Harold C. Warlick, Jr. - "Fresh Every Day" (July 2, 1995)

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	(lively organ music)	0:00
-	Good morning, we'd like to welcome you to Duke Chapel.	3:13
	Our guest preacher is the Reverend, Dr. Harold C. Warlick.	3:17
	Dr. Warlick serves as minister to the university	3:20
	as well as Professor of Religion	3:24
	and Chairman of the Department of Religion and Philosophy	3:26
	at High Point University.	3:30
	He has been a regular guest in our pulpit here,	3:32
	and we're glad to welcome	3:35
	he and his wife, Diane, this morning.	3:36
	This is Fourth of July weekend.	3:39
	As we celebrate the birth of our nation,	3:42
	let us be mindful of the gift of freedom	3:45
	that we have received and the sacrifices	3:47
	that have been made to secure it and to maintain it.	3:51
	May each of us exercise our freedom responsibly,	3:54
	with justice and mercy.	3:58
	Let us continue our worship with a greeting, please stand.	4:00
	Come, let us worship almighty God.	4:09
	(muffled congregation response)	4:13
	Come, let us honor Christ Jesus.	4:18
Congregation	Let us honor Christ in our hearts,	4:23
	and our minds and our spirits.	4:25
-	Come, let us be filled with the spirit of the living God.	4:28
	(muffled congregation response)	4:33
	(energetic organ music)	4:38
	(muffled congregation singing)	5:02
	(muffled congregation singing)	5:50
	(muffled congregation singing)	6:51
	(lively organ music)	7:52
	(muffled congregation singing)	8:14
-	Let us pray.	8:42
	Oh God, source of all beauty and goodness,	8:45
	your grace comes fresh every day.	8:50
	In each new day, you give us light.	8:54
	We praise you for your never failing love	8:57
	that satisfies our needs and shows us the way to follow.	9:00
	We rejoice in your constant care,	9:06
	for you are faithful in love for all people,	9:10
	offering your salvation through Jesus Christ.	9:13
	Help us so to follow that our lives may reflect his love	9:17
	and return to you all praise and glory,	9:22
	by all that we say and do.	9:26
	In the name of Jesus Christ our lord, Amen.	9:28
	You may be seated.	9:33
-	Please join me in the Prayer for Illumination.	9:47
-	[Lector & Congregation] Open our hearts and minds, oh God.	9:52
	By the power of your holy spirit, so that as the word	9:55
	is read and proclaimed, we may hear your message	9:59
	with joy this day, Amen.	10:03
-	The first reading is from the Second Book of Kings,	10:10
	chapter two, verses one and two and six to 14.	10:14
	Now when the lord was about to take Elijah	10:22
	up to heaven by a whirlwind,	10:24
	Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.	10:27
	Elijah said to Elisha,	10:31
	"Stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel."	10:34
	But Elisha said, "As the Lord lives,"	10:39
	"and as you yourself live, I will not leave you."	10:43
	So they went down to Bethel.	10:48
	Then Elijah said to him, "stay here, for the Lord"	10:51
	"has sent me to the Jordan."	10:55
	But he said, "as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live,"	10:58
	"I will not leave you."	11:03
	So the two of them went on.	11:06
	50 men of the company of prophets also went	11:09
	and stood at some distance from them,	11:12
	as both were standing by the Jordan.	11:14
	Then Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up	11:18
	and struck the water.	11:21
	The water was parted to the one side and to the other,	11:24
	until the two of them crossed on dry ground.	11:28
	When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha,	11:32
	"Tell me what I may do for you before I am taken from you."	11:36
	Elisha said, "please let me inherit a double share"	11:42
	"of your spirit."	11:46
	He responded, "you have asked a hard thing,"	11:48
	"yet if you see me as I am being taken from you,"	11:53
	"it will be granted you."	11:57
	"If not, it will not."	11:59
	As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire	12:03
	and horses of fire separated the two of them,	12:07
	and Elijah ascended in a whirlwind into heaven.	12:10
	Elisha kept watching and crying out,	12:14
	"Father, Father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"	12:17
	But when he could no longer see him,	12:21
	he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.	12:24
	He picked up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him	12:29
	and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.	12:32
	He took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him	12:36
	and struck the water saying,	12:39
	"where is the Lord, the God of Elijah?"	12:41
	When he had struck the water, the water was parted	12:45
	to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over.	12:48
	This is the word of the Lord.	12:55
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	12:57
-	The psalter appointed for this morning is psalm 77,	13:07
	verses one to two and 11 to 20 found on page 798	13:10
	of your hymnal.	13:14
	Please rise and sing the psalm and the Gloria responsively.	13:15
	(soft organ music)	13:21
	♪ I cried out to God, my love that God may give me. ♪	13:30
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	13:39
	♪ I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord ♪	13:56
	♪ I will remember your wonders of old ♪	14:01
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	14:06
	♪ Your way, oh God, is holy ♪	14:18
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	14:22
	♪ You are the God who works wonders ♪	14:28
	♪ You manifested your might among the peoples ♪	14:33
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	14:38
	♪ When the water saw you, oh God ♪	14:50
	♪ When the water saw you, they were afraid ♪	14:54
	♪ The very deeps trembled ♪	15:00
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	15:03
	♪ The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind ♪	15:19
	♪ Your lightning's illumined the world ♪	15:24
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	15:27
	♪ Your way was through the sea, ♪	15:32
	♪ Your path through the great waters ♪	15:35
	♪ Yet your footprints were unseen ♪	15:39
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	15:42
	♪ Oh glory be to you, creator ♪	15:51
	♪ And to Jesus Christ our savior ♪	15:54
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	15:58
	♪ As it was a time began ♪	16:05
	(muffled choir and congregation singing)	16:10
	You may be seated.	16:20
-	The second reading is from Galatians,	16:35
	chapter one, verses 13 - 25.	16:39
	For freedom, Christ has set us free.	16:44
	Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again	16:48
	to a yolk of slavery, for you were called to freedom,	16:51
	brothers and sisters.	16:56
	Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity	16:58
	for self-indulgence, but through love,	17:01
	become slaves to one another.	17:04
	For the law is summed up in one commandment.	17:07
	You shall love your neighbor as yourself.	17:11
	If, however, you bite and devour one another,	17:14
	take care that you are not consumed by one another.	17:18
	Live by the spirit, I say, and do not gratify	17:22
	the desires of the flesh.	17:26
	For what the flesh desires is opposed to the spirit,	17:29
	and what the spirit desires is opposed to the flesh.	17:33
	For these are opposed to each other	17:37
	to prevent you from doing what you want.	17:40
	But if you are led by the spirit,	17:43
	you are not subject to the law.	17:45
	Now the works of the flesh are obvious.	17:49
	Fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry,	17:51
	sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels,	17:56
	dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing,	18:01
	and things like these.	18:05
	I am warning you as I warned you before.	18:07
	Those who do such things	18:10
	will not inherit the kingdom of God.	18:11
	By contrast, the fruits of the spirit are love,	18:15
	joy, peace, patience, kindness,	18:19
	generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.	18:24
	There is no law against such things.	18:31
	And those who belong to Christ Jesus	18:35
	have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.	18:38
	If we live by the spirit,	18:43
	let us also be guided by the spirit.	18:45
	This is the word of the Lord.	18:49
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	18:51
	(uplifting organ music)	19:09
	(choir singing indistinctly)	19:29
	(choir singing indistinctly)	20:43
	(choir singing indistinctly)	22:03
-	The Gospel reading is from Luke, chapter nine,	23:39
	beginning at verse 57.	23:43
	As they were going along the road, someone said to him,	23:48
	"I will follow you wherever you go."	23:52
	And Jesus said to him,	23:55
	"foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests."	23:57
	"But the son of man has nowhere to lay his head."	24:02
	To another he said, "follow me," but he said,	24:07
	"Lord, first let me go and bury my father."	24:13
	But Jesus said to him,	24:18
	"Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you,"	24:20
	"go and proclaim the kingdom of God."	24:24
	Another said, "I will follow you, Lord,"	24:28
	"but let me first say farewell to those at my home."	24:33
	Jesus said to him, "no one who puts their hand to the plow	24:37
	and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."	24:42
	This is the word of the Lord.	24:48
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	24:50
-	We're delighted that you have chosen to spend this weekend	25:02
	preceding our celebration of the Fourth here in worship.	25:07
	One of the most improbable and difficult things in life,	25:15
	is the effort to take something that was so meaningful,	25:20
	so alive, so vital to one generation,	25:25
	preserve it, and give it to another generation.	25:30
	As we prepare to explode the fireworks,	25:35
	to listen to the well-crafted patriotic speeches,	25:39
	for the well-rehearsed patriotic music,	25:43
	even as we prepare to simply lie on the couch,	25:48
	as I am prone to do, and watch a ball game,	25:52
	how can we make the experience of freedom ours today?	25:57
	Author William Gibson describes an effort	26:06
	that happened in his own life.	26:11
	His mother had died, and if you've ever lost your mother,	26:14
	you know what a void is in your life.	26:19
	Gibson said that he was worried about his faith.	26:24
	He felt that his mother had been a strong woman,	26:29
	that she possessed a firmer belief in God than he possessed,	26:34
	and he wanted to recapture his mother's faith.	26:39
	So he went over to her home,	26:44
	he picked up her gold-rimmed spectacles,	26:47
	he took off the counter her faded dog-eared prayerbook.	26:52
	Then he went over to what had been	26:58
	his mother's favorite chair.	27:00
	He sat in the chair and very gently and carefully	27:04
	began to open the pages of her prayerbook.	27:09
	He tried to hear the words about God	27:13
	that she must've heard.	27:17
	He tried to then put on her gold-rimmed spectacles	27:20
	and look at the words and see if he could see	27:25
	the same kind of God that his mother must have seen.	27:31
	He said it did not work.	27:36
	He could not hear the words his mother had heard.	27:39
	He could not see the God his mother had seen.	27:43
	It's very difficult to stoke the fires	27:49
	of another generation's experience.	27:52
	Every generation has to reclaim the beliefs for themselves.	27:56
	Every generation has to renew daily the things	28:03
	that are preserved and packaged and handed to it.	28:07
	If you go to a bookstore and you look	28:11
	in the religion section,	28:14
	you will certainly become aware of one thing.	28:17
	Angels are making a big comeback in the media.	28:20
	I went in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million in Tennessee	28:26
	and half the religion section was devoted to angels.	28:29
	Angels are big now.	28:33
	But if you look at the scriptures,	28:37
	you'll be impressed with one thing.	28:39
	The angels' voices are always urgent.	28:43
	The Bible reports that angels are always urgent	28:47
	when they talk to human beings.	28:50
	It's like a clear cry being given	28:53
	to a sleepyhead to wake up.	28:56
	They always say get going,	28:59
	don't look at the past, do it now.	29:01
	Joseph has a dream.	29:05
	Herod is slaughtering all of these innocent babies.	29:07
	And an angel comes in the dream and says,	29:11
	Joseph get going, don't stop, move out.	29:13
	Get going now.	29:18
	Philip in the Book of Acts is contemplating his faith.	29:20
	An angel comes to him and says, Philip,	29:24
	stop, get up, go quickly.	29:27
	An angel speaks to Elijah.	29:32
	Elijah is depressed and despondent and wanting to goof off	29:34
	and just lie there and wait for death.	29:38
	And the angel says, Elijah, get up, get something to eat,	29:41
	start moving, don't look back.	29:45
	An angel comes to Peter in prison,	29:48
	and Peter is simply sitting on the floor,	29:51
	waiting to be rescued.	29:53
	And the angel says, Peter, get up,	29:56
	strap your sandals, start moving.	29:57
	The angels always say the same thing.	30:01
	Do it now.	30:04
	There's an urgency in the voice of Jesus	30:06
	in the lectionary gospel.	30:10
	Follow me, he says.	30:12
	This is one of the most misunderstood gospel texts	30:16
	in all of scripture.	30:21
	One man wants to go and bury his father.	30:24
	Jesus says, let the dead bury the dead.	30:28
	You come and follow me, it's urgent.	30:31
	Another person comes to Jesus and says,	30:35
	Jesus I'll follow you, but let me stop and go home,	30:37
	say goodbye to the family, pay all the bills,	30:41
	get the household in order, and then I'll follow you.	30:45
	Jesus says, don't put your hand on the plow	30:49
	and look in the rear-view mirror.	30:51
	Get going.	30:54
	The Bible has a persistent theme.	30:56
	All of the great spiritual values	30:59
	have to be urgently gathered fresh.	31:01
	They can't be embalmed, preserved, passed on	31:05
	from one generation to the next.	31:10
	We can't pickle Christ and give him to our children.	31:12
	We can't slouch looking through the rear-view mirror.	31:18
	When I was growing up in childhood,	31:24
	our family had a very strange group of neighbors.	31:26
	We had a family that lived next door,	31:32
	and I call the young man my age, Pickle Keller.	31:34
	The Kellers were funny people.	31:39
	They were all pickled.	31:41
	They shopped for groceries once every four months.	31:44
	They would purchase half a cow, have it cut up,	31:49
	put it in the freezer, start eating the meat at the top,	31:53
	and eat all the way down to the bottom of the freezer.	31:56
	My mother warned me never to go have lunch	32:00
	at the Kellers' home, because you never knew	32:02
	how old some of that meat was at the bottom of the freezer.	32:06
	In fact, it looked almost like this stole.	32:11
	The Kellers never bought anything fresh.	32:16
	They went to a warehouse and they bought not a box,	32:20
	not a case, but a barrel of cereal, and they would eat	32:25
	all the way down to the bottom of the barrel	32:30
	until it tasted like nachos down there at the bottom,	32:32
	and then they would go out and buy another barrel.	32:35
	Mrs. Keller canned fruits and vegetables.	32:39
	She would put them on a shelf once a year.	32:42
	They would eat out of the jars	32:44
	literally until the next year came	32:46
	and she could can more fruit and vegetables.	32:49
	When it came to values and to living,	32:52
	the Kellers lived a pickled lifestyle.	32:55
	Father Keller was a patriot.	32:59
	Everyone knew he was a patriot for two reasons.	33:01
	He always told you he was a patriot, and secondly	33:05
	he wore a probably three sizes too small military uniform	33:08
	in every Memorial Day parade.	33:14
	He'd fought in the big one, World War II,	33:17
	he called it the big one, but he had not voted	33:20
	in a presidential election	33:23
	since he voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt.	33:25
	He never did anything civic in the community.	33:29
	He'd secured his patriotism long ago.	33:32
	He said once you're a patriot, you're always a patriot.	33:35
	The Kellers were pickled in their religion.	33:40
	On Christmas, they came to church	33:43
	every time the doors were open.	33:46
	They came to Sunday School, worship, evening worship,	33:47
	and the Christmas Eve candlelight communion.	33:52
	No one would see them again until Easter,	33:55
	and then they would do the same thing.	33:58
	Finally on the Fourth of July, they would come back again.	34:01
	In some church in America today,	34:04
	the descendants of the Keller family are worshiping.	34:06
	They will not be back until Thanksgiving.	34:09
	Got enough religion when I was a boy to last me a lifetime,	34:15
	father Keller said.	34:19
	They subscribed to the adage that if you train them right	34:22
	when they're little, they'll grow in the direction	34:25
	in which they've been trained.	34:28
	Well if ever a group of people should understand	34:31
	the urgency of daily renewal, it should be those of us	34:34
	who call ourselves inheritors	34:38
	of the Judeo-Christian scripture,	34:40
	and Methodism in particular.	34:43
	As a good Anglican, John Wesley subscribed to the three ways	34:46
	to verify religious truth.	34:51
	Scripture, tradition, and reason.	34:54
	But to these three, John Wesley added a fourth, experience.	34:58
	That religion must be validated by experience.	35:04
	You see, the Methodists are the only Protestant group	35:09
	to have been born not in the Reformation	35:13
	but in the Enlightenment.	35:16
	Curiosity about the world, the daily renewal of life,	35:19
	the daily application of the scientific method,	35:24
	a primacy on experience.	35:28
	Those things were born in the Enlightenment.	35:31
	John Wesley's contemporaries were not popes and priests	35:34
	and clerical rebels from the Dark Ages.	35:39
	John Wesley's contemporaries were Isaac Newton,	35:43
	Faraday, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin.	35:46
	John Wesley and his friends breathed	35:51
	the fresh renewal of daily life.	35:54
	They wanted a relevant faith, a vital faith,	35:57
	a faith that would be for today.	36:01
	In like manner, the quest for renewal in scripture	36:04
	does not begin with Jesus saying,	36:07
	don't put your hand on the plow and look backward.	36:09
	But it begins with the very formation	36:12
	of the Israelite people in the wilderness.	36:14
	The Book of Exodus contains an amazing story.	36:17
	The people are hungry like many of us get between now	36:21
	and one o'clock, and they're wandering in the wilderness,	36:24
	and they're griping to Moses,	36:27
	we had better food to eat than this in Egypt.	36:29
	Give us bread.	36:34
	Give us something to eat.	36:36
	So Moses prayed to God, and manna appeared	36:40
	on the bushes of the tamarisk plants,	36:45
	and this manna was there every morning.	36:48
	And Moses said, now you've got to renew it every day.	36:51
	Just pick enough for that day, and then go out	36:55
	and get some more the next day.	36:57
	But some people were shrewd.	37:00
	They said, we can save up this stuff.	37:02
	They began to collect it, and when they got up	37:07
	the next morning, they found that what they had tried	37:11
	to protect and preserve and keep for the future	37:13
	had a foul odor and was full of worms.	37:17
	The Bible is telling us that our relationship with God	37:22
	has to be renewed each day,	37:25
	or it begins to become oppressive.	37:27
	Some values cannot be pickled.	37:31
	They cannot be handed on and transformed	37:34
	from one generation to the next.	37:37
	They have to be won every day,	37:40
	or they begin to give off an odor and turn rotten.	37:42
	You can't keep yesterday's sentiment for the future.	37:47
	Look at patriotism.	37:50
	Some people try to gather eloquent sentiments	37:52
	and statements and embalm them and say I'm for America,	37:55
	and wave the flag, and then rest on their laurels.	38:00
	A patriot is someone who is doing something	38:04
	for American civilization right now.	38:07
	A patriot is not someone who has an embalmed notion	38:10
	against the welfare state or against creeping socialism,	38:14
	but hasn't done one thing positive to legislate	38:19
	and help and care and feed America now.	38:22
	We have Duke University and other universities like it	38:27
	not because we just need better doctors and better lawyers	38:30
	and more artists and more professionals and more teachers,	38:34
	but because we need a better civilization	38:38
	and more informed citizens.	38:41
	And just as we no longer gather our civilization fresh	38:44
	each day, we tend to lose it, it spoils.	38:47
	This summer I taught a course entitled,	38:51
	"Perspectives on the Good Life."	38:54
	We just finished it,	38:56
	and there were 17 students in the class.	38:57
	I decided that I would stimulate the class	39:01
	by having an in-class exercise.	39:03
	I brought in a professional auctioneer,	39:06
	gave each student $200,000 in paper money,	39:09
	and decided to auction off values.	39:15
	So we put up on the blackboard 40 items.	39:21
	Things like a new car of your choice, a new home,	39:25
	a happy marriage, freedom,	39:30
	world peace, good health,	39:33
	unlimited tickets to any sporting events in America.	39:37
	And as the auctioneer chanted his sing-song cadence,	39:44
	the bidding was off and running.	39:49
	You could see the students playing it cagey,	39:51
	trying to save some of their money to purchase items	39:55
	on down the line.	39:58
	And I knew when we got halfway through	40:01
	that I had plenty of good sermon material,	40:04
	because believe it or not, unlimited tickets to sporting	40:07
	events in America sold for twice as much as world peace.	40:11
	The auctioneer finally pointed to freedom	40:18
	and was ready to auction freedom off,	40:22
	and when he started to open his mouth,	40:26
	a young woman jumped out of her seat and screamed,	40:28
	"I bid $200,000!"	40:32
	The auctioneer patiently said,	40:38
	"Don't you want to start a little lower?"	40:40
	"No," she declared.	40:45
	"Somebody else might get it and I want it!"	40:48
	"I bid all I've got, $200,000!"	40:50
	She got it.	40:55
	No one else had all their money left.	40:57
	Her name is Gabriella, she's an immigrant from Romania,	41:01
	a previous communist country.	41:07
	After class, as I was leaving the chapel,	41:11
	another student came up to me and said, Dr. Warlick, man,	41:14
	can you believe Gabriella spent her whole wad on freedom?	41:17
	She didn't get anything else.	41:24
	I got good health, a new car of my choice, and a new house.	41:26
	And all she got was freedom,	41:32
	and she could've gotten that cheaper.	41:35
	Why'd she do that?	41:38
	All I could think of to say was her freedom is fresh.	41:43
	And ours has been preserved and embalmed	41:49
	and handed down to us.	41:54
	There's a big difference as to where it fits	41:57
	in your sense of urgency.	42:00
	And like manna, the church has to win its life every day	42:04
	or it will lose it.	42:07
	The spirit of mainline Protestantism has been in trouble	42:08
	in America, not because people don't enjoy	42:12
	being Protestants, but because unless it's renewed each day	42:15
	and with each generation, it begins to grow stiff	42:20
	and inflexible and give off a smell.	42:23
	It matters little how dedicated John Wesley was	42:27
	to his Christ.	42:31
	It matters little how dedicated the charter members	42:33
	of this chapel were to its construction.	42:37
	It matters little how much money James B. Duke,	42:42
	St. Nicotine gave to build a chapel.	42:46
	It does not matter from this perspective how dedicated	42:51
	your parents were to Christ.	42:56
	And frankly it may not matter how dedicated you were	43:00
	when you were converted to Christianity.	43:04
	Religion cannot be embalmed.	43:08
	It cannot be saved up.	43:11
	It cannot be pickled and passed on even in stained glass	43:13
	and Gothic structure.	43:17
	We have to win our faith every day or we lose it.	43:19
	If you don't leave this chapel today,	43:23
	July the 2nd, 1995, with a closer feeling of God	43:25
	than when you came through the doors,	43:32
	then you aren't closer to God, period.	43:35
	Now is when we live.	43:40
	Jesus was right on the mark when he said	43:43
	if you seek to save your life, you lose it.	43:45
	Education has to be gathered fresh or it spoils.	43:51
	Go to college, go to Duke, go to High Point, go to Harvard,	43:57
	go to Yale, pay a fortune, obtain an education.	44:00
	Become a professional, a doctor, a nurse, a teacher,	44:05
	and then after 10 years of confining your reading	44:11
	to the sports pages of the daily newspaper	44:16
	and listening to what the men and women say	44:19
	in the restaurant at the coffee table,	44:22
	see how opinionated, how prejudiced, how chauvinistic,	44:25
	how bitter and narrow you have become.	44:30
	A mind that is not gathered fresh begins to spoil.	44:34
	Some years ago, I had a wonderful seminary education	44:39
	at Harvard University.	44:42
	You don't really care.	44:43
	You don't care what I preached about last Sunday.	44:45
	You want to know when is he going to stop?	44:49
	Can he lift up Christ and stimulate us in Duke Chapel today	44:52
	before we go to lunch?	44:56
	The awareness of freedom, the joy of democracy,	44:59
	the privilege of being able to worship with whom you wish,	45:03
	how you wish, where you wish, and how	45:07
	has to be gathered fresh every time you sit in your pews.	45:12
	All worthwhile values that are truly worthwhile	45:16
	cannot be embalmed, pickled, and brought forward	45:19
	as things of the past.	45:22
	They have to be fresh,	45:24
	so pray a new prayer of thanks for your freedom today.	45:26
	Not the same old one.	45:31
	Regardless of the sorrow, the anxiety, the perspective	45:33
	that you brought to this place of worship,	45:37
	thank God for today's blessings.	45:39
	Go forth grateful for those who came here	45:43
	to worship with you.	45:45
	If you have something nice to say to someone that will build	45:47
	them up and make them feel better, say it now.	45:51
	And lest we become tempted to rest on our pickled prosperity	45:57
	from the past, I'll remind you that we are still	46:02
	a nation under siege.	46:05
	We are still a church under siege.	46:07
	The Cold War's over.	46:11
	We have kept ruthless dictators at bay,	46:13
	but we are still a society under siege.	46:17
	We are still a church under siege.	46:20
	One out of every seven Americans is poor.	46:23
	One out of every four pre-school children	46:27
	comes from a poor family.	46:31
	There are more poor children in New York City	46:34
	than there are citizens	46:39
	in the developing nation of Botswana.	46:41
	There are more poor children in Los Angeles	46:46
	than there are citizens in Botswana.	46:50
	And we worry so much about the world scene, and we should,	46:55
	but there are more poor children in Chicago	47:01
	than there are citizens in Botswana.	47:06
	Every day in our nation's streets, 65 Americans	47:12
	are killed with handguns.	47:18
	That's more people than are killed	47:21
	in five years in Australia, three years in Great Britain,	47:24
	and one year in Canada.	47:30
	We lose more people by handguns each day	47:34
	than are killed in most of the developed nations	47:37
	of the world in years.	47:40
	So we have to pick our justice fresh.	47:44
	We have to create freedom anew.	47:47
	We have to arise and go, to hurry, to do it now.	47:51
	Important things have to be gathered fresh.	47:58
	Do not put your hand to the plow and look behind you.	48:01
	This is not only your time to live.	48:05
	This is your only time to live	48:11
	and to proclaim the kingdom of God.	48:16
	This is not only your time to take up space	48:20
	and to breathe and to live, this is your only time to live	48:24
	and to proclaim the kingdom of God.	48:31
	So be it.	48:34
	(calming organ music)	48:42
	(choir and congregation singing indistinctly)	49:08
	(choir and congregation singing indistinctly)	50:32
	(choir and congregation singing indistinctly)	51:17
Lector	The Lord be with you.	51:30
Congregation	And also with you.	51:32
Lector	Let us pray.	51:34
	You may be seated.	51:37
	Almighty and ever-living God,	51:48
	by your Apostle, you taught us to pray	51:51
	not only for ourselves, but for others,	51:55
	and to give thanks for all of life.	51:58
	We are especially this day for the gift of freedom.	52:02
	For the freedom to make choices about how we will live	52:07
	and whom we will serve.	52:12
	Inspire us and your whole church with a fresh experience	52:16
	of your spirit, of power, unity, and peace.	52:21
	Grant that we may urgently seek to receive your word	52:28
	and to follow you without looking back.	52:32
	Give us a renewal of life daily,	52:37
	that we may remain close to you and live together in love.	52:40
	Lord in your mercy,	52:47
All	Hear our prayer.	52:49
-	Lead all nations in the way of justice and freedom.	52:52
	Direct those who govern that they may rule fairly,	52:57
	maintain order, uphold those in need,	53:01
	and defend oppressed people.	53:06
	That this world may claim your rule and know true peace.	53:09
	Lord in your mercy,	53:14
All	Hear our prayer.	53:17
-	Guide the people of this land and of all the nations	53:19
	in the ways of justice and good will.	53:22
	Inspire us today to fresh generosity and commitment	53:26
	that we may honor one another and serve the common good.	53:32
	Lord in your mercy,	53:37
All	Hear our prayer.	53:39
-	Give us all a reverence for the Earth as your creation,	53:41
	that we may use its resources rightly in the service	53:45
	of others and to your honor and glory,	53:49
	Lord in your mercy,	53:52
All	Hear our prayer.	53:55
-	Give grace to all who proclaim the gospel through word	53:58
	and sacrament and deeds of mercy.	54:01
	That by their teaching and example,	54:05
	they may bring others into your fellowship.	54:07
	Lord in your mercy,	54:11
All	Hear our prayer.	54:14
-	Comfort and relieve, oh Lord, all who are in trouble.	54:16
	Sorrow, poverty, sickness,	54:22
	grief, or any other need,	54:27
	especially those known to us	54:32
	whom we name before you in silence.	54:34
	Heal them in body, mind, or circumstance.	54:43
	Working in them by your grace,	54:47
	wonders beyond all they may dream or hope.	54:49
	Lord in your mercy,	54:54
All	Hear our prayer.	54:56
-	Hear our prayers, almighty God,	54:58
	in the name of Jesus Christ, who prays with us and for us.	55:02
	To him, be praise forever and ever, Amen.	55:08
	The Earth and all it contains belonged to the Lord,	55:16
	the world and those who live in it.	55:20
	With gladness, let us present the offerings	55:23
	of our life and labor to the Lord.	55:25
	(calming organ music)	55:32
	(calming organ music)	57:07
	(choir singing indistinctly)	57:38
	(choir singing indistinctly)	58:55
	(choir singing indistinctly)	1:00:05
	(indistinct singing)	1:01:56
	(choir singing indistinctly)	1:02:34
	(dramatic organ music)	1:03:12
	(choir and congregation singing indistinctly)	1:03:43
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	1:03:53
	(choir and congregation singing indistinctly)	1:04:01
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	1:04:12
	♪ Alleluia, Alleluia ♪	1:04:18
	♪ Alleluia ♪	1:04:25
Lector	God of all mercies, we give you humble thanks	1:04:37
	for your goodness and loving kindness that is given anew	1:04:41
	every day to us and to all whom you have made.	1:04:46
	We bless you for our creation, for daily preservation,	1:04:51
	and all the blessings of this life,	1:04:58
	especially the gift of freedom.	1:05:00
	Above all we give thanks for your immeasurable love	1:05:03
	and the redemption of the world by our Lord, Jesus Christ.	1:05:07
	For the means of grace and for the hope of glory.	1:05:11
	And we pray, give us such an awareness of your mercies	1:05:16
	that with truly thankful hearts,	1:05:21
	we may show forth our praise,	1:05:23
	not only with our lips but in our lives,	1:05:26
	by giving up ourselves to your service,	1:05:29
	and by walking before you in holiness and righteousness	1:05:33
	all our days.	1:05:37
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with you	1:05:39
	and the holy spirit, the honor and glory	1:05:43
	throughout all ages, Amen.	1:05:46
	Let us pray together the Lord's Prayer.	1:05:51
All	Our father, who art in heaven,	1:05:54
	hallowed be thy name.	1:05:57
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	1:05:59
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	1:06:03
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:06:06
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:06:09
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	1:06:12
	and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	1:06:15
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	1:06:21
	and the glory forever, Amen.	1:06:24
	(energetic organ music)	1:06:30
	(all singing indistinctly)	1:07:18
	(all singing indistinctly)	1:08:17
	(all singing indistinctly)	1:09:18
-	Go forth in peace, renewed by the power of the living God.	1:10:15
	May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,	1:10:20
	and the communion of the holy spirit	1:10:24
	be with you and keep you.	1:10:25
	♪ Alleluia, Amen, Amen ♪	1:10:31
	(energetic organ music)	1:10:46
	(energetic organ music)	1:12:28
	(organ music ends)	1:13:01

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Harold C. Warlick, Jr. - "Fresh Every Day" (July 2, 1995)

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Sermon start time: 25:02. Sermon end time: 48:35.
The values of faith cannot not be hoarded and stored up for the future; they must be sought fresh every day. As Christians, we must seek to renew our relationship with God daily. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “Religion cannot be embalmed. It cannot be saved up. It cannot be pickled and passed on even in stained class and Gothic structure. We have to win our faith every day or we lose it.”

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