Gayle C. Felton - "Living Deep" (July 30, 1995)

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	(organ music)	0:02
-	Good morning, we'd like to welcome you to Duke Chapel.	1:33
	We've got a packed house today,	1:36
	and I'd like to ask those of you sitting in the pews	1:38
	if you could help by moving in just a little bit	1:40
	toward the center aisle,	1:43
	and that will assist the latecomers	1:45
	to have space on the ends of the rows.	1:47
	Thank you very much for your assistance.	1:49
	We welcome to our pulpit this morning	1:53
	the Reverend Doctor Gayle Carlton Felton,	1:56
	assistant professor of Christian nurture	1:59
	at Duke Divinity School.	2:01
	We are glad to have Doctor Felton with us	2:03
	as our preacher today.	2:05
	We're also grateful to welcome	2:07
	the Bright Leaf Music Workshop,	2:09
	the singers, their families,	2:11
	and their director, Doctor Dan Huff,	2:13
	who are with us and will provide	2:15
	special music in today's service of worship.	2:17
	Now, let us continue our worship with the greeting,	2:20
	please stand.	2:22
	God is eager to restore us to right relationships.	2:30
	The Creator is waiting to claim us now as God's own.	2:35
	Listen, for God will speak to those who want to hear.	2:47
	Turn your hearts toward the one who saves.	2:52
	God will answer us and will give what is good.	3:02
	God restores us to faithfulness and righteousness.	3:06
	(organ music)	3:20
	(choir singing)	4:03
	(organ music)	6:13
	(choir singing)	6:36
-	Let us pray.	7:36
	Into our hearts, gracious God,	7:43
	to quiet the clamor of our busy days,	7:46
	and fill the emptiness of aching hearts,	7:49
	help us to put aside our work,	7:53
	our worries, and all distractions to focus on you.	7:56
	Bring eternal values to the center of our attention,	8:02
	may this hour be filled with all that is true,	8:06
	honorable, just, pure,	8:09
	pleasing, commendable, and excellent.	8:12
	We are ready to learn what you wish to teach us.	8:16
	In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	8:19
	You may be seated.	8:24
-	Let us pray together the prayer for illumination.	8:38
	Open our hearts and minds, O God,	8:42
	by the power of your Holy Spirit	8:45
	so that, as the word is read and proclaimed,	8:48
	we may hear your message with joy this day, amen.	8:52
	The first lesson this morning is from the book of Hosea,	8:59
	the first chapter, beginning with the second verse.	9:02
	When the Lord first spoke through Hosea,	9:06
	the Lord said to Hosea go,	9:09
	take for your wife a wife of whoredom,	9:12
	and have children of whoredom,	9:15
	for the land commits great whoredom	9:17
	by forsaking the Lord.	9:19
	So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim,	9:21
	and she conceived and bore him a son.	9:25
	And the Lord said to him name him Jezreel,	9:29
	for in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu	9:33
	for the blood of Jezreel,	9:36
	and I will put an end to the kingdom	9:38
	of the house of Israel.	9:40
	On that day, I will break the bow of Israel	9:42
	in the valley of Jezreel.	9:46
	She conceived again and bore a daughter,	9:49
	then the Lord said to him	9:53
	name her Lo-ruhamah,	9:55
	for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel,	9:57
	or forgive them,	10:00
	but I will have pity on the house of Judah,	10:02
	and I will save them by the Lord their God.	10:04
	I will not save them by bow or by sword	10:08
	or by horses or by horsemen.	10:12
	When she had weened Lo-ruhamah,	10:15
	she conceived and bore a son.	10:18
	Then the Lord said name him Lo-Ammi,	10:21
	for you are not my people,	10:24
	and I am not your God.	10:26
	Yet the number of people in Israel	10:29
	shall be like the sand of the sea,	10:31
	which can be neither measured nor numbered,	10:33
	and in the place where it was said to them,	10:36
	you are not my people.	10:38
	It shall be said to them	10:40
	children of the living God.	10:42
	This is the word of the Lord,	10:45
	peace be to God.	10:48
	This morning's Psalter is Psalm 85,	10:52
	found on page 806 in your hymnals.	10:55
	Please stand and read responsively.	10:58
	Lord, you showed favor to your land,	11:16
	you restored the fortunes of Jacob.	11:20
	You withdrew all your wrath,	11:29
	you turned from your hot anger.	11:31
	Will you be angry with us forever?	11:41
	Will you prolong your anger to all generations?	11:44
	Will you not revive us again	11:48
	that your people may rejoice in you?	11:50
	Let me hear what God will speak,	11:59
	for the Lord will speak to his people,	12:02
	to his faithful,	12:04
	to those who turn to the Lord in their hearts.	12:06
	Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet,	12:18
	righteousness and peace will kiss each other.	12:21
	The Lord will give what is good,	12:33
	and our land will yield its increase.	12:35
	(organ music)	12:45
	(choir singing)	12:54
	You may be seated.	13:43
	The second lesson this morning	13:54
	is taken from the 11th chapter	13:55
	of the gospel according to Luke,	13:57
	beginning with the first verse.	13:59
	He was praying in a certain place,	14:03
	and after he had finished,	14:06
	one of his disciples said to him Lord,	14:07
	teach us to pray as John taught his disciples.	14:10
	He said to them when you pray,	14:15
	say Father, hallowed be your name,	14:18
	your kingdom come,	14:21
	give us each day our daily bread,	14:23
	and forgive us our sins	14:26
	for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us,	14:28
	and do not bring us to the time of trial.	14:32
	And he said to them	14:36
	suppose one of you has a friend	14:37
	and you go to him and midnight and say friend,	14:39
	lend me three loaves of bread,	14:42
	for a friend of mine has arrived	14:45
	and I have nothing to set before him.	14:46
	And he answered from within	14:49
	do not bother me, for the door has been locked,	14:51
	and my children are with me in bed.	14:54
	I cannot get up and give you anything,	14:57
	I tell you, even though he will not get up	15:00
	and give him anything because he is a friend,	15:03
	at least because of his persistence,	15:06
	he will get up and get him whatever he needs.	15:08
	So I say to you, ask,	15:12
	and it will be given to you.	15:14
	Search and you will find,	15:16
	knock, and the door will be open for you.	15:20
	For everyone who receives,	15:23
	and everyone who searches finds,	15:26
	and for everyone who knocks,	15:29
	the door will be opened.	15:30
	Is there anyone among you who	15:33
	if a child asks for a fish	15:35
	will give him a snake instead of a fish?	15:37
	Or if a child asks for an egg	15:40
	will give a scorpion?	15:42
	If you then, who are evil,	15:44
	know how to give good gifts to your children,	15:46
	how much more will the heavenly Father	15:49
	give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?	15:51
	This is the word of the Lord,	15:55
	thanks be to God.	15:59
	(organ music)	16:14
	(choir singing)	16:25
-	Hear the reading from the second chapter of Colossians.	19:23
	As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord,	19:29
	continue to live your lives in him.	19:34
	Rooted and built up in him	19:38
	and established in the faith,	19:40
	just as you were taught,	19:43
	abounding in thanksgiving.	19:46
	See to it that no one takes you captive	19:49
	through his philosophy	19:53
	and empty deceit.	19:54
	According to human traditions,	19:57
	according to elemental spirits of the universe,	19:59
	and not according to Christ,	20:03
	for in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,	20:06
	and you have come to fullness in him.	20:12
	He is the head of every ruler and authority,	20:18
	in him also you were circumcised	20:23
	with a spiritual circumcision.	20:26
	By putting off the body of flesh	20:29
	in the circumcision of Christ,	20:32
	when you are buried with him in baptism,	20:34
	you are also raised with him	20:38
	through faith and the power of God	20:41
	who raised him from the dead.	20:44
	And when you were dead in trespasses	20:48
	in the uncircumcision of your flesh,	20:50
	God made you alive together with him	20:54
	when he forgave us all our trespasses,	20:58
	erasing the record that stood against us	21:04
	with its legal demands,	21:07
	he set these aside,	21:09
	nailing them to his cross.	21:11
	He disarmed the rulers of authorities	21:14
	and made a public example of them,	21:18
	triumphing over them in it.	21:21
	This is the word of the Lord.	21:25
	In the spring of 1845,	21:36
	Henry David Thoreau built a shack	21:42
	in the woods	21:48
	on the shore of a small lake in Massachusetts	21:50
	named Walden Pond.	21:55
	There he lived for more than two years,	22:00
	and subsequently wrote an account	22:05
	of his experience,	22:07
	which has become a classic of American literature.	22:09
	In his explanation,	22:16
	he expressed his motivation for this rather radical,	22:21
	counter culture move in these words:	22:27
	I went to the woods	22:33
	because I wished to love deliberately,	22:35
	to front only the essential facts of life,	22:40
	and see if I could not learn	22:45
	what it had to teach, and not,	22:49
	when I came to die,	22:54
	discover that I had not lived.	22:57
	I did not wish to live what was not life.	23:04
	Living is so dear.	23:08
	Nor did I wish to practice resignation	23:12
	unless it was quite necessary.	23:16
	I wanted to live deep	23:19
	and suck out all the marrow of life.	23:23
	Thoreau feared that his life,	23:32
	being lived in the routine of the small town of Concord,	23:36
	was being wasted	23:40
	on trivialities	23:43
	and superficialities.	23:46
	He comments later that his life	23:49
	was being fretted away in details,	23:53
	and he was determined to resist	23:58
	the pull of the ordinary,	24:02
	the temptation to settle for the routine	24:05
	and the mundane and the meaningless.	24:08
	He was determined to find within himself,	24:12
	and within the very nature of the world	24:16
	the true meaning of human existence.	24:21
	In his letter to the Colossians	24:29
	from which I just read,	24:32
	Paul warned these Christians	24:35
	about the dangers of false teachings	24:38
	which threatened to ensnare them	24:43
	in the trivialities and superficialities of life	24:47
	so as to choke, to strangle,	24:51
	to destroy the very life	24:55
	that the had come to know in Christ Jesus.	24:57
	We do not know all the details	25:03
	of what was going on in the church of Colossians.	25:06
	Biblical scholars are continuing to debate	25:11
	exactly what kind of false teaching it was	25:14
	that these Christians were being subjected to.	25:20
	But while we do not have the whole story,	25:24
	it is quite clear that these Christians	25:28
	were being robbed	25:31
	of their freedom.	25:34
	They were being persuaded by a new group of teachers	25:37
	coming along behind Paul,	25:42
	or coming along behind other Christians	25:44
	who had started that church.	25:47
	They were being persuaded that they needed to observe	25:49
	more rituals and ceremonies, festivals,	25:52
	occasions with a kind of perhaps occult meaning.	25:58
	They were being persuaded	26:03
	that they needed to deny themselves	26:05
	more of the satisfactions of life,	26:08
	to turn their back upon the body indeed,	26:11
	and to punish their own lives	26:15
	with a kind of aesthetic denial.	26:18
	They were being told	26:23
	to obey more rules,	26:27
	more regulations,	26:30
	do more dos,	26:33
	don't more don'ts.	26:36
	And Paul is incensed,	26:40
	he is absolutely furious,	26:44
	and in this letter, as in his letter to the Galatians	26:48
	and other places in Paul's writing,	26:52
	we find him furious with frustration	26:55
	that the very people who had come to know	27:00
	the richness and the sweetness and the joy and the freedom	27:03
	of life in Jesus Christ	27:08
	were now beginning to timidly doubt	27:10
	and fearful place themselves back under the bondage	27:14
	of human rules and requirements.	27:17
	Paul urges the Colossian Christians,	27:24
	and he urges us to be thankful	27:28
	for the free gift of God's love,	27:32
	and to live deeply with our lives	27:35
	grounded in that ultimate reality.	27:39
	All of our scriptures for today,	27:44
	some of them rather strange and difficult selections,	27:49
	but all share the theme of the outpouring of the mercy	27:53
	and the love and the generosity of Almighty God who,	28:00
	like Paul, gets frustrated with us,	28:05
	but always provides the gift of love	28:09
	and forgiveness.	28:14
	As this scripture indicates,	28:18
	it is in the sacrament of baptism	28:21
	that Christians claim and celebrate	28:25
	the kind of life that Christ offers.	28:28
	If we were to look within the hymnals at your seats,	28:34
	at the services of the baptismal covenant	28:38
	in this united Methodist hymnal,	28:42
	we would see that in the introduction	28:45
	to that service, we are told	28:47
	that in baptism we are incorporated	28:50
	into God's mighty acts of salvation	28:54
	and given new birth through water and the spirit.	28:58
	All this is God's gift offered to us	29:02
	without price.	29:08
	In Colossians, the writer portrays Christ	29:15
	as a triumphant conqueror,	29:19
	returning as the Roman generals returned	29:23
	from their victorious conquest,	29:27
	and leading a victory parade	29:30
	as these generals led victory processions	29:34
	down the streets of Rome,	29:37
	parading behind them the captive kings	29:39
	that they had taken,	29:43
	and masses of loot that they had been able to capture.	29:46
	Paul uses this figure for the triumph of Jesus Christ	29:52
	over the forces of wickedness and evil and sin.	29:58
	In the first baptismal question,	30:04
	we affirm the divine victory	30:08
	over sin and evil.	30:12
	Do you renounce the spiritual forces of wickedness?	30:15
	Reject the evil powers of this world?	30:20
	And repent of your sin?	30:25
	Christ's victory on the cross and from the tomb,	30:31
	Christ's victory makes it possible for us	30:38
	to live triumphantly.	30:42
	The second question makes this clear.	30:46
	Do you accept the freedom and power God gives you	30:50
	to resist evil and justice and oppression	30:55
	in whatever forms they present themselves?	30:59
	Such a gift, a power,	31:05
	power to live a new life	31:11
	requires our response	31:14
	of fateful acceptance	31:18
	and willingness to participate	31:21
	in the ongoing struggle against evil within ourselves,	31:24
	and that all of the places and ways	31:29
	that sin presents itself.	31:33
	Such living is not a matter of knowing	31:37
	and keeping the rules,	31:42
	such living is a continued surrender	31:45
	to the indwelling presence of Jesus Christ	31:50
	in whom Paul reminds us we have already come	31:54
	to fullness of life.	32:00
	Living deep	32:04
	is living with our strong and sure foundation	32:06
	built upon Christ,	32:11
	not upon our own abilities	32:13
	or our own efforts.	32:17
	I am both fascinated	32:23
	and haunted	32:27
	by the life story of the famed Russian novelist	32:29
	Leo Tolstoy.	32:35
	Known best to most of us for writing exceedingly long books,	32:40
	Tolstoy was a man whose life was obsessed	32:47
	with a burning desire to live as Christ	32:54
	would have him live.	32:59
	As he read and studied the New Testament scriptures,	33:02
	Tolstoy became convinced that	33:07
	living a Christian life meant taking very literally	33:10
	the commandments of the sermon on the mount and elsewhere,	33:15
	and renouncing all for Jesus.	33:20
	In his attempt to do this,	33:26
	he decided to free the serfs	33:30
	living on his manor.	33:33
	He gave away the copyrights	33:36
	to his books,	33:40
	and began to dispose, piece by piece,	33:43
	of the vast estate upon which his family lived.	33:47
	His wife, Sonya,	33:53
	seeing the very life of the family threatened,	33:56
	struggled with him	34:00
	and tried to inject a note of reality.	34:03
	But Tolstoy was consumed	34:07
	by the desire to be perfect	34:10
	as Christ was perfect,	34:13
	and as Christ had commanded Christians to be.	34:15
	To do this, he devised ever new and longer and more complex	34:19
	list of rules.	34:24
	He gave up hunting,	34:27
	smoking, drinking,	34:29
	and eating meat.	34:33
	He drafted a list of rules	34:35
	for developing the emotional will.	34:38
	Another list for developing lofty feelings,	34:42
	and eliminating base ones.	34:47
	But not surprisingly,	34:50
	he was unable to achieve the perfection of life	34:54
	that his rules drove him to strive for.	34:59
	Perhaps most embarrassingly,	35:03
	he several times took public vows	35:07
	that he would live in a celibate marriage with his wife.	35:10
	Her 16 pregnancies broadcast to the world	35:16
	his failure to achieve this particular goal.	35:20
	There is a link between Tolstoy and Thoreau,	35:27
	for both were consumed by the idea of non violent resistance	35:32
	to the evils of the world,	35:37
	and the ideas of both influenced Mahatma Gandhi	35:40
	and Martin Luther King Jr.	35:45
	And yet, for all the nobility,	35:49
	for all of the admirability of Tolstoy's quest	35:52
	for Christian perfection,	35:57
	I am caught up short when I read	36:00
	a brief section of what his wife said about him	36:02
	after decades of sharing his life.	36:07
	Sonya wrote	36:12
	there is so little genuine warmth about him.	36:14
	His kindness does not come from the heart,	36:21
	but from his principles.	36:26
	His biographies will tell of how he helped the laborers	36:30
	to carry buckets of water,	36:35
	but no one will ever know	36:39
	that he never gave his wife a rest.	36:42
	And never, in all these 32 years,	36:46
	gave a child a drink of water,	36:51
	or spent five minutes by a child's sickbed	36:54
	in order to give me a chance to rest a little	36:58
	from all my labors.	37:02
	Where does the holiness and the quest for perfection	37:07
	and the keeping of rules bear fruit in our lives?	37:12
	Up to the very moment of Tolstoy's death,	37:19
	his journals and diaries and letters	37:23
	continue with the theme of his frustrated failure	37:27
	to be a perfect Christian.	37:32
	In the end, he flees from his estate,	37:34
	from his fame and from his family,	37:37
	and sadly dies a vagrant in a rural railroad station.	37:40
	A man who tried to do it without the foundation	37:47
	of the love and mercy of Jesus Christ.	37:53
	Commendable as is his effort,	37:58
	he lacked apparently the one essential thing	38:01
	to Christ-like living,	38:05
	the one essential thing	38:08
	of being rooted deeply in Christ.	38:10
	The southern poet Sidney Lanier,	38:20
	who is memorialized in a statue	38:24
	on the entrance to this chapel,	38:28
	wrote a lovely poem in which he celebrated	38:33
	the inspiring spectacle	38:37
	of the Marshes of Glynn,	38:40
	the vast marshlands located near Brunswick, Georgia,	38:44
	and cross today as one approaches	38:49
	the beautiful coastal islands there.	38:53
	Lanier understood	38:58
	the necessity of being grounded in Christ,	39:01
	living deeply out of that foundation.	39:06
	One of his stanzas reads like this:	39:12
	as the marsh hen secretly builds on the watery sod,	39:17
	behold, I will build me a nest	39:21
	on the greatness of God.	39:24
	I will fly in the greatness of God	39:27
	as the marsh hen flies	39:30
	in the freedom that fills all the space	39:33
	twixt the marsh and the skies.	39:37
	By so many roots as the marsh grass	39:41
	sends in the sod,	39:45
	I will heartily lay me a hold on the greatness of God.	39:47
	Oh, like the greatness of God	39:54
	is the greatness within the range of the marshes,	39:57
	the liberal Marshes of Glynn.	40:00
	Life flourishes in the Marshes of Glynn	40:04
	because the grass sends many roots into the ground.	40:09
	Life, for Christians, flourishes	40:15
	when it is similarly grounded	40:19
	and rooted in Christ.	40:21
	Living deep	40:25
	is the gift	40:27
	that God bestows upon us	40:29
	when we surrender to Jesus Christ	40:33
	and allow him to become the foundation	40:38
	of our lives, amen.	40:41
	(organ music)	40:51
	(choir singing)	41:42
-	The Lord be with you.	44:36
	Let us pray, you may be seated.	44:39
	O God, in mystery and silence	44:54
	you are present in our lives,	44:58
	bringing meaning and hope.	45:01
	Help us perceive your unseen hand	45:04
	in the unfolding of our lives,	45:07
	and attend to the gentle guidance of your spirit	45:10
	that we may know the joy and fullness of life	45:13
	you give your people.	45:17
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	45:19
	We give thanks for your bountiful blessings,	45:23
	for the beauty of creation,	45:27
	and the intricate ways you have provided	45:29
	for every human and non human creature.	45:32
	For your boundless mercy and love,	45:36
	which are given freely to us.	45:38
	For the power to break the bonds of sin	45:41
	which trap us,	45:44
	for minds, hearts, bodies and souls	45:46
	to love you,	45:49
	and for voices to sing your praise,	45:51
	we give you thanks.	45:54
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	45:57
	Though we have so many reasons to be grateful,	46:02
	we often get bogged down by the day to day concerns of life.	46:05
	Free us from the anxieties that grip us	46:11
	and sap our energies,	46:14
	save us from shallow living	46:17
	and seeking frantically after superficialities.	46:20
	Give us a vision of the eternal	46:24
	that we might rightly orient our lives	46:27
	to what is essential.	46:30
	Inspire us to greater heights and depths of living	46:33
	as we find substance and meaning	46:38
	in Christ our Lord.	46:40
	Remind us that true life and freedom	46:43
	are found in you.	46:47
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	46:50
	As a people who belong to Christ,	46:55
	you have encouraged us to pray for one another,	46:57
	even as you pray with us.	47:00
	Therefore, it is with confidence	47:03
	that we offer our prayers for the world.	47:04
	Let us pray for the church.	47:08
	Lord, we pray for the church of Jesus Christ	47:13
	around the world	47:15
	as the scattered seed brings forth grain 100 fold,	47:17
	may your church, which is scattered as seed on the wind,	47:21
	also bring forth bounteous fruits	47:24
	that all may know of your saving Lord through Jesus Christ.	47:27
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	47:32
	Let us pray for the homeless, the hungry,	47:37
	and victims of disaster.	47:40
	God, you suffer with those who suffer.	47:47
	We pray to you for those who are denied	47:50
	what they need to live,	47:52
	and those whose dreams have been shattered	47:54
	by war and disaster.	47:56
	Reach out and bring healing	47:59
	through the hands of your faithful people.	48:01
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	48:05
	Let us pray for the sick and the grieving.	48:10
	Holy comforter, healing spirit,	48:18
	grant your peace to those who are sick	48:22
	and those who grieve,	48:24
	and especially those listening	48:26
	in Duke Hospital this morning.	48:28
	Radiate through their lives	48:31
	with the light of your presence,	48:33
	that renewed health and strength may be theirs.	48:35
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	48:39
	Let us pray for ourselves.	48:44
	God of hope and new life,	48:52
	help us to see the joy and deep abundant life	48:54
	you intend for us,	48:58
	grant us your peace,	49:00
	peace which is not the absence of trouble,	49:02
	but the awareness of your guiding presence	49:05
	that grounds us in you	49:08
	and gives us the life that is true life.	49:10
	In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.	49:14
	We have been blessed with resources	49:20
	we are privileged to share,	49:23
	let us give with joy.	49:24
	(organ music)	49:27
	(choir singing)	52:23
	(organ music)	57:33
	(choir singing)	58:18
-	Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise	59:17
	for all that you have done for us.	59:20
	We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation,	59:23
	the beauty of this world,	59:26
	for the wonder of life,	59:28
	and mystery of love.	59:29
	May these gifts that we offer in gratitude to you	59:32
	bring light to those who walk in darkness,	59:36
	and hope to those who live in despair.	59:39
	Accomplish your purposes, we pray,	59:42
	through these gifts and in our lives	59:44
	that all the world may know of your great love	59:47
	through Jesus Christ our Lord,	59:50
	who taught us to pray together,	59:52
	saying our Father who art in heaven,	59:54
	hallowed be thy name,	59:58
	thy kingdom come,	1:00:01
	thy will be done	1:00:03
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	1:00:04
	Give us this day our daily bread,	1:00:07
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:00:10
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:00:12
	Lead us not into temptation,	1:00:16
	but deliver us from evil,	1:00:19
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	1:00:21
	and the glory forever, amen.	1:00:25
	(organ music)	1:00:29
	(choir singing)	1:00:49
-	Go forth in peace,	1:03:35
	may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,	1:03:36
	the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit	1:03:39
	be with you and keep you, amen.	1:03:42
	(organ music)	1:03:47

Item Info

Title:

Gayle C. Felton - "Living Deep" (July 30, 1995)

Description:

Sermon start time: 21:36. Sermon end time: 40:46.
The preacher explores the meaning of invites the isteners to “live deep” by having a life rooted in Christ. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: Life for Christians flourishes when it is similarly grounded and rooted in Christ. “Living deep” is the gift that God bestows upon us when we surrender to Jesus Christ and allow him to become the foundation of our lives.

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Date:

July 30, 1995

Speaker:

Felton, Gayle C.

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Ordinary Time

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Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 VHS-0434
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