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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

John Calvin

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. An inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all dispensations. It is a kind of acquiescence in the state wherein we are placed, and a secret approbation of the Divine Will in His conduct towards man.

Joseph Addison

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

257. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

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Will Willimon

Our scripture is about a people on a journey, far from home. And if you know anything all about the Bible, this is the way it always begins-somebody being told to leave wherever they happen to be at the moment and to journey somewhere else. Adam and Eve were told to get out of the Garden, Abraham told to take his bride and baggage to he knows not where, Jacob on the lam, and Israel taking forty years to go about three hundred miles, to say nothing of Jesus, always on a journey, never at home, nowhere to ...

258. Yes, You Can Work Yourself to Death

Luke 5:1-11

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King Duncan

A study came out last year that was disturbing but not necessarily surprising. The World Health Organization did a study of people around the world who worked 55 or more hours per week compared to those who worked 35-40 hours per week. The study covered health and workplace data from the 1970s to 2018 and included workers in 154 countries. They concluded that, “People working 55 or more hours each week face an estimated 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, compared ...

259. Partners with the Divine

John 17:20-26

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Schuyler Rhodes

Today I am thinking about what it means to be partners. For me, the first person that comes to mind when I think about this is my spouse. I am beyond blessed to have someone who is, in every way, a partner in life. We share the joys and the sorrows, the struggles and the laughter, and we take responsibility for our own behavior while making sure we “have each other’s back.” This is a partnership where it’s possible to sit for hours in a room together, each with a book to read. No words are shared. No ...

260. The Accounting

Luke 16:1-13

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Lori Wagner

Repentance is an interesting thing. It sometimes requires an equally interesting or unusual catalyst. Sometimes what appears to be a terrible occasion can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you. Ever lose a job and then an amazing door opens? Ever go through a terrible ordeal in which something you had done, whether intentional or not, has come back to bite you? And then suddenly you realize, you’ve been giving your loyalty to the wrong thing, the wrong people, the wrong goals the entire ...

261. Righteous, Dude!

Matthew 5:13-20

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John Jamison

The first thing I need to say is to point out that the story today picks up right where we left off last time. Jesus was sitting somewhere near the Sea of Galilee teaching a large crowd of people who had come to hear him. Along with the usual people who lived and worked in the villages and towns around the sea, there was a group of Pharisees and Sadducees who had been sent up from Jerusalem to check this Jesus out and determine if he was going to become a problem. So far, they had taken a lot of notes. ...

262. The Propriety of Praise

Psalm 84:1-12

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Will Willimon

A few months ago, I preached a sermon here. My text was from· the book of Revelation, as I recall. All went well until the end of the sermon when I came to my last sentence. Without warning, someone seated somewhere over there, shouted out “Amen!” Well, he was probably a tourist I thought; first time in Duke Chapel. Probably someone from California. At first, I thought I would ignore his, “Amen!” But upon further reflection I asked the ushers to make a discreet search during the offering, and tell the man ...

263. Psalm 99

Psalm 99:1-9

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Concluding each of his calls to worship by proclaiming that God is holy (99:3, 5, 9), the psalmist uses those calls as refrains for the psalm’s three sections (99:1–3, 4–5, 6–9). Verses 1–2 present God as ruler over all peoples (Jews and Gentiles). The refrain (99:3) calls everyone to acknowledge God’s holiness. Verse 4 depicts God as an upright judge who dispenses evenhanded justice in Israel (cf. 96:10; 98:9). The refrain (i.e., 99:5) seeks obedience to God—the holy ruling arbiter over their lives. The ...

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Psalm 147:1-20

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

God of Creation and Restorer of Jerusalem Psalm 147 is a hymn that celebrates in particular the restoration of the exiles (v. 2). The reference to “the bars of your gates” implies a date after the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah. As noted below, many phrases in Psalm 147 are echoed elsewhere, especially in Isaiah 40–66, which addresses exilic and postexilic Judah. Its threefold structure is established by the three calls to praise in verses 1, 7, 12. It also contains three themes: the ...

265. The Loaves

John 6:1-21

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David Coffin

One of the hardest lessons in life I had to learn was never to get a job at the restaurant I enjoyed eating in since childhood. There was a particular fast food restaurant that had plenty of vegetables and condiments on their sandwiches that I had always looked forward to eating since I was twelve years old. When I got out of college in the 1970s, the job market in my area had a glut of four-year college degree graduates. I applied for a manager trainee position at the restaurant I have cherished since ...

266. The Art of Reconciliation

Luke 12:49-59

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Lori Wagner

In 2015, North Carolina public “found-object” sculptor, artist William Massey created a piece called “The Art of Reconciliation.” Inviting more than 200 people from Atlanta to clean up discarded objects from the streets, he then hung the objects onto a metal frame and asked the community to paint their personal stories and creative images onto the “abandoned junk.” The art sessions welcomed all members of the community, including the homeless, local business folk, veterans, children, and others. No member ...

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Showing all results

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Elsa Schiaparelli

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

John Calvin

Joseph Addison

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Saint Augustine

257. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Will Willimon

258. Yes, You Can Work Yourself to Death