H. Grady Hardin - "God and Crumbled Cookies" (June 23, 1985)

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	(quick tempo organ music)	0:03
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	(dramatic organ music)	3:11
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	(soft tempo organ music)	7:49
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-	Grace to you and peace from our	10:26
	Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.	10:28
	Welcome to this service of worship	10:31
	on the fourth Sunday following Pentecost	10:32
	and welcome to Duke Chapel.	10:35
	Let me call your attention to a couple	10:38
	of announcements that can be found in your bulletin today.	10:39
	Next Sunday evening at 6:30, there will be a meeting	10:44
	of the Graduate and Professional Students Fellowship.	10:47
	We invite all graduate and professional students	10:51
	who are here with us this summer	10:53
	to join in this special time.	10:55
	Next Sunday at the appointed hour for the	10:59
	morning service of worship, the Reverend	11:01
	Doctor Robert T Young, former Minister to the University	11:04
	and now Dean of the Chapel Ameritis	11:08
	will be back with us again and we hope	11:11
	that those of you who have enjoyed Bob in past months	11:13
	and who know him will come back	11:19
	and join us for this special service.	11:20
	The Chapel is very pleased and honored to have with us today	11:25
	as the Preacher of the Morning,	11:29
	the Reverend Doctor H Grady Harden.	11:31
	Doctor Harden is known for his many	11:36
	contributions over the years	11:38
	in the area of preaching and worship	11:40
	and comes to us with a distinguished career	11:44
	teaching in these areas,	11:47
	most recently at Perkins School of Theology.	11:49
	He is not unknown to Duke,	11:52
	has worshiped many times in this place before,	11:54
	and proudly claims Duke University as his alma mater.	11:57
	He is from the class of 36.	12:02
	We welcome Grady and look forward to the word	12:05
	which he will bring to us this morning.	12:07
	Now let us worship God in spirit and in truth.	12:10
	(choir chanting in distance)	12:28
	(choir chanting religious music in distance)	13:37
	(choir chanting religious music in distance)	14:52
	(bright organ music)	15:58
	(choir singing religious music)	16:29
	(choir singing religious music)	17:33
	Let us pray.	17:56
	Almighty and everlasting God,	18:00
	in whom we live and move and have our being,	18:02
	who has created us for yourself	18:07
	so that our hearts are restless until they find rest in you.	18:09
	Grant unto us such purity of heart	18:14
	and strength of purpose that no selfish passion	18:16
	may hinder us from knowing your will,	18:20
	and no weakness may hinder us from doing it.	18:23
	In your light may we see life clearly,	18:27
	and in your service find perfect freedom.	18:29
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	18:33
	Amen.	18:36
	(choir singing religious music)	18:55
	(choir singing religious music)	20:17
-	Let us pray together the prayer for illumination.	20:47
	Open our hearts and minds oh God,	20:54
	by the power of your holy spirit,	20:58
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	21:01
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	21:05
	Amen.	21:10
	The first lesson for today is taken from the Book of Job.	21:14
	Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind.	21:21
	Who is this that darkens council by words without knowledge?	21:28
	Gird up your loins like a man,	21:35
	I will question you,	21:39
	and you shall declare to me,	21:43
	where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?	21:51
	Tell me if you have understanding.	21:58
	Who determined its measurements?	22:03
	Surely, you know.	22:07
	Or who stretched the line upon it?	22:13
	On what were its bases sunk?	22:17
	Or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars	22:20
	sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?	22:26
	Or who shut the sea with doors	22:35
	when it burst forth from the womb	22:39
	when I made clouds its garment	22:43
	and thick darkness its swaddling band,	22:46
	and prescribed bounds for it and set bars and doors and said	22:50
	thus far shall you come and no farther,	22:58
	and here shall your proud waves be stayed.	23:04
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	23:15
	(bright organ music)	23:21
	(choir singing in distance)	23:57
	(bright organ music)	24:36
	(choir singing in distance)	24:53
	(bright organ music)	25:45
	(choir singing in distance)	26:41
	The second lesson is taken from	27:40
	Paul's second letter to the Corinthians.	27:44
	All this is from God, who through Christ	27:50
	reconciled us to himself	27:55
	and gave us the ministry of reconciliation,	27:58
	that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself	28:05
	not counting their trespasses against them	28:13
	and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.	28:18
	So, we are ambassadors for Christ,	28:25
	God making his appeal through us.	28:30
	We beseech you on behalf of Christ	28:35
	be reconciled to God.	28:39
	For our sake he made himself to be sin	28:45
	who knew no sin so that in him we might become	28:49
	the righteousness of God.	28:55
	Working together with him then	29:01
	we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain,	29:05
	for he says at the acceptable time	29:12
	I have listened to you and helped you	29:17
	on the day of salvation.	29:24
	Behold, now is the acceptable time.	29:28
	Behold, now is the day of salvation.	29:33
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	29:42
	(choir singing religiously)	30:04
	(choir singing in distance)	31:13
	(choir singing religious music)	32:10
	The Gospel for the day is taken from Saint Mark.	32:59
	On that day, when evening had come he said to them,	33:08
	"Let us go across to the other side."	33:15
	And leaving the crowd they took him with them in the boat,	33:19
	just as he was.	33:25
	And other boats were with it.	33:30
	A great storm of wind arose,	33:36
	and the waves beat into the boat	33:40
	so that the boat was already filling,	33:43
	but he was in the stern asleep	33:46
	on the cushion,	33:52
	and they woke him and said to him,	33:55
	"Teacher, do you not care that we perish?"	33:57
	And he awoke and rebuked the wind	34:04
	and said to the sea,	34:09
	"Peace.	34:13
	"Be still."	34:17
	And the wind ceased,	34:20
	and there was a great calm.	34:24
	He said to them,	34:32
	"Why are you afraid?	34:36
	"Have you no faith?"	34:41
	And they were filled with awe and said to one another,	34:45
	"Who then is this	34:54
	"that even wind and sea	35:00
	"obey him?"	35:07
	This ends the reading of the Gospel.	35:11
-	A few weeks ago, the weather watchers	35:34
	who could look at the radar	35:39
	and could look at the reports from our satellites	35:42
	could see the great low pressure area	35:46
	coming in on Bangladesh.	35:49
	But there were millions of people there	35:53
	who could not be reached,	35:55
	they were too poor to be reached by radio,	35:57
	they were probably too poor to escape	36:02
	the results of this low pressure area	36:06
	and so hundreds of thousands of people	36:09
	were washed away.	36:13
	The devastation,	36:16
	what do you say in a case like that?	36:21
	Well in a case like that, that's just the way	36:26
	the cookie crumbles to those of us	36:28
	who are realistic about life.	36:30
	We know there are low pressure areas	36:32
	and we know there are hurricanes and cyclones,	36:35
	it's just the way things are.	36:40
	That's the way it is.	36:43
	Or even more terrifying to the whole world	36:47
	I guess or certainly the western world at this time,	36:52
	is this terrible storm that has arisen around	36:57
	all sorts of low pressure areas	37:00
	and the hostages from our nation are being held	37:03
	by these religious persons who are doing	37:08
	these terrible things in the name of God.	37:12
	What do you do in a case like that?	37:19
	Well those of us who face life and know very well that	37:23
	life is not just a bed of roses, no,	37:26
	that this is the way the cookie crumbles.	37:29
	Sometimes when your number is up,	37:34
	you get it, your cookie collapses.	37:38
	When I was hinting to be invited to preach	37:43
	in this place last fall, when Will Willimon was in Dallas,	37:45
	he told me that they followed the lectionary	37:50
	and so I looked at the lectionary at that time	37:53
	and I began to read those words from Job,	37:57
	those words from Mark,	38:01
	and I said to myself, well that's the way	38:06
	the liturgical cookie crumbles.	38:08
	(light laughter)	38:11
	How do you deal with the storms of our day,	38:14
	the terrifying, life threatening storms of our time,	38:20
	and at the same time preach from the	38:26
	on the sterling of the storm or preach	38:29
	even more delightfully I suppose from that	38:31
	passage from Job and hear God say okay,	38:34
	stand over there little fellow	38:39
	and let me ask you a few questions,	38:41
	where were you and it's a marvelous scene.	38:42
	That's just the way life is, isn't it?	38:47
	Or a friend of mine, down in Texas many years ago,	38:52
	used to use this passage from Mark	38:56
	to help us there in Texas live in the comforts of life.	39:01
	How does one live in a world like ours	39:05
	on a few cushions or any other of the easements of life.	39:10
	Well one of the things is to realize that Jesus	39:15
	when in the boat was lying there in the stern on a pillow.	39:17
	Thus, he said, jokingly of course,	39:24
	but most of us joked along with him	39:29
	and took it very seriously.	39:31
	And every cushion we've ever bought,	39:34
	we've done it for Christ's sake.	39:37
	(light laughter)	39:39
	Or you could beat people in the head	39:42
	and say if you just had more faith	39:46
	these devastating storms wouldn't come.	39:49
	It's obvious that if they had had the faith	39:52
	there in Bangladesh or if they had just had the faith,	39:54
	we would not be suffering from these terrible	40:00
	terrible storms.	40:03
	See when you deal with these issues,	40:07
	you can say after a while that	40:12
	it was just God's will,	40:15
	he gave it to us, God just sends these things	40:20
	in order to give us character to build us up.	40:22
	As I walked in front of this chapel	40:27
	as I have done now for over 50 years	40:28
	and received the inspiration from Moss Robert on my right,	40:31
	and Martin Luther on my left,	40:35
	and others of the great saints of the church,	40:38
	you think of Martin Luther who was able	40:41
	to say to those peasants just be good peasants,	40:43
	God wants you to be.	40:47
	And a lot of people have said,	40:51
	when they face the storms of life,	40:53
	it'll make a better person of you	40:55
	and you'll be blessed in heaven.	40:57
	Thank goodness Martin Luther was a better prophet than that	41:01
	but he did say that.	41:04
	A lot of us have said the same thing for a long long time,	41:07
	how do you deal with the terrifying storms of life.	41:11
	Well, one of the ways you deal with it is	41:15
	to read this passage as I have been doing	41:18
	and you set up a little pattern of questions that	41:20
	you hope Will Willimon will deal with	41:25
	in the coming weeks and heck,	41:27
	I won't need to bother, I'll just leave them	41:30
	here in the corner, in the cleft in this rock God and I.	41:33
	What do you do with fallen nature?	41:39
	How do you deal with the fall of humanity	41:43
	and the fall of nature, the sin that separates us	41:46
	from our creator including nature, what do you do with this?	41:50
	What do you do with a statement that we often make	41:55
	that we believe that God's will will ultimately be done?	41:57
	That wasn't a whole lot of comfort to the people	42:03
	as they were being washed away in Bangladesh	42:06
	and I'm not sure that its much comfort to those people	42:08
	in Beirut this day or anywhere else in all the earth.	42:12
	There's a blessed place somewhere	42:18
	and there will be a final evening	42:21
	where God will wipe away the tears from our eyes.	42:25
	I'm not saying we must not say these words,	42:28
	I'm saying we must never say them glibly	42:30
	and use them to justify the genuine weeping	42:34
	on the part of a suffering humanity.	42:38
	Or we could use this, some of us do this in Dallas,	42:43
	this is just a sign of the end, so don't stop it,	42:48
	the Lord will return soon.	42:51
	I was a Pastor in the hills of this country	42:54
	of this state for a number of years	42:57
	and someone had written with great enthusiasm	42:59
	on every utility pole in my town,	43:01
	Jesus is soon coming and it was just really exciting	43:06
	the way things were getting so bad,	43:11
	God was gonna have to reach in.	43:14
	He was going to do it soon.	43:17
	I'm not quite sure how soon is,	43:21
	but there are those you know in the great	43:23
	planet earth, just wait, things will be bad enough.	43:28
	That's another way you can deal with this sort of thing	43:35
	or just the end is on us so be good.	43:39
	Be good.	43:45
	I have given more and heard more advice	43:49
	along that line than I've ever been able to handle.	43:51
	I know how to be good, but that's another whole	43:53
	set of sermons with this little group	43:57
	of question marks over here.	44:00
	When you read the story of the stilling of the storm,	44:03
	and the befuddlement on the part of the disciples	44:08
	when they saw in this Jesus,	44:10
	a strange unknown power.	44:14
	Who is this	44:20
	who stills the storm?	44:23
	What's the good news in this story?	44:25
	That we won't have any great storms anymore?	44:29
	No, it's not that.	44:31
	We've had too many storms already.	44:33
	We're in the midst of too many storms already to say that.	44:35
	There are plenty of storms, there shall be	44:39
	many many storms.	44:42
	What's the good news in this story,	44:45
	I think the good news I want to hear in this story	44:47
	for those people who were reading Mark,	44:50
	and for those of us who are hearing it read this day	44:54
	that the good news is that the Lord God Almighty	44:57
	revealing God through Jesus, the Christ,	45:03
	is opposed to storms.	45:11
	God is no tricker.	45:16
	God is not setting up some maze	45:19
	for us to find our way through life.	45:22
	God is not setting up obstacle courses that will	45:24
	catch us unless we're careful.	45:28
	No.	45:32
	God is opposed to life threatening storms	45:34
	and whenever we see a life threatening storm	45:39
	we can hear God say,	45:43
	"Away with it.	45:47
	"Your rebuked."	45:50
	I suppose one of the key words I have heard here	45:53
	and there are many key words here,	45:55
	but the key word I want to hear this day is that	45:58
	Jesus Christ rebuked this storm	46:00
	and that's exactly the same word	46:03
	that is used when he rebukes demons.	46:06
	This is an exorcism here.	46:12
	This is an evil here.	46:15
	This is another one of the questions we can put over here	46:16
	in the cleft of this rock.	46:19
	Could we explain all of these evils and storms	46:22
	in some sort of system of demonology?	46:25
	Devils do it.	46:28
	But the good news is that whenever the storms of life	46:33
	batter down upon life and threaten life itself,	46:38
	God stands against that life and this God who created us	46:41
	who limits God by his design,	46:47
	in order that he be God,	46:52
	is not back of storms blowing us to hell.	46:56
	He is opposed to it.	47:00
	He is rebuking it.	47:03
	Somehow or another, that's good news to me.	47:06
	It's been good news to a lot of people	47:11
	who feel like life is a stacked deck, a loaded dice.	47:13
	The God whom we worship in Jesus the Christ	47:20
	is the God who stands before the storm	47:24
	and suffers with and for us,	47:27
	and rebukes the storm.	47:31
	Parenthetically, I need to say that	47:37
	that God doesn't rebuke all winds.	47:39
	It would be interesting to study here that	47:42
	the storm ceased and a great calm fell.	47:44
	The second worst thing a seaman can face is a calm.	47:47
	But Mark wasn't concerned about that obviously when he--	47:53

-	But there are glorious and lively winds that blow.	0:06
	Just walk around any bunch of	0:12
	faculty offices in this community.	0:14
	Go up here in the dorms and listen to	0:16
	some of the sessions that are going on.	0:18
	Look at the enormous battles and tensions that exist.	0:20
	Look at the disagreements over fundamental issues here,	0:25
	and begin to see the possibilities of growth and learning	0:29
	that we would never have otherwise.	0:33
	There is no particular value in a deadly calm	0:36
	resting on a university.	0:40
	There's a deadly value in looking at some storms	0:44
	and calling them storms that are life-threatening	0:47
	when they are only tempests in teacups.	0:50
	I'm sort of embarrassed to stand here today	0:54
	as one who comes from a university whose major storm	0:58
	is the NCAA.	1:01
	Goodness, we won't be able to cheat anymore.	1:07
	The real storms of life	1:13
	are life-threatening, but the real vitality of life	1:18
	moves on under the glorious winds that sometime	1:23
	threaten us but always can move us.	1:28
	Somebody gave me a tape of some songs that were being sung	1:33
	in some country churches in Arkansas a number of years ago.	1:37
	"I don't want to move the mountain,"	1:40
	said this glorious singer,	1:42
	"just give me the strength to climb.	1:44
	"I don't want to stop the winds until there is a calm,	1:49
	"just give me the set of the sail."	1:52
	See, that's the glory of the winds.	1:56
	When they are the winds of God.	2:02
	But there are killer storms,	2:06
	and I wish we could spend a lot more time	2:07
	talking about some of the killer storms of our day.	2:09
	Steve Allen, I was listening to on the radio,	2:13
	as we were driving here this past week.	2:15
	I had heard someone else, prominent voice and person,	2:20
	saying that one of the things you and I can do as Americans	2:25
	is to go and look for our old glasses,	2:28
	the glasses we've discarded,	2:31
	and turn them in, because there are millions of Americans	2:34
	who can't afford glasses, and you can help them	2:37
	by giving your glasses, so that they might see.	2:40
	Isn't that a wonderful idea?	2:46
	It's a wonderful idea only for those of us	2:48
	who can afford glasses, who have some left over.	2:51
	And it also is illustrative, though Mr. Allen	2:56
	didn't seem to recognize it,	3:00
	of one of the terrible firestorms of our day,	3:02
	when there are millions of people	3:08
	in this glorious and wealthy and God-blessed land	3:10
	who cannot afford a pair of glasses,	3:14
	unless you and I, as lady bountifuls, give them the glasses.	3:17
	Do you see the storms of life that threaten life itself,	3:25
	of a nation in abundance not being able to	3:30
	take care of those closest to us?	3:34
	Much less those who are far away?	3:38
	That, it seems to me, is a major storm.	3:43
	The Catholic bishops	3:48
	are writing a letter on our economic condition,	3:49
	and they may be making awful mistakes,	3:53
	as some of my economics friends are telling me,	3:55
	but the fundamental issue is there.	3:59
	It is a scandal	4:02
	that we should be wiped off the face of the Earth	4:04
	by a storm of wealth and poverty close together,	4:08
	and not knowing it's a storm in the first place.	4:13
	Or we could talk about the storm of the Holocaust.	4:17
	This happened in the lifetime of so many of us.	4:21
	It can happen to us.	4:26
	The whole seed of hatred and	4:27
	terror is just below the surface of our culture,	4:32
	and it cracks here and there.	4:36
	That's a life-threatening storm.	4:39
	Or the bomb.	4:47
	Or our whole commitment to the military.	4:49
	Did you get any aid and comfort in the thought	4:52
	that maybe our forces are beginning to fly	4:55
	over Beirut today?	4:58
	God have mercy on us.	5:03
	We are watching, and being tossed to and fro,	5:06
	by the storms that threaten life itself,	5:10
	and our commitment to the force and power	5:14
	that only blows us up.	5:19
	If I had an answer to this	5:27
	I would have had it mimeographed and handed to each of you.	5:28
	But I don't have an answer either.	5:33
	I just know that the storms of life are raging.	5:36
	And it's not just a matter of standing here,	5:41
	saying, "This is the way God set us up."	5:44
	No, God is on our side, saying,	5:46
	"Help, help!	5:49
	"Cry out for the quiet and the peace,	5:51
	"to still the storms."	5:58
	I wish I were able to sing like this trio we've heard today,	6:01
	and I wish we could sing that marvelous hymn in our book.	6:05
	It's not a good congregational hymn,	6:10
	it was written by Charles Tindley,	6:12
	who was one of the fathers	6:14
	of Black music in the church.	6:15
	He was a Black preacher in Philadelphia, years ago.	6:19
	And he has a prayer	6:24
	that maybe you can look up and read when you get a chance.	6:30
	It's Hymn 244.	6:34
	And he cries out, and calls out, and prays out,	6:36
	when the storms of life are raging,	6:40
	stand by me.	6:44
	And by God, God will, amen.	6:47
-	Let us now unite in the historic confession of our faith	7:05
	known as the Apostle's Creed.	7:08
	Will you please stand.	7:10
	I believe in God, the father almighty,	7:19
	maker of Heaven and Earth,	7:23
	and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our lord.	7:25
	He was conceived by the Holy Spirit,	7:29
	born under the Virgin Mary,	7:32
	suffered under Pontius Pilate,	7:34
	was crucified, dead, and buried.	7:36
	The third day, he rose from the dead,	7:40
	he ascended into Heaven,	7:42
	and sitteth at the right hand	7:45
	of God the Father Almighty.	7:46
	From thence he shall come to judge	7:49
	the quick and the dead.	7:51
	I believe in the Holy Spirit,	7:53
	the Holy Catholic Church,	7:56
	the communion of saints,	7:58
	the forgiveness of sins,	8:00
	the resurrection of the body,	8:03
	and the life everlasting.	8:05
	Amen.	8:08
	(pipe organ)	8:10
	(pipe organ and singing)	8:50
	The Lord be with you.	11:02
-	And also with you.	11:03
-	Let us pray.	11:05
	Oh lord of all creation, and lord of our lives,	11:18
	we gather this morning, in this place,	11:23
	as the people of your promise.	11:25
	Men and women who have been created, redeemed,	11:28
	and sustained by your gracious and unfailing love.	11:31
	We have come together to praise you,	11:35
	to hear your word proclaimed,	11:38
	and to open our lives to the moving of your spirit.	11:40
	We know that you are a loving and caring God,	11:44
	and that you suffer when we suffer.	11:47
	Hear us now, as we pray	11:51
	for those who know pain and suffering in our world.	11:52
	Gathered within the peace of this,	11:59
	your sanctuary, oh Lord,	12:00
	we remember the tumultuous scenes of our world.	12:02
	For the hostages in Iran, and for their families,	12:06
	we pray to you for strength and courage.	12:09
	May these persons not succumb to despair,	12:13
	and may they give support to one another	12:16
	even as you give support to them.	12:18
	For President Regan, the Shiite leaders,	12:21
	and for those in decisionmaking positions	12:25
	in this country, in Israel, and in Iran,	12:27
	we pray that you will grant them patience	12:31
	in this stressful situation,	12:33
	and wisdom to find a solution that preserves human life.	12:36
	Gracious God, we recall, too, this morning,	12:42
	the children of our world,	12:44
	especially those who are abused,	12:46
	and those who have been forcefully removed	12:48
	from their families.	12:50
	For the suffering of these little ones,	12:53
	we ask your compassion and great love.	12:55
	For their parents,	12:59
	and other close family members and friends	13:00
	who agonize over their pain	13:02
	and who sorrow for their absence,	13:03
	we pray that you will give comfort and strength.	13:06
	As people who really know no physical want,	13:11
	we remember the men and women and children of this land	13:14
	who have no homes,	13:17
	and who know constant hunger and great deprivation.	13:19
	For the starving peoples of Africa,	13:24
	and of countries around the world, we pray.	13:26
	Help us to open our hearts and our lives,	13:30
	that we may respond to these needs	13:33
	in a spirit of Christian love.	13:35
	May we never forget	13:37
	that we bear responsibility for their suffering.	13:39
	For those who are without jobs,	13:44
	for those who find no meaning in the work they do,	13:47
	for those who are ill in body,	13:52
	for those who are sick in spirit,	13:55
	for those who have lost ones whom they love,	13:58
	for those who close themselves off from loving others,	14:01
	for those who live with doubt and anguish,	14:05
	for those who live in fear,	14:07
	for those whose suffering is unrelieved	14:10
	by the knowledge of your love,	14:12
	we pray.	14:14
	Give us, oh Lord, that peace and power which flow from you,	14:17
	and keep us, in all perplexities and distresses,	14:21
	in all griefs and grievances,	14:24
	from any fear or faithlessness,	14:26
	in whatever storms or stresses of life we find ourselves,	14:29
	may we be upheld by your strength,	14:34
	and abide in your faithfulness,	14:37
	through Christ our Lord, amen.	14:40
	Remembering the many blessings	14:50
	which we have received from our God,	14:51
	let us now worship God with the gifts and offerings	14:54
	of our lives.	14:58
	(singing hymn)	15:50
	(solemn music)	19:26
	(exultant pipe organ)	20:19
	(singing hymn)	20:37
-	Gracious God, we give thanks to you	21:40
	for the many blessings of our lives,	21:43
	for this opportunity to worship you,	21:46
	and for the assurance that you watch over us each day	21:48
	and will be with us each moment of our future.	21:52
	Once we were no people, but now we are your people,	21:56
	bought by the life, death, and resurrection	22:00
	of your son, Jesus Christ.	22:03
	Receive these, our offerings, which we present to you,	22:05
	and accept, with our offerings, ourselves,	22:09
	our souls and our bodies	22:13
	as a living and holy sacrifice unto you.	22:14
	As the people of your promise,	22:19
	we pray as we have been taught to pray by Christ saying,	22:21
	Our father, who art in heaven,	22:25
	hallowed be thy name,	22:28
	thy kingdom come,	22:30
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	22:33
	Give us this day our daily bread,	22:37
	and forgive us our trespasses	22:41
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	22:43
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	22:47
	for thine is the kingdom, and the power,	22:53
	and the glory forever, amen.	22:56
	(pipe organ )	23:03
	(singing hymn)	23:42
-	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,	25:58
	the love of God, and the communion and fellowship	26:00
	of his holy spirit be with you now and forever, amen.	26:04
	(singing hymn)	26:12
	(pipe organ)	26:51
	(crowd murmurs)	28:49
	(silence)	32:36

Item Info

Title:

H. Grady Hardin - "God and Crumbled Cookies" (June 23, 1985)

Description:

How are we to respond when terrible, life-threating storms rage upon us and the rest of the world? The Gospel passage from Mark reassures us that these storms are not tests or punishments sent from God but, rather, that God, in the person of Jesus Christ, rebukes these storms and suffers them with us. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 35:34. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 06:51.
Key quotation: “The God whom we worship in Jesus the Christ is the God who stands before the storm and suffers with and for us and rebukes the storm.”

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Date:

June 23, 1985

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Hardin, H. Grady

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Duke University. Chapel

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