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• Text: ...ligionist, a philosopher who concludes that we have to accept the fact that we are alone in the universe that is deaf to our music and as indifferent to our hope as to our crimes and our sufferings. Monod is a first-rate scientist, but when he becomes a religionist, he says, "No purpos...

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• Text: ...No! Instead, he emulated Jesus and went to Africa. He gave up promising careers in music and in theology and he became a doctor for people in Africa. Why? Because Jesus got to him, that Jesus who was the embodiment of God, by the Spirit of God, that same Spirit moving in a Schweitzer who sa...

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• Text: ...stmas way up on the other side of Thanksgiving. It was the 16th of November when Nancy and I went to Bethlehem at Radio City Music Hall. We've already been to Bethlehem! Fantastic, spectacular program, Rockettes and all. But, a Christmas show on November 16! How in the world do we ever...

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• Text: ...They did make one little sortie into the cultural field when they tried to give me music lessons, piano lessons. I sat there and I doodled, and I would go week after week and I made no progress and finally, thank God, the teacher was a Christian, who called my mother and said, "In good...

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• Text: ...scussion, controversy, and European culture had blossomed into the magnificent thing that it was, literally, culturally, its music, its art, its theological investigations, its great universities. And then, of course, as the 20th century dawned, the first decade of this century brought the ...

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• Text: ... God at its highest and best is the full-spectrum pageant in which is utilized the arts which appeal to the aesthetic sense: music that moves one in the depths; movement that expresses what leaves the tongue dumb; color and symbol creating a feast for the eye; the word of truth that engages...

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• Text: ...You celebrate it by - you come to church and you light candles and you listen to that beautiful, beautiful music, and you have a birthday party or you give a gift or you bake a cake and you gather your friends around and you hold hands, and you say, isn’t it wonderful, the gifts that are ...

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• Text: ...lives generally or what we expect from our doctors when our health fails. And so, I see congregations growing through praise music and worship as entertainment. I see Pentecostalism growing through the provision of deeply emotional experience. And I realize that there is a slim minority who...