J. Michael Laidlaw - "The Terror of It All" (March 4, 1984)

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	(gospel music)	0:03
	(gospel music)	6:55
	(gospel music)	10:27
-	My brothers and sisters in Christ,	13:46
	the peace of God be with you this day.	13:48
	As we gather for worship it is as though you and I,	13:51
	we're ascending the mountain of God,	13:55
	seeking God's presence as God seeks us.	13:57
	We come to worship not because we must	14:02
	but because we may, not because we have any claim	14:04
	on God's heavenly rewards but only that in our human frailty	14:08
	and sin, we know we constantly need the love of God.	14:14
	With awe and wonder, with even fear and trepidation,	14:19
	we ascend the mountain of God.	14:24
	Join me in our confession as printed in your bulletin.	14:27
	Oh God in Christ, under whom in every age	14:41
	people have confessed and been forgiven,	14:46
	we acknowledge now our need for your pardon and grace.	14:50
	In this dislocated age,	14:55
	we limp not because we wrestle with you	14:57
	but because we struggle with one another.	15:01
	The world is dark with our angers, your creation groans	15:04
	its travail from our abuse, the human family is threatened,	15:09
	oh Lord, we lament our sin.	15:14
	We admit our need and desire to change, forgive us,	15:17
	transform us, empower us to persist in the ways of love	15:22
	and discipleship, in the name of the one	15:28
	who is servant of all, Jesus of Nazareth, amen.	15:31
	Who is in a position to condemn?	15:45
	Only Christ and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us,	15:48
	Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us.	15:52
	When a person is in Christ, that person is a new creation	15:58
	altogether, the past is finished and gone,	16:01
	behold, the new has come.	16:05
	Let us hear and believe the good news of the gospel,	16:08
	in Jesus Christ, we are a forgiven people, hallelujah, amen.	16:12
	Let us give thanks for God is good and God's love	16:22
	is everlasting, thanks be to God whose love creates us,	16:26
	thanks be to God whose mercy redeems us,	16:32
	thanks be to God whose grace leads us into the future, amen.	16:36
	I would like to call your attention to various announcements	16:44
	in the bulletin today.	16:47
	First of all that there will be a service of ashes	16:50
	in the chapel at noon on Wednesday, March 7th,	16:52
	Ash Wednesday.	16:56
	Also that the Yale Russian Chorus will perform	16:58
	at the chapel on Sunday, March 11th, at seven o'clock,	17:02
	the public is cordially invited to attend	17:06
	and there is no charge for that concert.	17:09
	The preacher this morning is the Reverend Mike Laidlaw	17:13
	and the title of his sermon is the terror of it all.	17:17
-	Let us pray.	17:34
	Oh mighty and most merciful God.	17:40
	You have given the bible to be the revelation	17:43
	of your great love to us and of your power	17:45
	and will to save us.	17:49
	Grant that our study of it may not be made in vain	17:52
	by the callousness or carelessness of our hearts	17:55
	but that by it we may be confirmed in penitence,	17:59
	lifted to hope, made strong for service and above all	18:03
	filled with the true knowledge of you	18:09
	and of your son, Jesus Christ, amen.	18:11
	The Old Testament lesson is from Genesis chapter 22,	18:19
	verses two and three and verses nine through 13.	18:23
	God said take your son Isaac, your only son whom you love	18:31
	and go to the land of Moriah, there you shall offer him	18:38
	as a sacrifice on one of the hills which I will show you.	18:42
	So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass	18:48
	and he took with him two of his men and his son, Isaac,	18:52
	and he split the firewood for the sacrifice	18:56
	and set out for the place of which God had spoken.	18:59
	And the two of them went on together and came to the place	19:04
	of which God had spoken.	19:07
	There Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood.	19:10
	He bound his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar	19:14
	on top of the wood.	19:17
	Then he stretched out his hand and took the knife	19:19
	to kill his son.	19:22
	But the angel of the Lord called to him from the heaven.	19:25
	Abraham, Abraham, he answered here I am.	19:29
	The angel of the Lord said do not raise your hand	19:35
	against the boy, do not touch him,	19:37
	now I know that you are a God fearing man,	19:41
	you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.	19:44
	Abraham looked up and there he saw a ram caught by its horns	19:50
	in a thicket, so he went and took the ram and offered it	19:54
	as a sacrifice instead of his son.	19:58
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	20:03
	The Epistle lesson is from Romans chapter eight,	20:08
	verses 31 through 39.	20:12
	In face of all this, what is there left to say?	20:17
	If God is for us, who can be against us?	20:21
	He who did not hesitate to spare his own son	20:25
	but gave him up for us all, can we not trust such a God	20:27
	to give us with him everything else that we can need?	20:31
	Who would dare to accuse us whom God has chosen?	20:37
	The judge himself has declared us free from sin.	20:41
	Who is in a position to condemn?	20:45
	Only Christ and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us,	20:48
	Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us.	20:53
	Who can separate us from the love of Christ?	20:58
	Can trouble, pain or persecution?	21:01
	Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb,	21:04
	the threat of force of arms?	21:08
	No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory	21:11
	through him who has proved his love for us.	21:15
	I have become absolutely convinced	21:20
	that neither death nor life, neither messenger of heaven	21:22
	or monarch of earth, neither what happens today	21:26
	nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high	21:29
	nor a power from below nor anything else	21:34
	in God's whole world has any power to separate us	21:37
	from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.	21:41
	Here ends the reading from the Epistle lesson.	21:46
	(gospel music)	21:53
	Will the congregation please stand for the reading	25:38
	of the gospel lesson?	25:41
	The gospel lesson is from Mark chapter nine,	25:52
	verses one through nine.	25:56
	He also said I tell you this, there are some of those	26:02
	standing here who will not taste death before they have seen	26:07
	the kingdom of God already come in power.	26:11
	Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James and John with him	26:17
	and led them up a high mountain where they were alone.	26:22
	And in their presence he was transfigured.	26:26
	His clothes became dazzling white with a whiteness	26:30
	no bleacher on earth could equal.	26:33
	They saw Elijah appear and Moses with him	26:37
	and there they were, conversing with Jesus.	26:40
	Then Peter spoke.	26:45
	Rabi, he said, how good it is that we are here.	26:47
	Shall we make three shelters?	26:51
	One for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah?	26:53
	For he did not know what to say, they were so terrified.	26:58
	Then a cloud appeared casting its shadow over them	27:03
	and out of the cloud came a voice.	27:07
	This is my son, my beloved, listen to him.	27:11
	And now suddenly when they looked around there was nobody	27:17
	to be seen but Jesus alone with himself.	27:20
	On their way down the mountain he enjoined them	27:24
	not to tell anyone what they had seen until the son of man	27:27
	had risen from the dead.	27:30
	This ends the reading of the gospel lesson.	27:34
	(gospel music)	27:39
	(congregation sings)	27:47
-	Provide us now, oh Lord,	28:52
	the gifts of discernment and awe	28:56
	that we may hear your word,	28:59
	sense your presence	29:03
	and most fully experience your creation.	29:07
	In the name of the Christ, amen.	29:12
	Did you hear him?	29:21
	Not Jesus, but the writer of the gospel,	29:24
	as he tries to give us something more than the external,	29:29
	as he strains to describe for us something more	29:34
	than the props.	29:39
	They were so terrified.	29:42
	It is not the main theme, of course, this almost passing	29:47
	reference to the confusion and terror of it all.	29:51
	And then again maybe it is.	29:56
	At least it competes, this story of human terror,	30:00
	with the cloud that overshadowed them and the voice	30:05
	that spoke to them and the holy admonition,	30:10
	this is my son,	30:15
	listen to him.	30:18
	Their confusion is worthy of our pardon, of course,	30:23
	and they had reason to be frightened God knows.	30:28
	In their presence, he was transformed.	30:31
	And not only that, as if that weren't enough to confound	30:37
	and strike fear into any human heart, but there were also	30:42
	those apparitions, those two holy phantoms,	30:47
	Elijah and Moses, long gone, long dead.	30:52
	And now here they are kibitzing with Jesus.	30:57
	Mark is silent as to what those three fellows talked about	31:03
	that day, but Mark is like that,	31:07
	terse, Spartan,	31:12
	sort of a New England boy when it comes to saying	31:16
	what he has to say.	31:19
	But Luke, Luke,	31:22
	almost always more the wordsmith	31:25
	and always more the playwright, tells us that they spoke	31:28
	of Jesus' departure, the destiny which Jesus	31:32
	was to accomplish in Jerusalem,	31:37
	not exactly a consoling conversation to say the least.	31:39
	And Peter, Peter, bless him,	31:46
	not always daring,	31:51
	but almost always blunt and brash	31:54
	and always compulsive.	31:58
	Rabi, he said, how good it is that we are here.	32:01
	He could have said how good it is to be Jewish	32:08
	or the fish are biting or just about anything	32:12
	because Peter was talking more to hear the reassuring noise	32:17
	of his own voice than anything.	32:22
	But it didn't work for he didn't know what to say	32:26
	is how Mark puts it, though I suspect that Luke	32:31
	is more truthful when he tells us Peter spoke	32:35
	without knowing what he was saying.	32:39
	They were terrified at any rate and it must have been more	32:44
	than terror of the mind,	32:49
	for it was surely terror of the soul as well.	32:52
	That deep down sort of terror when all you thought	32:56
	should happen isn't happening, can't happen,	32:59
	or all that you thought couldn't happen, can't happen,	33:04
	suddenly begins to happen.	33:08
	And everything around us is unsure, uncertain.	33:13
	It was surely terror of the soul.	33:18
	Oh, it could have been worse for Peter and James and John,	33:22
	I suppose, it could have been death they were confronting,	33:26
	their own, perhaps, somebody else's, both maybe.	33:30
	And maybe that was a part of it.	33:36
	A meeting up with their own mortality coupled with these	33:39
	dark hints of the destiny of Jesus.	33:43
	And the hints of his mortality.	33:46
	And somehow it looked to them, seemed, felt as if it were	33:49
	all about to fall apart.	33:53
	This mission of theirs and them right along with it.	33:56
	This mission that still was not clear in their minds.	34:01
	And never would be on that side	34:06
	of the whole bloody affair at least.	34:10
	And so John and James were frightened into silence	34:14
	and Peter was terrified into noisy bluster	34:20
	and neither of their responses was precisely the right one.	34:25
	But then we're a lot like that, aren't we?	34:32
	When we dare a visit with our own souls,	34:37
	we know that there is an awkward kinship between ourselves	34:40
	and that terrified threesome on the mountaintop.	34:44
	Silent, silent when we should speak.	34:49
	Rattling on and on when God wishes to heaven	34:54
	that we'd be silent.	34:57
	Hardly ever getting it quite right,	35:00
	hardly ever getting the proper balance.	35:02
	There are, God knows, a multitude of matters	35:08
	that should concern us if only because they concern God.	35:12
	Situations and conditions that call for our words	35:17
	and not our words only but also our lives.	35:21
	And it's the calling for the latter, I suspect,	35:27
	that make our silences the more seductive choice.	35:30
	And we not only choose the silence, we not only choose	35:36
	the silence, but we stone the prophets who dare to break	35:40
	the silence somehow and remind us that	35:44
	God does have a stake in it all,	35:48
	that somehow it does matter to God	35:52
	that we have not gotten our priorities in order.	35:54
	But even as James and John are made dumb by fear,	36:02
	there's Peter talking his fool head off,	36:08
	saying anything	36:12
	because he doesn't know what to say and not knowing enough	36:13
	not to say anything.	36:16
	And a lot of our talk is like that, like Peter's I mean.	36:22
	Some of us simply talking to hear ourselves talk.	36:26
	Believing maybe that this planet's very survival	36:31
	depends on the resonance of our own voices, I don't know.	36:34
	And in some of us talking so others will not talk.	36:41
	Lest by some word or idea of theirs,	36:46
	we will be faced	36:51
	by the inadequacy of a word or idea of ours.	36:52
	And then some of us talking, I think, talking as if somehow	36:59
	God is measuring our goodness, our righteousness	37:04
	by the number of religious words that we utter.	37:07
	Something akin to good works of the mouth, I suppose.	37:12
	Most of us talking though, most of us talking,	37:18
	burdening the silence with our babble	37:22
	because of the terrifying prospect of who we'll meet	37:26
	in the silence, talking our fool heads off	37:30
	lest we meet mystery in the silence,	37:35
	and not just any mystery, but the mystery,	37:40
	source of all mysteries,	37:46
	lest we hear a voice that enjoins us,	37:51
	be still and know that I am God.	37:55
	Or this is my son,	38:00
	listen to him.	38:05
	Chattering on and on as if somehow,	38:08
	sometime, somewhere	38:13
	we too will hear a voice that speaks of sacrifice	38:16
	and compels us to say	38:21
	here am I.	38:24
	With all that happened that day, in that encounter,	38:31
	with the ghostly theologians of yesteryear	38:36
	and the booming holy voice and that curious transfiguration	38:39
	where Jesus' clothes were bleached whiter than white.	38:43
	It could have been, it could have been the wonder of it all	38:48
	that day, but it wasn't,	38:51
	it wasn't.	38:56
	Indeed, it was anything but.	38:57
	And so I wonder how they weathered it all,	39:00
	survived it all that day.	39:03
	Maybe, maybe those good old boys,	39:07
	those good old Jewish boys	39:11
	remembered their Torah, maybe they had read it that morning	39:13
	before their trek up the mountain	39:18
	and maybe they remembered in the midst of their panic,	39:21
	because of their panic, most likely, the story of Abraham	39:25
	and his mountaintop terror.	39:30
	And maybe that's what got them through it all.	39:34
	Remembering that there was after all precedent	39:38
	for this sort of thing.	39:41
	And trying to remember, trying to remember what Abraham	39:43
	had learned from it all.	39:47
	And somehow being reassured by that	39:49
	and given strength by that.	39:52
	Reassurance enough and strength enough at least	39:57
	to pack up the food basket and to wash out the thermos	40:02
	and load up their gear and to get their frightened fannies	40:07
	off that mountaintop, maybe, maybe.	40:12
	Oh yes, yes, there's the sentiment of that other text,	40:20
	if God is on our side, who can be against us?	40:25
	I am convinced that nothing in death or life,	40:30
	in the realm of the spirits or superhuman powers,	40:34
	nothing at all of creation can separate us	40:37
	from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.	40:40
	And those might have been reassuring words too.	40:46
	With all that talk about spirits and powers and such.	40:50
	And none of those powers being strong enough	40:55
	or determined enough or having wits enough	40:58
	to pry loose the sacred from the profane,	41:01
	which is to say God from Peter and James and John	41:04
	and you and me and the rest of the sacred and timid crowd.	41:08
	But, of course, Peter and James and John didn't have	41:16
	those words that day, because those words were written	41:22
	long after their mountaintop encounter with terror.	41:26
	And anyway, even if those very words were somehow	41:32
	emblazoned on a nearby boulder	41:37
	or branded dramatically,	41:41
	suddenly, on a passing stray donkey,	41:43
	I suspect that the disciples would have been	41:48
	no less confused and certainly no less unnerved	41:50
	because, I suspect, I suspect that the seeming peril	41:57
	of the moment was greater than any of their abilities	42:02
	or all of their abilities for that matter	42:06
	to somehow decipher the meaning of it all	42:08
	and the purpose of it all.	42:12
	And I suspect too that even if the disciples did remember	42:18
	their Torah and its story about Abraham,	42:23
	it too would have made little sense,	42:27
	little sense that day and no difference.	42:32
	Because, because it's only after we have been through	42:39
	our terror,	42:43
	those episodes of fear and panic	42:46
	and the smell of our own sweat,	42:49
	that we realize that we have not been alone at all.	42:53
	Because in the deepest moments of our terror,	42:57
	there's seldom anything more present than our terror,	43:00
	more present than ourselves and the danger	43:05
	that threatens ourselves.	43:09
	Which is to say more present than our human finitude	43:12
	and our human frailty.	43:17
	Which is not to say, which is not to say that that's all	43:20
	that's actually there.	43:25
	And too Peter and the boys were undoubtedly	43:31
	looking for something that made sense that day,	43:35
	that would wipe away their confusion	43:39
	and I don't blame them.	43:43
	But, of course, none of it made sense really.	43:46
	Still doesn't make any sense really.	43:50
	For those imperatives of God,	43:55
	go, do, feed,	43:58
	heal, sell, be still,	44:05
	speak, die, to live,	44:09
	these imperatives of God, the suffering of God,	44:16
	this persistence of God,	44:23
	this grace of God,	44:27
	most of all this grace of God,	44:30
	silliness, nonsense,	44:34
	but this, this is precisely the point.	44:40
	The holy humor of the thing,	44:47
	the holy punchline if you will.	44:51
	That none of it, that the nonsense of it all	44:54
	is not to be confused with the futility of it all.	44:58
	That they are not the same at all	45:04
	but rather that this thing which is sheer nonsense	45:08
	is also the sheer beauty of it all,	45:12
	the sheer magnificent,	45:15
	utter wonder of it all.	45:19
	Oh yes, yes, my sisters and brothers,	45:26
	there is a certain holy terror to this truth,	45:31
	this miracle of presence and power.	45:35
	There's a certain unpredictability about this God	45:40
	who's careless with his grace and woefully indiscriminate	45:43
	with his favors of love.	45:48
	But frankly now, honestly now,	45:52
	this carelessness	45:59
	and this indiscrimination, these are our only hope.	46:03
	Just as Peter and James and John had cause to be terrified,	46:09
	if only because of their sin and mischief,	46:15
	we too have cause to be terrified,	46:18
	if only because of our own sin and mischief.	46:21
	There is, after all,	46:28
	there is, after all, so little	46:31
	in our lives that deserves anything	46:33
	but God's anger.	46:39
	But anger has never been God's ultimate mood	46:44
	nor God's ultimate word.	46:49
	No, this word, this mood,	46:52
	these are found only	46:59
	in the reality of that victory that is ours	47:00
	through the presence of God in Jesus of Nazareth.	47:04
	And that's why we, you and I,	47:11
	and this whole blessed human race,	47:16
	can dare to live at all,	47:20
	can dare to live and to dance	47:23
	and to kiss the flowers	47:27
	and to give birth to love and life,	47:30
	can dare to embrace	47:35
	the wildest miracle of them all	47:37
	and call it by its proper name which is the Christ,	47:40
	son of God, savior.	47:46
	Or call it by no name at all but simply live our lives	47:52
	open to the fierce, to the mighty,	47:56
	to the transforming power of it all.	48:03

-	All of which is to say that this holy terror,	0:07
	that this holy terror has come,	0:11
	that human existence might be emptied	0:14
	of all of its terrors,	0:17
	that our human fears might give way	0:20
	to human awe	0:26
	and that our deepest anxieties,	0:28
	that our deepest anxieties may give way	0:32
	to the presence and the changing power	0:35
	and the experience of redemption	0:40
	which is to say that this is one reason at least	0:47
	that you and I	0:53
	may want to give a hearing	0:56
	to the voice that says	0:59
	this is my Son,	1:02
	my beloved,	1:05
	listen, listen to him.	1:08
	In the name of the Father	1:16
	and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.	1:18
	(lively organ music)	1:34
	(congregation sings)	2:09
	Let us affirm what we believe.	4:48
-	We believe in God	4:51
	who has created and is creating,	4:53
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	4:57
	to reconcile and make new,	5:00
	who works in us and others by the Spirit.	5:03
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	5:07
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	5:11
	to love and serve others,	5:15
	to seek justice and resist evil,	5:17
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	5:20
	our judge and our hope.	5:24
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	5:27
	God is with us, we are not alone.	5:31
	Thanks be to God.	5:35
-	The Lord be with you.	5:39
-	And also with you.	5:41
-	Let us pray.	5:42
	Oh Lord our Lord,	5:54
	how majestic is your name in all the Earth.	5:57
	With heads bowed and bodies bent,	6:01
	we approach you this day	6:04
	asking that you hear the prayers	6:07
	of your fragmented, fearful people	6:09
	and trust in you to answer our prayers	6:13
	according to your will.	6:16
	Where there is brokenness of body or spirit,	6:19
	send your healing balm	6:22
	that soothes and makes all things new.	6:25
	Where there is grief and sadness	6:31
	which weigh heavy on our shoulders,	6:32
	embrace us and lift us up with your comforting spirit.	6:35
	Where there is seething hatred within families divided	6:42
	or between nations of the world,	6:46
	sound the trumpet of your reconciling love	6:48
	as revealed in Jesus Christ.	6:51
	Where there is evil and callous indifference	6:56
	within us that cause life to freeze over,	6:59
	thaw us out with the warmth of your love.	7:04
	Where there is false pride	7:09
	and the lie of rugged individualism,	7:12
	bring us to our knees	7:15
	and to a more complete dependence upon you.	7:17
	Where there is the famine of food	7:23
	or the famine of faith,	7:25
	send your people forth to satisfy the hungry.	7:27
	Continually remind us	7:31
	that we are your hands, we are your feet,	7:33
	we are your mouth to speak truth in a darkened world.	7:36
	Where injustice and unfairness are accepted	7:43
	as status quo and are endorsed	7:45
	by the powers that be, Lord God,	7:48
	give your church a united prophetic voice	7:52
	that neither falters nor fades away.	7:55
	Where there is confusion about where we should go	8:01
	or what we should do	8:04
	or what awaits us tomorrow,	8:06
	as individuals or as the church,	8:09
	ease our anxieties and deepen our trust	8:12
	and remind us that just as you have been our help	8:16
	in ages past, so will you be our hope for years to come.	8:19
	Oh Lord, our Lord,	8:27
	how majestic is your name in all the Earth.	8:30
	Hear our prayers in the name of Jesus Christ	8:36
	who taught those who would fallow after him to pray saying.	8:39
-	Our father, who art in heaven,	8:43
	hallowed be thy name,	8:46
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done	8:48
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	8:52
	Give us this day our daily bread	8:55
	and forgive our trespasses	8:58
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	9:00
	and lead us not into temptation	9:04
	but deliver us from evil	9:07
	for thine is the kingdom,	9:09
	and the power and the glory forever.	9:11
	Amen.	9:15
	(tranquil organ music)	9:22
	(lively organ music)	15:06
	(congregation sings)	15:24
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:36
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:38
	(congregation sings)	15:43
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:54
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	15:56
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:00
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:06
-	Almighty and ever blessed God,	16:24
	from whom comes every good and perfect gift,	16:27
	we give you praise and thanks for all of your mercies,	16:31
	your goodness has created us,	16:34
	your bounty has sustained us,	16:36
	your fatherly discipline has guided us,	16:39
	your patience has carried us,	16:42
	your love has redeemed us.	16:45
	Give us hearts to love and serve you	16:48
	and enable us to show our thankfulness	16:51
	by offering our very selves to your service.	16:54
	In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	16:58
	(lively organ music)	17:06
	(congregation sings)	17:45
-	Throughout the time of peace,	19:51
	have courage, hold on to what is good,	19:53
	return to no one evil hurtful.	19:56
	Strengthen the faint hearted,	20:00
	support the weak,	20:02
	help the suffering, honor all people,	20:03
	love and serve the Lord,	20:07
	rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.	20:09
	And now the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,	20:13
	the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	20:16
	be with you and abide with you	20:19
	from this time forth and forever more.	20:21
	Hallelujah, amen.	20:25
	(lively organ music)	20:31
	(lively organ music)	23:05
	(lively organ music)	25:36
	(lively organ music)	27:08

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Title:

J. Michael Laidlaw - "The Terror of It All" (March 4, 1984)

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Though we are often confounded and terrified by the mystery of God's presence, it is, paradoxically, this holy terror that opens up the possibility for human existence to be freed from all terror. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 28:52. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 01:23.
Key quotation: “This holy terror has come that human existence might be emptied of all its terrors, that our human fears might give way to human awe, and that our deepest anxieties may give way to the presence and the changing power and the experience of redemption.”

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March 4, 1984

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Laidlaw, J. Michael

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