Roberta Hestenes - "Do People Really Change?" (January 27, 1991)

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	(faint, pastoral music)	0:13
	(peaceful organ music)	2:00
-	Good morning, and welcome to this celebration	5:23
	of the Lord's supper, here at Duke University Chapel,	5:25
	on this third Sunday after Epiphany.	5:28
	Midway through the second week of war in the Persian Gulf,	5:31
	we each bring with us grave concerns	5:34
	about the darkness of our world.	5:36
	But at the same time, as Christians,	5:38
	we gather each Sunday in joyful thanksgiving	5:40
	for Christ's victory over death.	5:43
	We trust that this celebration of the Eucharist	5:46
	will strengthen you for the days to come.	5:48
	We welcome as our guest preacher today	5:51
	the Reverend Doctor Roberta Hestenes,	5:53
	president and professor of Christian spirituality	5:55
	at Eastern College in St. David's Pennsylvania.	5:58
	She has been a consultant and speaker to various national	6:02
	and international churches, in areas of strategic planning,	6:05
	church renewal, third world concerns,	6:09
	and women in ministry.	6:12
	Dr. Hestenes is in popular demand, as a preacher,	6:14
	having preached in over 20 countries.	6:17
	She has also established herself as an international leader	6:19
	in the church's response to world hunger,	6:23
	currently serving as chairman of the board	6:26
	for World Vision International.	6:28
	We are privileged to welcome her to our pulpit today.	6:31
	I would also like to thank our lector,	6:34
	Mr. Brent Soderstrom, a member of the Wesley Fellowship,	6:35
	for his participation in our service.	6:39
	Please note two additions to the announcements.	6:42
	Each day at 4:45 PM, a prayer vigil for peace	6:45
	will be held on the front steps of the chapel,	6:49
	and on Tuesday afternoons at four o'clock,	6:51
	a support groups for those concerned about the war	6:54
	will be held in the chapel basement lounge.	6:57
	And now please stand for the greeting.	7:01
	The grace of the lord, Jesus Christ, be with you.	7:11
Congregation	And also with you.	7:14
-	The splendor of Christ shines upon us.	7:16
Congregation	Praise the Lord.	7:19
	(grand choral music)	7:22
-	Lord, we believe in thee.	13:33
	Help thou our unbelief.	13:35
	We love thee, yet not with perfect hearts.	13:38
	We long for thee, yet not with our full strength.	13:42
	We trust in thee, yet not with our whole selves.	13:46
	Oh Lord, our Christ, grant us thy mind and thy spirit.	13:51
	Have mercy upon us, that we might be renewed	13:56
	from our simple selves into new women and new men,	13:59
	according to thy will and for the sake of thy good.	14:04
	Amen.	14:08
	(sweeping choral music)	14:35
	(intricate choral music)	16:06
-	Let us pray.	19:34
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	19:37
	by the power of your Holy Spirit,	19:40
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	19:42
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	19:46
	Amen.	19:50
	The first lesson is taken from the Book of Exodus.	19:52
	Moses came down from Mount Sinai.	19:57
	As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets	19:59
	of The Covenant in his hand, Moses did not know	20:02
	that the skin of his face shown,	20:06
	because he'd been talking with God.	20:08
	When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses,	20:10
	the skin of his face was shining,	20:13
	and they were afraid to come near him.	20:16
	But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders	20:20
	of the congregation returned to him,	20:23
	and Moses spoke with them.	20:26
	Afterward, all of the Israelites came near,	20:28
	and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord	20:31
	had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.	20:33
	When Moses had finished speaking with them,	20:37
	he put a veil on his face.	20:39
	But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak	20:42
	with him, he would take the veil off until he came out.	20:44
	And when he came out and told the Israelites	20:49
	what he'd been commanded, the Israelites	20:52
	would see the face of Moses.	20:55
	That the skin of his face was shining,	20:58
	and Moses would put the veil on his face again,	21:01
	until he went in to speak with him.	21:03
	This is the word of the Lord.	21:06
	(congregation responding)	21:09
	The second lesson is from Paul's second letter	21:13
	to the Corinthians.	21:16
	Since, then, we have such hope,	21:19
	we act with great boldness, not like Moses,	21:22
	who put a veil over his face to keep the people	21:25
	of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory	21:28
	that was being set aside.	21:31
	But their minds were hardened.	21:33
	Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading	21:35
	of the old covenant, that same veil is still there.	21:38
	Since only in Christ is it set aside.	21:42
	Indeed, to this very day, whenever Moses is read,	21:45
	a veil lies over their minds.	21:49
	But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.	21:52
	Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord	21:55
	is there is freedom, and all of us, with unveiled faces,	21:59
	sing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror,	22:03
	are being transformed into the same image,	22:07
	from one degree of glory to another.	22:10
	For this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.	22:12
	This is the word of the Lord.	22:16
	(congregation responding)	22:18
-	As I read the text of scripture	22:42
	for our sermon this morning,	22:46
	I want to mention that it's an unusual text.	22:49
	It is a psalm, Psalm 77, and it is not a	22:53
	psalm of victory or glory, it's not a psalm	22:58
	of rejoicing and reassurance.	23:02
	It is a psalm of lament.	23:07
	Hear the psalmist.	23:11
	I cried out to God for help.	23:15
	I cried out to God to hear me.	23:20
	When I was in distress, I sought the Lord.	23:23
	At night, I stretched out untiring hands,	23:29
	and my soul refused to be comforted.	23:33
	I remembered you, oh God, and I groaned.	23:39
	I mused and my spirit grew faint.	23:45
	You kept my eyes from closing.	23:50
	I was too troubled to speak.	23:53
	I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.	23:57
	I remembered my songs in the night.	24:02
	My heart mused and my spirit inquired.	24:07
	Will the Lord reject, forever?	24:12
	Will he never show his favor again?	24:18
	Has his unfailing love vanished,	24:23
	forever?	24:28
	Has his promise failed, for all time?	24:31
	Has God forgotten to be merciful?	24:37
	Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?	24:44
	And I thought: I will remember	24:51
	the deeds of the Lord.	24:56
	I will remember your miracles of long ago.	24:58
	I will meditate on all your works	25:03
	and consider all your wonderful deeds.	25:07
	Your ways, oh God, are holy.	25:11
	What god is as great as our God?	25:17
	You are the god who performs miracles.	25:20
	You display your power among the nations.	25:23
	With your mighty arm, you redeemed your people,	25:28
	the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.	25:33
	Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,	25:38
	your lightning lit up the world,	25:42
	the earth trembled and quaked.	25:44
	Your path led through the sea.	25:47
	Your waves through the mighty waters.	25:49
	Lo, your footprints were not seen.	25:53
	You led your people like a flock,	25:59
	by the hand of Moses and Aaron.	26:04
	Oh, what a God.	26:10
	How have the last 10 days been for you?	26:15
	For some people, somewhere, I suppose,	26:21
	this has been an ordinary period of time,	26:24
	shut away from television and newspapers,	26:28
	and radio, and other people, perhaps,	26:32
	they've lived a regular life.	26:37
	A friend of mine came in the other day and he said:	26:41
	I've found out I've contracted a new and deadly disease.	26:44
	And I looked alarmed and serious,	26:48
	and I said to him: well, what disease is that?	26:50
	And he said: I have discovered that I have CNN syndrome.	26:53
	That I am addicted, and I can't turn it off.	27:00
	I've thought that it's accompanied by the click disease.	27:06
	He said: I'm trying to watch four to eight channels,	27:10
	simultaneously.	27:14
	And then a woman on our staff at the college,	27:18
	she came in and said: I feel tethered to my telephone.	27:22
	I don't want to be away from it.	27:28
	Her son was a reservist called up, and he's in the gulf.	27:30
	And night after night and day after day,	27:37
	her feelings are feelings of turmoil.	27:40
	And then the students, not only on the campus	27:44
	where I serve, but on campuses all over the place,	27:48
	some rushing quickly to protest,	27:51
	and others rushing quickly	27:56
	to protest the protesters.	28:00
	And others struggling with: how can people seem	28:04
	to already know all the answers,	28:07
	when I don't know, and find it painful and difficult?	28:11
	And then the student who said to me:	28:17
	we're having trouble at home,	28:19
	because when I say what I think,	28:22
	my father and I are getting into terrible fights.	28:24
	I don't want it to be like this, he said.	28:29
	Terrible pictures.	28:37
	Do you feel as expert as I'm beginning to feel about SCUDs?	28:39
	And Patriots?	28:44
	And saying: I don't want to know this.	28:46
	This isn't anything I'd felt a great lack	28:50
	in my psyche about before.	28:52
	But that's the reality that we are plunged into.	28:56
	That's not the only reality.	29:03
	In this same 10-day period of time,	29:06
	one man I know was called in,	29:11
	and his boss said: I'm really sorry,	29:16
	we appreciate all you've given to this company,	29:18
	but the recession, you know?	29:21
	And the security guard stood at the side of his desk,	29:25
	where he had worked for that company for 28 years	29:30
	to make sure he wouldn't steal anything,	29:34
	as they terminated him.	29:37
	He didn't want to tell his wife.	29:42
	He was afraid to tell his children.	29:45
	The same week, a friend called.	29:50
	Can my husband and I come and see you?	29:56
	The news from the doctor was not good.	30:00
	Enough already.	30:04
	I don't want to know, I don't want to hear,	30:06
	part of us cries out: shut it off!	30:09
	One man, when he was asked:	30:13
	how are you handling the news from the gulf?	30:15
	Said: no news is good news; I don't listen to it,	30:17
	I don't watch it, I don't read it,	30:20
	and when it's all over, tell me how it came out.	30:21
	Why does he do that?	30:26
	In part, it's because he doesn't know what to do	30:29
	with the turmoil inside.	30:32
	So you keep going on.	30:38
	And you wonder.	30:42
	And sometimes when it comes close,	30:46
	when it's our family,	30:52
	our friends, those we care most closely about,	30:54
	we cannot.	31:00
	And we find ourselves with the psalmist,	31:02
	crying aloud to God.	31:07
	If we look closely at the psalm,	31:14
	I think we find a window	31:17
	into turmoil.	31:21
	The psalm moves in progression.	31:23
	It has stanzas, each of which expresses the major thought,	31:28
	and I want us to look, stanza by stanza,	31:33
	into the heart of the psalmist who cries to God.	31:37
	He begins by acknowledging	31:41
	that he cries out to God for help.	31:44
	He seeks the Lord.	31:48
	Now, in nice, tidy faith, the next stanza ought to say:	31:50
	and everything became fine.	31:55
	But that isn't what happens.	31:59
	He cries out, he seeks God,	32:01
	and then the thrust of it is that he can't sleep at night,	32:04
	and he keeps reaching out and no comfort,	32:10
	comes to his soul.	32:15
	There is no quick release, there is no automatic answer,	32:18
	there is no shutting down of what he's wrestling with.	32:22
	And then he casts around, and he said:	32:28
	I remembered you, oh God.	32:32
	Shouldn't that do it?	32:35
	He chooses to turn god-ward, and he's thinking,	32:38
	but what he remembers is times in his past	32:42
	when his heart was full of song.	32:46
	When he sang praises to God and they came easily	32:48
	and confidently and joyfully to his lips,	32:51
	and that's what he wants, that surge of faith.	32:55
	But he says: I mused, my spirit grew faint,	33:01
	my eyes wouldn't close.	33:07
	And then there's a little interesting phrase.	33:10
	He said: I was too troubled to speak.	33:12
	I sat in a rather heated discussion with some students	33:18
	very recently, and I listened to the ones who talked,	33:22
	and I watched the ones who didn't.	33:26
	And after it was all over, I talked with some of those who	33:30
	had not spoken, and it was not because they did not care.	33:34
	It was because, for some of them,	33:40
	they were too troubled to speak.	33:42
	The words didn't come easy.	33:46
	They didn't quite know what or how.	33:49
	They were afraid of the consequences their speaking	33:53
	may have on someone else.	33:56
	And so they shut it up inside themselves,	33:59
	and the psalmist does that.	34:02
	So there are these feelings of turmoil.	34:06
	The wonderful thing about biblical faith	34:10
	is that biblical faith frees us to acknowledge	34:14
	the realities, the highs, the joys,	34:18
	and the turmoil.	34:22
	And doesn't say: it isn't right.	34:25
	But says: cry.	34:29
	Cry.	34:33
	And so he does.	34:35
	But then there is a movement from the feelings	34:37
	of turmoil, there's a temptation.	34:40
	A temptation that some seem never to struggle with,	34:44
	but for others, it is a very real temptation.	34:48
	In the midst of crisis in family and the hard places at work	34:51
	and the turmoil in the world, the temptation is to despair.	34:58
	To despair.	35:04
	This summer, I spent a good part of July	35:06
	and the very beginning of August in the Soviet Union.	35:09
	And I experienced marvelous things	35:14
	with what God is doing in that place.	35:17
	The concluding visit, we had a worship service	35:20
	that a few of us were asked to lead,	35:23
	in a cathedral built in the 14th century,	35:26
	in which there had been no Christian worship allowed	35:29
	for 77 years, and the head of the Communist Party	35:32
	asked us if we would lead Christian worship service in	35:36
	that cathedral, because he himself had become a Christian.	35:40
	And he wanted to worship with us.	35:45
	And I remember sitting in that worship service	35:49
	and saying: all of my life, I have known war	35:52
	and the threat of war; my very first memory,	35:56
	two years of age, is learning how to put on a gas mask.	36:00
	I was in Santa Barbara, California, as a child.	36:05
	The Second World War had broken out.	36:09
	There were rumors of Japanese bombardment.	36:12
	And the children learned to put on gas masks.	36:15
	And on the fourth of August, I sat and worshiped	36:19
	and thought: oh, finally.	36:24
	Peace.	36:29
	And I came out of the Soviet Union to the news	36:31
	of the Iraqi invasion.	36:36
	I don't know how you would respond,	36:40
	but I know at least part of my divided self	36:42
	was tempted to despair.	36:45
	And so is the psalmist.	36:50
	And listen to these words:	36:52
	will the Lord reject forever?	36:55
	Do you hear the echoes of the marriage counselors	37:00
	who tell you when you're in turmoil in a marriage:	37:02
	watch these words of extreme?	37:05
	Always, never, forever.	37:07
	Because this is fear speaking.	37:11
	Will the Lord reject forever?	37:15
	Will he never show his favor again?	37:17
	Has his love vanished?	37:22
	Has his promise failed?	37:25
	Has God forgotten?	37:29
	Isn't that one of those things we don't want to name,	37:34
	that sometimes creeps in on us?	37:38
	Has God forgotten?	37:42
	Where is he?	37:44
	Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?	37:48
	And the temptation that threatens	37:53
	is the temptation to despair.	37:57
	But he doesn't stop there.	38:01
	There is another movement.	38:03
	And the movement here is an act of the will.	38:06
	The movement here is to change the focus of attention.	38:10
	And the psalmist says, after thinking:	38:16
	I will remember the power of God.	38:21
	I will choose to remember the greatness of God.	38:26
	I will remember the compassion of God.	38:31
	And I will choose, in an act of holy remembrance,	38:37
	to go back to the history of God's people,	38:41
	and to remember that when times seemed the awfullest,	38:44
	when there seemed no possibility of joy ever again,	38:49
	that in those times, we saw the mighty power,	38:55
	the great compassion, the loving action of God.	39:01
	And then, if you look closely at the psalmist,	39:07
	his form of address changes.	39:12
	He says: I will remember.	39:15
	And then he says: yes, I will remember you.	39:18
	And he's no longer talking to himself.	39:25
	He's talking to the god who listens.	39:29
	The god who hears.	39:33
	The god who knows.	39:35
	The god who acts in compassion.	39:38
	And he said: I will choose to meditate	39:42
	on all your works,	39:46
	on all your mighty deeds,	39:49
	you are a great and good god.	39:51
	There are times when we need to turn off	39:56
	and tune out.	40:01
	But it is not to forget or to deny.	40:04
	It is to remember.	40:09
	That in the midst of the brokenness of the world,	40:12
	we live in the hand of a loving God,	40:15
	who knows and hears and listens.	40:20
	Who doesn't reject us in our turmoil,	40:25
	but receives us as we are.	40:28
	God who has redeemed.	40:32
	And having redeemed, will redeem again.	40:36
	And remembers the mighty works of God.	40:43
	But there is one more movement in that psalm.	40:47
	It is a movement that leads us straight from the cry	40:53
	to God of the psalmist to the communion table,	40:57
	where we come this morning.	41:00
	When the psalmist has cried to God,	41:03
	not everything has been tied up	41:07
	in a nice, little safe package.	41:10
	The reality is still around him.	41:13
	But his heart now is focused,	41:16
	and he is able and choosing to remember,	41:20
	and then he ends the psalm this way.	41:23
	You led your people	41:27
	like a flock.	41:31
	The earlier stanza had spoken of mighty power.	41:34
	Of God in the waves, as the people go through the sea,	41:38
	between the armies and the sea.	41:43
	The phrase there that's fascinating is:	41:46
	your path led, even though your footprints weren't seen.	41:48
	Even though I couldn't actually get down and measure them,	41:54
	I knew you had led, you had opened,	41:57
	you had made a way, a way of hope,	42:01
	a way forward, a way of deliverance.	42:04
	But his mind now turns from power to:	42:09
	you lead your people like a flock.	42:13
	And he's not thinking of God's power.	42:17
	He's thinking of God's compassion.	42:19
	He's not thinking here of God's greatness and might,	42:22
	he's thinking of God's tenderness and care.	42:25
	And he is saying: I remember what you are.	42:30
	A shepherd.	42:34
	A shepherd.	42:36
	It was Jesus, who invites us to this table?	42:38
	He said: I am the good shepherd.	42:42
	And I know my sheep.	42:48
	I know them by name, and I care for them.	42:51
	I protect them against evil and attack.	42:55
	And I lay down my life,	42:59
	for the sheep.	43:03
	There is peace, there is courage,	43:06
	there is hope, there is comfort,	43:11
	when we remember that God, great God,	43:16
	the God who redeemed, delivers,	43:21
	is the compassionate shepherd who does care,	43:25
	who is with us,	43:29
	when Jesus laid down his life,	43:31
	that we might have life, abundant and whole,	43:34
	and full of goodness.	43:39
	May we draw joy and strength from Jesus,	43:42
	the good shepherd.	43:48
	Amen.	43:50
Reverend Clark	The Lord be with you.	44:01
Congregation	And also with you.	44:03
-	Let us pray.	44:05
	Gracious God, behold us and hear us now,	44:10
	your erring children who turn to you in prayer.	44:14
	Gifted with sight, we miss your glory,	44:18
	which surrounds us.	44:20
	Gifted with imagination, we plod along,	44:22
	afraid to dream or to hope for miracles.	44:25
	Gifted with the power of love, we use precious resources	44:29
	plotting ways to destroy one another.	44:33
	Forgive us our misuse of life, oh God,	44:37
	and help us find the courage to open ourselves	44:41
	to your healing presence.	44:44
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	44:47
	Eternal God, shepherd of every hope,	44:51
	our hearts cry out for peace in the Middle East.	44:54
	Console those who suffer most from war, the innocent.	44:58
	For those who are killed or injured,	45:03
	made homeless, orphaned or hungry,	45:06
	pour out your compassion on all your children,	45:09
	that the needs of those who suffer may be filled.	45:12
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	45:17
	God of mercy, refuge of every bewildered heart,	45:22
	we pray for soldiers, offered for the sake of others,	45:26
	and separated from family and loved ones,	45:29
	cheer them in their loneliness and keep them safe	45:33
	through the perils of war.	45:36
	Especially, we pray for the wellbeing of all prisoners	45:38
	of war, isolated and vulnerable to the darkest side of war.	45:42
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	45:47
	Oh God, lord of all the nations of the world,	45:51
	we pray for countries at war with one another,	45:54
	especially we pray for the people of Kuwait,	45:58
	that they may be delivered from despair,	46:01
	for the people of Iraq as they witness destruction	46:04
	all around them, or the people of Israel	46:06
	and Saudi Arabia, as they live in fear	46:09
	of the dreaded missile attacks,	46:12
	for people throughout the Persian Gulf,	46:14
	whose lives will be effected by	46:16
	impending ecological disasters.	46:18
	For the leaders of Iraq, the United States,	46:21
	and the allied forces, that they may be able	46:24
	to restore justice and find a way to end the fighting,	46:27
	without further death, injury, or desecration	46:31
	of the environment, Lord, in your mercy,	46:35
	hear our prayer.	46:38
	God of wisdom, remember families left behind	46:40
	of all nationalities, who anxiously await the return	46:44
	of husbands and wives, sisters and brothers,	46:48
	sons and daughters, mothers and fathers from desert lands.	46:51
	Fill the emptiness of absence with hopes	46:56
	for peace and safe reunions.	46:58
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	47:01
	Oh reconciling God, hear the deep and unspoken needs	47:06
	of this congregation and use us all,	47:10
	even in our confusion and our weakness,	47:13
	as instruments of your peace on Earth.	47:16
	Hurry the day when all people shall live together	47:20
	in your love, for yours is the kingdom,	47:22
	the power, and the glory forever.	47:25
	Amen.	47:29
	Christ invites to his table all who love him,	47:33
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	47:35
	Let us stand and offer each other	47:39
	signs of God's peace and love.	47:41
	As a forgiven and reconciled people,	48:03
	let us offer our gifts and ourselves unto God.	48:05
	(uptempo choral music)	48:24
	(reverent choral music)	50:04
	(somber choral music)	53:57
	(reverent choral music)	54:45
	(sweeping organ music)	56:11
	(reverent choral music)	56:48
	Please join with me in the great thanksgiving,	57:44
	found on page 15 in your hymnal.	57:45
	The Lord be with you.	57:51
Congregation	And also with you.	57:53
-	Lift up your hearts.	57:54
Congregation	We lift them up to the Lord.	57:55
-	Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.	57:57
Congregation	With Christ, we give our thanks and praise.	58:00
-	It is right and a good and joyful thing	58:03
	always and everywhere to give thanks to you, God almighty,	58:06
	creator of heaven and Earth.	58:10
	Before the mountains were brought forth,	58:13
	or you had formed the Earth from everlasting	58:15
	to everlasting, you alone are God.	58:18
	You created light out of darkness,	58:21
	and brought forth life on the Earth.	58:24
	You formed us in your image and breathed into us	58:26
	the breath of life.	58:29
	When we turned away and our love failed,	58:31
	your love remained steadfast.	58:34
	You delivered us from captivity,	58:37
	made covenant to be our sovereign God,	58:39
	and spoke to us through your prophets,	58:41
	and so with your people on Earth	58:44
	and all the company of heaven, we praise your name,	58:46
	and join their unending hymn.	58:49
	(joyful choral music)	58:53
	(placid choral music)	1:00:07
	(uptempo choral music)	1:01:16
	Holy are you and blessed is your son, Jesus Christ,	1:01:39
	in whom you have revealed yourself,	1:01:42
	our light and our salvation.	1:01:44
	You sent a star to guide the magi	1:01:47
	to where the Christ was born,	1:01:49
	and your signs and witnesses in every age	1:01:51
	and through all the world, have led your people	1:01:54
	from far places to his light.	1:01:56
	In his baptism and in his table fellowship,	1:01:59
	he took his place with sinners.	1:02:02
	Your spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,	1:02:05
	to proclaim release to the captives,	1:02:09
	and recovering of sight to the blind.	1:02:11
	To set at liberty those who were oppressed,	1:02:13
	and to announce that the time had come	1:02:16
	when you would save your people,	1:02:18
	by the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection,	1:02:21
	you gave birth to your church,	1:02:24
	delivered us from slavery to sin and death,	1:02:26
	and made with us a new covenant, by water and the spirit.	1:02:29
	On the night in which he gave himself up for us,	1:02:33
	he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread,	1:02:36
	gave it to his disciples and said:	1:02:40
	take, eat, this is my body, which is given for you.	1:02:42
	Do this in remembrance of me.	1:02:46
	And when the supper was over, he took the cup,	1:02:51
	gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said:	1:02:53
	drink from this, all of you.	1:02:57
	This is my blood of the new covenant,	1:02:59
	poured out for you and for many,	1:03:01
	for the forgiveness of sins.	1:03:03
	Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.	1:03:05
	And so in remembrance of these, your mighty acts	1:03:11
	in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise	1:03:13
	and thanksgiving, as the holy and living sacrifice	1:03:17
	in union with Christ, offering for us,	1:03:20
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	1:03:23
	Christ has died, Christ is risen,	1:03:26
	Christ will come again.	1:03:29
	Pour out your Holy Spirit on us, gathered here,	1:03:31
	and on these gifts of bread and wine.	1:03:34
	Make them be, for us, the body and blood of Christ,	1:03:37
	that we may be for the world the body of Christ,	1:03:40
	redeemed by his blood.	1:03:43
	By your Spirit, make us one with Christ,	1:03:45
	one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world.	1:03:48
	Until Christ comes in final victory,	1:03:52
	and we feast at his heavenly banquet,	1:03:54
	through your son, Jesus Christ,	1:03:57
	with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,	1:03:59
	all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and forever.	1:04:01
	Amen.	1:04:06
	Now let us pray with confidence the prayer	1:04:08
	that Jesus has taught us.	1:04:10
	Our father, who art in heaven,	1:04:12
	hallowed be they name, thy kingdom come,	1:04:14
	thy will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven.	1:04:18
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:04:21
	and forgive us our trespasses,	1:04:24
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:04:26
	Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	1:04:29
	For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.	1:04:33
	Amen.	1:04:39
	The gifts of God, for the people of God.	1:04:50
	(reverent choral music)	1:05:32
	(organ music)	1:08:13
	(placid choral music)	1:08:37
	(intricate organ music)	1:13:19
	Please stand as we pray.	1:14:15
	Pour out upon us the spirit of your love, oh Lord,	1:14:22
	and unite the wills of those whom you have fed	1:14:25
	with one heavenly food, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	1:14:28
	Amen.	1:14:32
	And now, go forth in peace and be of good courage.	1:14:38
	Hold fast to that which is good,	1:14:41
	rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit,	1:14:43
	and may the blessings of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit	1:14:46
	be with you all, now and forevermore.	1:14:49
	Amen.	1:14:53
	(soaring choral music)	1:14:56
	(reverent organ music)	1:15:16
	(reverent choral music)	1:16:16

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Title:

Roberta Hestenes - "Do People Really Change?" (January 27, 1991)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1) 22:42. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 43:51.
What do we do with the turmoil inside us when we learn things we didn’t want to know, when things go wrong which you were not prepared for? Through God we can come to know joy and peace that we otherwise would not know. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “There is peace, there is courage, there is hope, there is comfort when we remember that God, the great God, the God who redeems and delivers, is the compassionate shepherd. Who does care, who is with us, who in Jesus laid down his life that we might have life. Abundant and whole and full of goodness.”

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Date:

January 27, 1991

Speaker:

Hestenes, Roberta

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Epiphany

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Duke University. Chapel

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