Michael A. Walrond, Jr. - "Looking for Jesus in All the Wrong Places" (December 28, 1997)

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Title:
Michael A. Walrond, Jr. - "Looking for Jesus in All the Wrong Places" (December 28, 1997)
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  • Sermon start time: 02:26. Sermon end time: 20:58.

  • We have a tendency to look for Jesus in all of the wrong places. He is constantly challenging our assumptions of where he would be, regularly finding his home among the marginalized corners of society. Often we do not look there because we are afraid to get out of our comfort zones. But that is what the call to follow Jesus means: making ourselves uncomfortable for the sake of being with him. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

  • Key quotation: Weepin g may be the first prophetic move to let go on our tight grip on present arrangements, where we might move forward to something more substantial than the present. Maybe you should think of church as public processing of pain. Have you ever come to church and found yourself in tears? What is that? It takes a lot of faith to rage and complain and shake fists and cry out ‘O god Why’.

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https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4bk17390
Date:
December 28, 1997
Speaker:
Walrond, Michael A., Jr.
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Duke University. Chapel
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  • UA.17.01.0003 CS-0887
  • ref9923_ygu
  • uachapelsermaud
  • duke:320507
  • dcrau001531
  • ark:/87924/r4bk17390
  • 7561c680-a851-4a7e-a918-5fa33b0ad6f9
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