of the dance | 40:59 | |
no matter how frenetically different their rhythms. | 41:02 | |
The promise as from Timothy today of enduring | 41:07 | |
without losing sight of the vision, | 41:11 | |
the promise of a power to receive others | 41:15 | |
and not lose ourselves, | 41:19 | |
and above all the promise of God's persistence. | 41:21 | |
Promises, promises in a world such as this, | 41:29 | |
even so, | 41:34 | |
where God's promises arise in a world of hard facts, | 41:36 | |
and through us return to it | 41:40 | |
as we are witnesses to God's promises to finite folk | 41:45 | |
whose tiny testimonies, wherever they are made, | 41:51 | |
make a difference. | 41:55 | |
Walter Brueggemann has described God making covenant | 41:59 | |
making promise with us as occurring at the edge of doom | 42:03 | |
and the brink of blessing. | 42:07 | |
And so too a life of promise, | 42:10 | |
risking always an alternative reading at the edge of doom, | 42:15 | |
a hermeneutic of positive testimony | 42:22 | |
in the middle of the hard facts. | 42:25 | |
Trusting that even here as we stand | 42:29 | |
on the brink of doom and the brink of blessing, | 42:34 | |
we can name our own hard fact that we face today, | 42:38 | |
we can describe our own place as brink of doom, | 42:45 | |
and even there we can say | 42:51 | |
indifference is refused | 42:54 | |
for we are created full persons in the sight of God. | 42:57 | |
And even there we can accept God's promise | 43:02 | |
of endurance for the long haul. | 43:06 | |
And even there we remember that | 43:10 | |
even if we are faithless in these moments, | 43:13 | |
in the momentary pains and anguishes, | 43:17 | |
our God remains faithful. | 43:19 | |
And one healed leper turned and praised God, | 43:24 | |
a Samaritan. | 43:30 | |
And that one leper's testimony we remember, | 43:32 | |
even this morning in this place. | 43:37 | |
Promise is for finite folk: | 43:43 | |
individuals, churches, nations, | 43:48 | |
who are living in the middle of history | 43:53 | |
where their witnesses to the promise | 43:57 | |
and their testimonies of the possibility | 44:01 | |
of the promise count | 44:04 | |
until it is finished in God's time. | 44:07 | |
And until that time God's promise | 44:11 | |
is that God persists with us. | 44:16 | |
Amen. | 44:22 | |
(calm organ music) | 44:38 | |
- | Let us unite in the historic confession | 47:18 |
of our faith, the Apostles' Creed. | 47:20 | |
I believe in God, the Father almighty, | 47:24 | |
maker of heaven and earth. | 47:28 | |
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, | 47:30 | |
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, | 47:34 | |
born of the Virgin Mary. | 47:37 |
- | Suffered under Pontius Pilate, | 0:03 |
was crucified, dead and buried. | 0:05 | |
The third day He rose from the dead. | 0:08 | |
He ascended into heaven, | 0:11 | |
and is sitted at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. | 0:13 | |
From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. | 0:17 | |
I believe in the Holy Spirit, | 0:21 | |
the Holy Catholic Church, | 0:24 | |
the communion of Saints, | 0:26 | |
the forgiveness of sins, | 0:28 | |
the resurrection of the body, | 0:30 | |
and the life everlasting. | 0:32 | |
Amen. | 0:34 | |
The Lord be with you. | 0:37 | |
- | And also with you. | 0:39 |
- | Let us pray. | 0:41 |
Oh, Eternal God, source of all life, | 0:56 | |
Thou has searched us | 1:01 | |
and known us, and lovest us still. | 1:03 | |
Such knowledge is too high, and we cannot attain it. | 1:08 | |
Yet, trusting in Thy eternal good, | 1:13 | |
which is beyond our comprehension, | 1:15 | |
we bring before Thee our very conditions and concerns, | 1:18 | |
gratefully acknowledging the mystery and the depths | 1:24 | |
of Thy power to save. | 1:28 | |
We bring before Thee, Creating God, the needs of our bodies. | 1:32 | |
We pray for all those weakened by the merciless plague | 1:37 | |
of hunger and malnutrition, | 1:41 | |
for all who are stricken with terminal illness | 1:45 | |
or other disease, especially for all patients | 1:47 | |
at Duke Hospital and for their families, | 1:51 | |
for all who suffer from a lack of self respect | 1:56 | |
and seek to do injury to themselves, | 1:59 | |
for all who discover in the process of aging | 2:04 | |
that their bodies are failing them, | 2:07 | |
we bring before Thee, Redeeming God, | 2:12 | |
the needs of our minds. | 2:15 | |
We pray for all those involved in educational pursuits, | 2:18 | |
students, teachers, administrators, and staff, | 2:23 | |
for all those suffering from the tyranny of mental illness, | 2:29 | |
for all who seek to expand our minds, | 2:34 | |
visionaries, explorers, creative artists. | 2:38 | |
We bring before Thee, Sustaining God, | 2:45 | |
the needs of our relationships. | 2:48 | |
We pray for all those embroiled in conflict, | 2:52 | |
between parent and child, between husband and wife, | 2:56 | |
between friends, and between nations. | 3:01 | |
We pray for all who suffer from a lack | 3:06 | |
of relationships and are burdened by a sense | 3:08 | |
of loneliness, failure or despair. | 3:11 | |
We pray for all who are unable to trust | 3:17 | |
and who have never been fully known by another. | 3:20 | |
And we pray for all who have resisted the opportunity | 3:25 | |
to relate even unto Thee, Gracious God, | 3:28 | |
and who do not accept the acceptance | 3:32 | |
Thou has offered us. | 3:35 | |
We lift these prayers before Thee, Oh God, | 3:40 | |
reassured that Thou has searched us and known us | 3:43 | |
and lovest us still. | 3:47 | |
In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. | 3:52 | |
Amen. | 3:55 | |
Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, | 3:59 | |
how He said, it is more blessed to give than to receive. | 4:01 | |
Let us acknowledge the blessings of God in our lives | 4:06 | |
as we offer our gifts and ourselves with thanksgiving. | 4:10 | |
(organ music) | 4:22 | |
- | And on that day, | 6:23 |
a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem. | 6:25 | |
And they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea | 6:31 | |
and Samaria, except the apostles, | 6:34 | |
devout men buried Stephen | 6:39 | |
and made great lamentation over him. | 6:41 | |
(choir music) | 6:46 | |
Paul laid waste the church, | 6:54 | |
and entering house after house, | 6:56 | |
he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. | 6:59 | |
Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. | 7:06 | |
Unclean spirits came out of many who were possessed, | 7:11 | |
crying with a loud voice, | 7:14 | |
and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. | 7:17 | |
Saul, bringing threats and murder | 7:30 | |
against the disciples of the Lord. | 7:34 | |
♪ Saul, Saul ♪ | 7:47 | |
♪ Saul, Saul ♪ | 7:51 | |
♪ Saul, Saul ♪ | 7:55 | |
♪ Still bringing threats and murder ♪ | 7:57 | |
♪ On the disciples of the Lord ♪ | 8:00 | |
(organ music) | 8:05 | |
He went to the high priest and asked him | 8:21 | |
for letters to the synagogues of Damascus | 8:24 | |
so that if any be found belonging to the Way, | 8:28 | |
men or women, he might bring them bound in chains | 8:33 | |
back to Jerusalem. | 8:37 | |
(choir music) | 8:39 | |
♪ Bring them back in chains ♪ | 8:51 | |
♪ Bound in chains ♪ | 8:53 | |
♪ Back to Jerusalem ♪ | 8:55 | |
(organ music) | 9:01 | |
Now as he journeyed, he approached Damascus. | 9:11 | |
And, suddenly, a light from Heaven flashed about him. | 9:15 | |
And he fell to the ground and heard a voice | 9:20 | |
saying to him. | 9:24 | |
♪ Saul ♪ | 9:26 | |
♪ Why, why, why ♪ | 9:39 | |
♪ Why, why, why ♪ | 10:17 | |
♪ Why do you persecute? ♪ | 10:28 | |
♪ Why, why do you persecute? ♪ | 10:33 | |
♪ Why persecute? ♪ | 10:41 | |
♪ Why do you persecute me? ♪ | 10:44 | |
(organ music) | 10:54 | |
♪ Why do you persecute me? ♪ | 10:58 | |
♪ Why? ♪ | 11:02 | |
♪ Why do you persecute? ♪ | 11:04 | |
♪ Why, why do you persecute? ♪ | 11:07 | |
♪ Why, why do you persecute? ♪ | 11:12 | |
♪ Why, why? ♪ | 11:30 | |
♪ Why, why? ♪ | 11:39 | |
♪ Why? ♪ | 11:49 | |
♪ Why? ♪ | 11:53 | |
♪ Why do you persecute? ♪ | 12:10 | |
♪ Saul ♪ | 12:26 | |
♪ Saul ♪ | 12:29 | |
And Saul said, "Who are you, Lord?" | 12:39 | |
And the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. | 12:44 | |
"Arise, for you are my chosen vessel, | 12:50 | |
"to carry my name before the Gentiles | 12:54 | |
"and before the kings of the Gentiles, | 12:57 | |
"and before the people of Israel." | 13:00 | |
(organ music) | 13:05 | |
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 13:24 | |
♪ Praise God all creatures here below ♪ | 13:30 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 13:36 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 13:39 | |
♪ Praise God above you heavenly hosts ♪ | 13:44 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 13:49 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 13:56 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 13:58 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 14:02 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 14:05 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 14:08 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 14:16 | |
- | Almighty God, we give You thanks | 14:28 |
for all the blessings of this life, | 14:32 | |
for the fidelity of good friends | 14:35 | |
and faithful parents, of spouses and children, | 14:37 | |
and all the other ones who have kept promises to us. | 14:42 | |
We acknowledge this fidelity as but a mirror | 14:46 | |
of Your constant faithfulness to each of us | 14:49 | |
in giving us what we need for life, | 14:53 | |
in giving us Your presence to sustain us, | 14:56 | |
and offering us this time of worship | 15:00 | |
so that we might better offer of lives as service to You. | 15:02 | |
Our Father, who art in Heaven, | 15:07 | |
hallowed be Thy name. | 15:10 | |
Thy kingdom come. | 15:12 | |
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. | 15:14 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 15:18 | |
and forgive us our trespasses, | 15:21 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 15:24 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 15:28 | |
but deliver us from evil, | 15:30 | |
for Thine is the kingdom and the power | 15:32 | |
and the glory forever. | 15:35 | |
Amen. | 15:38 | |
(organ music) | 15:40 | |
(congregation sings) | 16:12 | |
(organ music) | 18:59 | |
To remind you of the holy Eucharist | 19:41 | |
or Lord's Supper that is celebrated each Sunday | 19:44 | |
after our service in Memorial Chapel, | 19:46 | |
and we invite your attendance. | 19:49 | |
And now may the grace of our Lord and Savior, | 19:51 | |
Jesus Christ, the love of God, | 19:55 | |
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, | 19:56 | |
be with you now and always. | 19:59 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 20:03 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 20:08 | |
(organ music) | 20:26 |
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