H. Grady Hardin - "In the Mean Time" (August 10, 1986)

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	(classical brass and organ music)	0:03
-	Good morning and welcome to Duke University Chapel.	12:13
	We thank our guest musicians who've been	12:16
	leading us in worship.	12:18
	Our lector for this morning's service is	12:21
	Dr. McMurray Richie, distinguished professor emeritus	12:24
	at the Divinity School.	12:27
	This is a special time for him.	12:30
	Just a couple of days ago, Dr. and Mrs. Richie	12:33
	celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary.	12:37
	They were married here in the chapel, 42 years ago	12:39
	and so we congratulate them.	12:47
	And our preacher is Dr. Richie's good friend,	12:49
	Dr. Grady Harden.	12:53
	Dr. Harden is today proving that Thomas Wolfe was wrong,	12:55
	you can go home again and be received with praise and honor.	13:00
	Dr. Harden is a graduate of Duke Divinity School	13:05
	and has served his church ably, principally as a professor	13:10
	at Perkins School of Theology	13:15
	at Southern Methodist University.	13:17
	We welcome him back to the Duke Chapel pulpit	13:20
	and also to his new teaching duties as visiting professor	13:23
	at the Divinity School.	13:28
	Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty,	13:31
	early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee.	13:34
	Let us raise our song of praise to God.	13:38
	("Holy, Holy, Holy" organ introduction)	13:43
	♪ Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty ♪	14:20
	♪ Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee ♪	14:29
	♪ Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty ♪	14:38
	♪ God in three persons, blessed Trinity ♪	14:48
	♪ Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore Thee ♪	15:00
	♪ Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea ♪	15:09
	♪ Cherubim and Seraphim falling down before Thee ♪	15:19
	♪ Which wert and art and evermore shall be ♪	15:28
	♪ Holy, holy, holy, though the darkness hide thee ♪	15:40
	♪ Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory may not see ♪	15:50
	♪ Only Thou art holy, there is none beside Thee ♪	15:59
	♪ Perfect in power, in love and purity ♪	16:10
	♪ Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty ♪	16:22
	♪ All Thy works shall praise Thy name ♪	16:31
	♪ In earth and sky and sea ♪	16:35
	♪ Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty ♪	16:41
	♪ God in three persons, blessed Trinity ♪	16:51
-	When we gather to glorify God, we remember that we are	17:07
	a people who have preferred our wills to the Lord's.	17:12
	Accepting God's power to become new persons in Christ,	17:17
	let us confess our sins before God and one another	17:21
	that we may be as one with our maker.	17:26
	Almighty and most merciful God, who knowest the thoughts	17:41
	of our hearts, we confess that we have sinned against Thee	17:45
	and done evil in Thy sight.	17:50
	We have transgressed Thy holy laws.	17:53
	We have neglected Thy word and ordinances.	17:56
	Forgive us, oh Lord, we beseech Thee	18:00
	and give us grace and power to put away all hurtful things,	18:03
	that being delivered from the bondage of sin,	18:08
	we may bring forth fruit worthy of repentance	18:12
	and henceforth may ever walk in Thy holy ways,	18:16
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	18:20
	Hear the good news, Christ died for us	18:25
	while we were yet sinners.	18:29
	That is God's own proof of his love toward us.	18:31
	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	18:36
-	In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	18:41
-	Let us pray.	18:55
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God, by the power	19:00
	of your Holy Spirit, so that as the word is read	19:04
	and proclaimed, we might hear with joy	19:09
	what you say to us this day, amen.	19:12
	The first lesson is taken from the second book of Kings.	19:19
	The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord.	19:24
	Arise and go down to the potter's house	19:30
	and there I will let you hear my words.	19:34
	So I went down to the potter's house	19:38
	and there he was working at his wheel.	19:42
	And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled	19:45
	in the potter's hand.	19:49
	And he reworked it into another vessel	19:51
	as it seemed good to the potter to do.	19:54
	Then the word of the Lord came to me.	19:58
	Oh, house of Israel, can I not do with you	20:02
	as this potter has done, says the Lord.	20:07
	Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand	20:12
	so are you in my hand, oh house of Israel.	20:15
	If, at any time, I declare concerning a nation	20:21
	or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down	20:26
	and destroy it, and if that nation concerning which	20:31
	I have spoken turns from its evil,	20:36
	I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it.	20:39
	And if, at any time, I declare concerning a nation	20:45
	or a kingdom, that I will build and plant it	20:49
	and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice,	20:53
	then I will repent of the good	20:59
	which I had intended to do to it.	21:02
	Now therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants	21:06
	of Jerusalem, thus says the Lord, behold I am shaping evil	21:12
	against you and devising a plan against you.	21:19
	Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways	21:23
	and your doings.	21:30
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	21:35
-	Preserve me, O God.	21:57
-	For in you I take refuge.	21:59
-	I say to the Lord.	22:02
-	You are my Lord, I have no good apart from you.	22:03
-	The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup	22:08
-	You hold my lot.	22:12
-	The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.	22:15
-	Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.	22:19
-	I bless the Lord who gives me counsel.	22:22
-	In the night also my heart instructs me.	22:25
-	I keep the Lord always before me.	22:29
-	Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.	22:32
-	Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices.	22:37
-	My flesh also dwells secure.	22:42
-	Thou doth show me the path of life;	22:45
	in your presence there is fullness of joy.	22:49
-	At Thy right hand are pleasures forevermore.	22:52
	("Glory Be To God, Creator" choir and organ)	22:57
-	The second lesson is taken from the letter to the Hebrews.	24:07
	Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for,	24:15
	the convictions of things not seen.	24:20
	For by it, the men of old received divine approval.	24:25
	By faith, we understand that the world	24:31
	was created by the word of God, so that what is seen	24:35
	was not made out of things that do not appear.	24:40
	By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out	24:46
	to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance.	24:50
	And he went out, not knowing where he was to go.	24:55
	By faith he sojourned in the land of promise,	25:00
	as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob,	25:05
	heirs with him of the same promise.	25:12
	For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations,	25:15
	whose designer and builder is God.	25:19
	By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive,	25:23
	even when she was past the age,	25:28
	since she considered him faithful who had promised.	25:32
	Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead,	25:37
	were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven	25:41
	and as innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.	25:47
	These all died in faith, not having received	25:53
	what was promised, but having seen it	25:58
	and greeted them from afar,	26:01
	and having acknowledged that they were strangers	26:04
	and exiles on the earth.	26:08
	For people who speak thus make it clear	26:12
	that they are seeking a homeland.	26:15
	If they had been thinking of that land	26:18
	from which they had gone out,	26:20
	they would have had opportunity to return.	26:22
	But as it is, they desire a better country,	26:26
	that is, a heavenly one.	26:30
	Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God,	26:32
	for he has prepared for them a city.	26:37
	By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac,	26:41
	and he who had received the promises was ready to offer up	26:47
	his only son, of whom it was said,	26:51
	through Isaac shall your descendants be named.	26:54
	He considered that God was able even to raise men	26:59
	even from the dead, hence, figuratively speaking,	27:02
	he did receive him back.	27:06
	This ends the reading of the second lesson.	27:10
	(classical brass music)	27:19
-	The gospel lesson is taken from Luke.	30:45
	Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's	30:51
	good pleasure to give you the kingdom.	30:55
	Sell your possessions and give alms.	30:59
	Provide yourself with purses that do not grow old,	31:03
	with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail,	31:07
	where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.	31:11
	For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.	31:17
	Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning	31:23
	and be like men who are waiting for their master	31:27
	to come home from the marriage feast so that they may	31:31
	open to him at once when he comes and knocks.	31:35
	Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake	31:40
	when he comes.	31:44
	Truly I say to you, he will gird himself	31:47
	and have them sit at table and he will come and serve them.	31:49
	If he comes in the second watch or in the third	31:55
	and finds him so, blessed are those servants.	31:58
	But know this, that if the householder had known	32:03
	at what hour the thief was coming,	32:07
	he would not have left his house to be broken in to.	32:10
	You also must be ready for the Son of Man is coming	32:14
	at an unexpected hour.	32:18
	This ends the reading of the gospel.	32:22
-	In the name of God, amen.	32:48
	Two of my dear friends are now in California	32:56
	interviewing for a good job which the husband	33:01
	in this couple has been offered.	33:04
	And there is some trepidation on their part	33:09
	in moving there to that excellent job	33:12
	because they will be living just a little way	33:17
	from the San Andreas Fault	33:19
	and even closer to	33:24
	a nuclear power plant that's almost completed.	33:28
	How do you feel about moving to Three Mile Island	33:34
	or Chernobyl?	33:38
	Or how do you feel about falling into the Pacific	33:42
	with a great host of people?	33:45
	How do you live in a time when the end may be near?	33:50
	I'm not sure but what I began to notice as	33:58
	Mack Richie was reading our lessons,	34:04
	that the marvelous interval	34:07
	in this building gives everything that is said	34:11
	or sounded a certain sense of the	34:14
	numinous,	34:20
	a tremolo effect	34:22
	and the glorious words of the Bible	34:26
	resound in this marvelous way so that	34:29
	truly the Lord's word	34:33
	is being spoken and we stand there in awe and wonder.	34:35
	On the other hand, if we continue to listen quite carefully,	34:41
	that gospel lesson was talking about living	34:45
	at the edge of disaster, at the edge of the end of time,	34:50
	at the moment when the master may return	34:56
	or the thief may rush in and destroy.	35:00
	How do you live near the San Andreas Fault	35:06
	or a nuclear power plant?	35:11
	Or a moment when the thief may indeed come in.	35:14
	How do you live when the bomb may indeed be detonated?	35:22
	And I mean the bomb.	35:29
	How do you feel about living with five billion fellow	35:34
	human beings in our world	35:38
	and going on to a sixth very quickly?	35:42
	How do you live when the ozone factor on the surface	35:47
	and also in the air is creating the kind of situation	35:52
	that is very much like the thief coming in the night?	35:57
	How do you live in a time	36:04
	when we are bleeding our nations	36:07
	white with the manufacture of destructive weapons?	36:09
	It is as if the master is about to return,	36:16
	the thief is about to come in.	36:20
	So stay awake, stay alert and stay anxious.	36:22
	It's terrifying, isn't it?	36:27
	Because when we begin to hear this lesson from Luke	36:30
	you begin to realize that here is indeed a possibility	36:35
	of an end that	36:38
	holds up the future as a kind of horror.	36:43
	So that there is every reason to be frightened	36:48
	and anxious over it all.	36:51
	As our presiding officer was indicating a few moments ago,	36:56
	I'll be coming here as a visiting professor soon.	37:00
	And it suddenly dawned on me that there're some people	37:06
	who just don't know when to retire.	37:11
	And there're some situations in which you find yourself	37:15
	so honored that you do stupid things.	37:19
	And so let the stupidity come,	37:23
	or whatever I'm supposed to say	37:27
	in this brave moment of terrible anxiety.	37:29
	You see, we live in a kind of	37:34
	search into the future,	37:39
	hoping that we might manipulate it,	37:43
	hoping that we might avoid it,	37:45
	hoping that we can live near the San Andreas Fault	37:46
	and nothing will happen for a while, at least.	37:50
	And so we look ahead of ourselves	37:55
	and listen to this gospel tell us to be alert,	37:57
	to be ready, to be awake in this moment.	37:59
	Or we could go back to the other lessons that were read	38:06
	a few moments ago and listen to the Jeremiah lesson.	38:09
	That metaphor which Jeremiah uses about the potter	38:14
	and the clay is a marvelous one.	38:17
	I remember immediately the song I have sung all my life,	38:22
	mold me and make me after Thy will.	38:25
	And it was a wonderful thing think of yourself	38:28
	in the hands of God and you were the clay	38:32
	and God was molding you into whatever he wishes	38:36
	or whatever is wished for you by your creator.	38:40
	But this is a story out of the past, in a sense,	38:45
	this story of our creation over now,	38:48
	from our future view.	38:53
	But it's a story of a potter that used some bad clay.	38:56
	It's a story about God making us,	39:02
	the clay	39:07
	in God's hands to create, only to discover bad clay	39:08
	and repenting of the mistake and most of us would prefer	39:14
	not to look at our past in that way.	39:18
	Could it be that God has made a mistake	39:20
	and he should have started all over again	39:23
	with a new batch of clay?	39:25
	Should he have thrown another on the wheel?	39:26
	Or maybe we are what happened after he had	39:29
	gone through various mistakes and here we are.	39:32
	Does God repent of that?	39:36
	And so when we look at our past we stop singing the,	39:39
	mold me and make me, and stand in a certain horror	39:43
	of the things for which God wishes to repent.	39:49
	Oh Lord, is it I?	39:55
	Or to look at another dimension of the past,	40:01
	listen to that lesson from Hebrews,	40:03
	that long list of heroes of the faith.	40:07
	It was abbreviated to some extent just to include	40:13
	Abraham and Sarah in this particular passage today	40:16
	but you remember that it is a whole list	40:19
	of those who live by faith.	40:22
	And the first verse of the 12th chapter	40:24
	leaps into that glorious scene, that we are surrounded	40:29
	by so great a cloud of witnesses.	40:32
	The marvelous realization that here the whole history	40:38
	of the race comes and here we are and we look around us	40:41
	and surrounded by the heroes of the past,	40:45
	by those who lived by faith.	40:50
	And those of us who saw these windows put in here	40:52
	many years ago can begin to appreciate what it means	40:55
	to look and see those names and remember that we are heirs	40:59
	of this magnificent heritage and we are surrounded by	41:04
	so great a cloud of witnesses.	41:08
	Abraham and Sarah being only a couple of 'em.	41:11
	But I'm reminded when I think of that	41:16
	of Paul Tillich's great sermon on the 139th Psalm	41:18
	when he cries out to God,	41:22
	wither shall I go from Thy presence?	41:26
	If I go to heaven you are there.	41:28
	If I go to hell you are there.	41:30
	Wherever I go, and Tillich reminds us that	41:33
	that doesn't necessarily mean, oh, isn't it wonderful	41:36
	to have God nearby?	41:39
	How can I get away, is the cry.	41:42
	So that when we are surrounded by so great a cloud	41:46
	of witnesses here, it's wonderful to gather here	41:49
	occasionally but are they forever hovering over me?	41:54
	Can't I get away to be my own individual self?	41:59
	Must I forever be reminded of my great heritage?	42:02
	Can't I be a failure now and then?	42:06
	Would it not be possible for me to dodge	42:11
	the whole great heritage?	42:14
	When I was putting on this alb this morning	42:19
	I went down and saw the portraits	42:21
	of two dear friends, mentors.	42:25
	Seeing that I'm surrounded by so great a cloud of mentors,	42:31
	let me run, let me get outta here,	42:39
	is one of the cries that sometimes crosses our mind.	42:43
	And so as I look to the future in terror and anxiety,	42:48
	as I look to the past in some gratitude	42:53
	but at the same time some fear, some feeling of being	42:57
	over looked after, how can I live?	43:03
	A friend of mine is retiring from his present job	43:13
	and a great historian wrote him a letter last Sunday	43:20
	and here's part of it.	43:23
	Take the bit about Lot's wife seriously.	43:27
	Looking back is not the way to freedom.	43:33
	In almost every case, the past is meant to be prologue.	43:37
	It wasn't meant to be a ball and chain.	43:44
	Wise words.	43:50
	But how do I live in this moment without being anxious	43:53
	about tomorrow and without being bound by the ball and chain	43:57
	of yesterday, surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,	44:01
	or carrying so great a burden of failures and mistakes.	44:05
	You see, the past, glorious prologue that it is,	44:12
	is put in its proper place as prologue by an Almighty God	44:19
	who makes it possible for me to hear	44:23
	and for me to tell you, if you haven't heard it lately,	44:26
	you're accepted, you're forgiven.	44:29
	Your past, where it's possible to rejoice,	44:35
	is remembered where it's possible to see	44:38
	the agony of your mistakes,	44:42
	God forgives.	44:47
	You're free from your past, not to forget it,	44:50
	but to be freed from it.	44:56
	And the Almighty Creator of the universe has said to us	44:59
	in a thousand ways, you're forgiven.	45:03
	We rejoice in your life.	45:08
	You're accepted, you're loved.	45:09
	It's past, accept life.	45:13
	We're freed from yesterday.	45:20
	Hear the words.	45:25
	Let me just say here parenthetically,	45:27
	that one of the most important things we do every time	45:30
	Christians gather for worship is to remind ourselves	45:33
	that it is the past for which we must confess and repent	45:37
	and God says,	45:42
	in the name of Jesus Christ, you're forgiven.	45:46
	Or God says, I accept you, I love you, I forgive you.	45:48
	How do I know that?	45:53
	Has some great sound come from above,	45:56
	when I hear the voice of God?	46:00
	No.	46:03
	I heard you say it too.	46:05
	I hope you heard it when I said it to you.	46:09
	And the way God does, God speaking,	46:14
	is to have us speak to	46:17
	each other, you're accepted, you're loved, you're forgiven.	46:21
	Yesterday is yesterday.	46:25
	You're freed from your past.	46:28
	And as God has cared for our past,	46:32
	so he cares for the future.	46:35
	He is Alpha and Omega, beginning and end.	46:39
	And the same confidence that makes it possible for us	46:46
	to move on from yesterday, we can look to tomorrow,	46:48
	with all its unknowns.	46:53
	The thief may come, the master may return,	46:56
	all hell may very well break loose.	46:59
	But it's in another's hands, not ours.	47:03
	It's God's.	47:10
	My mother and I were having out last conversation.	47:14
	It happened about seven years before her death	47:18
	but it was the time when she thought she was dying,	47:22
	I thought she was dying, the doctor thought she was dying	47:25
	and so we were talking.	47:29
	And my mother said, I don't know what heaven's like.	47:31
	I don't know what life after death is.	47:36
	I don't know anything beyond death.	47:39
	But I do know God's in charge.	47:46
	That's about the best word I ever heard about tomorrow.	47:51
	I have no idea what tomorrow will bring.	47:56
	I think we can stand here,	48:01
	freed from the anxieties of tomorrow because God.	48:03

Priest	Thank God is in charge.	0:03
	So we're free.	0:08
	We have been freed from our past.	0:10
	We have been freed from the future's	0:13
	ominous presence.	0:16
	And here we are, in this meantime.	0:21
	Between the already and the not yet,	0:26
	it's the only time we have.	0:29
	What can I say?	0:34
	What does the record say?	0:35
	I think it says to me that God is the creator	0:39
	who is a creating creator	0:44
	and just as He at one early morning said,	0:47
	"let there be light," said it again today	0:50
	and by God there is light.	0:53
	He takes the clay and breathes upon it	1:00
	and we become living souls, and this morning	1:02
	He breathed upon the clay	1:08
	and we come in and we sing and we pray and we praise.	1:12
	We are alive, because God the creator	1:20
	has brought us to life in this moment in time.	1:24
	Note that I say moment in time, there are no points in time.	1:29
	Except in, well I won't go into that.	1:34
	(laughs)	1:38
	But in this moment in time,	1:39
	God has created again.	1:43
	Thanks be to God.	1:46
	God also creates in this moment, breathes upon the clay	1:50
	in this moment, and here we are alive.	1:54
	By God's grace.	2:00
	And we're called to life right now.	2:03
	God doesn't say now we're gonna make a time bomb here	2:07
	and He's going off later on.	2:10
	Aha, this is it.	2:11
	It's the only it we really know about, isn't it?	2:14
	A rabbi was speaking many years ago and telling us	2:19
	that life is not like a sustained note in an organ	2:24
	that just goes on and on and on, more like staccato.	2:28
	Moment by moment, day by day, instant by instant.	2:34
	And here we are in this moment separated from the past,	2:40
	separated from the future, here in this moment,	2:44
	God calls us to be alive.	2:47
	Doesn't just call us to be alive,	2:52
	He breathes on us and we live.	2:54
	And by the grace of this creator, here we are alive	2:57
	to be responsible, to be obedient,	3:01
	to do what is at hand.	3:05
	What is it we're up to?	3:11
	There are relationships here	3:13
	which we must participate in as fully as we possibly can.	3:17
	There are moments of joy and sadness.	3:21
	There are moments for laughter.	3:25
	There are moments for tears.	3:26
	There are moments for anxiety if you please.	3:29
	There are moments for pride and guilt.	3:35
	But there are also moments and this is the moment	3:39
	of acceptance and pardon and forgiveness and creation,	3:42
	and here we are to do our duty,	3:48
	so take out the garbage.	3:50
	Or whatever it is you're called to do in this moment.	3:55
	Teach, read, learn, smile,	4:02
	affirm, live.	4:06
	There was a woman living in Austin, Texas	4:13
	number of years ago who learned that she had	4:16
	just a few more weeks to live because her disease	4:19
	was terminal, and there was no hope beyond a few more weeks,	4:22
	but it was early spring, and what do you do in early spring	4:27
	when you hear that the thief will come?	4:31
	You plant the bulbs.	4:36
	You put in the seeds, you prepare the ground.	4:39
	And one of the great lessons of life for all those	4:43
	who knew and loved her was to watch her in her last days	4:46
	being responsible as if she had no other	4:51
	or if she had innumerable days to live.	4:56
	What do you do, it's spring, you plant.	4:59
	Wait to see the flowers?	5:04
	No, you plant.	5:05
	That I suppose is living in this moment of life.	5:10
	Well the thing that I would like to say to myself	5:19
	and hope to believe it with all my heart	5:22
	is something that I want you to overhear and maybe take it	5:24
	that in this moment of God's creation,	5:30
	in this moment of life,	5:33
	there is as much of almighty God available right this minute	5:36
	as there ever was or ever shall be.	5:41
	There is as much of God in this very day	5:47
	as there was that day when the word was spoken	5:50
	"let there be light" and all the chaos seemed to pass away	5:53
	and transform newness.	5:58
	There is as much of life this day as there was	6:02
	on that Good Friday.	6:05
	There is as much of God this day as there was	6:06
	on the first Easter morning	6:10
	when the holy spirit poured out upon the peoples	6:13
	at Pentecost 50 days later,	6:17
	God was present but not one wit more of God was present then	6:20
	than there is right this minute, right now for you and me.	6:25
	And so by God, live.	6:32
	Amen.	6:36
Lector	Let us stand as we unite	6:49
	in the historic confession of the Christian faith.	6:51
-	[Lector and Congregation] I believe in God,	7:00
	the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth,	7:01
	and in Jesus Christ his only son, our lord,	7:05
	who was conceived by the holy spirit	7:09
	born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,	7:12
	was crucified, dead and buried.	7:16
	The third day he rose from the dead.	7:19
	He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand	7:22
	of God the father almighty.	7:25
	From this, he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	7:28
	I believe in the holy spirit,	7:32
	the holy Catholic church,	7:34
	the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,	7:36
	the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.	7:41
	Amen.	7:45
	(joyful organ music)	7:49
	(choir and congregation singing)	8:28
	(choir and congregation singing)	9:26
	(choir and congregation singing)	10:24
Priest	The lord be with you.	11:19
Congregation	And also with you.	11:20
Priest	Let us pray.	11:22
	Let us pray for the church and for the whole world.	11:33
	Grant gracious God that all who confess your name	11:36
	in your church may be united in your truth,	11:41
	live together in your love,	11:46
	and reveal your glory in the whole world.	11:49
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	11:54
	Guide the people of this land and of all the nations	11:59
	in the ways of justice and peace	12:04
	that we may honor one another and work for the common good.	12:07
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	12:13
	We pray for the just and proper use of your creation.	12:18
	For the victims of hunger, fear, injustice, and oppression.	12:24
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	12:32
	For all who are in danger, sorrow, or any kind of trouble,	12:38
	and for those who minister to the sick, the friendless,	12:44
	the homeless, the confused, and the needy.	12:49
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	12:54
	For all people in their daily life and work,	13:00
	for our families and friends and neighbors,	13:04
	and for those who are alone.	13:08
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	13:11
	For the specials needs and concerns of this congregation.	13:17
	Those people and causes which hold a special place.	13:22
	For those who worship here this day.	13:27
	Needs and concerns which we now name silently before you.	13:30
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	13:48
	Lord, hear the prayers of your people	13:54
	and what we've asked faithfully,	13:57
	grant that we may obtain effectually	13:59
	to the glory of your name, help us in this	14:03
	and every other prayer we make,	14:07
	to ask only what accords with your will	14:10
	and those good things which we dare not	14:15
	or in our blindness cannot ask,	14:19
	grant us for the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, our lord.	14:22
	Amen.	14:28
	As a forgiven and reconciled people, let us offer ourselves	14:32
	and our gifts to God for the work of God.	14:37
	(hopeful brass and orchestra music)	14:43
	(hopeful brass and orchestra music)	17:17
	(organ music ends)	17:35
	(anticipatory organ music)	17:55
	(joyful organ music)	22:09
	(choir and congregation singing)	22:24
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	22:37
	(choir and congregation singing)	22:44
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	22:54
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	23:00
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	23:07
	(organ music ends)	23:24
Priest	Gracious God, we give thanks	23:25
	for all the blessings of this life.	23:26
	For the witness of your saints and the wonder of your word.	23:29
	For the strength to stride into the future with confidence	23:33
	that you hold a future.	23:36
	For all these and other benefits of your love,	23:39
	we give thanks, praying our father who art in heaven	23:41
-	[Priest and Congregation] hallowed be thy name.	23:46
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	23:49
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	23:52
	Give us this day our daily bread	23:55
	and forgive us our trespasses	23:58
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	24:01
	and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.	24:05
	For thine is the kingdom	24:10
	and the power and the glory forever.	24:11
	Amen.	24:15
	(down-tempo organ music)	24:18
	(choir and congregation singing)	24:56
	(choir and congregation singing)	26:17
Priest	The grace of our loving savior, Jesus Christ.	27:42
	Love of God, the fellowship of the holy spirit,	27:46
	go forth with you now and always, Amen.	27:49
	(up-tempo organ music)	28:01
	(indistinct muffled chatter)	28:25
	(organ music)	30:20
	(organ music)	30:34
	(organ music)	33:37
	(organ music)	35:05
	(organ music ends)	37:11
	(indistinct chatter)	37:18

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Title:

H. Grady Hardin - "In the Mean Time" (August 10, 1986)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 32:56. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 06:39.
Though we may fear the future and its possible horrors, or feel dread over the weight of the past, we find refuge in the fat that God, Alpha and Omega, holds both in his hands. Because of this, we are free to live fully in the present, for God is as present to us now as he ever has been or ever will be. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “As God has cared for our past, so he cares for the future. He is Alpha and omega, beginning and end. And the same confidence that makes it possible for us to move on from yesterday, we can look to tomorrow with all its unknowns.”

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August 10, 1986

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Hardin, H. Grady

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Duke University. Chapel

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