William H. Willimon - "Just Dying to Party" (September 24, 1989)
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| (organ music) | 0:00 | |
| - | Good morning. | 0:24 |
| Welcome to this service of worship here in Duke Chapel. | 0:25 | |
| I've been asked by Bill Briner, | 0:29 | |
| the President of the Congregation of Duke Chapel, | 0:31 | |
| to announce that an emergency blood collection | 0:34 | |
| is going on at our local | 0:38 | |
| American Red Cross until 4:00 pm today, | 0:39 | |
| and blood is urgently needed by the Red Cross | 0:42 | |
| for victims of the hurricane, and you're urged to give. | 0:45 | |
| Today, we are pleased to dedicate our new hymnals. | 0:52 | |
| And I think this is an appropriate time to recognize, | 0:59 | |
| our musicians; those people who, week in, week out, | 1:03 | |
| help produce music here in Duke Chapel. | 1:06 | |
| The average person I think doesn't realize how many | 1:09 | |
| musicians it takes to give us the beauty | 1:11 | |
| that we receive here on an average Sunday morning. | 1:16 | |
| Our new Director of Chapel Music is Dr. Rodney Wynkoop. | 1:20 | |
| He is also professor in the music department | 1:24 | |
| and Director of the Duke Chorale. | 1:28 | |
| And we have been enjoying his leadership | 1:30 | |
| in these first Sundays of the school year. | 1:32 | |
| And it has been a joy to have Dr. Wynkoop here. | 1:35 | |
| Many people thought that because Dr. Wynkoop | 1:39 | |
| was a native of Ohio and went to Yale, | 1:41 | |
| that we wouldn't be able to have a good time here, | 1:43 | |
| but he has certainly proved that | 1:46 | |
| that's an erroneous stereotype | 1:48 | |
| and we have been having a good time. | 1:51 | |
| He is assisted by Mrs. Donna Sparks. | 1:53 | |
| Ms. Sparks is our administrative assistant in Chapel Music | 1:56 | |
| and is also the director of the Choral Vespers program | 2:01 | |
| that has begun another good year here on Thursday evenings. | 2:05 | |
| And we thank them for their work | 2:10 | |
| with our great Chapel Choir. | 2:11 | |
| At the back up in the Flentrop gallery, | 2:15 | |
| you see on the right, | 2:18 | |
| Dr. Robert Parkins who is chapel organist, | 2:21 | |
| who plays the postlude and prelude | 2:24 | |
| and other musical pieces during our service. | 2:27 | |
| He also teaches organ in the Department of Music. | 2:30 | |
| And to the left at the organ gallery, | 2:33 | |
| someone who is not often seen during the service | 2:36 | |
| but someone who makes the service possible, Norman Ryan, | 2:40 | |
| who is our carabiner curator of organs and harpsichords | 2:43 | |
| here at Duke, and he looks after the four Duke Chapel organs | 2:48 | |
| and makes it technically possible for us | 2:52 | |
| to have the beautiful organ music on Sunday. | 2:55 | |
| Mr. David Arcus is our assistant chapel organist. | 2:59 | |
| He also is the organist at the Divinity School | 3:05 | |
| and he accompanies the choir, | 3:08 | |
| and plays on most Sundays for us here. | 3:10 | |
| He, particularly, is beloved | 3:15 | |
| for his playing at the front organ. | 3:18 | |
| And then a musician that many people don't see | 3:21 | |
| but who means a lot to you as you come | 3:25 | |
| to the chapel services and as you leave, | 3:27 | |
| the University Carillonneur, Mr. J Samuel Hammond. | 3:30 | |
| Every year, someone says, | 3:34 | |
| upon hearing the carillon played every afternoon at 5:00, | 3:36 | |
| what sort of machine do you have | 3:40 | |
| that plays the bells up in the tower. | 3:43 | |
| As you can see this is not a machine, this is a man; | 3:45 | |
| and he has been playing the chapel carillon | 3:48 | |
| since he was an undergraduate here at Duke | 3:52 | |
| and has been here ever since | 3:54 | |
| and is one of the nation's renowned carillonneurs, | 3:56 | |
| and we are so fortunate to have him. | 4:00 | |
| He will also be participating as the lector | 4:02 | |
| in the service today. | 4:05 | |
| We also thank the Friends of the Chapel | 4:07 | |
| for giving us our new hymnals. | 4:10 | |
| This was a great gift and the hundreds of | 4:13 | |
| Friends of the Chapel have participated in the gift | 4:16 | |
| of these new hymnals, which will be dedicated | 4:19 | |
| during the service today. | 4:22 | |
| Mary Putnam, the President of the Friends of the Chapel, | 4:24 | |
| and we thank them for this gift. | 4:27 | |
| During the service we will sing hymn number 115 | 4:29 | |
| How Like a Gentle Spirit. | 4:34 | |
| Which has been written by our own professor, | 4:36 | |
| Doctor C Eric Lincoln. | 4:38 | |
| Wonder if Doctor Lincoln has gotten here yet? | 4:41 | |
| Was going to have him stand with his family. | 4:43 | |
| He's coming. | 4:46 | |
| And we will sing -- | 4:48 | |
| There he is, at the back. | 4:49 | |
| Thank you Doctor Lincoln. | 4:50 | |
| We look forward to singing How Like a Gentle Spirit, | 4:52 | |
| and we thank you for your hymn writing. | 4:54 | |
| We're gonna have a great service today | 4:57 | |
| of singing old and familiar hymns, | 4:58 | |
| and enjoying the new hymnal. | 5:00 | |
| And we thank the musicians and the work that they do | 5:03 | |
| week in, week out to make this such a grand | 5:05 | |
| place of prayer and praise. | 5:08 | |
| And now, let us continue our worship. | 5:11 | |
| ♪ God, whose love is reigning o'er us, ♪ | 5:19 | |
| ♪ source of all, the ending true; ♪ | 5:26 | |
| ♪ Hear the universal chorus ♪ | 5:33 | |
| ♪ raised in joyful praise to you: ♪ | 5:40 | |
| ♪ Alleluia, Alleluia, ♪ | 5:47 | |
| ♪ worship ancient, worship new. ♪ | 5:54 | |
| (organ music) | 6:08 | |
| ♪ When in our music God is glorified, ♪ | 6:38 | |
| ♪ and adoration leaves no room for pride, ♪ | 6:46 | |
| ♪ it is as though the whole creation cried ♪ | 6:54 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! ♪ | 7:02 | |
| ♪ How often, making music, we have found ♪ | 7:10 | |
| ♪ a new dimension in the world of sound, ♪ | 7:17 | |
| ♪ as worship moved us to a more profound ♪ | 7:26 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! ♪ | 7:34 | |
| ♪ So has the church in liturgy and song, ♪ | 7:41 | |
| ♪ in faith and love, through centuries of wrong, ♪ | 7:49 | |
| ♪ borne witness to the truth in every tongue, ♪ | 7:58 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! ♪ | 8:06 | |
| ♪ And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night ♪ | 8:15 | |
| ♪ when utmost evil strove against the light? ♪ | 8:22 | |
| ♪ Then let us sing, for whom he won the fight: ♪ | 8:30 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! ♪ | 8:39 | |
| ♪ Let every instrument be tuned for praise! ♪ | 10:22 | |
| ♪ Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise! ♪ | 10:30 | |
| ♪ And may God give us faith to sing always ♪ | 10:38 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! ♪ | 10:46 | |
| - | Let us pray together, the opening collect, number 69. | 11:01 |
| Glorious God, source of joy and righteousness, | 11:07 | |
| enable us as redeemed and forgiven children | 11:11 | |
| evermore to rejoice in singing Your praises. | 11:15 | |
| Grant that what we sing with our lips we may | 11:19 | |
| believe in our hearts, | 11:22 | |
| and what we believe in our hearts we may | 11:25 | |
| practice in our lives; | 11:27 | |
| so that being doers of the Word and not hearers only, | 11:30 | |
| we may receive everlasting life | 11:34 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 11:37 | |
| Amen. | 11:39 | |
| (organ music) | 11:46 | |
| ♪ Holy Spirit, come confirm us, ♪ | 12:13 | |
| ♪ in the truth that Christ makes known. ♪ | 12:19 | |
| ♪ We have faith and understanding ♪ | 12:25 | |
| ♪ through Your helping gifts alone ♪ | 12:31 | |
| - | The first lesson is taken from the book of Hosea | 12:49 |
| When Israel was young, I loved them, | 12:53 | |
| and out of Egypt I called my child. | 12:56 | |
| The more I called them, | 13:00 | |
| the more they went from me. | 13:01 | |
| They kept sacrificing to the Baals | 13:03 | |
| and burning incense to the idols. | 13:06 | |
| Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, | 13:09 | |
| I took them up in my arms; | 13:12 | |
| but they did not know that I healed them. | 13:14 | |
| I led them with cords of compassion, | 13:17 | |
| with the bands of love. | 13:19 | |
| And I became to them as one who eases | 13:21 | |
| the yoke on their jaws; | 13:24 | |
| And I bent down to them and fed them. | 13:26 | |
| They shall return to the land of Egypt; | 13:29 | |
| And Assyria shall be their king | 13:31 | |
| Because they have refused to return to Me. | 13:34 | |
| The sword will rage against their cities, | 13:37 | |
| consume the bars of their gates, | 13:40 | |
| and devour them in their fortresses. | 13:42 | |
| My people are bent on turning away from Me. | 13:45 | |
| So they are appointed to the yolk, | 13:48 | |
| and none shall remove it. | 13:50 | |
| How can I give you up, O Ephraim? | 13:53 | |
| How can I hand you over, O Israel? | 13:55 | |
| How can I make you like Admah? | 13:58 | |
| How can I treat you like Zeboiim? | 14:00 | |
| My heart recoils within Me, | 14:03 | |
| My compassion grows warm and tender. | 14:05 | |
| I will not execute My fierce anger; | 14:08 | |
| I will not again destroy Ephraim. | 14:12 | |
| For I am God and not a human being, | 14:14 | |
| the Holy One in your midst, | 14:17 | |
| And I will not come to destroy. | 14:20 | |
| They shall go after the Lord, | 14:22 | |
| who will roar like a lion; | 14:26 | |
| ye God will roar | 14:28 | |
| And God's children shall come trembling from the west. | 14:29 | |
| They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt. | 14:33 | |
| And like doves from the land of Assyria; | 14:36 | |
| And I will return them to their homes, says the Lord. | 14:39 | |
| This ends the reading of the first lesson. | 14:43 | |
| (organ music) | 14:48 | |
| ♪ O Love that will not let me go, ♪ | 15:19 | |
| ♪ I rest my weary soul in thee; ♪ | 15:25 | |
| ♪ I give thee back the life I owe, ♪ | 15:31 | |
| ♪ That in thine ocean depths its flow ♪ | 15:38 | |
| ♪ May richer, fuller be. ♪ | 15:43 | |
| ♪ O Light that foll'west all my way, ♪ | 15:52 | |
| ♪ I yield my flick'ring torch to thee; ♪ | 15:58 | |
| ♪ My heart restores its borrowed ray, ♪ | 16:05 | |
| ♪ That in thy sunshine's blaze its day ♪ | 16:11 | |
| ♪ May brighter, fairer be. ♪ | 16:16 | |
| ♪ O Joy that seekest me through pain, ♪ | 16:25 | |
| ♪ I cannot close my heart to thee; ♪ | 16:31 | |
| ♪ I trace the rainbow through the rain, ♪ | 16:38 | |
| ♪ And feel the promise is not vain, ♪ | 16:44 | |
| ♪ That morn shall tearless be. ♪ | 16:49 | |
| ♪ O Cross that liftest up my head, ♪ | 16:59 | |
| ♪ I dare not ask to fly from thee; ♪ | 17:05 | |
| ♪ I lay in dust life's glory dead, ♪ | 17:12 | |
| ♪ And from the ground there blossoms red ♪ | 17:18 | |
| ♪ Life that shall endless be. ♪ | 17:24 | |
| - | Please stand for the responsive reading of the salter. | 17:40 |
| Oh give thanks to the Lord, who is good; | 17:55 | |
| whose steadfast love endures forever! | 17:58 | |
| Congregation | Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, | 18:02 |
| whom the Lord has redeemed from trouble | 18:04 | |
| and gathered in from the lands, | 18:08 | |
| from the east and from the west, | 18:10 | |
| from the north and from the south. | 18:13 | |
| - | Some wandered in desert waste, | 18:15 |
| finding no way to a city in which to dwell; | 18:17 | |
| Congregation | Hungry and thirsty, | 18:21 |
| their soul fainted within them. | 18:23 | |
| - | Then in their trouble, they cried to the Lord, | 18:25 |
| who delivered them from their distress. | 18:29 | |
| Congregation | And led them by a straight way | 18:32 |
| till they reached a city in which to dwell. | 18:34 | |
| - | Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, | 18:37 |
| for his wonderful works to humankind! | 18:41 | |
| Congregation | The Lord satisfies those who are thirsty, | 18:44 |
| and fills the hungry with good things. | 18:48 | |
| - | The Lord turns rivers into a desert, | 18:50 |
| springs of water into thirsty ground, | 18:53 | |
| Congregation | a fruitful land into a salty waste, | 18:57 |
| because of the wickedness of its inhabitants. | 19:00 | |
| - | The Lord turns a desert into pools of water, | 19:04 |
| a parched land into springs of water. | 19:06 | |
| Congregation | The Lord lets the hungry dwell, | 19:10 |
| and they establish a city in which to live; | 19:12 | |
| - | They sow fields and plant vineyards | 19:16 |
| and get a fruitful yield. | 19:19 | |
| Congregation | They multiply greatly | 19:21 |
| by the blessing of the Lord, | 19:23 | |
| who does not let their cattle diminish. | 19:25 | |
| - | When they are diminished and brought low | 19:28 |
| through oppression, trouble, and sorrow, | 19:30 | |
| the Lord pours contempt upon princes | 19:33 | |
| and makes them wander in trackless waste; | 19:36 | |
| Congregation | The Lord raises up the needy | 19:40 |
| out of affliction | 19:42 | |
| and makes their families like flocks. | 19:43 | |
| - | The upright see it and are glad, | 19:46 |
| and all wickedness stops its mouth. | 19:49 | |
| Congregation | Whoever is wise, heed to these things; | 19:52 |
| consider the steadfast love of the Lord. | 19:55 | |
| (organ music) | 20:05 | |
| ♪ Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing, ♪ | 20:19 | |
| ♪ "My God and King!" ♪ | 20:27 | |
| ♪ The heav'ns are not too high, ♪ | 20:33 | |
| ♪ God's praise may thither fly; ♪ | 20:38 | |
| ♪ the earth is not too low, ♪ | 20:43 | |
| ♪ God's praises there may grow. ♪ | 20:47 | |
| ♪ Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing, ♪ | 20:53 | |
| ♪ "My God and King!" ♪ | 21:01 | |
| ♪ The church with psalms must shout: ♪ | 21:08 | |
| ♪ no door can keep them out. ♪ | 21:12 | |
| ♪ But, more than all, the heart ♪ | 21:18 | |
| ♪ must bear the longest part. ♪ | 21:21 | |
| ♪ Let all the world in ev'ery corner sing, ♪ | 21:28 | |
| ♪ "My God and King! ♪ | 21:36 | |
| - | The second lesson is taken from Paul's letter | 21:55 |
| to Timothy. | 21:58 | |
| First of all, then, I urge that supplications, | 21:59 | |
| prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be made | 22:03 | |
| for all people. | 22:07 | |
| For rulers and all who are in high positions, | 22:09 | |
| that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life, | 22:12 | |
| godly and respectful in every way. | 22:16 | |
| This is good and it is acceptable in the sight of | 22:19 | |
| God our Savior who desires all people to be saved | 22:22 | |
| and to come to the knowledge of the truth. | 22:26 | |
| For there is one God and there is one mediator | 22:29 | |
| between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, | 22:32 | |
| who sacrificed Self as a ransom for all, | 22:36 | |
| the testimony to which was born at the proper time. | 22:40 | |
| For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle, | 22:44 | |
| I am telling the truth; I am not lying. | 22:48 | |
| A teacher of the Gentiles, in faith and truth. | 22:51 | |
| This ends the reading of the second lesson. | 22:55 | |
| (organ music) | 22:59 | |
| ♪ Lord, you give the great commission: ♪ | 24:03 | |
| ♪ "Heal the sick and preach the word." ♪ | 24:11 | |
| ♪ Lest the church neglect its mission, ♪ | 24:19 | |
| ♪ and the gospel go unheard, ♪ | 24:27 | |
| ♪ help us witness to your purpose ♪ | 24:35 | |
| ♪ with renewed integrity: ♪ | 24:43 | |
| ♪ with the Spirit's gifts empower us ♪ | 24:51 | |
| ♪ for the work of ministry. ♪ | 24:59 | |
| ♪ Lord, you call us to your service: ♪ | 25:10 | |
| ♪ "In my name baptize and teach." ♪ | 25:18 | |
| ♪ That the world may trust your promise, ♪ | 25:26 | |
| ♪ life abundant meant for each, ♪ | 25:34 | |
| ♪ give us all new fervor, draw us ♪ | 25:42 | |
| ♪ closer in community: ♪ | 25:50 | |
| ♪ with the Spirit's gifts empower us ♪ | 25:58 | |
| ♪ for the work of ministry. ♪ | 26:06 | |
| - | Here begins the 16th chapter | 26:27 |
| of the Gospel according to Saint Luke. | 26:30 | |
| Jesus also said to His disciples, | 26:33 | |
| "There was a rich man who had a steward | 26:37 | |
| and charges were brought to him that this man | 26:40 | |
| was wasting his goods. | 26:42 | |
| And he called him and said to him, | 26:44 | |
| 'What is this that I hear about you? | 26:47 | |
| Turn in the account of your stewardship, | 26:50 | |
| for you cannot be no longer be steward.' | 26:53 | |
| And the steward said to himself, | 26:57 | |
| 'What shall I do, since my master is taking | 26:59 | |
| the stewardship away from me? | 27:02 | |
| I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. | 27:04 | |
| I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me | 27:10 | |
| into their houses, when I am put out of the stewardship.' | 27:13 | |
| So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, | 27:18 | |
| he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' | 27:21 | |
| He said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' | 27:26 | |
| And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly | 27:30 | |
| and write 50.' | 27:34 | |
| Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' | 27:36 | |
| He said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' | 27:40 | |
| He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write 80.' | 27:43 | |
| The master commended the dishonest steward for his | 27:48 | |
| shrewdness. | 27:51 | |
| For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing | 27:52 | |
| with their own generation than the sons of light. | 27:55 | |
| And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means | 28:00 | |
| of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails | 28:03 | |
| they may receive you into the eternal habitations. | 28:07 | |
| He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also | 28:12 | |
| in much, and he who is dishonest in a very little | 28:16 | |
| is dishonest also in much. | 28:21 | |
| If then you have not been faithful in | 28:25 | |
| the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you | 28:28 | |
| the true riches? | 28:31 | |
| And if you have not been faithful in that | 28:33 | |
| which is another's, who will give you that | 28:35 | |
| which is your own? | 28:39 | |
| No servant can serve two masters, for either | 28:41 | |
| he will hate the one and love the other, | 28:45 | |
| or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. | 28:48 | |
| You cannot serve God and mammon." | 28:54 | |
| Here ends the gospel lesson. | 28:59 | |
| - | If you have been faithfully attending Chapel | 29:10 |
| these first Sundays in September, | 29:13 | |
| you know that we have had a good bit to say about parties. | 29:16 | |
| You have been told by the President | 29:22 | |
| that this is not a party school but of course, | 29:25 | |
| the Dean and the President are usually not here on the | 29:31 | |
| weekend, and so what do they know? | 29:33 | |
| Here in the Chapel, according to the texts that we have had, | 29:38 | |
| Jesus has come proclaiming a party. | 29:42 | |
| Now you also may know that we believe in | 29:46 | |
| using the lectionary in our services, | 29:49 | |
| but Nancy and I noted that after these sermons | 29:51 | |
| about partying, the lectionary backs off | 29:55 | |
| at the greatest, most scandalous party of all, | 29:59 | |
| that which is found in | 30:03 | |
| Luke 15:11-32. | 30:07 | |
| And we said, "What the heck, let's go ahead and read it." | 30:11 | |
| and so, I bet you have heard this story before, | 30:16 | |
| There was a man who had two sons. | 30:22 | |
| And the younger of them said to his father, | 30:24 | |
| 'Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.' | 30:26 | |
| And he divided his living between them. | 30:31 | |
| and not many days later, the younger son gathered | 30:33 | |
| all that he had, and took his journey into a far country, | 30:36 | |
| and there he squandered his property in loose living. | 30:39 | |
| And when he had spent everything, a great famine arose | 30:44 | |
| in that country, and he began to want. | 30:47 | |
| And he went and joined himself out to one of | 30:49 | |
| the citizens of that country, who sent him to the fields | 30:51 | |
| to feed swine. | 30:54 | |
| And he would have gladly fed on the pods the swine ate, | 30:56 | |
| nobody gave him anything. | 30:59 | |
| But when he came to himself, he said, | 31:01 | |
| 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough | 31:04 | |
| to spare? | 31:06 | |
| I perish with hunger! | 31:07 | |
| I will arise and go to my father and say, | 31:10 | |
| "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you; | 31:13 | |
| I'm no longer worthy to be called your son; | 31:16 | |
| treat me as your hired servant."' | 31:18 | |
| And he arose and came to his father. | 31:21 | |
| But while he was at a distance, his father saw him | 31:23 | |
| and had compassion, and ran and embraced and kissed him. | 31:26 | |
| The son said, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and | 31:29 | |
| before you; I am not worthy to be called your son.' | 31:32 | |
| But the father said to the servants, | 31:36 | |
| 'Bring quickly the best robe, put it on him, | 31:37 | |
| put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet; | 31:39 | |
| bring the fatted calf, kill it, let us eat and make merry; | 31:42 | |
| for this my son was dead and is alive; | 31:46 | |
| lost was found.' And they began to make merry. | 31:49 | |
| Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came | 31:54 | |
| he draw near to the house, and he heard music, dancing. | 31:57 | |
| He called one of the servants and asked what this meant. | 32:01 | |
| He said, 'Your brother has come, your father has killed | 32:04 | |
| the fatted calf, he has received him safe and sound.' | 32:07 | |
| But he was angry and he refused to go in; | 32:10 | |
| his father came out and entreated him. | 32:14 | |
| But he answered, 'Lo, these many years have I served you | 32:15 | |
| I never disobeyed your command; you never given me a kid, | 32:19 | |
| that I might make merry with my friends; but when this | 32:22 | |
| son of yours came, who has devoured your living | 32:25 | |
| with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf.' | 32:28 | |
| He said, 'Son, you were here with me always, | 32:32 | |
| all that I have is yours. | 32:34 | |
| It was fitting to make merry and be glad, | 32:36 | |
| for this your brother was dead and is alive, | 32:39 | |
| was lost but was found.'" | 32:42 | |
| Here, in the middle of Luke's gospel, we've been building up | 32:49 | |
| after the party for the lost coin and the party | 32:52 | |
| for finding the lost sheep, we finally get | 32:56 | |
| to the party for the lost boy. | 32:58 | |
| I'm sorry if back in Des Moines you got | 33:01 | |
| the impression that to be religious you've got | 33:04 | |
| to first be stiff, dull, sober and serious. | 33:07 | |
| Jesus hammers home the theme that when God comes, | 33:12 | |
| God is not sore at anybody, but is in the mood | 33:16 | |
| for a party. | 33:20 | |
| Jesus says that when God gets back just one lost sheep, | 33:21 | |
| God gets kind of goofy, and wants everybody to drop | 33:26 | |
| whatever note-taking or computer programming, | 33:29 | |
| or dish-washing you're doing and bend to the music. | 33:32 | |
| And thus be come to this homecoming bash | 33:38 | |
| for the prodigal son. | 33:40 | |
| Like the other parables, it's a story about lostness. | 33:44 | |
| But the first person who gets lost here, | 33:49 | |
| Robert Capon notes, is the father. | 33:51 | |
| The son says to the father, "father, give me my share | 33:54 | |
| of the inheritance." | 33:57 | |
| and what have you got to do to get | 33:59 | |
| your father's inheritance? | 34:00 | |
| The father does what so many young people | 34:04 | |
| would like their old man to do. | 34:06 | |
| He drops dead. | 34:07 | |
| He puts his will into effect, he gets lost. | 34:09 | |
| He lets go. | 34:14 | |
| And I hope those of you who let go | 34:16 | |
| and who have been let go by your parents | 34:20 | |
| so you can come to college, I hope you know | 34:23 | |
| what a painful thing that is as one parent said | 34:25 | |
| upon walking past your room, now silent of rock music, | 34:29 | |
| "at home, it was just like a death in the family." | 34:33 | |
| He lets go. | 34:37 | |
| Well, with the world at his feet, hi inheritance | 34:40 | |
| in his pocket, he goes into the far country | 34:42 | |
| where his life promptly becomes a lost cause. | 34:45 | |
| "He wasted his substance in riotous living." | 34:48 | |
| Jesus says. | 34:52 | |
| Which is a bible way of saying that he just lost it. | 34:53 | |
| And here I want to take just a moment and allow | 34:57 | |
| your low undergraduate imaginations | 35:00 | |
| to work with that phrase, riotous living. | 35:03 | |
| Although Jesus doesn't go ahead and supply | 35:07 | |
| whatever forms of riotous living might appeal | 35:10 | |
| to you. | 35:13 | |
| Loose girls, loose boys, casinos, chocolate cake, | 35:14 | |
| whatever. | 35:19 | |
| Because Jesus' main point is not some moralistic | 35:21 | |
| diatribe on the perils of life out in the far country | 35:24 | |
| among the Kappa Sigs, it is that one morning he grew up, | 35:28 | |
| he woke up in the far country. | 35:32 | |
| Broke, and with his hangover and his friends were gone, | 35:34 | |
| and his money was gone and well, his life was gone. | 35:39 | |
| "He comes to himself," Jesus says. | 35:44 | |
| This young man on the make has been reduced | 35:47 | |
| to a skin and bones loser, a nothing. | 35:50 | |
| The boy realizes, "look, there are hired servants | 35:55 | |
| back at my father's house, they've got it | 35:57 | |
| better than I have." | 36:00 | |
| He's lost it. | 36:02 | |
| More, he is more than lost, he's dead. | 36:04 | |
| "I perish." | 36:07 | |
| he says. | 36:09 | |
| But he's not without some resources. | 36:10 | |
| He begins to formulate a little speech of confession. | 36:14 | |
| "I will rise and I will go to my old man and I will say, | 36:17 | |
| Dad, I mean Father, I have sinned against heaven | 36:22 | |
| and before you." | 36:27 | |
| He saw Swaggert do this on TV a couple of years ago. | 36:28 | |
| "I don't want to be your son anymore, I just want you | 36:32 | |
| to make me as one of your hired servants, | 36:35 | |
| that's good enough for me." | 36:37 | |
| His speech, while grammatically correct, is | 36:42 | |
| theologically lousy. | 36:44 | |
| He knows that he has lost out on being his father's son. | 36:48 | |
| He's lost. | 36:51 | |
| But the little wretch thinks he can fall back to | 36:53 | |
| strategic position B, and be one of his father's | 36:55 | |
| hired servants. | 37:00 | |
| You see, though the boy is lost, he is still busy | 37:03 | |
| wheeling and dealing. | 37:07 | |
| Making plans and falling back to another position and | 37:09 | |
| writing speeches of confession. | 37:12 | |
| Earlier it was give me, give me; now it's make me, make me. | 37:15 | |
| So he's got some more dying to do, he's just got | 37:20 | |
| some more losing before he can party. | 37:23 | |
| And he rose and he came to his father, but when he | 37:29 | |
| was still a long way off, his father saw him | 37:33 | |
| and ran to him and kissed him, and embraced him, | 37:35 | |
| and fell upon him. | 37:38 | |
| The old man pulls out all the stops and responds | 37:39 | |
| in this utterly | 37:44 | |
| extravagant, prodigal way to the return of his boy. | 37:47 | |
| And this is a prelude to the even more extravagant | 37:53 | |
| party which is to come, but I get ahead of myself. | 37:57 | |
| As soon as the boy gets the father off of him, | 38:02 | |
| he begins his little speech of confession. | 38:06 | |
| "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and against you. | 38:09 | |
| I am no longer worthy to be your son. | 38:15 | |
| I just want you to make me as one of --" | 38:17 | |
| And if we had it our way, we would like the story | 38:22 | |
| to end right here. | 38:26 | |
| Because after all, hasn't this little profligate | 38:29 | |
| seen the error of his ways? | 38:32 | |
| Hasn't he got down on his knees and confessed his sin? | 38:35 | |
| Isn't this how it ought to end? | 38:40 | |
| You see the sinner is coming back home, | 38:42 | |
| confessing, it's sack cloth and ashes time. | 38:44 | |
| You see boys and girls? | 38:47 | |
| You'd better not go blow it all on booze and bad friends. | 38:49 | |
| Because you'll come to nothing, and you'll be lost, | 38:52 | |
| and then you'll need to confess! | 38:54 | |
| But unfortunately, for preachers, and parents that's not | 38:58 | |
| how the story ends, as it turns out, | 39:02 | |
| God has just got this thing for losers, and nothings, | 39:06 | |
| and sinners and corpses. | 39:09 | |
| The boy can't be a servant, he's a son. | 39:13 | |
| He can't confess, he's already forgiven. | 39:16 | |
| He can't do anything to get back into | 39:20 | |
| his father's good graces because after all, this father | 39:24 | |
| is Mr. Grace. | 39:26 | |
| All this father's got is forgiveness. | 39:29 | |
| He wrote the book on forgiveness. | 39:30 | |
| He's Mr. Finder of the Lost. | 39:33 | |
| And so it turns out the father's not interested in speeches, | 39:36 | |
| as if there's anything he doesn't already know about | 39:41 | |
| loving the lost, or forgiving sin. | 39:43 | |
| As if he needs some crummy elementary school speech | 39:46 | |
| by his son to remind him how to find the lost. | 39:49 | |
| The only thing the son has got to do, although do | 39:54 | |
| is just not the right word here, the only thing | 39:57 | |
| he's got to do is be lost. | 40:00 | |
| And if you noticed, those of you who have been lost, | 40:02 | |
| you can't decide to be lost, you just either are lost, | 40:05 | |
| or you aren't. | 40:08 | |
| So there's nothing this nothing can do. | 40:12 | |
| But fortunately, here is a God who just loves to party | 40:16 | |
| over absolutely nothing. | 40:20 | |
| So God deals with the lost boy the same way that the woman | 40:23 | |
| dealt with the lost coin, and the shepherd dealt with | 40:27 | |
| the lost sheep. | 40:30 | |
| The father throws a party. | 40:32 | |
| If you loved those riots that we had when we found | 40:35 | |
| that lost sheep, you gonna love this one! | 40:37 | |
| You gonna die over this one! | 40:41 | |
| Now note one thing, that there don't seem to be any | 40:44 | |
| intermediate steps between forgiveness and celebration. | 40:47 | |
| This is maddening. | 40:51 | |
| There's none of this, "Alright Harold, you're forgiven. | 40:53 | |
| But now Harold, let's have a bit more maturity out of you. | 40:57 | |
| And I want you to think again about finishing your | 40:59 | |
| application to Law School now." | 41:01 | |
| No! | 41:04 | |
| He just calls the servants and he proclaims a party. | 41:05 | |
| "Yes, yes Harold you're forgiven. | 41:08 | |
| Would you chill that little speech. | 41:10 | |
| Bring the best robe, put it on him and | 41:12 | |
| put a ring on his hand, florsheims on his feet. | 41:14 | |
| And let's make merry. | 41:17 | |
| This son which was dead, is alive; he's lost, | 41:18 | |
| and been found." | 41:20 | |
| It's a little embarrassing you know, you come to church; | 41:23 | |
| with all your speeches about what a great big, serious | 41:25 | |
| sinner you are; or other speeches thanking God | 41:30 | |
| for what a big sinner you're not, and you get here | 41:35 | |
| only to find out that God really isn't into speeches, | 41:40 | |
| or morality, or all these deadly serious, sober subjects. | 41:43 | |
| You come down here all dressed up coat and tie, and | 41:49 | |
| you meet a God whose just dying to party, whose main | 41:53 | |
| subjects for religion are robes, and patent leather pumps, | 41:56 | |
| and wine, and gold, and diamonds, and confetti and spumanti. | 42:00 | |
| And Jesus concludes the first act, | 42:06 | |
| "And they began to make merry." | 42:10 | |
| But now the music shifts from James Brown to Buxtehude. | 42:16 | |
| It's solemn, serious music, and enter in grand processional, | 42:22 | |
| coming down the center aisle, the Chair, | 42:25 | |
| the Commission on Ethics, | 42:28 | |
| Chair, Department of Moral Theology, | 42:29 | |
| the Dean of the Law School, | 42:31 | |
| the Chair of the Trustee Committee | 42:33 | |
| on Student Behavior at Commencement, all assorting in | 42:35 | |
| their favorite character in the story, the older brother. | 42:39 | |
| "And when be drew nigh to the house he heard music | 42:46 | |
| and dancing." | 42:51 | |
| Nostrils flared, indignant look. | 42:54 | |
| "Music, dancing, who has turned those musicians loose? | 42:58 | |
| Levity, expense, and on a Wednesday evening!" | 43:02 | |
| He calls a servant. "What is this?" | 43:05 | |
| he asks indignantly. | 43:08 | |
| "What are you doing in a dinner jacket when you're supposed | 43:10 | |
| to have on your overalls plowing turnips?" | 43:12 | |
| And the servant said, "Hey, your younger brother is back. | 43:16 | |
| Your father has proclaimed a party!" | 43:19 | |
| "A party? | 43:21 | |
| Doesn't that old fool know we've got work to do? | 43:23 | |
| How are we going to keep down overhead when he goes and | 43:26 | |
| blows ten grand on a party for this loser of a son of his?" | 43:28 | |
| Jesus says he was angry and he just wouldn't go in. | 43:36 | |
| After all, if the old man has gone off the deep end, | 43:41 | |
| lost his senses, somebody around here has got | 43:46 | |
| to act mature. | 43:49 | |
| Somebody around here has got to set a high moral tone. | 43:51 | |
| The father came out and he just begged the son | 43:55 | |
| to come in and party. | 43:57 | |
| But what's the father, what's Mr. Forgiveness to do | 44:01 | |
| with this stuff shirt? | 44:05 | |
| The older brother isn't lost, so there's now way | 44:07 | |
| he can be found. | 44:10 | |
| He knows exactly where he is, moral bearing fixed, | 44:12 | |
| dead on the target of absolute righteousness. | 44:17 | |
| He is neither lost nor is he a loser. | 44:20 | |
| He won the morality sweepstakes. | 44:23 | |
| "Lo, these many years have I served you, | 44:26 | |
| turning this turnip business around and putting | 44:28 | |
| the books in the black --" | 44:31 | |
| He's big on bookkeeping, this older brother. | 44:32 | |
| "--And yet when this son of yours comes back home, | 44:34 | |
| who has blown your hard earned money on whores, returns, | 44:38 | |
| you throw a party." | 44:44 | |
| One little quibble with this older brother's great speech | 44:47 | |
| of righteousness, I don't believe Jesus mentioned anything | 44:50 | |
| about harlots. Did he? I don't remember that. | 44:53 | |
| He just said that, out in the far country, | 44:57 | |
| the younger son engaged in some loose living. | 45:01 | |
| I mean, maybe that means that he just slept in late | 45:06 | |
| and he ate high cholesterol junk food. | 45:08 | |
| But you see, the flip side of the speech, | 45:12 | |
| "see what a good boy am I" is always, | 45:15 | |
| "see what this son of yours has done." | 45:19 | |
| Harlots, bad habits, mind altering substances. | 45:22 | |
| The older brother, in order to boast his claim of being | 45:28 | |
| an absolute winner, has got to make the younger brother | 45:32 | |
| as big a loser as possible. | 45:35 | |
| But you see, the joke is on him. | 45:37 | |
| Because here's a father that loves only losers. | 45:41 | |
| Did not the one who tells the story say, | 45:46 | |
| "I have come to seek and to save? | 45:48 | |
| Who? | 45:50 | |
| The lost. | 45:51 | |
| I've come to forgive only the sinners, I've come to raise | 45:52 | |
| only the dead. | 45:57 | |
| Your dead, loser of a brother is home. | 46:00 | |
| Chill it Howard. | 46:03 | |
| So what? Big deal | 46:05 | |
| You're the best turnip grower in Des Moines. | 46:06 | |
| Your brother's at least gone out and seen the sights | 46:09 | |
| and tasted the wine, which is a good deal more than I can | 46:11 | |
| say for your little turnip-clutching drag of a life. | 46:14 | |
| So go on in, Howard. | 46:17 | |
| Put on this funny hat, get a load of that blonde | 46:19 | |
| in the gold lame." | 46:21 | |
| It's just extravagant behavior here. | 46:26 | |
| Grace. | 46:32 | |
| But the funny thing about grace is, that the flipside | 46:34 | |
| is always judgment. | 46:36 | |
| For here is resurrection that works only on the dead, | 46:38 | |
| and salvation that's only for the lost. | 46:42 | |
| And if you're a success, if you got it all together | 46:45 | |
| and you're a winner, if you always stayed home, | 46:48 | |
| you just need not apply. | 46:50 | |
| But of course, the ironic thing is we may there be | 46:56 | |
| a bigger loser than we think. | 46:59 | |
| And so, at the end, Jesus says, "God gets | 47:06 | |
| what God so finely wants. | 47:09 | |
| A party. | 47:12 | |
| Because, in the end, everybody's gonna flunk | 47:15 | |
| the only test that God has got, namely, life. | 47:19 | |
| And thereby passed the only test God has, namely, | 47:24 | |
| that we be dead and raised in Jesus. | 47:29 | |
| What's going to happen to all of the older brother's | 47:34 | |
| moral successes and self-righteous speeches then? | 47:36 | |
| They will be but dust. | 47:39 | |
| He'll be as lost in the far country of death | 47:40 | |
| as his younger brother, that he so looks down upon. | 47:43 | |
| All of our lives will be redeemed because none of us | 47:48 | |
| will have anything to claim then, except | 47:52 | |
| whatever a gracious God wants to give us. | 47:55 | |
| And on that day I suppose God will say to | 48:00 | |
| both the prodigal sons and the older brothers because | 48:02 | |
| both received the inheritance and both are His boys. | 48:07 | |
| "You're dead, but you're alive. | 48:13 | |
| Put on this funny hat, step inside. | 48:19 | |
| Turn up the music | 48:24 | |
| I've just been dying to party." | 48:25 | |
| ♪ O brethren ain't you happy? ♪ | 48:47 | |
| ♪ O brethren ain't you happy? ♪ | 48:49 | |
| ♪ O brethren ain't you happy? ♪ | 48:51 | |
| ♪ ye followers of the Lamb ♪ | 48:53 | |
| ♪ ♪ O brethren ain't you happy? ♪ | 48:56 | |
| ♪ ♪ O brethren ain't you happy? ♪ | 48:58 | |
| ♪ ♪ O brethren ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:00 | |
| ♪ ♪ ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:02 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emmanuel. ♪ | 49:04 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:08 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emmanuel. ♪ | 49:13 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:17 | |
| ♪ O sisters ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:21 | |
| ♪ O sisters ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:23 | |
| ♪ O sisters ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:25 | |
| ♪ Ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:27 | |
| ♪ O sisters ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:29 | |
| ♪ O sisters ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:31 | |
| ♪ O sisters ain't you happy? ♪ | 49:33 | |
| ♪ Ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:35 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emanuel. ♪ | 49:37 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:42 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emanuel. ♪ | 49:46 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 49:50 | |
| ♪ I'm glad I am a Christian, ♪ | 49:54 | |
| ♪ I'm glad I am a Christian, ♪ | 49:56 | |
| ♪ I'm glad I am a Christian, ♪ | 49:58 | |
| ♪ Ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 50:00 | |
| ♪ I'm glad I am a Christian, ♪ | 50:03 | |
| ♪ I'm glad I am a Christian, ♪ | 50:05 | |
| ♪ I'm glad I am a Christian, ♪ | 50:07 | |
| ♪ Ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 50:09 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emanuel. ♪ | 50:11 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 50:15 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on sing on dance on ♪ | 50:20 | |
| ♪ I mean to be obedient, ♪ | 50:28 | |
| ♪ I mean to be obedient, ♪ | 50:32 | |
| ♪ I mean to be obedient, ♪ | 50:36 | |
| ♪ Ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 50:40 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emanuel. ♪ | 50:47 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 50:51 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emanuel. ♪ | 50:55 | |
| ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 50:59 | |
| ♪ ♪ Sing on dance on followers of Emanuel. ♪ | 51:04 | |
| ♪ ♪ Sing on dance on ye followers of the Lamb. ♪ | 51:08 | |
| - | Please stand as we pray together. | 51:19 |
| Oh eternal God, we thank you for music | 51:28 | |
| and its wondrous power to touch and heal | 51:32 | |
| and strengthn. | 51:35 | |
| Under its spell, the closed doors of the human spirit | 51:37 | |
| are unlocked and our hearts are moved to respond | 51:40 | |
| to You in worship. | 51:44 | |
| We praise You for this most precious gift. | 51:45 | |
| Let everything that lives praise the Lord. | 51:51 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 51:54 |
| - | We thank you for all those who entrusted with this gift | 51:56 |
| have composed musical tunes, | 52:00 | |
| and set forth verses in writing. | 52:03 | |
| Living on among us in their works, they have | 52:06 | |
| wonderfully enriched our lives and exalted You | 52:08 | |
| in the liturgy of Your church. | 52:12 | |
| We praise You for all faithful singers of Your song. | 52:14 | |
| Let everything that lives praise the Lord. | 52:21 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 52:24 |
| - | We thank you for all who teach in universities | 52:27 |
| and schools of sacred music, interpreting music | 52:30 | |
| born in the souls of others, and bringing gifts | 52:33 | |
| to fruition in many generations of students. | 52:36 | |
| We praise You for what they, receiving generously, | 52:40 | |
| from You have shared generously with others. | 52:42 | |
| Let everything that lives praise the Lord. | 52:49 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 52:52 |
| - | We thank You for all who day by day enable us | 52:55 |
| to sing Your song in many ways and many places. | 52:58 | |
| Enriching us with new forms of music, | 53:01 | |
| patient scholarship, and gifted teaching. | 53:04 | |
| For all who build and care for musical instruments, | 53:08 | |
| and for those who make music with them, | 53:12 | |
| stirring our souls within us, we praise You | 53:14 | |
| for their ministry, and gratefully ask Your blessing | 53:18 | |
| on it this day. | 53:21 | |
| Let everything that lives praise the Lord. | 53:25 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 53:28 |
| We thank you for the gift of new hymnals. | 53:30 | |
| For poets and visionaries who proclaim Your truth | 53:33 | |
| in memorable words, for printers and engravers, | 53:36 | |
| binders and publishers through whose labors we share | 53:40 | |
| in the inspiration of others. | 53:43 | |
| Let everything that lives praise the Lord. | 53:47 | |
| Congregation | Thanks be to God. | 53:50 |
| - | Oh eternal God, we dedicate these hymnals this day | 53:53 |
| and rededicate ourselves to the following of Your way | 53:58 | |
| for all humanity as we have come to know it | 54:01 | |
| in Jesus Christ. | 54:04 | |
| May we truly persevere in that way in our lives, | 54:06 | |
| and may the words of our mouths, and the meditations | 54:09 | |
| of our hearts, be ever acceptable in Your sight. | 54:12 | |
| Oh Lord our strength and our redeemer. | 54:16 | |
| Amen. | 54:20 | |
| The psalmist has written, | 54:23 | |
| Ascribe to the Lord the honor due His name; | 54:24 | |
| Bring offerings and come into His courts. | 54:28 | |
| As we dedicate our hymnals to the glory of God, | 54:31 | |
| let us present the offerings of our life and labor | 54:35 | |
| to the Lord. | 54:38 | |
| With thanksgiving. | 54:39 | |
| (organ music) | 54:43 | |
| (muffled singing) | 55:27 | |
| ♪ I want Jesus to walk with me, ♪ | 57:49 | |
| ♪ I want Jesus to walk with me; ♪ | 58:00 | |
| ♪ All along my pilgrim journey, ♪ | 58:12 | |
| ♪ Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me. ♪ | 58:24 | |
| ♪ In my trials, Lord, walk with me; ♪ | 58:39 | |
| ♪ In my trials, Lord, walk with me; ♪ | 58:50 | |
| ♪ When my heart is almost breaking, ♪ | 59:01 | |
| ♪ Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me. ♪ | 59:13 | |
| ♪ When I'm troubled, Lord, walk with me; ♪ | 59:27 | |
| ♪ When I'm troubled, Lord, walk with me; ♪ | 59:39 | |
| ♪ When my head is bowed in sorrow, ♪ | 59:50 | |
| ♪ Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me. ♪ | 1:00:01 | |
| (organ music) | 1:00:20 | |
| ♪ How like a gentle spirit deep within ♪ | 1:00:53 | |
| ♪ God reins our fervent passions day by day, ♪ | 1:01:01 | |
| ♪ and gives us strength to challenge and to win ♪ | 1:01:09 | |
| ♪ despite the perils of our chosen way. ♪ | 1:01:16 | |
| ♪ Let God be God wherever life may be; ♪ | 1:01:26 | |
| ♪ let every tongue bear witness to the call; ♪ | 1:01:34 | |
| ♪ all humankind is one by God's decree; ♪ | 1:01:42 | |
| ♪ let God be God, let God be God for all. ♪ | 1:01:49 | |
| ♪ God like a mother eagle hovers near ♪ | 1:01:58 | |
| ♪ on mighty wings of power manifest; ♪ | 1:02:06 | |
| ♪ God like a gentle shepherd stills our fear; ♪ | 1:02:14 | |
| ♪ and comforts us against a peaceful breast. ♪ | 1:02:22 | |
| ♪ When in our vain pretensions we conspire ♪ | 1:02:31 | |
| ♪ to shape God's image as we see our own, ♪ | 1:02:38 | |
| ♪ hark to the voice above our base desire; ♪ | 1:02:46 | |
| ♪ God is the sculptor, we the broken stone. ♪ | 1:02:53 | |
| ♪ Through all our fretful claims of sex and race ♪ | 1:03:02 | |
| ♪ the universal love of God shines through, ♪ | 1:03:10 | |
| ♪ for God is love transcending style and place ♪ | 1:03:18 | |
| ♪ and all the idle options we pursue. ♪ | 1:03:26 | |
| (muffled singing) | 1:04:05 | |
| ♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; ♪ | 1:05:49 | |
| ♪ praise God, all creatures here below; ♪ | 1:05:55 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! Alleluia! ♪ | 1:06:01 | |
| ♪ praise God above, ye heavenly host; ♪ | 1:06:09 | |
| ♪ praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 1:06:16 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! ♪ | 1:06:22 | |
| ♪ Alleluia! Alleluia! ♪ | 1:06:31 | |
| (bells ringing) | 1:07:09 | |
| (music drowns out voice) | 1:07:25 | |
| - | Let us pray, with confidence, the words | 1:10:39 |
| that Jesus has taught us. | 1:10:41 | |
| Our Father, who art in heaven, | 1:10:44 | |
| hallowed be thy name; | 1:10:46 | |
| thy kingdom come; | 1:10:48 | |
| thy will be done; | 1:10:49 | |
| on earth as it is in heaven. | 1:10:51 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread. | 1:10:53 | |
| And forgive us our trespasses, | 1:10:55 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 1:10:58 | |
| And lead us not into temptation; | 1:11:01 | |
| but deliver us from evil. | 1:11:04 | |
| For thine is the kingdom, | 1:11:05 | |
| the power and the glory, | 1:11:06 | |
| for ever. | 1:11:09 | |
| Amen. | 1:11:10 | |
| Go in peace to serve God and your neighbor | 1:11:13 | |
| in all that you do. | 1:11:15 | |
| Congregation | We are sent to praise Him. | 1:11:17 |
| - | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God | 1:11:20 |
| and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. | 1:11:23 | |
| (organ music) | 1:11:29 | |
| ♪ Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, ♪ | 1:11:51 | |
| ♪ Till all the world adore His sacred Name. ♪ | 1:12:00 | |
| ♪ Come, Christians, this triumphant sign, ♪ | 1:12:11 | |
| ♪ The hosts of God in unity combine. ♪ | 1:12:21 | |
| Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, | 1:12:32 | |
| Till all the world adore His sacred Name. | 1:12:41 | |
| ♪ Each newborn servant of the Crucified ♪ | 1:12:52 | |
| ♪ Bears on the brow the seal of Him Who died. ♪ | 1:13:01 | |
| ♪ Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, ♪ | 1:13:12 | |
| ♪ Till all the world adore His sacred Name. ♪ | 1:13:21 | |
| ♪ O Lord, once lifted on the glorious tree, ♪ | 1:13:32 | |
| ♪ As Thou hast promised, draw the world to Thee. ♪ | 1:13:40 | |
| ♪ Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, ♪ | 1:13:52 | |
| ♪ Till all the world adore His sacred Name. ♪ | 1:14:01 | |
| ♪ So shall our song of triumph ever be: ♪ | 1:14:12 | |
| ♪ Praise to the Crucified for victory. ♪ | 1:14:21 | |
| ♪ Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, ♪ | 1:14:32 | |
| ♪ Till all the world adore His sacred Name. ♪ | 1:14:43 | |
| (bells ringing) | 1:14:59 | |
| (organ music) | 1:15:40 |
