Nancy Ferree-Clark - Easter Sunrise Service 6:30 am (March 30, 1986)

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	(tranquil music)	0:03
	(playful music)	1:31
	(playful music)	3:17
	(lively music)	4:24
	(lively band music)	7:33
-	Please rise.	9:38
	Oh, sing to God a new song.	9:45
-	For God has done marvelous things.	9:48
-	Because of God's steadfast love to Israel.	9:51
-	All the ends of the Earth have seen the victory	9:54
	of our God.	9:57
-	For now Christ is risen from the dead.	9:58
-	Make a joyful noise unto God, all the Earth.	10:02
-	Break forth into joyous songs and praises.	10:05
-	For God will move the Earth with righteousness.	10:09
-	Nothing in all creation separate us from the love of God,	10:12
	in Jesus our risen Christ, amen.	10:16
	(lively music)	10:23
	♪ Christ the Lord is risen today ♪	10:43
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	10:47
	♪ Daughters, sons and angels say ♪	10:52
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	10:56
	♪ Raise your joys and triumphs high ♪	11:01
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:06
	♪ Sing, ye heavens, and Earth, reply ♪	11:10
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:15
	♪ Lives again our glorious King ♪	11:21
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:25
	♪ Where, O death, is now thy sting ♪	11:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:35
	♪ Once He ♪	11:40
	♪ Where's thy victory, bursting grave ♪	11:49
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	11:54
	♪ Love's redeeming work is done ♪	12:00
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	12:04
	♪ Fought the fight, the battle won ♪	12:09
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	12:14
	♪ Death in vain forbids him rise ♪	12:19
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	12:24
	♪ Christ hath opened paradise ♪	12:28
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	12:33
	♪ Soar we now where Christ has led ♪	12:39
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	12:44
	♪ Following our exalted head ♪	12:48
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	12:53
	♪ Made like Him, like Him we rise ♪	12:58
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	13:02
	♪ Ours the cross, the grave, the skies ♪	13:07
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	13:12
-	You may be seated.	13:22
	The Lord is with you.	13:29
-	And also with you.	13:32
-	Let us pray.	13:33
	God of our birth,	13:36
	God of joy,	13:38
	God of life,	13:40
	we come to you as a people hungry for good news.	13:41
	We have been so dead to miracles	13:45
	that we have missed the world's rebirth.	13:48
	We have preoccupied ourselves with pleasures	13:51
	and have overlooked the joy you offer us.	13:54
	We have been so concerned with making a living	13:57
	that we have missed the life you sent among us.	14:00
	Forgive us, gracious God,	14:03
	open our eyes and our hearts to receive your gift,	14:05
	open our lips and our hands to share it	14:10
	with all humanity,	14:12
	in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.	14:14
-	The first lesson is from Isaiah.	14:29
	"For behold, I create new Heavens and a new Earth	14:33
	"and the former things shall not be remembered	14:38
	"or come into mind	14:42
	"but be glad and rejoice forever	14:44
	"in that which I create	14:47
	"for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing	14:50
	"and her people a joy.	14:55
	"I will rejoice in Jerusalem	14:58
	"and be glad in my people.	15:00
	"No more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping	15:03
	"and the cry of distress.	15:07
	"No more shall there be in it an infant that lives	15:10
	"but a few days	15:13
	"or an old man who does not fill out his days	15:15
	"for this child shall die 100 years old	15:19
	"and the sinner 100 years old shall be accursed.	15:24
	"They shall build houses and inhabit them.	15:29
	"They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.	15:33
	"They shall not build and another inhabit,	15:37
	"they shall not plant and another eat	15:40
	"for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be	15:43
	"and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.	15:48
	"They shall not labor in vain	15:53
	"or bear children for calamity	15:55
	"for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord	15:58
	"and their children with them.	16:03
	"Before they call, I will answer.	16:06
	"While they are yet speaking, I will hear.	16:10
	"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,	16:14
	"the lion shall eat straw like the ox	16:17
	"and dust shall be the serpent's food.	16:22
	"They shall not hurt or destroy	16:26
	"in all my holy mountain, says the Lord."	16:28
-	Please rise.	16:40
	(lively music)	16:51
	♪ Listen to the Lord ♪	17:05
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	17:07
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	17:09
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	17:11
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	17:16
	♪ For God has done marvelous things ♪	17:20
	♪ Through God's right hand and holy arm salvation comes ♪	17:24
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	17:33
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	17:37
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	17:39
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	17:41
	♪ The Lord has made known the victory ♪	17:46
	♪ God's justice has come to all ♪	17:50
	♪ Oh Israel, shout your praise ♪	17:54
	♪ Remember God's love and power ♪	17:58
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	18:02
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	18:07
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	18:09
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	18:11
	♪ Sing to the Lord with joy ♪	18:16
	♪ Break forth into songs of praise ♪	18:19
	♪ With trumpet and with sound of the horn ♪	18:24
	♪ Praise the Lord ♪	18:28
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	18:33
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	18:36
	♪ Sing a new song ♪	18:38
	♪ Sing a new song to the Lord ♪	18:40
-	The epistle lesson is from Paul's first letter	18:58
	to the Corinthians.	19:01
	"If, for this day, we have hoped in Christ,	19:04
	"we are all men most to be pitied	19:08
	"but in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead,	19:11
	"the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.	19:15
	"For as a man came death,	19:20
	"by man has also come the resurrection of the dead.	19:23
	"For as in Adam all die,	19:27
	"so also in Christ shall all be made alive	19:30
	"but each in his own order.	19:36
	"Christ, the first fruits,	19:38
	"then at his coming, those who belong to Christ.	19:40
	"Then comes the end.	19:43
	"When he delivers the kingdom to God the Father	19:46
	"after destroying every rule	19:49
	"and every authority and power	19:51
	"for he must reign	19:54
	"until he has put all his enemies under his feet.	19:55
	"The last enemy to be destroyed is death."	19:59
-	Please stand for the reading of the Gospel.	20:10
	A reading from the Gospel according to Saint John.	20:19
	"Now, on the first day of the week,	20:23
	"Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early	20:25
	"while it was still dark	20:28
	"and saw that the stone had been taken away	20:30
	"from the tomb.	20:32
	"So she ran and went to tell Simon Peter	20:34
	"and the other disciple, the whom Jesus loved	20:36
	"and said to him,	20:39
	"they have taken the Lord out of the tomb	20:41
	"and we do not know where they have laid him.	20:43
	"Peter them came out with the other disciple	20:46
	"and they went toward the tomb.	20:48
	"They both ran but the other disciple out ran Peter	20:50
	"and reached the tomb first	20:53
	"and stooping to look in,	20:56
	"he saw the linen cloths lying there	20:58
	"but he did not go in.	21:00
	"Then Simon Peter came following him	21:02
	"and went into the tomb.	21:05
	"He saw the linen cloths lying	21:06
	"and the napkin which had been on his head	21:09
	"not lying with the linen cloths	21:11
	"but rolled up in a place by itself.	21:13
	"Then the other disciple who reached the tomb first	21:16
	"also went in and he saw and believed	21:19
	"for as yet they did not know the scripture	21:23
	"that he must rise from the dead.	21:26
	"Then the disciples went back to their homes	21:28
	"but Mary stood weeping outside the tomb	21:31
	"and as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb	21:35
	"and she saw two angels in white sitting	21:39
	"where the body of Jesus had lain,	21:41
	"one at the head and one at the feet.	21:44
	"They said to her, woman, why are you weeping?	21:47
	"She said to them, because they have taken away my Lord	21:51
	"and I do not know where they have laid him.	21:54
	"Saying this she turned around and saw Jesus standing	21:57
	"but she did not know that it was Jesus.	22:01
	"Jesus said to her, woman,	22:04
	"why are you weeping?	22:06
	"Whom do you seek?	22:08
	"Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him,	22:10
	"sir, if you have carried him away,	22:13
	"tell me where you have laid him	22:15
	"and I will take him away.	22:16
	"And Jesus said to her, Mary.	22:19
	"She turned and said to him in Hebrew,	22:22
	"Rabboni!"	22:25
	"which means teacher.	22:25
	"Jesus said to her, do not hold me	22:27
	"for I have not yet ascended to the Father	22:30
	"but go to my brethren and say to them,	22:33
	"I am ascending to my Father	22:36
	"and your Father, to my God and your God.	22:37
	"Mary Magdalene went	22:42
	"and said to the disciples, I have seen the Lord	22:44
	"and she told them that he had said these things to her."	22:47
	Here ends the reading of the lesson.	22:52
	You may be seated.	22:54
	As tradition would have it,	23:06
	we've once again gathered ourselves	23:07
	along these well-groomed terraces at Duke Garden	23:09
	to celebrate this glorious Easter morning.	23:12
	The bells of the carol ring out,	23:16
	Christ the Lord is risen today	23:18
	lest any bleary-eyed residents of West Campus try	23:20
	to forget what occasion the church celebrates.	23:23
	The brass choir leads us in triumphant singing	23:27
	of hymns while nature affirms its own belief	23:30
	in resurrection through the signs of spring	23:34
	which abound all around us.	23:36
	Let us not hesitate in proclaiming Christ is arisen.	23:39
	All that separates and injures	23:43
	and destroys has been overcome by what unites	23:47
	and heals and creates.	23:51
	Death has been swallowed up by life.	23:54
	What a magnificently compelling vision.	23:58
	Obviously powerful enough to motivate all of us	24:01
	to be at worship by 6:30 a.m.	24:04
	We feel fully alive,	24:06
	all is right with the world but how long	24:08
	will this resurrection vision sustain itself within us?	24:11
	Perhaps for some, it lasts all the time	24:16
	and they are the true saints in our midst.	24:19
	Others get a high from singing the Easter hymns	24:23
	but soon afterwards pick up the morning paper	24:26
	to find that they're the same people as before	24:29
	and life is as treacherous as ever.	24:32
	Others find an Easter celebration	24:36
	a sort of ecclesiastical enthusiasm	24:38
	in which they think they ought to join	24:40
	but while remaining basically unmoved by it.	24:43
	While for others, Easter means nothing more	24:47
	than a public holiday.	24:49
	They may have heard of resurrection	24:51
	but assume that it lies completely outside	24:54
	their experience, their interest or concern.	24:56
	If the vision of Easter is soon lost	25:01
	or by most people has never been found,	25:04
	that may be because resurrection	25:06
	has always seemed like something in the distance	25:09
	or out there on the horizon.	25:11
	We can be told about it	25:13
	but we have no personal experience of it.	25:15
	When it is therefore proclaimed	25:18
	that all that injures and separates	25:21
	and destroys has been overcome	25:23
	by what units and heals and creates,	25:26
	it may sound a little like a dream,	25:30
	some distant tale of a place	25:33
	where once upon a time,	25:35
	good overcame evil	25:37
	but we know in the midst of our chaotic lives	25:40
	and problematic relationships,	25:43
	that we are fallible creatures	25:45
	who are just as likely	25:46
	to have an evil thought as a good one,	25:48
	just as apt to injure as to heal.	25:51
	What could such a vision of wholeness	25:55
	ever have to do with mortal creatures like us?	25:56
	Consider for a moment the person	26:01
	to whom Jesus first revealed himself	26:02
	after the resurrection, Mary Magdalene.	26:05
	Perhaps the most misunderstood	26:08
	of any New Testament character.	26:10
	Claiming to know little else about her,	26:13
	people are quick to identify Mary Magdalene	26:14
	as a prostitute.	26:17
	In the Middle Ages, she became the patron saint	26:19
	of the cosmetic industry,	26:21
	that makers of perfume and blenders	26:23
	of unguents might count themselves under her protection.	26:25
	This tradition is not supported by evidence, however,	26:29
	so much as by the confusion	26:32
	that surround the identities	26:34
	of the various Marys in scripture.	26:35
	Biblical references indicate	26:39
	that Mary Magdalene was one of several women	26:40
	who accompanied Jesus	26:43
	as he went preaching throughout the villages and cities.	26:44
	She first became known to Jesus	26:48
	when he healed her of a mental illness	26:50
	by driving seven demons out of her.	26:54
	As one who formally lived under black veils,	26:57
	suffering from mental disturbances,	27:00
	attacks and depressions,	27:02
	Mary Magdalene soon became a leader among Jesus's followers	27:05
	and according to Luke,	27:08
	she contributed wealth to Jesus's ministry.	27:10
	We hear nothing of her between her healing	27:13
	and the crucifixion of Jesus.	27:15
	Perhaps her weakened body gained strength	27:18
	during her travels.	27:21
	Certainly she must have grown in her conviction	27:22
	that the time of salvation had begun,	27:24
	having experienced it through her own healing.	27:28
	Surely we can say that she was constant in her love	27:31
	and loyalty to Jesus	27:34
	even to the end, present both at his crucifixion	27:36
	and his burial and as the first	27:40
	to go to the tomb on the third day.	27:42
	And it is here that the miracle is first revealed.	27:45
	Having endured the trauma of the preceding days' events,	27:49
	Mary stood all alone in the garden shedding bitter tears	27:52
	of grief, anger and despair.	27:57
	Having given her whole life to this man,	28:01
	what reason was left for living?	28:02
	There was no longer even a corpse to attend to.	28:05
	Just then she hears a voice asking	28:09
	why she is weeping	28:11
	and believing that it's the gardener, she complains	28:13
	that the body of her Lord has been taken away.	28:15
	Then he calls her by name.	28:18
	Mary.	28:20
	And only then does she recognize him.	28:22
	Crying out in disbelief, my master,	28:25
	she attempts to throw her arms around him,	28:28
	delirious with joy over such an appearance as this.	28:30
	But she is stopped short.	28:34
	Do not touch me.	28:36
	I have not yet returned to my Father.	28:38
	This is a troubling turn in the story.	28:42
	Did Jesus have a change in character?	28:44
	Many theologians have toned this verse down	28:47
	or even made references	28:49
	to the sexual dangers of such an encounter	28:51
	yet it seems to me that in a flash of recognition,	28:54
	here, Mary Magdalene, confronts the true nature	28:58
	of resurrection, where she sought permanence,	29:01
	there was only death.	29:04
	Where she was willing to let go, there was life.	29:06
	Only in submitting to the pain of parting	29:10
	could Mary's faith grow mature.	29:12
	Jesus gave her a task	29:16
	which would not do away with the distance now between them	29:18
	but would make it comprehensible.	29:21
	His God is also the God of them all.	29:23
	Thus the apparently unbearable change becomes bearable.	29:27
	In what must have been only a few fleeting moments,	29:32
	Mary Magdalene is transformed forever	29:35
	by the power of this man.	29:37
	She must go out and speak of this new distance and nearness.	29:40
	This new glimpse of reality	29:44
	which she has seen.	29:46
	Her pain and her terror,	29:48
	her joy and her newfound hope go with her.	29:51
	The tomb which only two days earlier	29:55
	had represented the death of all that Mary had lived for	29:57
	had now become a womb giving birth to the true Messiah,	30:01
	the hope of the world.	30:05
	A task and a new community now depended on her	30:07
	to proclaim this good news.	30:11
	We can all be envious of Mary's encounter	30:14
	with the risen Christ	30:17
	in the garden for the glimpse	30:18
	of the miracle of eternal life	30:20
	that it offered her	30:21
	for on this side of paradise,	30:23
	glimpses of eternal life are very hard to come by.	30:25
	They are so remote and spotty	30:29
	in the words of Frederick Buechner	30:31
	that they are best compared to the experience you get	30:33
	of a place while approaching it on a fast train at night.	30:36
	Even the saints like Mary Magdalene herself,	30:40
	see only an occasional light go whipping by,	30:44
	hear only a sound or two over the clatter	30:47
	of the rails.	30:49
	The rest of us aren't usually awake enough	30:51
	to see even as much as that	30:53
	or we're mumbling over our night caps in the club car.	30:55
	Let these appearances of resurrection of brushes	31:00
	with the eternal be relegated to the past	31:02
	or the future, we say	31:05
	thereby ensuring that resurrection will remain	31:07
	on the margins of our existence.	31:10
	Such as the making of fairy tales, one might say.	31:13
	But have you ever thought	31:16
	about how much truth a fairy tale can reveal?	31:17
	J.R. Tolkien has written,	31:23
	"The fairy tale does not deny the existence	31:25
	"of sorrow and failure."	31:28
	The possibility of these is necessary	31:30
	to the joy of the deliverance.	31:32
	The fairy tale denies universal final defeat	31:35
	giving a fleeting glimpse of joy,	31:38
	joy beyond the walls of the world,	31:41
	poignant as grief.	31:43
	It is the mark of the good fairy story	31:45
	that however wild its events,	31:49
	it can give the one who hears it a catch of the breath,	31:51
	a beat and lifting of the heart,	31:54
	near to or indeed, accompanied by tears.	31:57
	Thus we are willing to allow ourselves to become immersed	32:01
	in the dark and dangerous quest	32:04
	of the scarecrow, the tin man and the lion	32:07
	who search for a wizard to make them whole	32:10
	figuring that since we're only talking make believe	32:13
	what can a little imagination hurt?	32:15
	In every good fairy tale,	32:18
	we await the moment of transformation	32:19
	where all creatures are revealed	32:22
	as they truly are in the end.	32:24
	The ugly duckling becomes a great, white swan.	32:27
	The frog is revealed to be a prince	32:30
	and the beautiful but wicked queen	32:33
	is unmasked at last in all of her ugliness.	32:35
	Fantasy for sure	32:39
	but where did that lump in the throat come from?	32:41
	In "The Happy Hypocrite,"	32:45
	the story is told of a rake named Lord George Hell,	32:46
	debauched and pretentious who falls in love	32:51
	with a saintly girl.	32:53
	In order to win her love,	32:55
	he covers his bloated features	32:57
	with the mask of a saint.	32:59
	The girl is deceived and becomes his bride	33:01
	and they live together happily	33:04
	until a wicked lady	33:06
	from Lord George Hell's wicked past turns up.	33:07
	She exposes him for the scoundrel she knows him to be	33:11
	and challenges him to take off his mask.	33:14
	So sadly, having no choice,	33:17
	he takes it off	33:20
	and behold, beneath the saint's mask	33:21
	is the face of the saint he has become	33:24
	by wearing it in love.	33:28
	To moralize or allegorize these tales	33:31
	is not so much to go too far with them	33:34
	as not to go far enough	33:37
	for beneath theses extraordinary tales	33:39
	which are entered into by such ordinary means,	33:42
	what gives them their real power	33:46
	is the world they evoke	33:47
	where we somehow allow impossibilities miraculously	33:49
	to become possibilities.	33:54
	It is a world where goodness is pitted	33:57
	against evil, love against hate,	33:59
	order against chaos	34:02
	in a great struggle where it's often hard	34:04
	to be sure who belongs to which side	34:06
	because appearances are so deceptive.	34:09
	Yet for all its confusion and wildness,	34:12
	it is a world where the battle goes ultimately to the good	34:15
	where transformations are completed	34:19
	and where in the long run,	34:21
	everybody becomes known by his or her true name.	34:23
	One thinks of the angel	34:28
	in the book of Revelation	34:30
	who gives to each a white stone	34:31
	with a new name written on it	34:34
	which is the true and hidden name	34:36
	known from the foundations of the world.	34:38
	It is the mark of the good fairy story	34:43
	that it can give to the one who hears it,	34:45
	a lifting of the heart,	34:47
	near to or accompanied by tears, poignant as grief.	34:49
	How easily joy might not have happened, we think.	34:54
	What about the wicked ones	34:58
	to whom it does not happen	34:59
	and what about the darkness that persists	35:01
	even around though to whom it does?	35:03
	Yet our tears are joyous ones	35:07
	because we have caught a glimpse of,	35:09
	however fleeting, it is joy itself,	35:13
	the triumph of hope	35:16
	even in the face of darkness	35:18
	and perhaps it is not entirely fanciful	35:20
	to say that there are places besides fairy tales	35:23
	where we can glimpse joy in the world.	35:27
	We wake up on a winter's morning	35:31
	to discover that what lay there the evening before	35:33
	is no longer there.	35:35
	The sodden gray yard, the dog droppings,	35:38
	the tire tracks and the frozen mud,	35:41
	the broken lawn chair left out since last fall.	35:44
	All the ugliness has been overtaken	35:49
	by the pristine beauty of a new-fallen snow.	35:51
	We gaze upon a painting which sensitively depicts	35:55
	a street corner in a bustling city	35:58
	with vivid blues and reds and yellows	36:01
	and suddenly, feel less separated than usual	36:04
	from the external world.	36:07
	We even entertain the glorious possibility	36:09
	of being in communion with total strangers.	36:11
	Two people fall in love	36:16
	and discover that rather than being diminished	36:18
	by what they give away, they increase.	36:20
	The stars in the sky seem to belong to them	36:24
	as they reach out to embrace the entire world	36:27
	trusting that love will sustain them through all things.	36:31
	Even the death-dealing blows	36:35
	of suffering afford an opportunity	36:38
	for hope to spring forth.	36:40
	Beethoven was only 30 years old when he became deaf.	36:43
	He wrote to his brother,	36:47
	"I am compelled to live in exile.	36:49
	"If I approach near to people,	36:52
	"a feeling of hot anxiety comes over me	36:54
	"lest my condition should be noticed."	36:57
	He seriously considered suicide	37:00
	yet could eventually write,	37:03
	"You will see me as happy as my lot can be here below,	37:04
	"not unhappy, no, that I could never endure,	37:09
	"how beautiful life is."	37:13
	And he went on to lay the foundations	37:15
	for a whole new era in music composition.	37:17
	Mary Magdalene, through her own life story reveals the truth	37:21
	about resurrection and the triumph of hope.	37:25
	In her transformation from a mad women	37:29
	to the first apostle,	37:31
	she discovers an enduring hope	37:33
	that sustains her through pain, grief, despair,	37:36
	the trials of change and the challenges of ministry.	37:41
	Her encounter with the risen Christ in the garden	37:44
	verified once and for all	37:48
	what she must have already suspected,	37:50
	that indeed, miracles do happen	37:52
	for nothing less than a miracle can give life to the dead.	37:56
	She had already experienced one herself.	38:01
	The good news for you and for me	38:05
	is that we don't have to travel to the land of Oz	38:07
	or even back to the first century	38:11
	to find a miracle of resurrection.	38:13
	It is through the sacrament of everyday living	38:16
	that God's creative hand continues	38:19
	to fashion us into the people	38:22
	who would image God's own creative self	38:24
	when we seek to hear God's voice,	38:28
	and to have faith enough to recognize her eternal presence,	38:30
	even when we only get a glimpse of it.	38:35
	Like a fairy tale, the Gospel represents the meeting	38:38
	of darkness and light,	38:41
	proclaiming light the winner	38:42
	but with one crucial difference,	38:45
	the Gospel is true.	38:48
	It not only happened once upon a time	38:51
	but has kept on happening ever since	38:55
	and is happening still.	38:58
	All that separates and injures and destroys	39:01
	is still being overcome by what unites	39:05
	and heals and creates.	39:09
	Some people say it's too good to be believed.	39:12
	Wouldn't you say it's too good not to be believed?	39:16
	Thanks be to God.	39:22
	(lively music)	39:35
	(choir singing)	39:54
-	Let us affirm our faith together.	41:37
-	We worship you, God	41:41
	because you have shown your power in Jesus Christ,	41:43
	raising him from the dead,	41:46
	exalting him above all powers	41:48
	and giving him a name which is above every name.	41:51
	We ask you that we who believe in him	41:55
	may be of his mind as well	41:58
	that we may be a sign of his life today	42:00
	and every day of our lives,	42:04
	acknowledging the power of the risen Lord	42:06
	in our lives, let us tell the world these things.	42:09
	There is a name beyond our names,	42:13
	there is a strength beyond our power,	42:15
	there is a love beyond our patience,	42:18
	there is a hope beyond our dreams.	42:21
	We have seen the Lord.	42:24
-	Let us pray.	42:27
-	Our Father, who art in Heaven,	42:28
	hallowed be thy name,	42:31
	they kingdom come, thy will be done	42:33
	on Earth as it is in Heaven,	42:36
	give us this day our daily bread	42:39
	and forgive our trespasses	42:41
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	42:44
	and lead us not into temptation	42:47
	but deliver us from evil	42:49
	for thine is the kingdom, and the power	42:51
	and the glory forever.	42:54
	Amen.	42:56
	(lively music)	43:00
	♪ Thine is the glory ♪	43:18
	♪ Risen, conquering Son ♪	43:21
	♪ Endless is the victory Thou over death hast won ♪	43:25
	♪ Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away ♪	43:33
	♪ Kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay ♪	43:42
	♪ Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son ♪	43:51
	♪ Endless is the victory Thou over death hast won ♪	43:59
	♪ Lo, Jesus meets thee, risen from the tomb ♪	44:08
	♪ Lovingly He greets thee, scatters fear and gloom ♪	44:17
	♪ Let His church with gladness ♪	44:25
	♪ Hymns of triumph sing ♪	44:29
	♪ For the Lord now liveth ♪	44:34
	♪ Death hath lost its sting ♪	44:38
	♪ Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son ♪	44:42
	♪ Endless is the victory Thou over death hast won ♪	44:51
	♪ No more we doubt Thee, glorious Prince of life ♪	44:59
	♪ Life is nought without Thee, aid us in our strife ♪	45:08
	♪ Make us more than conquerors ♪	45:17
	♪ Through Thy deathless love ♪	45:21
	♪ Bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above ♪	45:25
	♪ Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son ♪	45:33
	♪ Endless is the victory Thou over death hast won ♪	45:42
-	Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.	45:52
-	We are sent in the power of Christ's resurrection.	45:55
	Hallelujah.	45:59
-	And the blessing of God Almighty,	46:00
	creator, Son and Holy Spirit	46:02
	is with you always.	46:05
	Amen.	46:07
-	Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah.	46:09

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Nancy Ferree-Clark - Easter Sunrise Service 6:30 am (March 30, 1986)

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Sermon start time: 23:06. Sermon end time: 39:25.
For many today, the hope of the miracle of resurrection seems too good to be true. Like a fairytale, it seems distant and unrelatable. But there is a power in fairytales that can awaken us to the hope of good triumphing over evil. The Gospel is like a fairytale in this way, but it is even better: it is true. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The good news for you and for me is that we don’t have to travel to the land of Oz or even back to the first century to find a miracle of resurrection. It is through the sacrament of everyday living that God’s creative hand continues to fashion us into the people who would image God’s own creative self, when we seek to hear God’s voice and to have faith enough to recognize her eternal presence, even when we only get a glimpse of it.”

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March 30, 1986

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Ferree-Clark, Nancy

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