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1076. All We Are Left With...
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... up her mind that on a specific date, she would quit drinking for good. She decided to commemorate that decision with a tattoo. She wasn’t sure what she was going to get until she sat down in the tattooist’s chair. And she began telling the tattoo artist about her decision to give up drinking, and about her grandfather who had guided her through a tough childhood. She was giving up drinking because she knew it’s what he wanted for her. That day was the start of Kerri’s sober life. Now every time she ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer in a Sea of Fog The artist Caspar David Friedrich is known for his ethereal, spiritual, otherworldly-looking paintings. In order to grasp the meaning of his art, one needs to contemplate the visuals, noting the colors, shades, objects, and the location of the figure, among other noticeable details. For example, the painting above, called “Wanderer in ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... all songs of pain, of sadness, of loss, of grief.[1] American Pie is his lament, his attempt to find solace for his pain, to connect with the world by singing out his grief, much like Psalm 130 that we read today. The truth is that many artists find ways to unleash their grief and pain in their art, whether it’s music, painting, dancing, or writing. In fact, many attest that their gifts were made particularly vivid and expressive due to the depths of their emotional experiences. Grief is one of the most ...
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Lori Wagner
... voice of peace. His is the voice of the future. His is the voice of love. Many of you will be familiar with the famous painting by Warner Sallman of Jesus knocking at the garden door. One of the reasons that this painting is so unique is that the artist has painted no doorknob on the front of the door. Look closely. The doorknob is missing from the painting. Why? When someone knocks at your front door, or rings your bell, you still must answer it and let that person in. You may listen for a voice, or peer ...
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April Yamasaki
... husband taken a number of years ago. It’s a simple head and shoulders pose on a plain background in a slender gold-toned frame from a drug store. In other words, objectively speaking, the photo and its frame are really nothing special. They have no particular artistic or monetary value in the marketplace. Yet no matter how full my desk gets with books and files, papers and more papers, there’s always room for that photo too, because I think of it as framed by love - the romantic love as husband and wife ...
1081. You've Got Spirit
Luke 3:15-22 · Acts 8:14-17 · Psalm 29 · Isaiah 61:1-4
Sermon
Will Willimon
... Arnett says, "I never hear about the Holy Spirit here in Duke Chapel. Why is that?" Let me explain. You may hear about God the Father. God is the Creator who set the universe in motion like a great clock. God is creative, but aloof; the hermit artist who shapes and forms, then leaves us to our own devices; the great, deistic, deus absconditus. You may hear of God the Son. God is the young and fearless prophet of ancient Galilee, the teacher, the rabbinic ethical example, Jesus the Man for Others who exists ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... . What a beautiful story. No wonder it has inspired millions of people over 2,000 years since its occurrence. The angel Gabriel came to Mary. Angels are messengers of God. Their appearances are very rare. We don’t have a reliable picture of an angel. Artists generally picture them with wings. That’s based on a few reports in the scriptures. Generally, when angels appear to people in the Bible, their first words are something like, “Don’t be afraid.” So maybe it’s good that they don’t make many ...
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Lori Wagner
... in God’s brilliant cloud of light, a cloud so bright and encompassing that it leaves your entire face glowing and your soul, spirit kissed. In 1818, German painter, Caspar David Friedrich created a painting called “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog.” The artist describes with this haunting image what it must feel like to approach the mysterious supernatural that lies beyond life as we know it, to come into the presence of God, of the unknown, the difficult to fathom, the vastness and indescribability of a ...
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Lori Wagner
... for the display of his splendor. Isaiah 61:1-3 What are you suffering from today? What ails you, derails you, slows you, pains you? Jesus is the answer to your pain. In Medieval Europe, particularly in Germany, through the 17th century, artists often depicted Jesus as an apothecary, that is, a dispenser of balms, potions, powders, and elixirs with names, such as righteousness, humility, kindness, and other virtues. Often, Jesus is seen holding a cross, the symbol of his sacrifice. Sometimes, the paintings ...
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Will Willimon
... have been, if we were on our own. I think that's what's called faith -- the belief that God does order life, give direction, put odd people, strange circumstances together into an orderly whole. “Nothing bad ever happens to a writer,” is how one artist put it. Everything, even the things you would not have planned that way, can be fuel for the imagination trained to be curious about the unexpected. Jesus took the long way around to get to the Sea of Galilee because he got sidetracked by these strangers ...
1086. Living Through Hard Times
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Sermon
Bonnie Bates
... , laugh, write letters, and remember the love we felt for one another. This was truly a gift for me. I know it was for him as well. I thought, after his death, about the wasted years ― more than thirty of them ― that were lost to us. His creativity, artistic, and carpentry skills were gifts. I have several photographs he took of nature framed and hanging in my home. I think of him often. I could look back with regret, and sometimes I do, but I try to think of our last years together, the years of our ...
1087. Motives Matter
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
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Lori Wagner
... intervention. Faith is not a philosophy but something we practice and submit to every single day. In prayer, in communion, in scripture, in meditation, in the awareness of God and the respect for God’s mission more than our own. Musicians, sports pros, artists, surgeons – they all will tell you that “practice makes perfect.” As humans, we may never be “perfect.” But practicing your faith will definitely make you more in tune with Jesus and God’s mission for the Church. As you come this day to ...
Eulogy
Richard E. Zajac
... Mike would come home from day care, she could care for him and love him with the same vigor and zest that marked the days when she wasn’t sick. And besides her humor and her vitality, you also had her extraordinary talent. She was a great artist. She could draw wonderful sketches freehand as well as with the computer. She was a talented piano player, often serenading little Mike with her music. She even gave thought to authoring a book, hoping that before she died she could publish a book to help kids ...
1089. God Is Like...a Face
Genesis 33:1-11 · 2 Corinthians 4:5-6
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Kenneth L. Gibble
... in the face of Jesus Christ we see the glory of God. How do you picture the face of Jesus? For many people in this country, that face is the one depicted by the painter Sallman, in which Jesus is a handsome, blue-eyed Anglo-Saxon. In other cultures, artists show a Jesus with Asian features or African features. That is as it should be. Jesus, in real life, probably looked like an average Semitic Jew of his time. But the Jesus Christ of faith had a face accessible to people of every race and culture. In his ...
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