Charlene P. Kammerer - "Not Just Wishful Thinking" (November 27, 1983)

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	(contemplative choral music)	0:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:07
	(angelic choral music)	1:13
	(reverent organ music)	1:31
	(upbeat organ music)	3:22
	(reverent choral music)	3:39
	(reverent choral music)	7:21
	♪ Praise the Lord, let songs of joy break forth ♪	8:27
	♪ Let songs of joy break forth ♪	8:31
	♪ Sing alleluia, praise His name forevermore ♪	8:33
	♪ Praise the Lord, let songs of joy break forth ♪	8:38
	♪ Let songs of joy break forth ♪	8:43
	♪ Sing alleluia, praise His name forevermore ♪	8:45
	♪ Shout, sing, and dance ♪	8:50
	(lilting choir music)	8:53
	♪ Shout, sing, and dance ♪	9:04
	(lilting choir music)	9:07
	♪ Shout, sing, let songs of joy break forth ♪	9:14
	♪ Let songs of joy break forth ♪	9:18
	♪ Praise the Lord, let songs of joy break forth ♪	9:20
	(lilting choir music)	9:24
	♪ Shout, sing, let songs of joy break forth ♪	9:31
	♪ Sing hallelujah ♪	9:34
	♪ Sing for joy ♪	9:35
	♪ Sing hallelujah ♪	9:36
	♪ Sing for joy ♪	9:37
	(lilting choir music)	9:39
	♪ Praise his name forevermore ♪	9:43
	(pitch pipe blows)	9:55
	(upbeat choir music)	10:01
	(pitch pipe blows)	11:14
	(lively choir music)	11:20
	♪ Yes, my Lord ♪	13:14
	(reflective choir music)	13:24
	(lively choir music)	13:37
	(reverent organ music)	14:11
	(reverent choir music)	15:10
-	Rest assured that the God whom we gather	17:20
	to worship in His glorious goodness	17:24
	is ready and able to respond personally to you	17:26
	in your particular need and mood.	17:30
	Some of you are here ready to shout with the psalmist,	17:34
	"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."	17:36
	Some of you are here who are echoing	17:40
	the anguish of the psalmist,	17:42
	"Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.	17:44
	"Lord, hear my voice."	17:48
	Some of you are here looking for direction from the Word	17:52
	of God, "More to be desired are they than gold,	17:54
	"sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb."	18:00
	Some of you are here, yearning for fellowship with God.	18:04
	"As the hart panteth after the water brooks,	18:08
	"so panteth my soul after thee, O God."	18:12
	Come on this first Sunday in Advent.	18:16
	Let us worship God.	18:20
	If we are not careful, if we are not alert,	18:26
	even our awareness of the calendar	18:31
	can become an avenue to sin.	18:33
	The twin goods of recollection and anticipation	18:36
	can hypnotize us, so that we do not see	18:40
	the crucial issues of our day.	18:44
	From such sin, Good Lord deliver us.	18:49
	Let us confess together.	18:53
	Come, O Yahweh, to this occasion of repentance.	19:09
	Open your ears to our confession,	19:14
	even as we open our souls to your mercy.	19:18
	Our sin weighs heavy upon us.	19:22
	Our guilt is a burden.	19:25
	We neglect your world and its peoples.	19:27
	Lusting after privilege and place, we misuse our power.	19:31
	Nations rage, and the ground trembles	19:36
	with the machines of war.	19:40
	The Earth is stained with blood.	19:42
	Love is thwarted, and the neighbor injured.	19:45
	Forgive, O Lord, our sin.	19:49
	Arouse in us a passion for the wellbeing of the other.	19:52
	Empower us to realize your vision of a world at peace,	19:57
	that tools of war will give way to implements of healing,	20:03
	that reconciliation will replace division,	20:08
	that nations will embrace your lordship.	20:12
	And in this season of your coming,	20:16
	quicken our sense of mystery and surprise	20:19
	through Jesus Christ, our light and our salvation.	20:22
	Amen.	20:28
	My friends, my sisters, my brothers,	21:09
	when we confess, the past, our pasts	21:12
	do not vanish, but they change,	21:16
	and we are no longer enslaved to them.	21:22
	There is before us a future that is fresh	21:26
	and new and full of possibility.	21:30
	This is what happens when we confess.	21:35
	Know and believe the good news, that in Jesus who was	21:40
	and is the Christ, you and I are forgiven.	21:44
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	21:51
	and God's love is everlasting.	21:53
	(congregation murmurs)	21:57
	His love creates us.	21:59
-	Thanks be to God, whose mercy redeems us.	22:01
	Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.	22:05
-	It is a delight to welcome this faithful remnant	22:14
	to the chapel and the service of worship	22:18
	on this first Sunday in Advent.	22:21
	We can tell that most of the students are not with us yet,	22:24
	and we look forward to their return	22:27
	and worshiping with us in the days ahead.	22:30
	We welcome as our guests this morning,	22:37
	the Broughton Vocal Ensemble, who have provided us	22:40
	the gift of their voices and their talent this morning.	22:44
	I understand that this is their sixth time	22:49
	to be at Duke Chapel, and we anticipate	22:52
	their coming back in the months ahead.	22:56
	We are grateful for your presence	23:00
	and the gift that you have brought us.	23:01
	Mr. Kraig McBroom is the leader of this ensemble.	23:05
	Been asked to let you know that Advent booklets,	23:12
	prepared by the worship committee,	23:17
	are available to you, to each of you this morning,	23:21
	and will be made available to you	23:23
	at the hostess desk at the rear of the chapel.	23:25
	And you may pick those up on your way out.	23:29
	This booklet of writings reflect	23:33
	on the meaning of Advent, as we move	23:37
	toward that day of Christ's birth.	23:41
	It is a good way to discipline yourself	23:46
	for a time of meditation and reflection each day,	23:49
	and do encourage you to pick up	23:54
	one of those before you leave.	23:55
	We look forward, this morning, to the sermon	23:59
	by the Reverend Charlene Kammerer,	24:01
	whose sermon this morning is Not Just Wishful Thinking.	24:05
-	Let us pray.	24:17
	O Lord our God, open our eyes,	24:20
	that we may behold wondrous things out of your Word.	24:22
	And let the words of my mouth and the meditation	24:25
	of our hearts be acceptable in your sight,	24:28
	O Lord, our strength and our redeemer, amen.	24:31
	The Old Testament lesson is from Isaiah,	24:36
	chapter two, verses one through five.	24:39
	"The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz,	24:42
	"saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.	24:45
	"It shall come to pass in the latter days	24:48
	"that the mountain of the house of the Lord	24:51
	"shall be established as the highest of the mountains,	24:53
	"and shall be raised above the hills.	24:56
	"And all the nations shall flow to it.	24:58
	"And many people shall come and say,	25:01
	"Come, let us go to the mountain of the Lord,	25:03
	"to the house of the God of Jacob,	25:06
	"that he may teach us His ways,	25:09
	"and that we may walk in His paths.	25:10
	"For out of Zion shall go forth the law	25:13
	"and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.	25:16
	"He shall judge between the nations	25:19
	"and shall decide for many peoples,	25:21
	"and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,	25:23
	"and their spears into pruning hooks.	25:26
	"Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,	25:29
	"neither shall they learn war anymore.	25:32
	"O house of Jacob, come.	25:35
	"Let us walk in the light of the Lord."	25:37
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament lesson.	25:39
	The epistle lesson is from Romans,	25:43
	chapter 13, verses eight through 14.	25:45
	"Owe no one anything, except to love one other,	25:49
	"for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.	25:53
	"The commandments, you shall not commit adultery,	25:56
	"you shall not kill, you shall not steal,	25:59
	"you shall not covet, and any other commandments,	26:02
	"are summed up in this sentence:	26:05
	"You shall love your neighbor as yourself.	26:07
	"Love does no wrong to a neighbor.	26:10
	"Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.	26:13
	"Besides this, you know what hour it is,	26:16
	"how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep.	26:19
	"For salvation is nearer to us now	26:22
	"than when we first believed.	26:24
	"The night is far gone.	26:26
	"The day is at hand.	26:28
	"Let us then cast off the works of darkness	26:30
	"and put on the armor of light.	26:33
	"Let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day,	26:35
	"not in reveling and drunkenness,	26:39
	"not in debauchery and licentiousness,	26:42
	"not in quarreling and jealousy.	26:44
	"But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provisions	26:47
	"for the flesh to gratify its desires."	26:50
	Here ends the reading from the epistle lesson.	26:53
	(reverent choral music)	27:19
	Will the congregation please stand	30:00
	for the reading of the Gospel lesson?	30:02
	The Gospel lesson is from Matthew,	30:08
	chapter 24, verses 36 to 44.	30:10
	"But of that day and hour, no one knows,	30:14
	"not even the angels of heaven,	30:17
	"nor the Son, but the Father only.	30:18
	"As were the days of Noah, so will be	30:22
	"the coming of the Son of Man.	30:24
	"For as in those days before the flood,	30:27
	"they were eating and drinking,	30:30
	"marrying and giving in marriage,	30:31
	"until the day when Noah entered the ark.	30:34
	"They did not know until the flood	30:37
	"came and swept them all away.	30:38
	"So will be the coming of the Son of Man.	30:41
	"Then, two men will be in the field.	30:44
	"One is taken and one is left.	30:47
	"Two women will be grinding at the mill.	30:50
	"One is taken and one is left.	30:52
	"Watch, therefore, for you do not know	30:55
	"on what day your Lord is coming.	30:57
	"But know this, that if the householder had known	31:00
	"in what part of the night the thief was coming,	31:04
	"he would have watched and would not have	31:06
	"let his house be broken into.	31:09
	"Therefore, you also must be ready,	31:11
	"for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."	31:14
	Here ends the reading from the Gospel lesson, amen.	31:18
	(triumphant organ music)	31:22
	(triumphant choir music)	31:30
-	Let us pray.	32:29
	O Lord our God, prepare our hearts and minds	32:34
	to receive you and your Word once again	32:38
	in this holy season.	32:42
	In Christ's name we pray, amen.	32:44
	Ready or not, Advent is here.	32:52
	I was thinking this morning that perhaps for the rest	32:57
	of the season, we might need to engage	33:00
	the Duke basketball players to light our Advent wreath.	33:02
	We have survived the effects of The Day After film	33:09
	this week, at least temporarily.	33:13
	And I know that our belts are all loosened	33:17
	following our annual Thanksgiving binge	33:20
	of festival and feast.	33:23
	The Soviets this week have backed away	33:27
	from the arms table of control talk,	33:29
	apparently in reaction	33:34
	to the continued deployment of U.S. missiles.	33:35
	A ceasefire in the PLO civil war	33:40
	in Lebanon has been negotiated.	33:44
	A. James Armstrong, President of the National Council	33:48
	of Churches and a bishop in the United Methodist Church,	33:53
	resigned both positions last week,	33:58
	citing personal problems,	34:03
	physical and emotional exhaustion as the reasons.	34:05
	Perhaps Linda Robins says it best,	34:12
	"The long road to Christmas begins	34:16
	"in absolute darkness and winds painfully	34:19
	"through Advent, one candle at a time."	34:23
	The vision this prophet Isaiah had so long ago	34:30
	still, to me, seems rather farfetched.	34:35
	It is a direct message from God alone.	34:40
	Our pilgrimage in this Advent season begins	34:45
	by hearing this prophet speak God's vision for the world.	34:48
	All the nations are on their own pilgrimage	34:54
	to Zion, the holy dwelling of God,	34:58
	to be taught the ways of Yahweh.	35:02
	The Lord God Yahweh will intervene	35:06
	and arbitrate international disputes,	35:10
	and a universal peace will follow.	35:14
	That is the promise from Isaiah.	35:18
	"Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,	35:21
	"neither shall they learn war anymore."	35:25
	Here it is that the very desires of God are put forth,	35:29
	and central to these yearnings is a new age,	35:35
	a time characterized by faith and righteousness,	35:40
	by brotherhood and sisterhood.	35:44
	Advent once again has dawned upon us,	35:49
	containing at once both threat and promise.	35:54
	I believe that today's scripture	35:59
	reveals both threat and promise,	36:01
	for the themes are all mixed up,	36:05
	and we are bombarded by signs of Advent:	36:08
	readiness, surprise, warning,	36:13
	appropriate behavior, and things that are new.	36:18
	Isaiah's vision to us must be viewed	36:24
	in the context of history and of hope,	36:27
	for even the Holy Scriptures do not permit us, I think,	36:32
	to indulge in the illusion that a time will come	36:37
	within history when there will be no more wars.	36:41
	Isaiah was speaking about what will happen at the very end	36:47
	of history, not as possibility within history.	36:51
	However, we are still called to work	36:57
	to eliminate the causes of war.	37:00
	But we are told that we should not cherish extravagant hopes	37:04
	which will be doomed to inevitable disappointment.	37:09
	The Word of God is clear at this point.	37:14
	Abolition of war is possible only when God's purpose	37:19
	has triumphed in the very consummation of history.	37:23
	Only when the nations have been taught God's ways	37:28
	and walk in those paths, will, in fact,	37:33
	swords be beaten into plowshares.	37:37
	Yes, Isaiah did have a beautiful vision,	37:41
	but peace for all the world and all God's creation	37:46
	rests in no human program or plan,	37:51
	rather in obedience to divine law.	37:55
	What then, where then is the hope	38:01
	that casts Advent into our lives?	38:06
	Isaiah reminds us that we are called to recognize	38:11
	and remember God's centrality in our lives.	38:16
	We are called to walk in God's path	38:22
	and feel and know the Lord's divine light	38:26
	shining upon us and within us.	38:30
	There is a Hebrew word for hope, qavah,	38:36
	whose root means to twist and to twine.	38:41
	It is a word that seems to fit our brand of hoping well,	38:46
	for hope is the possibility that this good thing	38:52
	will happen for us,	38:57
	and that bad thing will not happen.	39:00
	And we, all of us, spend most of our lives	39:03
	twisting together a hundred little strands of hope	39:08
	to make a cable strong enough	39:13
	to pull ourselves through our lives.	39:16
	Frederick Buechner reminds us of hope	39:21
	in his reflections on Advent,	39:24
	which he has called The Hungering Dark.	39:27
	He suggests that for us and our time, hope is	39:32
	the hardest and the rarest virtue among people everywhere.	39:37
	We all still have our hopes, of course,	39:43
	this election year, especially, jaded as we become;	39:48
	the hope that out of all of these faces and voices	39:53
	that we come to know, will emerge a person we can trust;	39:58
	the hope that if the lives of a Gandhi,	40:04
	a John F. Kennedy, a Martin Luther King Jr.	40:09
	cannot transform our hearts,	40:14
	then maybe at least their deaths will break our hearts	40:17
	enough at least to let a little of their humanity in;	40:23
	the hope that if real peace does not in fact	40:29
	come to the world, at least the worst of the killings,	40:33
	in Beiruts all over the world, will stop;	40:39
	the hope that as individuals, you and I	40:44
	can put at bay the falsehoods,	40:48
	cruelties, and disappointments	40:52
	we do battle with all of the time;	40:54
	these familiar old hopes.	40:59
	For most of us, all of our hopes twisted together	41:03
	do make enough hope to live by, hope enough to see	41:08
	a little way into this darkness.	41:14
	In this season of hoping for the impossible,	41:20
	often little children will lead us.	41:24
	One of the reasons is that they are	41:29
	still young enough to believe in mystery.	41:31
	The face of my son transformed fantasy	41:36
	to hope this weekend when he finally got	41:41
	enough courage to sit on Santa's lap.	41:45
	After several years of fear and shyness	41:50
	and being overwhelmed, he was able	41:56
	to march up to the throne, holding his cousin's hand.	41:58
	Nevermind that this shopping mall Santa	42:05
	would surface again in other settings	42:08
	with different beard and eyes and face.	42:12
	Nevermind that this little boy was a bit tongue-tied	42:16
	when asked what was on his wish list.	42:21
	For you see, the name of the game was not I want	42:26
	this or that, or because you've been a good boy.	42:30
	The name of the game was magic, mystery.	42:37
	The moment of touching and naming	42:42
	the goodness and grace that Santa symbolizes	42:45
	for all of us, that was important.	42:49
	My son felt himself worthy to sit on a lap of a stranger,	42:54
	to stroke a beard, to gently hold a hand.	43:00
	Now, I wonder, are we Christians enough	43:06
	to still believe in mystery?	43:11
	Can we say, in this season of Advent,	43:16
	at least maybe to the possibility	43:20
	of the impossible if we can't say yes?	43:24
	This is the very time, this Advent time,	43:30
	when we are vulnerable.	43:35
	We must raise up our heads and look up	43:38
	because our redemption itself is near.	43:42
	Just maybe, Christmas will come again,	43:47
	and a new hope will be born in us.	43:53
	Isaiah's oracle calls us	43:59
	to walk in the light of the Lord.	44:02
	The New Testament Advent story	44:06
	calls us to put on the Christ.	44:09
	As Christians, we always find ourselves caught	44:13
	between the threat and the promise of Advent,	44:18
	for we live in the present age,	44:22
	and yet we live into the new age which is soon to come.	44:25
	We often stand in the dark, but our faces	44:30
	are lit by the coming dawn.	44:35
	We are therefore to cast off the works of darkness	44:39
	and put on Jesus Christ,	44:44
	putting on the armor of light.	44:47
	We are to live as though the new age of God's rule	44:50
	were just around the corner, in fact,	44:55
	in the certainty of it, a certainty so strong,	44:59
	that already the light of this new age	45:04
	is evident in our lives and experience.	45:07
	The whole of our living	45:11
	is an advent situation.	45:15
	I believe that living into Advent	45:21
	is not just wishful thinking.	45:24
	The sentiments in Isaiah's	45:28
	message are not mere poetry.	45:31
	We long for, wish for, God's advent	45:34
	among us all of our lives long.	45:39
	Call to be mindful and alert to that possibility,	45:43
	yet God alone is aware of the time	45:49
	that marks the end of this age and the life to come.	45:53
	It is simply a holy mystery.	45:58
	We must wait with hope and not in panic.	46:03
	Meanwhile, it is important to get on with living.	46:09
	Is it all really just wishful thinking,	46:14
	God's advent among us?	46:19
	Or can we become vulnerable enough	46:23
	to allow God's love story to happen to us?	46:26
	If we believe, trust,	46:33
	and look to God in this season,	46:37
	our hopes will be realized.	46:40
	Let us join together this day with Isaiah and proclaim,	46:45
	"Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord."	46:51
	Let us pray.	46:57
	O God, give us back the great hope again	47:05
	that the future is yours, that not even the world	47:10
	can hide you from us forever, that at the end,	47:15
	the one who came will come back in power	47:19
	to work in us joy stronger than we can know or imagine.	47:24
	In Christ's name we pray, amen.	47:30
	(exultant organ music)	47:39

	(lively organ music)	0:03
	(congregation sings)	0:09
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	1:37
-	We believe in God,	1:41
	who has created and is creating,	1:43
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	1:46
	to reconcile and make new,	1:49
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	1:52
	We trust God	1:56
	who calls us to be the church,	1:58
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	2:01
	to love and serve others,	2:04
	to seek justice and resist evil,	2:07
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	2:10
	our judge and our hope.	2:14
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	2:16
	God is with us.	2:21
	We are not alone.	2:23
	Thanks be to God.	2:25
-	The Lord be with you.	2:29
-	And also with you.	2:31
-	Let us pray.	2:33
	Oh Lord of the advent, holy invader,	2:49
	time's comforter.	2:54
	In you all that ever was	2:57
	and is and shall be	2:59
	is made for shining.	3:02
	So do we praise you for your rage towards order	3:05
	before the universe was formed.	3:08
	So do we rejoice in the brightness	3:13
	of your rising against all evil.	3:16
	So do we praise your coming in timelessness	3:21
	to capture time.	3:25
	In this dark century,	3:28
	make of us your people to declare your light.	3:31
	Come now, oh beloved	3:36
	to our wilderness	3:39
	and make in us the crooked paths straight	3:42
	and the rough places plain.	3:48
	Yea, Lord of us all,	3:53
	creator of the air's ocean,	3:56
	juggler of the stars,	4:00
	you whose voice murmurs its music throughout all the Earth,	4:03
	you high and holy one in whom we dare to dream,	4:09
	surely we call upon you in thanksgiving	4:15
	for setting the fires of the blood,	4:20
	teaching the mind to run,	4:24
	breathing into us our souls,	4:28
	for the morning that has broken our darkness	4:32
	both without and within	4:35
	and opens us to fresh possibilities,	4:38
	for the day's procession,	4:43
	its landscapes, varieties,	4:47
	intentions, tastes,	4:51
	silences,	4:56
	dreams,	4:59
	for the intimate moments of love,	5:02
	for yourself,	5:07
	touching, anguishing,	5:10
	persuading, expressing our very beings into life	5:14
	for all of these, oh God, we give you our thanks.	5:22
	Oh merciful one,	5:33
	enter with grace this time of our intercessions,	5:36
	indeed you do bear the pain of the world.	5:39
	Look with compassion on the ill,	5:44
	the sorrowing, the lonely, the imprisoned.	5:47
	Be to the sick a source of health	5:53
	and if health is not possible,	5:56
	then a strength to hope	5:59
	and not despair.	6:01
	Abide with the grieving that theirs may be	6:04
	the certainty that neither death nor life	6:06
	nor things present nor things to come	6:10
	shall separate them from your love.	6:13
	Stand, oh God of comfort	6:18
	as companion of the lonely	6:20
	filling empty places with present love,	6:23
	long times of solitude with lively thoughts of you.	6:27
	Remind us, oh Lord,	6:34
	that your Son was condemned to death	6:37
	and hung on a cross with criminals.	6:40
	Never let us forget that our laws	6:44
	are not necessarily your law,	6:47
	that those we punish are still children of your love.	6:50
	Keep us from condemning those whose crimes	6:57
	are seen in order to cover up our unseen sins.	6:59
	Move us to care for prisoners,	7:06
	to visit them in unpleasant places	7:09
	that they may know that they are still loved sisters	7:13
	and brothers of Jesus Christ your Son.	7:17
	And now Lord God, teach us how to wait actively,	7:24
	faithfully for the time of your coming.	7:28
	As we hear the celebration sung through the ages,	7:32
	remind us that the tidings of great joy	7:37
	are being sung to our age as well	7:39
	if we but listen and heed.	7:43
	Prepare us to receive the Christ	7:47
	when he comes to us as the innocent one,	7:50
	as the jobless who has no place in our system,	7:55
	as the villager crucified by our weapons,	7:59
	as the stranger turned away from our friendship,	8:04
	wherever he comes, in whatever guise,	8:09
	help us to know him	8:14
	and knowing him to make a place for him	8:17
	in our hearts and in our lives.	8:21
	All of these things, oh God, we gather together	8:27
	and pray in the name of your Son	8:31
	who teaches us to pray this prayer together.	8:34
-	Our Father, who art in heaven,	8:38
	hallowed be thy name,	8:42
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done	8:45
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	8:49
	Give us this day our daily bread	8:52
	and forgive us our trespasses	8:55
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	8:57
	and lead us not into temptation	9:01
	but deliver us from evil	9:04
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	9:06
	and the glory forever.	9:10
	Amen.	9:13
	♪ Our father who in heaven above ♪	9:57
	♪ Hallowed be thy name ♪	10:02
	♪ Thy kingdom come, thy kingdom come ♪	10:04
	♪ Thy will be done ♪	10:06
	♪ Throughout this Earth we pray ♪	10:08
	♪ Our father who in heaven above ♪	10:11
	♪ Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ♪	10:15
	♪ Throughout this Earth we pray ♪	10:18
	♪ Our Father who in heaven above ♪	10:21
	♪ Hallowed be thy name ♪	10:24
	♪ Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ♪	10:26
	♪ Throughout this Earth we pray ♪	10:28
	♪ Our Father who in heaven above ♪	10:32
	♪ Hallowed be thy name ♪	10:35
	♪ Thy kingdom come, thy will be done ♪	10:37
	♪ Throughout this Earth we pray ♪	10:39
	(tranquil organ music)	10:49
	(lively organ music)	15:58
	(congregation sings)	16:19
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:31
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:34
	(congregation sings)	16:39
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:52
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:54
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	16:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	17:01
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	17:04
-	Come thou long-expected one.	17:25
	Come into our darkness.	17:28
	Give us light,	17:32
	give us vision	17:34
	and create within each of us a sense of urgency	17:37
	to use these gifts in a ministry	17:42
	to the world and people of your creating,	17:46
	in your Son's name, amen.	17:51
	(tranquil organ music)	18:00
	(congregation sings)	18:54
	Go out into the world in peace,	22:39
	have courage, hold on to what is good,	22:41
	return no person evil for evil	22:45
	but rather strengthen the faint hearted,	22:49
	support the weak,	22:52
	help the suffering, honor all men and women,	22:54
	love and serve the Lord rejoicing	22:59
	in the power of the Holy Spirit	23:01
	and now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ	23:04
	and the love of God	23:08
	and the presence of the Holy Spirit disturb you	23:11
	and abide with you	23:16
	and give you great joy in this place	23:18
	and wherever you may go,	23:24
	now and forever.	23:26
	In the name of the Father and of the Son	23:29
	and the Holy Spirit.	23:31
	♪ Amen ♪	23:36
	♪ Amen ♪	23:44
	♪ Amen ♪	23:52
	♪ Amen ♪	24:02
	♪ Amen ♪	24:08
	♪ Amen ♪	24:21
	(lively organ music)	24:40
	(people murmuring)	28:55

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Title:

Charlene P. Kammerer - "Not Just Wishful Thinking" (November 27, 1983)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 32:29. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 47:35.
Even in the midst of despair and conflict, we must maintain hope and trust God so that ultimate peace may come. In the midst of a politically charged year, the sermon provides comfort and hope to the congregation. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “We are to live as though the new age of God’s rule were just around the corner, in fact in the certainty of it, a certainty so strong that already the light of this new age is evident in our lives and experience.”

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Date:

November 27, 1983

Speaker:

Kammerer, Charlene P.

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Advent

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