Charlene P. Kammerer - "Lest We Forget" (November 23, 1980)
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(organ music) | 0:04 | |
(instrumental music) | 2:41 | |
♪ Beautiful Savior ♪ | 8:00 | |
♪ Lord of the nations ♪ | 8:07 | |
♪ Son of God ♪ | 8:15 | |
♪ And Son of Man ♪ | 8:20 | |
♪ Glory and honor ♪ | 8:29 | |
♪ Praise, adoration ♪ | 8:36 | |
♪ Now and forevermore ♪ | 8:42 | |
♪ Be Thine ♪ | 8:49 | |
♪ Now and forevermore ♪ | 8:54 | |
♪ Be Thine ♪ | 9:07 | |
(organ music) | 9:19 | |
♪ All people that on earth do dwell ♪ | 9:59 | |
♪ Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ♪ | 10:07 | |
♪ Serve Him with joy, His praises tell ♪ | 10:14 | |
♪ Come now before Him and rejoice ♪ | 10:22 | |
♪ The Lord, ye know, is God indeed ♪ | 10:33 | |
♪ Without our aid He did us make ♪ | 10:41 | |
♪ We are His folk, He doth us feed ♪ | 10:49 | |
♪ And for His sheep He doth us take ♪ | 10:57 | |
♪ O enter then His gates with praise ♪ | 11:07 | |
♪ Approach with joy His courts unto ♪ | 11:15 | |
♪ Praise, laud, and bless His name always ♪ | 11:23 | |
♪ For it is seemly so to do ♪ | 11:31 | |
♪ For why the Lord our God is good ♪ | 11:42 | |
♪ His mercy is for ever sure ♪ | 11:50 | |
♪ His truth at all times firmly stood ♪ | 11:58 | |
♪ And shall from age to age endure ♪ | 12:06 | |
♪ To Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪ | 12:16 | |
♪ The God whom heaven and earth adore ♪ | 12:24 | |
♪ From men and from the angel host ♪ | 12:32 | |
♪ Be praise and glory evermore ♪ | 12:39 | |
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 12:50 | |
♪ Praise God all creatures here below ♪ | 12:57 | |
♪ Praise God the Father, God the Son ♪ | 13:05 | |
♪ And God the Spirit, ever one ♪ | 13:13 | |
♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 13:23 | |
♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪ | 13:31 | |
♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪ | 13:38 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 13:46 | |
♪ Praise God the Father who's the source ♪ | 13:56 | |
♪ Praise God the Son who is the course ♪ | 14:04 | |
♪ Praise God the Spirit who's the flow ♪ | 14:12 | |
♪ Praise God, our portion here below ♪ | 14:20 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 14:31 | |
- | Come let us worship the Lord our God. | 15:00 |
If we say we are sinless, | 15:04 | |
then we deceive ourselves. | 15:07 | |
But if we repent of our sins, | 15:10 | |
then God is just and He will forgive our sins. | 15:12 | |
Let us therefore confess our sins before Almighty God. | 15:18 | |
- | Most holy and merciful Lord our God, | 15:26 |
we acknowledge and confess in Your presence | 15:30 | |
the sinfulness of our nature | 15:34 | |
and our shortcomings and offenses against You. | 15:37 | |
You alone know how often we have sinned | 15:41 | |
in wandering from Your ways, | 15:44 | |
in wasting Your gifts, | 15:46 | |
in forgetting Your love. | 15:49 | |
Have mercy, O Lord, upon us | 15:51 | |
who are ashamed and sorry for all ways | 15:54 | |
in which we have displeased You. | 15:58 | |
Forgive our sins, we beseech You, | 16:01 | |
through Jesus Christ Your Son, our Savior. | 16:03 | |
Teach us to understand our errors. | 16:08 | |
Cleanse from secret faults | 16:11 | |
and O most holy and loving God, | 16:14 | |
send Your purifying grace into our hearts | 16:17 | |
that we may henceforth live in Your light | 16:21 | |
and walk in Your ways. | 16:25 | |
- | Almighty God, | 16:50 |
You who freely pardon | 16:52 | |
all who repent and turn to You, | 16:53 | |
fulfill now in every contrite heart | 16:56 | |
Your promise of redeeming grace, | 16:59 | |
absolving us from all our sins | 17:02 | |
and delivering us from the pain of guilt | 17:04 | |
through the perfect sacrifice of Christ our Lord, amen. | 17:08 | |
Let us give thanks for God is good | 17:14 | |
and God's love is everlasting. | 17:17 | |
- | Thanks be to God | 17:20 |
whose love creates us. | 17:22 | |
Thanks be to God | 17:24 | |
whose mercy redeems us. | 17:26 | |
Thanks be to God | 17:28 | |
whose grace leads us into the future. | 17:30 | |
- | We welcome you to Duke Chapel this morning, | 17:39 |
especially those of you who are worshiping here | 17:42 | |
for the first time. | 17:44 | |
We hope you will return again to worship with us. | 17:45 | |
We hope you all have a joyful Thanksgiving. | 17:50 | |
We give thanks especially this day | 17:54 | |
for the hardships that our forefathers and mothers | 17:58 | |
bore in order that we might enjoy | 18:01 | |
the freedoms to worship that we have today. | 18:03 | |
I have one announcement. | 18:07 | |
Messiah tickets are unfortunately sold out already | 18:09 | |
for this year. | 18:13 | |
Take note, they will go on sale next year November 1st. | 18:15 | |
(audience laughs) | 18:20 | |
- | Let us pray. | 18:34 |
O Lord our God, | 18:39 | |
open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things | 18:40 | |
out of Your Word. | 18:43 | |
And let the words of my mouth | 18:45 | |
and the meditations of our heart | 18:47 | |
be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord. | 18:49 | |
These things we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, | 18:52 | |
our Strength and our Redeemer, amen. | 18:54 | |
The Old Testament lesson is from Deuteronomy chapter 8, | 19:01 | |
verses 7 through 18. | 19:05 | |
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, | 19:10 | |
a land of brooks of water, | 19:13 | |
of fountains and springs, | 19:15 | |
flowing forth in valleys and hills, | 19:17 | |
a land of wheat and barley, | 19:20 | |
of vines and fig trees and pomegranates. | 19:22 | |
A land of olive trees and honey. | 19:25 | |
A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, | 19:28 | |
in which you will lack nothing. | 19:31 | |
A land whose stones are iron | 19:33 | |
and out of whose hills you can dig copper. | 19:35 | |
And you shall eat and be full | 19:39 | |
and you shall bless the Lord your God | 19:41 | |
for the good land He has given you. | 19:42 | |
Take heed lest you forget the Lord your God | 19:46 | |
by not keeping His commandments | 19:49 | |
and His ordinances and His statutes | 19:50 | |
which I command you this day. | 19:52 | |
Lest when you have eaten and are full | 19:55 | |
and have built goodly houses and live in them | 19:58 | |
and when your herds and your flocks multiply | 20:01 | |
and your silver and gold is multiplied | 20:03 | |
and all that you have is multiplied, | 20:06 | |
then your heart becomes proud | 20:09 | |
and you forget the Lord your God | 20:11 | |
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, | 20:13 | |
out of the house of bondage, | 20:16 | |
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness | 20:18 | |
with its fiery serpents and scorpions | 20:21 | |
and thirsty ground, where there was no water. | 20:24 | |
Who brought you water out of the flinty rock, | 20:28 | |
who fed you in the wilderness with manna | 20:31 | |
which your fathers did not know | 20:33 | |
that He might humble you and test you | 20:34 | |
to do your good in the end. | 20:37 | |
Beware lest you say in your heart, | 20:40 | |
my power and the might of my hand | 20:42 | |
have gotten me this wealth. | 20:45 | |
You shall remember the Lord your God | 20:47 | |
for it is He who gives you the power to get wealth, | 20:49 | |
that He may confirm His covenant | 20:52 | |
which He swore to your fathers | 20:55 | |
as at this day. | 20:56 | |
Here ends the reading from the Old Testament, amen. | 21:00 | |
The epistle lesson is from the second letter of Paul | 21:06 | |
to the Corinthians, chapter 9, | 21:09 | |
verses 6 through 12. | 21:12 | |
The point is this: | 21:16 | |
he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, | 21:18 | |
and he whoever sows bountifully | 21:21 | |
will also reap bountifully. | 21:23 | |
Each one must do as he has made up his mind, | 21:25 | |
not reluctantly or under compulsion, | 21:28 | |
for God loves a cheerful giver. | 21:31 | |
And God is able to provide you | 21:34 | |
with every blessing and abundance | 21:35 | |
so that you may also have enough of everything | 21:38 | |
and may provide at abundance | 21:41 | |
for every good work. | 21:43 | |
As it is written, | 21:45 | |
he scatters abroad, | 21:47 | |
he gives to the poor. | 21:48 | |
His righteousness endures forever. | 21:50 | |
He who supplies seed to the sower | 21:53 | |
and bread for food will supply | 21:55 | |
and multiply your resources | 21:57 | |
and increase the harvest of your righteousness. | 21:59 | |
You will be enriched in every way | 22:02 | |
for great generosity, | 22:04 | |
which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. | 22:06 | |
For the rendering of this service | 22:09 | |
not only supplies the wants of the saints | 22:11 | |
but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God. | 22:14 | |
Here ends the reading from the epistle lesson. | 22:19 | |
Amen. | 22:23 | |
(instrumental music) | 22:45 | |
(singing in foreign language) | 23:20 | |
(singing in foreign language) | 26:29 | |
- | Will the congregation please rise | 29:06 |
for the reading of the gospel? | 29:08 | |
The New Testament lesson | 29:16 | |
is from Luke chapter 12 | 29:18 | |
verses 16 through 21. | 29:21 | |
And Jesus told them a parable, saying, | 29:25 | |
The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully | 29:27 | |
and he thought to himself, | 29:31 | |
What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops? | 29:33 | |
And he said, I will do this. | 29:38 | |
I will pull down my barns and build larger ones. | 29:40 | |
And there I will store all my grain and my goods. | 29:43 | |
And I will say to my soul, | 29:47 | |
Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. | 29:49 | |
Take your ease. | 29:53 | |
Eat, drink and be merry. | 29:54 | |
But God said to him, | 29:57 | |
You fool, this night your soul is required of you. | 29:59 | |
And the things you have prepared, | 30:02 | |
whose will they be then? | 30:05 | |
So is he who lays up treasures for himself | 30:09 | |
and is not rich toward God. | 30:12 | |
Here ends the reading of the gospel lesson, amen. | 30:16 | |
(organ music) | 30:21 | |
♪ Glory be to our Creator ♪ | 30:28 | |
♪ Praise to our Redeemer Lord ♪ | 30:34 | |
♪ Glory be to our Sustainer ♪ | 30:40 | |
♪ Ever three and ever one ♪ | 30:48 | |
♪ As it was in the beginning ♪ | 30:54 | |
♪ Ever shall be, amen ♪ | 31:01 | |
- | Let us pray. | 31:24 |
May the words of my mouth | 31:29 | |
and the meditations of our hearts | 31:31 | |
be acceptable in Your sight, | 31:33 | |
O Lord our Strength and Redeemer, amen. | 31:36 | |
Thanksgiving is a time of remembrance. | 31:44 | |
This glorious season, | 31:49 | |
this season of the harvest | 31:52 | |
calls us first to remember the good earth | 31:54 | |
and the fruits of this good land. | 31:58 | |
Indeed, it is a time when we survey | 32:01 | |
the whole of creation and we marvel | 32:04 | |
at God's mighty acts of creation | 32:07 | |
and God's providence toward us. | 32:10 | |
This week, many of us will find ourselves | 32:14 | |
around a table of abundance | 32:17 | |
and we will be full of memories | 32:20 | |
of all that has brought us safely thus far. | 32:23 | |
I believe that these powerful memories will cause us | 32:28 | |
to clasp hands with dear ones that we love | 32:31 | |
as we offer our prayers of thanksgiving. | 32:36 | |
I also think that Thanksgiving time | 32:41 | |
beckons us to remember our personal histories | 32:44 | |
as well as our collective ones. | 32:49 | |
Beside our table and beside many plates | 32:53 | |
on the American dinner tables this Thursday | 32:58 | |
will be five pieces of corn. | 33:01 | |
That corn will help us to remember | 33:05 | |
that families were not always together at this time, | 33:09 | |
that times were not always good, | 33:14 | |
that warmth and comfort and shelter | 33:18 | |
were not always taken for granted. | 33:21 | |
Staring at grains of unripened corn | 33:25 | |
will remind us fully of the Pilgrim Puritage heritage | 33:29 | |
which is ours. | 33:35 | |
We can stir from the memory of history books | 33:37 | |
the first feast of harvest in a new land. | 33:41 | |
I hope for us that it will be a solemn time | 33:47 | |
as we remember that most Pilgrims died | 33:51 | |
from the cold, disease and depravation | 33:56 | |
of that first winter. | 34:00 | |
There were few survivors to gather together | 34:02 | |
the fruits of their labors. | 34:06 | |
Sometimes it is hard for us to remember | 34:10 | |
the very brutal struggle for survival, | 34:13 | |
the killing weather and the meager resources | 34:17 | |
of our ancestors. | 34:21 | |
Lest we forget from whence we came | 34:25 | |
and who we are now as a people of untold wealth, | 34:30 | |
perhaps five grains of corn will be a symbol to us | 34:35 | |
of our past. | 34:40 | |
In both the Old and New Testaments, | 34:44 | |
to remember has a central place. | 34:47 | |
Abraham Heschel says, | 34:52 | |
Much of what the Bible demands | 34:54 | |
can be comprised in one word, remember. | 34:57 | |
And Niels Dahl, speaking about early Christianity, says, | 35:02 | |
The first obligation of the apostle, | 35:08 | |
vis a vis the community, | 35:11 | |
is to make the faithful remember what they have received | 35:13 | |
and what they already know. | 35:19 | |
So it is in keeping with the core of our biblical tradition | 35:23 | |
to talk about and to rehearse for ourselves memory. | 35:27 | |
Indeed, lest we forget, | 35:33 | |
the biblical record captures the history | 35:37 | |
of God's people for us. | 35:40 | |
As I read it, the Deuteronomy passage | 35:44 | |
was intended as a warning to the people of Israel long ago. | 35:47 | |
For the Lord God Yahweh called the children of Israel | 35:53 | |
to remember their slavery in Egypt. | 35:58 | |
As the very Promised Land came into view, | 36:02 | |
God called His people to remember the wilderness. | 36:06 | |
For remembering 40 years of wandering | 36:12 | |
God said will help humble you and prepare you | 36:16 | |
for the temptations of the Promised Land. | 36:21 | |
It was the very providence of God | 36:25 | |
that had supplied manna and strength | 36:28 | |
in a time of severe testing. | 36:31 | |
And the question was, would that be forgotten | 36:35 | |
in a prosperous land, a land of milk and honey | 36:39 | |
for you will want for nothing? | 36:44 | |
It is the Lord God who gave the children of Israel life, | 36:48 | |
who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, | 36:52 | |
guided them through that vast, terrible wilderness | 36:57 | |
and brought them to the land of Canaan. | 37:01 | |
Lest they forget, Yahweh warned, | 37:05 | |
beware of saying in your heart, | 37:10 | |
it is my own strength and the strength and power | 37:13 | |
of my hand that has won this power for me. | 37:17 | |
Remember Yahweh your God. | 37:22 | |
It was the Lord God who kept the covenant | 37:25 | |
and won for you this power. | 37:29 | |
And what of our link would the children of Israel | 37:34 | |
the wilderness experience was a testing by privation. | 37:39 | |
The Canaan experience was a testing by abundance. | 37:45 | |
My friends, have we not all inherited a promised land, | 37:50 | |
a land of plenty? | 37:56 | |
We cannot deny in the eyes of the hungry world | 37:59 | |
that we are a people of enormous wealth | 38:04 | |
and riches and power | 38:08 | |
and we want for nothing. | 38:11 | |
We too have felt the temptations of the Promised Land. | 38:15 | |
We have suffered from greed and riches, | 38:19 | |
from violence and injustice, | 38:23 | |
from broken dreams and promises. | 38:26 | |
We have forgotten to keep covenant with the Lord God | 38:30 | |
by remembering who we are | 38:35 | |
and who God is | 38:38 | |
in this part of earth that we have claimed | 38:41 | |
as our special territory, | 38:44 | |
what we call our Manifest Destiny. | 38:48 | |
The words of George Santayana | 38:52 | |
come as a modern day warning to all of us | 38:55 | |
who are willing to hear. | 38:59 | |
He says, He who forgets the past | 39:01 | |
is doomed to repeat it. | 39:04 | |
At no time have I been more painfully aware | 39:09 | |
of our corporate sin as | 39:13 | |
when I remember the Holocaust. | 39:16 | |
When confronted with the living memory of survivors | 39:22 | |
of the concentration camps, | 39:27 | |
we confess our absolute horror | 39:30 | |
at what happened there. | 39:33 | |
And upon hearing Japanese Americans | 39:38 | |
within my very own family circle | 39:42 | |
tell the story of their internment at prison camps | 39:45 | |
during World War II in our country, | 39:49 | |
I cringe with disbelief. | 39:53 | |
We are sick at heart when we confront | 39:57 | |
the long history of racism in this our United States. | 40:00 | |
And so we confess that our country has not always been | 40:07 | |
a land of equality for all under the law. | 40:12 | |
We confess today that the Promised Land image | 40:17 | |
is marred and bruised. | 40:22 | |
I believe that the biblical mandate | 40:27 | |
calls us to remember our sins. | 40:30 | |
In fact, to forget our sins | 40:35 | |
may be an even greater sin | 40:39 | |
than to commit them. | 40:42 | |
Why? | 40:44 | |
Because what is forgotten cannot be healed | 40:46 | |
and that which cannot be healed | 40:50 | |
might well become the source of a greater evil. | 40:53 | |
In our remembering of evil and sin, | 40:58 | |
I believe that we are called | 41:02 | |
not to torture our consciences | 41:04 | |
with heightened guilt feelings. | 41:07 | |
Rather, we must allow our memories to be healed | 41:10 | |
and so prevent even worse disasters. | 41:15 | |
I am convinced that an Auschwitz that is forgotten | 41:20 | |
causes a Hiroshima | 41:25 | |
and a forgotten Hiroshima in our day | 41:28 | |
can cause the destruction of our world. | 41:31 | |
Lest we forget, we must remember the past | 41:36 | |
in order to not paralyze our future | 41:42 | |
as a nation and a people. | 41:45 | |
Our first and our very spontaneous response | 41:50 | |
to our undesirable memories is to forget them. | 41:54 | |
When something painful has happened to us, | 42:00 | |
we quickly say to ourselves and to each other, | 42:03 | |
let's forget it. | 42:07 | |
Let's act as if it didn't happen. | 42:09 | |
Let's not talk about it. | 42:11 | |
We want to forget the pains of the past, | 42:14 | |
our personal, communal and national traumas | 42:18 | |
and sometimes live as if they did not really happen. | 42:23 | |
But by not remembering them, | 42:28 | |
we are allowing the forgotten memories | 42:31 | |
to become independent forces | 42:35 | |
that can have a crippling effect on our very functioning | 42:37 | |
as human beings. | 42:42 | |
When this happens, we become strangers to ourselves | 42:45 | |
because we are cutting down and cutting out | 42:50 | |
part of our own history | 42:53 | |
to make it conform to our daydream or fantasy | 42:55 | |
of what we would really like it to be. | 42:59 | |
By refusing to face our personal memories, | 43:03 | |
we miss the opportunity | 43:06 | |
as the Bible claims | 43:09 | |
to change our hearts. | 43:10 | |
How are we then healed of our wounding memories? | 43:16 | |
We are healed first of all | 43:23 | |
by letting them be available, | 43:25 | |
by leading them out of the corners of forgetfulness | 43:29 | |
and by remembering them as part of our life stories. | 43:33 | |
The parable of the rich fool is held up still | 43:40 | |
for us today as a warning sign. | 43:44 | |
If we note the things in that parable, | 43:48 | |
the man was able to remember and what he forgot, | 43:51 | |
perhaps we can discover just where he went wrong. | 43:56 | |
Most obviously this man of unbroken prosperity | 44:02 | |
in his own life remembered himself. | 44:05 | |
The soliloquy of this rich fool | 44:10 | |
is centered around the word I. | 44:13 | |
What shall I do | 44:17 | |
because I have no room to bestow my fruits? | 44:19 | |
This will I do. | 44:24 | |
I will pull down my barns and build greater. | 44:25 | |
And there will I bestow all my fruits and goods. | 44:28 | |
From that statement, he goes on to plan a life | 44:34 | |
which has not the remotest thought | 44:38 | |
for anything else except his own ease and enjoyment. | 44:40 | |
The rich fool also remembered this world. | 44:46 | |
As far as he was concerned, | 44:52 | |
no other world existed. | 44:53 | |
The idea of such a person as he is to amass things | 44:56 | |
which he believes can ensure happiness and security. | 45:01 | |
But there are some essential things | 45:07 | |
which the rich fool forgot. | 45:10 | |
He surely forgot his neighbors. | 45:14 | |
If he had only looked around, | 45:17 | |
he could have found many ways | 45:19 | |
to dispose of the too much he had. | 45:22 | |
The rich fool also forgot time. | 45:26 | |
He forgot that he had a limited time | 45:29 | |
to live his life. | 45:33 | |
He forgot God, | 45:36 | |
the source of his creation and prosperity. | 45:39 | |
His plans were made leaving out God. | 45:42 | |
He forgot that as a man, a person is what he is | 45:46 | |
and not what he has. | 45:51 | |
The rich fool was busy acquiring temporal things. | 45:54 | |
What he left out and what he forgot | 46:00 | |
was forming a character, a responding human person | 46:03 | |
who would be pleasing in God's sight. | 46:08 | |
On this day, lest we forget | 46:13 | |
what happened to the rich fool, | 46:17 | |
let us take the story to heart. | 46:21 | |
Thanksgiving is a time of remembrance. | 46:26 | |
It is a time of remembering our creation and our Creator. | 46:31 | |
If is a time for calling forth our personal stories | 46:37 | |
and our corporate history. | 46:42 | |
I believe it is a time for acknowledging painful memories | 46:44 | |
and also a time for proclaiming grace-filled memories. | 46:49 | |
On this day, lest we forget | 46:56 | |
the Lord our God, let us join | 47:00 | |
in an anthem of praise together. | 47:03 | |
O Lord, how manifold are Your works. | 47:07 | |
In wisdom, You made them all. | 47:11 | |
The earth is full of Your riches. | 47:14 | |
This day, may we offer our lives to God | 47:18 | |
in thanksgiving for all that has been | 47:23 | |
and all that is meant to be, | 47:26 | |
lest we forget. | 47:30 | |
Amen. | 47:34 | |
(organ music) | 47:44 | |
♪ Christian, rise and act thy creed ♪ | 48:02 | |
♪ Let your prayer be in your deed ♪ | 48:06 | |
♪ Seek the right, perform the true ♪ | 48:11 | |
♪ Raise your work and life anew ♪ | 48:16 | |
♪ Hearts around thee sink with care ♪ | 48:23 | |
♪ You can help their load to bear ♪ | 48:27 | |
♪ You can bring inspiring light ♪ | 48:32 | |
♪ Strengthen them to do the right ♪ | 48:37 | |
♪ Offer others hope and joy ♪ | 48:44 | |
♪ And God's worship your employ ♪ | 48:49 | |
♪ Giving thanks in humble zeal ♪ | 48:54 | |
♪ Learning all God's will to feel ♪ | 48:59 | |
♪ Come then, law divine, and reign ♪ | 49:06 | |
♪ Faith that doubt assails in vain ♪ | 49:11 | |
♪ Perfect love bereft of fear ♪ | 49:16 | |
♪ Born in heaven and radiant here ♪ | 49:21 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 49:28 | |
- | Let us affirm what we believe. | 49:37 |
- | We believe in God who has created and is creating. | 49:40 |
Who has come in the truly human Jesus | 49:46 | |
to reconcile and make new. | 49:49 | |
Who works in us and others by the Spirit. | 49:52 | |
We trust God who calls us to be the church, | 49:56 | |
to celebrate life and its fullness. | 50:00 | |
To love and serve others. | 50:03 | |
To seek justice and resist evil. | 50:06 | |
To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen, | 50:09 | |
our judge and our hope. | 50:13 | |
In life, in death, in life beyond death, | 50:16 | |
God is with us. | 50:20 | |
We are not alone. | 50:22 | |
Thanks be to God. | 50:24 | |
- | The Lord be with you. | 50:27 |
- | And also with you. | 50:29 |
- | Let us pray. | 50:31 |
Holy God, our Creator and Sustainer, | 50:45 | |
we thank You for life itself, | 50:48 | |
for health and strength and daily food | 50:51 | |
and for the intricate beauty and wonder of this earth. | 50:56 | |
We pray that as we search for truth | 51:00 | |
at this university, our quest will make us | 51:03 | |
ever more aware and grateful of Your wonderful works. | 51:06 | |
We thank You most of all that in Jesus of Nazareth, | 51:12 | |
You became like us and showed us | 51:16 | |
the perfect way of obedience. | 51:19 | |
And we thank You that the Spirit of that risen Christ | 51:22 | |
is with us still. | 51:26 | |
You have promised to be with us when we gather in worship | 51:29 | |
and so we raise to You these pleas for Your children. | 51:33 | |
Help us, we pray, to be determined lovers of justice. | 51:38 | |
Help us to persevere in the tedious | 51:43 | |
and trying tasks of citizenship, | 51:47 | |
to keep striving to make our system of government work | 51:50 | |
for the common good. | 51:54 | |
Be with our newly elected leaders, | 51:57 | |
gifting them with wisdom, | 52:00 | |
humility and kindness. | 52:03 | |
Enable us to be instruments of Your peace | 52:07 | |
by forgiving and by taking the initiative | 52:10 | |
to be reconciled with those whom we hate or disdain. | 52:13 | |
Keep us ever mindful of the hungry, | 52:20 | |
the sick, the lonely and despairing. | 52:23 | |
Grant that we may be healers and comforters. | 52:28 | |
Help us to be the body of our risen Lord, | 52:33 | |
serving as He served | 52:37 | |
and praying as He prayed. | 52:40 | |
- | Our Father who art in heaven, | 52:43 |
hallowed be Thy name. | 52:46 | |
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done | 52:48 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 52:52 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 52:55 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 52:58 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 53:01 | |
And lead us not into temptation | 53:05 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 53:07 | |
For Thine is the kingdom | 53:09 | |
and the power, and the glory forever, amen. | 53:12 | |
(instrumental music) | 53:26 | |
(singing in foreign language) | 54:26 | |
(organ music) | 59:47 | |
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 1:00:06 | |
♪ Praise God, all creatures here below ♪ | 1:00:11 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 1:00:17 | |
♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪ | 1:00:24 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪ | 1:00:30 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 1:00:36 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 1:00:39 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 1:00:42 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 1:00:45 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 1:00:48 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:00:56 | |
- | God, help us not to forget You | 1:01:08 |
as we go from an hour of worship | 1:01:12 | |
into a week of work. | 1:01:15 | |
Help us to remember You always | 1:01:18 | |
in everything that we do, | 1:01:21 | |
making You the center of our lives | 1:01:25 | |
and giving of our entire selves to Your service. | 1:01:28 | |
In the Lord Jesus Christ we pray, amen. | 1:01:33 | |
(organ music) | 1:01:39 | |
♪ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty ♪ | 1:02:16 | |
♪ The King of creation ♪ | 1:02:20 | |
♪ O my soul praise Him ♪ | 1:02:26 | |
♪ For He is thy health and salvation ♪ | 1:02:29 | |
♪ All ye who hear ♪ | 1:02:37 | |
♪ Now to His temple draw near ♪ | 1:02:40 | |
♪ Sing now in glad adoration ♪ | 1:02:46 | |
♪ Praise to the Lord ♪ | 1:02:55 | |
♪ Who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth ♪ | 1:02:58 | |
♪ Who, as on wings of an eagle ♪ | 1:03:06 | |
♪ Uplifteth, sustaineth ♪ | 1:03:11 | |
♪ Hast thou not seen ♪ | 1:03:17 | |
♪ How thy desires all have been ♪ | 1:03:21 | |
♪ Granted in what He ordaineth ♪ | 1:03:27 | |
♪ Praise to the Lord ♪ | 1:03:36 | |
♪ Who hath fearfully, wondrously, made thee ♪ | 1:03:39 | |
♪ Health hath vouchsafed and ♪ | 1:03:47 | |
♪ When heedlessly falling, hath stayed thee. ♪ | 1:03:51 | |
♪ What need or grief ♪ | 1:03:58 | |
♪ Ever hath failed of relief ♪ | 1:04:03 | |
♪ Wings of His mercy did shade thee ♪ | 1:04:08 | |
♪ Praise to the Lord ♪ | 1:04:18 | |
♪ O let all that is in me adore Him ♪ | 1:04:21 | |
♪ All that has life and breath ♪ | 1:04:29 | |
♪ Come now with praises before Him ♪ | 1:04:33 | |
♪ Let the amen sound from His people again ♪ | 1:04:41 | |
♪ Gladly forever adore Him ♪ | 1:04:51 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:05:01 | |
- | Go from this place, giving praise and thanks to God | 1:05:10 |
and remembering our Lord, the source of our salvation | 1:05:14 | |
and our hope in years to come. | 1:05:18 | |
And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, | 1:05:22 | |
the love of God the Father | 1:05:25 | |
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit | 1:05:27 | |
be and abide with you, amen. | 1:05:29 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:05:33 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:05:38 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:05:44 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:05:51 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:05:59 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:06:11 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:06:24 | |
(organ music) | 1:06:45 | |
(audience applauds) | 1:11:42 | |
(audience chatters in background) | 1:11:54 |