Easter Sunday Sermon

it's b a few years ago an embittered coed at arizona state university deter an nsa then wrote these words i'm tired tired of puppets instead of people our group got some tweed coats of pipes and picasso buttons are people who drop soliloquy is carefully labeled intelligence i'm tired of cynics who call themselves realists of people board because they're afraid to share

i'm tired of people who have to be entertained oh girls proud of knowing the scholar and snickering about it and tired of sophisticated slums tired of people with nothing better to do than blue their days together with alcohol and tired of people embarrassed that honesty at love that knowledge fire yes very tired battle fatigue is something we all feel from time to time it takes courage to be a stand up to life to keep on keeping on weariness has been a peculiar problem for the christians across the century the ghostbusters and tried to make sense of why they have insisted that there is goodness and purpose do it all and i had done this

again this relentless and beliefs and as we have a council and the new testament against giving him words like these for example from donations therefore lift your drooping handguns franklin yo we need and makes brake pads for your feet or again from your vessel to the hebrews and let us not grow weary and well do i want to do a season we shall read if we do not lose heart our easter taxes of the same or to listen to in a mine wage of a new english bible therefore my beloved brothers stand firm and immovable and were always work without limits since you know that in the law and your labor

cannot be loss notice one st paul is exhorting here but we be firm and immovable firm that is that we be settled down in our convictions but our faith at a local and enduring our convictions on up to be like a man's necktie are omens that he used every day this is what all men and another place when he said we are no longer to be children tossed by the waves and world about why every fresh grass the teaching do crappy roads to close games his words fall hard on the ears of a generation that prides itself on being up to date

nominee in the church for a homeless of prey of misfortune would be the failure to be current they live so close to the surface that the slightest rebels sends them in a shop we are developing a generation of theological fridays who apply is not so much for action as for adjustment for the new one thinks of the college chaplain about homeless students observed that is theological focus shifted every week according to the latest book that he had written or was that every article we are influenced by the short snappy journalistically style article the one that appears in the sunday supplement on our

glossy papered magazine the lines in which some bishop blasts of prayer or some man of academic stature sixty one from the old air more rapidly than you more out of the pit is the library books we read so zealously today and co author a year at the most will be outdated and uninteresting what shall we then say of the shorter article that relates for a time and makes no contribution that you say in the papers have you seen the television it is saying this or that book so we asked one another but the profit asked us or that you see in god we are called of a firm and immovable it was

wise counsel that the university president gave to the graduating seniors when he said don't surrender an old idea and do you have a better one with which to replace it there is a greater syria and the senate being irrelevant it is the center of being unfaithful but we also do work of the lord and to work without limits the word working as fast as realistic through a punishing degree it comes from the great world cup loss which means all wearing some kind of labor a labor that is intense and united with trouble no one ever said it would be a bit like to be a christian the rise once children in the nurture an admonition of the lord to attempt to be a

peacemaker and it's bright written world to be agents of reconciliation finally revealed to be over moreover we are to do this without limit as they authorized version hasn't always a bombing in a workable we are not called disarm carefully calculated minimal just doing enough to assuage an uneasy concert the spirit in which we ran there are toilets given to us in the words of jesus when he said given it will be given to you good measure press down shaken together running over will be whatever your last one a measure you know it will be then measure you get i've always

received the way from pondering those words on an old machinery that's thousands of miles from home and underdeveloped country the ledge and said simply not some call up triumphantly we're going to work this is a tall order but not as though the motivation to which find all of you you know that in the large your labor cannot be lost again he authorized version what's that your labor in the largest modern day moffett says not wasted in our own parlance we might say for as much as you know that's what you do for the lord does not go down

the drain quantities live here obviously know that a man with a gun laws anything from it we still are an added up to something the work we know must have meaning they on the immediate reward machines can point out to no purpose when a man cannot this is why the psalmist prize for every man established all the work of our hands upon us yet the work of our hands as publisher otto you know the labor is not lost the game is worth the candle what may also show up in a man now that it's all

worthwhile or and so we must look to the position of attacks it climaxes the most carefully reasoned exposition of the resurrection of christ and the new testament the word that four with what's lovers opens is a close you were four it refers us backward to what has already been said there was the show not so long ago on broadway the war they engaging title on a clear day you can save for cover it is the collection of the christians your age that that first easter sunday was his phrase moment of truth but on that day of sight and insight we learned once and for all that loves labor can never more of a loss

we're also for those assurances human optimism by itself as always the only way we can sustain our optimism is by a selective recall of what we know blocking out the negative then enlarging or lie i saw this mix very clearly within five minutes few years ago when i was serving in ann arbor mich i draw art of a large parking lot of the university of michigan hospital in hopes of visiting a patient much to my surprise there was a cardigan into law just as i was driving by it seem like my day but the car stayed in and pulled

out i was wondering why finally my patients running down in my curiosity running up by slip out of my own car and went over only to find that the negro girl who had been driving a car was busily engaged writing their name and address and phone number on us he was going to put it under the windshield wiper of a car whose fender she had rushed on the way up minutes later inside the hospital i went to the book where it always been there right near where the candies sold and the cigarettes and the other things where the boats were all gone i asked the man in charge of they had been removed to another location or taken away temporarily set know they're gone and

we'll never have them again we just can't stop papering from the racks a girl attesting to a minor infraction lowenstein the manager of a store in the university community and fascinating that he had to give up where is our optimism it depends on the facts we choose to look at car history of golden hero if you're thinking of a teacher bending low to help were retarded child or a criminal being brought to justice or young couple going off for a term of service and the peace corps what color history and

i can almost like if you want to think of graft in high places kidnapping or a warlike the war in vietnam the most unpopular an indefensible war that this country has ever engaged in it is the video that we take that determines that he knew that we see it's those objects that's another of the matter is that the good and the beautiful and the group are always in jeopardy and our world they are never really firmly established we always support them as an act of faith we do not know a distinguished vice president of one of our major

universities noted recently that one reason why so many university and college students are this dress these days is because i have never really seen closure on any major issue he went on to observe that most of these young people came into the swim of history with the korean war with korea still divided and the joker is there is no closure here germany is still divided the hideous want testimony to miami's an ability to settle his disputes the island of cuba is still an active firm it we do not know where we are going or what will happen to vietnam and our involvement in vietnam civil rights have not yet been secured for all our citizens urban radio in many of our

cities has been quite mired in partisan politics and the war on poverty has only just now getting started all of our settlements are provisional and nature and one small solutions simply opens the box through countless it is not the nation law there is not one thing there is no battle of our life we haven't really want let's be clear that it is the event that easter celebrate that makes it all worthwhile it is wide eyed opened grave that we get a division of the eternal that gives us all hold on time

pilot crucified jesus and put a period after the deed with god changes that period to a comet when a story was to be content you thought was to raise his son from the resurrection is god's resound they are man is the violence albeit a wall that jesus came to do and say and b it is only at least that we understand that while the good can be accosted it cannot be overcome harvey cox is right when he says history does not take place between the black moon of good friday and the bright on at least it takes place rather between

easter day and the last day he's theories that turning point it is on this event that our hope is key it is by this event that the work of our hands is established but circumstance for a time a lot this fruit from our site just as a penny have the proper angle can block out the sun but always there is the resilience that all talks about when he says hard pressed on every side we are never hemmed in the willard we are never about our within hunted we are never abandoned to our fate struck down we are not left to die

he gave just intimate a telling comparison between iran us songs played an uptake impossible when he said she also lived and i blew a mere town nine you reproduce what they lived and i gayer universe few years ago bishop margret was addressing a huge conference in oslo he pointed upward to the ceiling of the cathedral and said did you observe the ceiling of his church is low and heavy the atmosphere is made up press why is it like this surely there is no such intention ended but as a matter of fact that becomes today a symbol of the whole situation of my eye was said the bishop i could take away this temporary z

now eleven years since it was put in and you would say the most lovely mit senior repaired through these eleven years why one of our norwegian writer the nativist tempore low ceiling as the more of his work grow in one year we hope to have that view of waters above then you allowed the most convincing sermon which i think envy at a crisis level what you cannot see today just as it is not given to us today to see christ as the actual war to the world what he ate when the low ceiling of life in time is taken away you will get to know that he was there all the time and the pillows stealing of the day was his working poor det miles to whom we are

indebted for this illustration odds he will come the ceiling of this life will be lifted and then we shall see what our great god has accomplished surely we get mad with the biblical writer even so come lord jesus therefore my beloved brothers stand firm and immovable and work on a large always work without human beings you know your label it was very clear that our slaves galvanize or will this make warm i love it at the end that we may

see what needs doing and do it or by say through our risen and they are living lauren the man the

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