Charlene P. Kammerer - "Come and See" (December 28, 1980)

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	(organ music)	0:05
	(organ music)	2:22
	(organ music)	4:32
	(organ music)	6:20
	(organ music)	7:40
-	Behold, the dwelling of God is with mankind.	12:44
	He will dwell with them.	12:47
	They shall be his people	12:49
	and God himself will be with them and be their God.	12:52
	Seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion,	12:58
	that turneth deep darkness into the morning,	13:02
	and darkeneth the day into night,	13:07
	that calleth for the waters of the sea	13:11
	and poureth them o'er upon the face of the earth.	13:14
	The Lord is his name.	13:18
	("Angels From the Realms of Glory")	13:22
	Let us humbly confess our sins unto almighty God.	16:03
	O God, Lord of us all, help us to acknowledge	16:11
	our own weaknesses.	16:15
	Our minds are darkened and by ourselves we cannot find	16:17
	and know the truth.	16:22
	Our wills are weak and by ourselves,	16:24
	we cannot resist temptation	16:27
	or bring to its completion that which we resolve to do.	16:30
	Our hearts are fickle and by ourselves we cannot give to you	16:35
	the loyalty which is your due.	16:40
	Our steps are faltering and by ourselves we cannot walk	16:43
	in your straight way.	16:48
	So this day we ask you to enlighten us,	16:50
	to strengthen us, to guide us,	16:55
	that we may know you and love you and follow you	16:59
	all the days of our life.	17:04
	Through Jesus Christ our redeemer, Amen.	17:06
	Almighty God, our heavenly Father,	17:35
	who appears great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins	17:37
	to all those who with hearty repentance and true faith	17:41
	turn unto Him,	17:45
	have mercy upon you,	17:47
	pardon and deliver you from all your sins,	17:50
	confirm and strengthen you in all goodness	17:54
	and bring you to everlasting life.	17:59
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	18:02
	Amen.	18:05
	Let us give thanks, for God is good,	18:07
	and God's love is everlasting.	18:10
	(parishioners praying aloud)	18:14
-	Thanks be to God, his love,	18:21
	Thanks be to God.	18:24
-	I would like to welcome all of you very brave souls	18:40
	for coming to worship with us here at Duke University Chapel	18:43
	this morning.	18:48
	The morning after our first winter storm of the year.	18:49
	It is good to be with you,	18:53
	to come together to worship in the presence of God	18:55
	three days after Christmas, this season of Christmas tide.	18:58
	We are very sorry that we have to announce	19:05
	the bell ringers from Henderson were not able to be	19:08
	with us today to share their special music,	19:11
	because of the weather conditions.	19:15
	They were not able to travel.	19:17
	We will invite them to come again	19:19
	and participate and share with us	19:21
	in another worship setting.	19:23
	Let me call to your attention the announcement	19:27
	in the Bulletin concerning the need for host families	19:30
	for some incoming January freshman students.	19:34
	Please read that announcement	19:39
	and if you are interesting in participating,	19:40
	we would like to hear from you by calling the chapel office.	19:43
	After the printing of the Bulletin	19:50
	for this order of worship,	19:53
	there has been a change in the sermon title.	19:55
	The sermon title for this Sunday is Come and See.	19:58
	The changes in the scripture lessons will be announced	20:04
	as read.	20:07
-	Let us pray.	20:16
	Speak to us, O God,	20:22
	through the noise both within and without,	20:25
	that the reading from thy word may establish	20:30
	and edify us before thee.	20:34
	Amen.	20:38
	The reading from the Hebrew bible is taken from Isaiah.	20:42
	"But there will be no gloom for her that was in anguish.	20:50
	"In the former time, he brought into contempt	20:55
	"the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,	20:58
	"but in the latter time,	21:02
	"he will make glorious way of the sea,	21:03
	"the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.	21:07
	"The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.	21:12
	"Those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness on them	21:17
	"has the light shined.	21:21
	"Thou hast multiplied the nation,	21:24
	"thou hast increased its joy,	21:26
	"they rejoice before thee as with joy at the harvest,	21:28
	"as men rejoice when they divide the spoil,	21:33
	"for the yoke of his burden and the staff for his shoulder,	21:37
	"the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken,	21:40
	"as on the day of Midian.	21:44
	"For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult	21:46
	"and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel	21:51
	"for the fire.	21:56
	"For to us a child is born,	21:58
	"to us a son is given,	22:01
	"and the government shall be upon his shoulder,	22:04
	"and his name will be called wonderful counselor,	22:07
	"mighty God, everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.	22:11
	"Of the increase of his government and of peace,	22:18
	"there will be no end.	22:21
	"Upon the throne of David and over his kingdom,	22:24
	"to establish it and to uphold it with justice	22:28
	"and righteousness from this time forth and forevermore.	22:34
	"The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this."	22:41
	Here ends the reading from the Hebrew scripture.	22:47
	The epistle is written in Paul's letter to Titus.	22:59
	"For the grace of God has appeared	23:07
	"for the salvation of man,	23:09
	"training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions,	23:12
	"and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world,	23:19
	"awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory	23:26
	"of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,	23:30
	"who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity,	23:34
	"and to purify for himself a people of his own,	23:40
	"who are zealous for good deeds.	23:45
	"Declare these things,	23:49
	"exhort and reprove with all authority.	23:51
	"Let no one disregard you."	23:56
	Here ends the reading of the epistle.	24:01
	Would you stand, please?	24:06
	The Holy Gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ,	24:14
	according to St. Luke.	24:18
	"In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus,	24:22
	"that all the world should be enrolled.	24:27
	"This was the first enrollment when Cyrenius was governor	24:30
	"of Syria,	24:34
	"and all went to be enrolled, each to his own city,	24:35
	"and Joseph also went up from Galilee	24:40
	"from the city of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David,	24:42
	"which is called Bethlehem,	24:46
	"because he was of the house and lineage of David,	24:49
	"to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed,	24:52
	"who was with child,	24:55
	"and while they were there,	24:58
	"the time came for her to be delivered,	24:59
	"and she gave birth to her first-born	25:03
	"and wrapped him in swaddling clothes	25:06
	"and laid him in a manger,	25:09
	"because there was no place for them in the inn,	25:11
	"and in that region, there were shepherds out in the field,	25:15
	"keeping watch over their flock by night,	25:19
	"and an angel of the Lord appeared to them,	25:23
	"and the glory of the Lord shown round about them,	25:25
	"and they were filled with fear,	25:29
	"and the angel said to them, be not afraid,	25:32
	"for behold, I bring you good news of great joy,	25:36
	"which shall come to all the people.	25:40
	"For to you is born this day in the city of David,	25:43
	"a savior, who is Christ the Lord,	25:47
	"and this will be a sign for you.	25:51
	"You will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes,	25:54
	"and lying in a manger.	25:57
	"And suddenly there was with the angel	26:00
	"a multitude of the heavenly host,	26:03
	"praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest,	26:05
	"and on earth, peace among men, with whom He is pleased.	26:10
	"When the angels went away from them into Heaven,	26:18
	"the shepherds said to one another,	26:21
	"'Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing	26:24
	"that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us,'	26:27
	"and they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph	26:32
	"and the babe lying in a manger,	26:35
	"and when they saw it, they made known the saying	26:39
	"which had been told them concerning the child,	26:42
	"and all who heard it wondered	26:45
	"at what the shepherds told them,	26:48
	"but Mary kept all these things,	26:51
	"pondering them in her heart,	26:54
	"and the shepherds returned,	26:57
	"glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen	27:00
	"as it had been told to them."	27:06
	The Gospel of the Lord.	27:09
	(organ music)	27:12
-	One of my Christmas gifts, a few years back,	28:15
	was a book called The Hungering Dark.	28:18
	It is a book of meditations by Frederick Buechner,	28:23
	and I have found that it's been a profound impact	28:27
	on my own life as I read it and re-read it.	28:31
	It is through some of this author's insights	28:35
	and my own response to this book	28:38
	that this sermon has been born.	28:41
	I think that this metaphor of Isaiah that we read	28:45
	is a relevant one for us,	28:49
	because we are also, as God knows,	28:51
	a people who walk in darkness.	28:56
	If darkness is meant to suggest a world	29:00
	where nobody can see very well,	29:03
	either themselves or each other,	29:07
	or where they are heading.	29:10
	If darkness is meant to convey a sense of uncertainty,	29:12
	of being lost, of being afraid.	29:17
	If darkness suggests conflict between races,	29:21
	between churches, between nations, between individuals	29:25
	pretty much out for themselves,	29:30
	then indeed we do live in a world that knows much	29:33
	about darkness.	29:38
	Darkness is what our newspapers are about.	29:40
	Darkness is what most of our contemporary literature	29:45
	is about.	29:49
	It is the darkness of pollution that fills the skies	29:51
	over our city,	29:55
	and I believe in our own private lives,	29:57
	we know much about darkness, too.	30:00
	If we are people who pray,	30:04
	darkness is apt to be what we pray about,	30:07
	and if we are people who do not pray,	30:11
	it is apt to be some kind of darkness	30:15
	that has stopped our efforts,	30:18
	but the prophecy of Isaiah is that into this kind	30:21
	of darkness, a great light will shine,	30:26
	and of course, the proclamation of the Gospel	30:30
	is that into this darkness has already shown a light.	30:34
	A light to dazzle the world with its glory	30:39
	and its terror.	30:43
	The first thing that I remember that the angel said	30:46
	to the shepherds was, "Be not afraid,"	30:49
	as the glory of the great light and the Lord	30:54
	shone upon them.	30:58
	It is into the darkness of that night,	31:00
	in the midst of nowhere,	31:04
	to parents who seemed to be nobody,	31:07
	that the child was born,	31:10
	and cried out at the very shock and strangeness	31:13
	of being born into the darkness of the world,	31:17
	and then, as the Gospels picture it,	31:21
	is when all Heaven broke loose.	31:24
	The darkness was shattered, the glory flooded through	31:28
	with amazing light.	31:32
	A new star burst forth where	31:35
	there had never been a star before,	31:37
	and we are told the air was filled	31:40
	with bright wings of angels.	31:43
	The night sky came alive	31:46
	and a great hymn of victory rose up from those shepherds.	31:48
	Glory to God in the highest,	31:53
	and strange kings arrived out of the East	31:56
	to lay gifts at the feet of this even stranger	32:01
	and yet more kingly child.	32:04
	This is how we are told, after centuries of weary waiting,	32:08
	the light is said finally to have come into the world	32:14
	as Luke proclaims it with his familiar story.	32:18
	Now we live in an age that assumes that nothing	32:24
	can be real unless it is verifiable by science,	32:28
	and so I believe that we have great reason to be skeptical	32:32
	about this Christmas story that we hear in Luke.	32:36
	In the letters of St. Paul, which are the earliest	32:41
	New Testament writings,	32:45
	there is no suggestion that the birth of Jesus	32:47
	was accompanied by any miracle,	32:51
	and in the Gospel of Mark, which is probably the earliest	32:54
	of the Gospels,	32:58
	the birth is not even mentioned.	32:59
	So a great many biblical scholars would agree	33:02
	with the skeptics of our age that the Nativity stories	33:05
	of Luke and Matthew are simply the legends,	33:09
	the poetry of a later generation	33:14
	and that were we to have been present,	33:17
	we would have witnessed a birth no more or no less marvelous	33:19
	than any other birth.	33:25
	Well, if this is the case,	33:27
	what do we do about the legends	33:30
	of the wise men and the star,	33:32
	the shepherds and the angels?	33:35
	Do we dismiss them as fairytales?	33:38
	I believe only if we are fools do we do that,	33:42
	although I know there are many in our age	33:47
	who have done it,	33:52
	and there are moments of darkness in our own lives	33:54
	when we are tempted to do it as well.	33:57
	None of us knows the facts of Jesus' birth.	34:02
	If we believe in miracles,	34:06
	the more we can suspect that had we been there at the birth,	34:08
	we might well have seen and heard some things	34:13
	that would be hard to reconcile with modern science,	34:17
	but that is still not the point.	34:21
	The Gospel writers, Matthew and Luke,	34:25
	are not primarily interested in the facts of the birth,	34:28
	but rather the meaning and the significance of it.	34:32
	I believe it is the same as when we were born,	34:37
	what that meant to our parents,	34:41
	and how, for them, the world was never to be the same again	34:44
	how their whole lives were charged with new significance.	34:49
	It is a fact that whether there were a million angels there	34:55
	or just the woman herself and her husband,	34:59
	that when that child was born,	35:03
	the whole course of history was changed.	35:06
	This is evident in our art, in music, in literature,	35:11
	in our culture itself, our political institutions,	35:17
	and I believe, our whole understandings of ourselves	35:21
	and our world,	35:25
	and in terms of faith, much more can be said,	35:27
	because for faith, the birth of the child	35:31
	into the darkness of the world,	35:34
	was made possible, not just a new way of understanding life,	35:37
	for ourselves, but indeed new ways of living life.	35:42
	All the way through the 20 centuries since that child	35:50
	was born,	35:53
	there have been countless different kinds of people	35:54
	who in different ways have been filled with his spirit,	35:58
	who have found themselves in deep and private ways	36:02
	healed and transformed by their relationships with him,	36:06
	so much so that they have no choice	36:11
	but to go on proclaiming what the writers of the Gospels	36:14
	first proclaimed,	36:19
	that he was indeed the long-expected one, The Christ,	36:21
	wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father,	36:27
	Prince of Peace.	36:33
	It is our continual way of trying to express	36:36
	that in this child, in the man he grew up to be,	36:40
	there is the power of God to bring light	36:44
	into our darkness,	36:48
	to make us whole,	36:50
	to give us a new kind of life to anyone who turns to Him	36:52
	in faith, even to you and to me.	36:57
	Rabbi David Polish recalls an inscription	37:03
	found on a concentration camp wall.	37:08
	It reads like this.	37:12
	"I believe in the sun even when it does not shine.	37:14
	"I believe in love even when it is denied to me.	37:19
	"I believe in God even when he hides from me."	37:24
	That kind of powerful witness to the light of God	37:29
	helps us to build the future it proclaims and believes in.	37:34
	I believe this is what Matthew and Luke were trying to say	37:40
	in their stories about how the child was born,	37:44
	and this is the only truth that matters,	37:48
	and the wise men, the shepherds, and the star are important	37:51
	only as ways of pointing toward this truth.	37:56
	The great question for us then,	38:01
	how do we know whether or not this truth is true?	38:04
	How do we find out for ourselves that this child,	38:09
	born so long ago, really has the power to give us	38:14
	a new kind of life in which both suffering and joy	38:18
	are immeasurably deepened?	38:23
	A new kind of life	38:26
	in which we begin to love our friends,	38:28
	our enemies, maybe at last	38:32
	even ourselves, and even God.	38:36
	Adeste fideles, come all you faithful.	38:42
	That is the only answer that we have for people	38:48
	who want to find out whether or not this is true	38:52
	about this child.	38:56
	Come all you faithful and all ye who would like	38:58
	to be faithful, if only you could,	39:03
	all you who walk in darkness and hunger for light,	39:06
	have faith enough, hope enough,	39:12
	at least to draw near and to see for yourselves.	39:14
	Jesus said to ask and it will be given you,	39:21
	to seek and you will find.	39:25
	In other words, if you pray for his presence,	39:28
	he will come to you.	39:31
	There is only one way to find out whether that is true	39:34
	and that is to try it.	39:38
	Pray for him and see if he comes,	39:41
	and perhaps he will come in ways	39:45
	that only you will recognize.	39:47
	So come and see, come and behold him,	39:50
	born the king of angels.	39:55
	Come and speak to him or be silent before him,	39:59
	in whatever way seems right to you,	40:04
	and at whatever time, come to him,	40:07
	for the great promise for us is that to come to him	40:11
	who was born at Bethlehem is to find somehow	40:15
	coming to birth within ourselves	40:19
	something stronger and braver,	40:22
	something gladder and kinder and holier	40:26
	than ever we knew before	40:30
	or than ever we could've known	40:33
	without him.	40:36
	Come and see.	40:38
	Let us pray.	40:42
	O Lord, give us now the faith	40:48
	with eyes and ears to hear,	40:51
	to listen, to perceive the song of the angels,	40:55
	to see the babe in the stall,	41:00
	to hear your promise and to feel the burst of light	41:03
	which is your new hope in our world.	41:08
	Bless us as we become your people anew,	41:11
	who hunger to walk in the bright light,	41:15
	for we ask in the name of the word that was made flesh,	41:19
	and came to dwell among us, amen.	41:23
	("Go Tell It On the Mountain")	41:30
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	41:53
	♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪	41:58
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	42:03
	♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪	42:08
	♪ While shepherds kept their watching ♪	42:15
	♪ Over silent flocks by night ♪	42:20
	♪ Behold throughout the heavens ♪	42:25
	♪ There shown a holy light ♪	42:31
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	42:37
	♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪	42:43
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	42:48
	♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪	42:53
	♪ The shepherds feared and trembled ♪	42:59
	♪ When low above the earth ♪	43:05
	♪ Rang out the angel chorus ♪	43:09
	♪ That hailed the Savior's birth ♪	43:15
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	43:23
	♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪	43:28
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	43:34
	♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪	43:39
	♪ Down in a lowly manger ♪	43:45
	♪ That humble Christ was born ♪	43:50
	♪ And God send us salvation ♪	43:56
	♪ That blessed Christmas morn ♪	44:01
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	44:08
	♪ Over the hills and everywhere ♪	44:14
	♪ Go tell it on the mountain ♪	44:19
	♪ That Jesus Christ is born ♪	44:25
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	44:38
	In God, who has created and is creating,	44:42
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	44:46
	to reconcile and make new the works in us and others	44:49
	by the spirit.	44:54
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church,	44:56
	to celebrate life in its fullness,	45:00
	to love and serve others,	45:03
	to seek justice and resist evil,	45:05
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	45:09
	our judge and our hope,	45:12
	in life, in death, and life beyond death,	45:15
	God is with us, we are not alone.	45:19
	Thanks be to God.	45:23
	The Lord be with you.	45:25
	Let us pray.	45:29
	Almighty and ever-living God,	45:48
	who in thou holy word has taught us to make prayers	45:51
	and supplications and to give thanks for all people,	45:55
	receive these, our prayers,	45:59
	which we offer unto thy divine majesty,	46:01
	beseeching thee to inspire continually the universal church	46:05
	with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord,	46:10
	and grant that all those that do confess thy holy name	46:14
	may agree in the truth of thy holy word,	46:18
	and live in unity and godly love.	46:21
	Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all clergy,	46:26
	that they may both by their life and doctrine	46:30
	set forth thy true and lively word	46:34
	and rightly and duly administer thy holy sacraments,	46:37
	and to all thy people, give thy heavenly grace,	46:43
	and especially to this congregation here present,	46:47
	that with meek heart and due reverence,	46:51
	they may hear and receive thy holy word,	46:54
	truly serving thee in holiness and righteousness	46:58
	all the days of their life.	47:01
	We beseech thee also so to rule the hearts of those	47:05
	who bear the authority of government in this and every land,	47:09
	that they may be led to wise decisions	47:15
	and right actions for the welfare and peace of the world.	47:19
	Open, O Lord, the eyes of all people to behold	47:26
	thy gracious hand in all thy works,	47:30
	that rejoicing in thy whole creation,	47:34
	they may honor thee with their substance	47:38
	and be faithful stewards of thy bounty,	47:41
	and we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord,	47:47
	to comfort and succor all those	47:52
	who in this transitory life are in trouble,	47:55
	sorrow, need, sickness,	48:01
	or any other adversity,	48:10
	and we also bless thy holy name for all thy servants	48:15
	that parted this life in thy faith and fear,	48:19
	beseeching thee to grant them continual growth	48:23
	in thy love and service,	48:26
	and to grant us grace so to follow their good examples,	48:29
	that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom.	48:34
	Grant these our prayers, O Father,	48:40
	for Jesus Christ's sake, our only mediator and advocate.	48:43
	Amen.	48:48
	Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.	48:51
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	48:56
	on earth as it is in heaven.	48:59
	Give us this day our daily bread,	49:02
	and forgive us our trespasses	49:05
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	49:07
	and lead us not into temptation,	49:11
	but deliver us from evil,	49:14
	for thine is the kingdom, and the power,	49:16
	and the glory forever, amen.	49:19
	(organ music)	49:29
-	O God, as we present these symbols of ourselves,	54:18
	we ask that we are also able to present unto you,	54:21
	our souls, minds, and bodies, as acceptable holy	54:25
	and lively sacrifices unto you,	54:30
	in the name of Christ we pray, amen.	54:33
	("O Little Town of Bethlehem")	54:41
	♪ O little town of Bethlehem ♪	55:24
	♪ How still we see thee lie ♪	55:29
	♪ Above thy deep and dreamless sleep ♪	55:34
	♪ The silent stars go by ♪	55:39
	♪ But in the dark street shineth ♪	55:45
	♪ The everlasting light ♪	55:50
	♪ The hopes and fears of all the years ♪	55:55
	♪ Are met with thee tonight ♪	56:01
	♪ For Christ is born of Mary ♪	56:08
	♪ And gathered all above ♪	56:13
	♪ While mortals sleep the angels keep ♪	56:19
	♪ Their watch of wondering love ♪	56:24
	♪ O morning stars together ♪	56:30
	♪ Proclaim thy holy birth ♪	56:34
	♪ And praises sing to God the king ♪	56:39
	♪ And peace to men on earth ♪	56:45
	♪ How silently how silently ♪	56:54
	♪ The wond'rous gift is given ♪	56:59
	♪ So God imparts to human hearts ♪	57:04
	♪ The blessings of his heaven ♪	57:10
	♪ No ear may hear his coming ♪	57:16
	♪ But in his world of sin ♪	57:21
	♪ Where meek souls will receive him still ♪	57:26
	♪ The dear Christ enters in ♪	57:32
	♪ O holy child of Bethlehem ♪	57:40
	♪ Descend to us we pray ♪	57:45
	♪ Cast out our sin and enter in ♪	57:51
	♪ Be born to us today ♪	57:56
	♪ We hear the Christmas angels ♪	58:02
	♪ The great glad tidings tell ♪	58:07
	♪ O come to us abide with us ♪	58:13
	♪ Our Lord Emmanuel ♪	58:19
	And now may the God of hope and the Father of our Lord	58:34
	Jesus Christ fill you with all joy and peace in believing	58:38
	so that you may abound in hope by the power	58:43
	of the Holy Spirit.	58:46
	Amen.	58:48
	(organ music)	58:51

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Title:

Charlene P. Kammerer - "Come and See" (December 28, 1980)

Description:

Sermon start time: 28:15. Sermon end time: 41:28.
Through a theme of darkness and a discussion of the story of Jesus’s birth, the preacher encourages listeners to seek God because God is the light in the darkness. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: How do we find out for ourselves that this child born so long ago really is the power to give us a new kind of life in which both suffering and joy are immeasurably deepened—a new kind of life in which we begin to love our friends, our enemies, maybe at last even ourselves, even God?

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Date:

December 28, 1980

Speaker:

Kammerer, Charlene P.

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Christmas

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Duke University. Chapel

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Charlene P. Kammerer - "Come and See" (December 28, 1980)

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