William W. Easley, Jr. - "Practicing and Professing" (July 16, 1978)

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Man	Duke University Chapel service of worship,	0:10
	July 16, 1978.	0:13
	(organ plays)	0:19
-	[Reverend Johnson] Welcome in the name of Jesus Christ.	11:00
	Hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth is a man attested	11:03
	to you by go with mighty works, wonders, and signs.	11:07
	He cared for the beggar.	11:13
	He gave insight to the lawyer.	11:15
	He cured the diseased of mind and gave them new life.	11:19
	He gives to us a dream that will not let a person sleep.	11:24
	He gives to us an adventure that will not let a person rest.	11:29
	It it because of him that we gather here this morning.	11:34
	Let us pray.	11:39
	Oh God, you make us glad every week in our remembrance	11:41
	of the glorious resurrection of Christ Jesus, your Son.	11:45
	Renew us, this day, through our worship,	11:50
	that the days to come may be spent in your service.	11:53
	Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.	11:57
	(organ plays)	12:04
	Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.	14:54
	All mighty and most merciful God, we acknowledge and confess	14:59
	that we have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed.	15:04
	That we have not loved You with all our heart and soul,	15:09
	with all our mind and strength, and that we have not loved	15:13
	our neighbor as ourselves.	15:17
	We beseech you, oh God,	15:21
	to be forgiving of what we have been,	15:23
	to help us to amend what we are and, of your mercy,	15:25
	to direct what we shall be,	15:30
	so that the love of goodness may ever be	15:33
	first in our hearts, Amen.	15:36
	The Lord God, through the prophet Nathan,	15:49
	forgave David when he had confessed his sins.	15:51
	He forgave the adulteress who was weeping at Jesus' feet	15:55
	and Peter who was weeping bitterly over his betrayal.	15:59
	May the same Lord and God forgive us all our sins	16:05
	in this life and in the world to come,	16:08
	and raise us to stand, uncondemned,	16:11
	before his mighty judgment seat,	16:14
	for God is blessed now and forever more, Amen.	16:16
	Let us give thanks, for God is good	16:24
	and God's love is everlasting.	16:26
	(congregation murmurs)	16:29
	(organ plays)	16:45
	Let us pray.	20:48
	Speak, Lord, for we, your servants, are listening.	20:51
	Grant us ears to hear, eyes to see,	20:55
	wills to obey, hearts to love.	20:59
	Then declare what you will, reveal what you will,	21:04
	command what you will, demand what you will, Amen.	21:08
	The Old Testament lesson is written in the prophet Isaiah,	21:19
	the fiftieth chapter, beginning at the fourth verse.	21:23
	"The Lord God has given me the tongue	21:27
	of those who are taught, that I may know	21:30
	how to sustain with the word, Him that is weary.	21:33
	Morning by morning, He wakens,	21:38
	He wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.	21:40
	The Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious.	21:45
	I turned not backward.	21:50
	I gave my back to the smiters	21:53
	and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard.	21:55
	I hid not my face from shame and spitting.	22:00
	For the Lord God helps me,	22:04
	therefore I have not been confounded,	22:06
	therefore I have set my face like a flint	22:10
	and I know that I shall not be put to shame.	22:14
	He who vindicates me is near.	22:18
	Who will contend with me, let us stand up together.	22:22
	Who is my adversary, let him come near to me.	22:26
	Behold, the Lord God helps me.	22:32
	Who will declare me guilty?	22:35
	Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment.	22:37
	The moth will eat them up."	22:42
	Here ends the Old Testament Lesson.	22:45
	The Epistle lesson is written in the book of James,	22:53
	the second chapter, beginning at the fourteenth verse.	22:56
	"What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he hath	23:01
	faith, but not works? Can his faith save him?"	23:05
	Here ends the Epistle.	23:13
	Please rise for the reading of the Gospel.	23:17
	The Holy Gospel is written in the book of Mark,	23:27
	the eighth chapter, beginning at the twenty-seventh verse.	23:29
	"And Jesus went on his way with his disciples	23:34
	to the village of Caesarea Philippi	23:37
	and on the way he asked them, 'Who do men say that I am?'	23:40
	And they told him, 'John the Baptist, and others say Elijah,	23:44
	and others, one of the prophets.'	23:50
	And he asked them, 'But who you do say that I am?'	23:54
	Peter answered him, 'You are the Christ.'	23:59
	And Jesus charged them to tell no one about Him.	24:03
	And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer	24:08
	many things and be rejected by the elders	24:12
	and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and,	24:15
	after three days, rise again.	24:19
	And he said this plainly.	24:23
	And Peter took him and began to rebuke him,	24:26
	but turning and seeing his disciples,	24:28
	Jesus rebuked Peter and said, 'Get behind me, Satan,	24:31
	for you are not on the side of God, but of men.'	24:35
	And he called to him the multitude with his disciples	24:42
	and said to them, 'If any man would come after me, let him	24:45
	deny himself and take up his cross and follow me,	24:49
	for whoever would save his life will lose it,	24:54
	and whoever loses his life for my sake	24:59
	and for the Gospel's will save it.'"	25:03
	The Gospel of the Lord.	25:07
	(organ plays)	25:10
	I would draw two announcements to your attention this	26:25
	morning, that being a memorial service	26:28
	for Sarah Catherine Barclay, emeritus professor	26:30
	of Psychiatric Social Work at this university,	26:33
	which will be conducted this afternoon at 3:00 P.M.,	26:36
	here in the chapel.	26:40
	And also a memorial service for Doctor Frank Alan Hannah,	26:43
	professor emeritus of Economics,	26:48
	which will be held Thursday afternoon,	26:50
	July 20th at 3:30 in the chapel.	26:53
	Having grown up in the city of Bloomington, Indiana,	27:02
	where one of the main streets in town dead-ends	27:04
	spang at the gate of Indiana University,	27:07
	I've heard about the barriers of town and gown all my life.	27:10
	It is little different in Durham, North Carolina,	27:16
	I have found, except to say that one literally	27:18
	has to scale the ivory tower if one is to assure oneself	27:22
	of the reality of life beyond the Dope Shop and the Duke	27:27
	Gardens and the lush forests, which surround this campus.	27:31
	Our preacher for this morning,	27:37
	the Reverend Mr. William W. Easley, is likewise a man	27:39
	steeped in the ethos of town and gown.	27:43
	As you will note in your bulletins,	27:47
	he is a man who has worked long and hard	27:50
	on behalf of Durham citizens,	27:52
	and he is more than qualified to speak to us of town.	27:55
	As a man who has devoted his energies and talents	28:00
	to the development of public and university education	28:03
	in Durham and North Carolina,	28:06
	he is eminently qualified to speak to us of gown.	28:09
	But as a minister of Jesus Christ, he is more likely	28:14
	to speak to us of the intersection of the gospel with both.	28:18
	For those reasons and for many unspoken, Reverend Easley,	28:24
	we welcome you to the pulpit of Duke University Chapel	28:28
	and we await your message to us this morning.	28:31
Reverend Easley	I wish to say thank you this morning,	28:45
	to the Reverend Greg Robbins.	28:47
	Thank you to Pastor Bob Young.	28:52
	Thank you to Pastor Helen Crotwell.	28:56
	It's been a pleasure working with Bob Young	29:00
	and Helen Crotwell and the life and work	29:03
	of our city and our community.	29:06
	I consider this opportunity this morning	29:10
	to be a great opportunity.	29:13
	It is an humbling experience for me to stand here	29:17
	before you in this great, historic pulpit...	29:21
	And to attempt to preach the Word.	29:26
	And I greet you this morning	29:33
	and say unto you grace, mercy, and peace be unto you,	29:34
	in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.	29:37
	Let the congregation of the Lord say Amen.	29:42
	Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me,	29:47
	bless His holy name.	29:53
	Bless the Lord, oh my soul.	29:56
	And forget not all of his benefits.	30:02
	For our scriptural text this morning,	30:07
	we ask that you would notice the Epistle of James,	30:09
	the second chapter, the fourteenth verse.	30:13
	The King James Version of the Bible,	30:17
	where the Apostle says, "What doth it profit, my brethren,	30:23
	though a man say he hath faith	30:30
	and have not works,	30:35
	can faith save him?"	30:38
	These words have been translated	30:42
	in The Living Bible as saying thusly:	30:45
	"Dear brothers, what's the use of saying that	30:51
	you have faith and are Christians	30:56
	if you aren't proving it by helping others?	31:01
	Will that kind of faith save anyone?"	31:06
	Practicing and professing.	31:12
	It was Hippocrates, the father of medicine,	31:19
	otherwise known as the greatest of Greek physicians,	31:24
	who once said, "I will lead my life and practice my art	31:29
	in uprightness and honor."	31:35
	400 years before Christ, Hippocrates made an attempt	31:41
	to reconcile what we profess	31:46
	with what we practice.	31:52
	And although he was directing his attention to physicians,	31:56
	and the noble ideas which he set before them in practicing	32:03
	the art of medicine, I believe also,	32:06
	in this day and time,	32:11
	has a message for us who call ourselves Christians today.	32:12
	The linguistics of the oath, which all Christians	32:19
	and physicians are required to take, would indicate that	32:23
	Hippocrates believed that the highest personal standards	32:28
	must be maintained in the practice of medicine.	32:34
	And, for us, would indicate that the highest personal	32:39
	standards must be maintained in practicing	32:43
	what we profess as Christians.	32:48
	I am told that a man is literally what he thinks.	32:53
	His character being the sum total of his thoughts.	33:01
	It was Rene Descartes who once said,	33:07
	"I think, therefore I am."	33:09
	And so our action and our behavior, therefore,	33:15
	is the sum total of our thoughts.	33:19
	What we do is the blossom of our thoughts.	33:24
	Therefore, if we have ever done any wrong	33:27
	to any brother or any sister	33:31
	and if we have decided to apologize,	33:35
	if we do apologize, by saying, "I'm sorry, I wasn't	33:38
	thinking, I didn't know what I was doing.	33:43
	I don't know what was wrong with me."	33:47
	We should be very careful about what we say,	33:50
	because we know this morning that what we do	33:52
	is the blossom of our thoughts.	33:57
	And if we would act nobly and treat others	34:01
	as we would wish to be treated,	34:05
	then we must think noble thoughts,	34:09
	for what we think about others, about issues of our times,	34:15
	what we think about causes of our times, what we think	34:20
	about our beliefs and what we think about our ideas,	34:25
	will determine what we do about them.	34:29
	As a man thinketh, so is he.	34:33
	All that a man does outwardly is with the expression	34:38
	and completion of his inward thought.	34:43
	And so, to work effectively, one must think clearly,	34:49
	to act nobly, one must think nobly, to be victorious,	34:51
	one must think victorious, to experience love and beauty,	34:56
	one must think love and beauty.	35:02
	To be as, many of us describe, somebody,	35:08
	one must think in terms of being somebody,	35:13
	to be righteous, one must think righteously.	35:17
	And so, if this nation of our is really committed	35:24
	to human rights in the world,	35:28
	and our nation should be committed to human rights,	35:31
	then we must first commit ourselves to human rights at home.	35:35
	For I ask you this morning,	35:43
	why try to put out a fire	35:45
	in someone else's house	35:49
	when your own house is burning to the ground?	35:52
	Why try to feed and clothe the neighborhood	35:56
	when your own children are naked and starving to death?	36:03
	Why try to bring peace out of confusion	36:09
	in someone else's home when your own	36:13
	children are torn apart by hatred, malice,	36:17
	greed, envy, and jealousy?	36:23
	When I was growing up in my home, I used to hear my mother	36:27
	say that charity begins at home and then spreads abroad.	36:30
	And, if this nation is really committed to human rights	36:36
	in the world, then why not take a serious look at those	36:40
	American corporations who promote the economics	36:45
	of the brutal and racist governments	36:50
	of South Africa and Rhodesia,	36:53
	who rape the land of its resources and systematically	36:56
	brutalize the people who they robbed in the first place.	37:02
	We ought to have a message.	37:08
	If we practice what we profess,	37:10
	for those corporations	37:15
	who support the economics of a regime like that,	37:16
	who seemingly have no respect for God or man,	37:21
	who seemingly have no consideration for what is honest,	37:27
	no consideration for what is decent,	37:32
	no consideration for what is lovely and true.	37:36
	You cannot love, nor respect a man	37:42
	you're beating to death at the same time.	37:48
	One cannot love with hate in his heart.	37:52
	One cannot act bravely	37:58
	when he thinks cowardly.	38:02
	One cannot work effectively for the freedom and brotherhood	38:06
	of all men when there is hatred,	38:10
	prejudice, jealously, and stereotyped misconceptions	38:14
	in his mind and in his heart.	38:18
	One cannot see the worth and dignity of every man,	38:22
	of every human being as being precious children of God,	38:27
	if in our hearts and in our minds,	38:31
	we think that we are better than anyone else.	38:33
	One cannot love God and, at the same time,	38:38
	hate his fellow man.	38:41
	One cannot act nobly until	38:45
	he begins to think nobly.	38:50
	One cannot act right	38:54
	until his mind and his heart are right.	38:58
	I was so glad to hear and read the other day where the	39:03
	Divinity School of this great, historic institution	39:06
	accepted the Reverend Benjamin Chavis as a student.	39:10
	For that action was indicative that the Divinity School here	39:14
	believes in practicing what it preaches.	39:19
	Comedian Sharon Lovejoy that she was reared in a home	39:24
	where she was taught that your word must be your bond	39:30
	and the words "thank you," common courtesy.	39:37
	She says that now that she is living	39:43
	in the entertainment world, she's now living in a world	39:45
	where words seemingly mean nothing,	39:48
	smiles seemingly mean nothing,	39:53
	and the words "thank you" is a sign of weakness.	39:57
	Perhaps Shakespeare was right when he said the whole world	40:02
	is a stage and we are merely players upon it.	40:05
	Because we also seemingly live in a world	40:08
	where words mean nothing.	40:12
	One does not know who to believe anymore.	40:17
	We live in a world where even Christian people say one thing	40:21
	and do another, a world where Christian people recite	40:26
	affirmations of faith and then practice something else,	40:34
	a world where there is contradiction	40:40
	between practicing and professing,	40:45
	for we do not usually practice	40:49
	what we profess and what we profess,	40:51
	we end up usually not practicing.	40:56
	James, the brother of Jesus,	41:00
	was also caught up...	41:06
	In the same problem at the time of the writing	41:07
	of the Epistle, which is attributed to him.	41:10
	Hippocrates was caught up in this problem 400 years earlier.	41:15
	Can we think one thing and do another?	41:21
	Can we profess one thing and practice another?	41:25
	Can we have faith without works?	41:31
	Can we say that we are Christians	41:38
	if we are not helping anyone?	41:41
	Will that kind of faith save anyone?	41:44
	If you have a friend who is in need of food and clothing	41:50
	and you say to that friend,	41:54
	"Well, goodbye, God bless you, stay warm and eat hearty"	41:57
	and then don't give him what he needs,	42:01
	clothes and food, what good does it do?	42:04
	Can we have faith and nobody else know about it?	42:09
	Can we have faith and do whatever we want to do?	42:15
	Faith won't do it by itself.	42:22
	Faith without works is certainly death.	42:25
	And some of us in Christendom have never ever separated	42:30
	faith from works,	42:34
	some of us have never separated works	42:38
	from faith, some of us still believe that a tree	42:41
	is known by the fruit it bears.	42:46
	Apple trees don't bear peaches	42:49
	and peach trees don't bear apples.	42:52
	If we plant an apple tree, at some time in the future,	42:56
	we hope to see some apples.	42:58
	If we plant a peach tree, at some time in the future,	43:01
	we hope to see some peaches.	43:04
	A tree is known by the fruit it bears.	43:08
	And so, if a man has been redeemed	43:12
	by the saving and precious blood of Jesus the Christ,	43:17
	then that man ought to show the world some sign	43:23
	that he has been redeemed,	43:27
	for if any man is in Christ,	43:29
	he is a new creature.	43:33
	If any man be in Christ, then someone,	43:36
	somewhere should know something about it.	43:40
	What we do speaks so much louder than what we say.	43:44
	Christian ethics demands action.	43:50
	A good man is not called a good man simply because he has	43:54
	been good to himself and no one else,	43:57
	but if he is called a good man,	44:03
	it's because he's been good to somebody else.	44:04
	If I can help someone as I pass along,	44:11
	says the poet, then my living will not be in vain.	44:16
	If I can cheer some one individual with a word	44:21
	or just a song, if I can spread	44:25
	love's message in a world	44:30
	filled with wrought, if I can do my duty	44:32
	as a Christian ought, then my living will not be in vain.	44:37
	If we are Christians, as many of us say we are,	44:44
	then we ought to let our light so shine before men that	44:47
	they may see our good works	44:52
	and glorify Father in heaven.	44:57
	Good thoughts, bear good fruit.	45:01
	Bad thoughts, bear bad fruit.	45:08
	All that a man achieves or fails to achieve...	45:14
	Is the direct result of his own thoughts.	45:21
	A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve...	45:26
	By lifting up his thoughts.	45:32
	Faith in God who made us and brought us from a state	45:37
	of nothingness to a state of somethingness	45:43
	and faith in His Son Jesus, the Christ,	45:47
	has the ability to lift,	45:52
	to lift, to lift us up on noble	45:55
	and lofty planes of thought, to lift us up	45:59
	on lofty planes of service to our fellow man.	46:04
	Faith in God	46:09
	and in His Son Jesus, the Christ, has a way	46:14
	of lifting us up	46:18
	and planting our feet on solid ground.	46:21
	A man's work is the end result of his faith.	46:26
	If you have been redeemed,	46:31
	then you will show the world	46:35
	some sign of that redemption.	46:37
	If you've been redeemed, my fathers used to say,	46:42
	follow me, then, down to Jordan's stream.	46:47
	If you've been redeemed, you won't have to tell anybody,	46:51
	you won't have to wear a sign.	46:57
	Others will know it by the way you respond to them,	46:59
	they'll know it by what you do for others,	47:03
	they'll know it by the way you practice	47:07
	what you have already professed,	47:10
	they'll know it by your works.	47:12
	You don't have to worry; they'll know it.	47:18
	They'll know it.	47:21
	They will know it.	47:24
	It is in man that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ	47:27
	and the world come into direct confrontation.	47:32
	Since man is the center of the disturbance in society,	47:39
	man can also be the center of renewal	47:45
	and the instrument of healing.	47:49
	Man starts out in the world as	47:54
	the center of the disturbance.	47:56
	It was man who invented the knife.	48:00
	He graduated to the bow and arrow.	48:07
	He graduated to the gun.	48:13
	He graduated to the atomic bomb.	48:20
	We are not so much afraid of the animals anymore.	48:26
	It isn't the animals we fear or run from.	48:29
	We are trying to protect our animals today from other men.	48:33
	So, it is not the animals we fear.	48:38
	We fear other men and the power they wield over us	48:40
	and the harm which they might do to us.	48:46
	Man is the center of the disturbance in our society	48:50
	but just as he is the center of disturbance,	48:53
	man can also be the center of healing	48:58
	and the center of renewal.	49:02
	It is up to us as men to decide if we are going	49:04
	to be a part of the affliction of society	49:09
	or if we are going to be a part	49:13
	of the renewal and the healing of our society.	49:15
	Our society needs healing this morning.	49:18
	Our society has wounds and we need men and women who are	49:21
	willing to go out and bind up the wounds of society	49:25
	and bring about renewal and redemption.	49:30
	When a man himself is healed, he is changed.	49:35
	He is transformed, he is renewed.	49:41
	When a man himself is healed,	49:45
	he then can become a part of that which renews	49:49
	and heals the wounds of life and society.	49:54
	A man cannot heal himself.	49:58
	In order for man to be healed,	50:02
	he must look beyond, beyond himself.	50:06
	He must look beyond himself to	50:12
	a source outside of himself.	50:18
	Therefore, we must look to Jesus this morning,	50:24
	the risen Lord,	50:28
	look to Jesus for healing,	50:32
	for he is still yet in the business of healing.	50:36
	Look to Jesus this morning for transformation,	50:42
	for Jesus the risen Christ is still yet in the business	50:49
	of transforming the lives of men and women,	50:52
	causing them to go out into a sin, sick, and dying world,	50:56
	crying out, let justice roll down as waters	51:02
	and righteousness as a mighty stream.	51:07
	Look to Jesus this morning, who is still in business	51:11
	of lifting up the thoughts and	51:16
	the minds of men and women	51:20
	to higher and loftier planes, causing them still,	51:23
	like Paul and Peter and John,	51:27
	to go out in to the world and turn the world upside down	51:31
	and turn the world right-side-up.	51:35
	Look to Jesus this morning who is still yet in the business	51:39
	of enabling us to go out into the world	51:44
	and practice what we have professed.	51:47
	Look to Jesus this morning, who my father said	51:51
	was a waymaker, able to make a way for us	51:55
	when there appeared to be now way at all.	51:58
	Look to Jesus this morning, who my fathers referred to	52:02
	many times as our rock in a weary land,	52:06
	our shelter in a time of storm,	52:10
	the sweet rolls of sharing,	52:14
	the prince of peace, the lily of the valley,	52:17
	the bright and morning star.	52:20
	Look to Jesus to transform us	52:24
	Look to Jesus to heal.	52:29
	Look to Jesus to purify our minds and sanctify our souls.	52:33
	Renew the right spirit within us,	52:39
	so that we might let our light so shine before men	52:44
	that they may see our good works,	52:48
	glorify our Father in heaven.	52:52
	Our light won't shine so brightly	52:55
	if we're the only ones who can see it.	52:59
	Our light shines brightest	53:03
	when others can see it.	53:08
	It is then that we become practitioners	53:11
	of what we have professed.	53:17
	It is then that we become like a city	53:19
	set on a hill that cannot be hid.	53:23
	Lighting the way for others, who are in darkness, to see.	53:27
	The Reverend Johnson's opening was, asked,	53:31
	how do we as Christians reach the masses?	53:36
	He says our answer, Jesus our Christ has given us the key	53:40
	and I, if I be lifted up from the earth,	53:46
	will draw all men unto me,	53:51
	lift him up, lift him up,	53:55
	still he speaks from eternity and I,	54:00
	if I be lifted up from the earth,	54:05
	will draw all men unto me.	54:09
	The world is hungry this morning for the living word.	54:12
	Lift the Savior up for them to see.	54:17
	Trust Him, trust Him,	54:21
	and do not doubt the words that he	54:26
	said: I'll draw all men,	54:28
	I'll draw all men unto me,	54:32
	lift him up, lift him up,	54:35
	by practicing what we profess	54:41
	and I, if I be lifted up from the earth,	54:44
	says Jesus the Christ,	54:47
	I will draw all men unto me.	54:50
	Let us pray.	54:54
	Oh, precious Father, let the words of my mouth,	54:56
	the meditation of my heart	55:02
	be acceptable in thy sight,	55:05
	oh Lord my strength and my redeemer, Amen.	55:08
	(organ plays)	55:18
-	[Reverend Johnson] Let us affirm what we believe.	58:48
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	58:51
	who has come in the truly human Jesus to reconcile	58:57
	and make new, who works in us and others by the spirit.	59:01
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church, to celebrate	59:07
	life in it fullness, to love and serve others,	59:12
	to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus crucified	59:17
	and risen, our judge and our hope, in life, in death,	59:23
	in life beyond death, God is with us.	59:29
	We are not alone.	59:34
	Thanks be to God.	59:36
	The Lord be with you.	59:39
	(congregation murmurs)	59:41
	Let us pray.	59:43
	I ask your prayers for God's people throughout the world,	59:55
	for this gathering, for all ministers and congregations.	59:58
	Pray, brothers and sisters, for the church.	1:00:03
	I ask your prayers for peace, for good will among nations,	1:00:12
	and for the well-being of all peoples.	1:00:17
	Pray, brothers and sisters, for justice and peace.	1:00:20
	I ask your prayers for the poor, for the sick, the hungry,	1:00:32
	the oppressed and those in prison,	1:00:37
	especially for Anatoly Sharansky and Alexander Ginzburg,	1:00:40
	imprisoned in the Soviet Union.	1:00:45
	Pray, brothers and sisters,	1:00:48
	for those in any need or trouble.	1:00:50
	I ask your prayers for all who seek	1:01:01
	God or a deeper knowledge of him.	1:01:03
	Pray, brothers and sisters,	1:01:07
	that they may be found and may find him.	1:01:09
	I ask your prayers for the departed,	1:01:25
	especially for Arthur Guter,	1:01:28
	father-in-law of a new student in our midst.	1:01:30
	Pray, brothers and sisters,	1:01:34
	for those who have died and for those who mourn.	1:01:35
	And let us praise God for those in every generation in whom	1:01:48
	Christ has been honored, especially Sarah Catherine Barclay	1:01:52
	and Frank Alan Hannah, emeritus professors of this	1:01:56
	university, whom we remember in services this week.	1:02:00
	Pray, brothers and sisters,	1:02:06
	that we may have grace to glorify Christ in our own day.	1:02:07
	And let us give thanks to God	1:02:19
	for all of the blessings of this life.	1:02:21
	Almighty and eternal God, you have promised to hear what we	1:02:36
	ask in the name of your Son, we pray you accept and fulfill	1:02:40
	these, our petitions, not as we ask in our ignorance,	1:02:44
	nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know	1:02:48
	and love each of us in your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,	1:02:53
	who taught us that, when we pray, we ought always to say,	1:02:57
	our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy	1:03:02
	kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,	1:03:06
	give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our	1:03:13
	trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us	1:03:17
	and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	1:03:21
	for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory,	1:03:26
	forever and ever, Amen.	1:03:31
	(organ plays)	1:03:42
	Let us pray.	1:09:27
	Oh God of whose bounty we have all received,	1:09:29
	accept this bounty of your people, remember in your love	1:09:32
	those who have brought it and those for whom it is given,	1:09:36
	and so follow it with your blessing,	1:09:40
	that it may promote peace and goodwill among all people	1:09:43
	and advance the kingdom of our Lord and Savior,	1:09:47
	Jesus Christ, Amen.	1:09:49
	(organ plays)	1:09:56
	Go out in to the world in peace, love the unloved,	1:14:26
	strengthen the faint-hearted, support he weak,	1:14:30
	return no one evil for evil, rejoicing always in the Lord,	1:14:33
	and may the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son	1:14:38
	and Holy Spirit go with you and remain with you now	1:14:41
	and forevermore, Amen.	1:14:45
	(organ plays)	1:14:51

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William W. Easley, Jr. - "Practicing and Professing" (July 16, 1978)

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Our actions are the overflow from our thoughts. Thus, if we are to live rightly as Christians, we must lift up our thoughts to Jesus so that are actions evidence the redemption we have received through him. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 28:45. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 55:13.
Key quotation: “A tree is known by the fruit it bears. And so, if a man has been redeemed by the saving precious blood of Jesus the Christ, then that man ought to show the world some sign that he has been redeemed.”

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July 16, 1978

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