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• Text: In the parable, the elder brother who was such a person, coming in from the fields, hears the music and dancing and catches a whiff of the fatted calf roasting on the spit, and like the eruption of Mt Etna, all of his anger and resentment and hostility break forth.

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• Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives in the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering and to his crimes.” And Erich Fromm writes in Man For Himself, There is only one solution to his problem – to face ...

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• Text: It’s a very important question. In the midst of all the beauty and wonder, the grand music, the lovely flowers, the festive occasion, which we experience just now, let me ask you this question. If the cross were the last chapter, would you follow Jesus still?

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• Text: ...rs like Denys to make the faithful aware of the silence we encounter on the other side of speech. It has been well said that music, which, as we saw at the beginning of this book, is a “definitively” rational activity, is itself a “natural theology.” In music the mind exper...

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• Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes. (p. 160) Such expression of the consequence of the development of modern atheism has a chilling effect...

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• Text: ... © Grand Valley State University Forgiveness, Possible, Moral? Richard A. Rhem Page 5   My favorite novel, drama, musical, "Les Miserables," has Jean Valjean fleeing the police inspector, taking refuge in the convent, robbing in the middle of the night the silver of the ...

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• Text: ...Then barely twenty-four hours later the lights go on, the flowers come in, the bells are rung, the music sounds forth and we shout "Hallelujah!" That’s my problem with Easter. It’s just too quick; it’s too sudden; it’s too strident; it’s too triumphalistic. In that twent...

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• Text: ...t in all his years of faithful service there had never been a party for him. And now this wild one returns and there is joy, music, dancing and a great feast. The elder brother, in spite of the father’s assurance of love and pleading that he join the party, refuses to go in. That was Jesu...

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• Text: ...ory Ever New: Formation & Freedom Richard A. Rhem Page 4   boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering and his crimes. Similarly, Erich Fromm, one of the world’s leading psychoanalysts, wrote in Man for...

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• Text: ...re on Easter Sunday morning once again, amid the flowers in all of their beauty, and the flickering candles, the magnificent music, and this setting of Easter worship. Is it too bright too soon? Do you ever feel that? Just too bright too soon to move out of that darkness into the splendor o...

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• Text: ...d it happened to be over the tavern, and he and his wife retired to their room and beneath them were emanating the sounds of music and laughter and joy, and he looked at his wife and said, "You know, if Jesus came to this village tonight, I think he'd join the crowd at the tavern ...

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• Text: ...We come here - for what? To hear some interesting word, some scintillating lecture, some good music? Not all bad. But, is that all? Who are you this morning who has entered the sanctuary and come into the presence of God and presented yourself? Is there not one here this morning who is woun...

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• Text: ...The movement of change was so obvious from one generation to another, detectible in the musical sounds. Mr. Bryson, wanting to reflect that which happened in the nation’s capitol invited the president to be with us this morning to play his saxophone. But the president was busy, but we hav...

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• Text: ...Not an hour ago Leigh went to the box that still has Elise's toys and took out a music box and brought it to me and I wound it up, and it began to play "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." Does God send God's angels to sustain and keep us? Does God keep God's promises of s...

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• Text: ...For if we don't know the love of God in the other, we'll know not the love of God at all. In my favorite Broadway musical, "Les Miserables," Cozette sings to the dying Jean Valjean, "To love another person is to see the face of God." © Grand Valley State Univ...

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• Text: ...iption of the spoken sermon The year was 1970, and the song by Tim Rice, "I Don't Know How to Love Him," with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, was recorded. In 1971, Broadway was rocking with Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera whose centerpiece was perhaps that marvelous sol...

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• Text: ... years ago, Jesus, would you believe it? They tell us it's not like an explosion of TNT, but rather, the explosion of a musical chord, perhaps the most famous chord in all the world, Beethoven's Fifth. You know how it begins. It's "Boom, boom, boom, boom." That'...

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• Text: ...He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives in the boundary of an alien world, a world that is deaf to his music and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his suffering and to his crimes." Wow! And Erich Fromm writes in Man For Himself. "There is only one solution to his proble...

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• Text: ...aces to embrace the one who finally comes to his senses. That is why the story ends with a marvelous party. The fatted calf. Music and dancing. Celebration. That is what worship ought to be – a great party. Once again, how we have mutilated the whole matter. There is a discipline of worsh...

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• Text: ...celebrated with gratitude the retirement of John Gregory Bryson from his teaching in the public schools. We know him for his music, but generations of students know him for his geography. If you think he’s a taskmaster in front of the choir, you should have had him for geography. You see,...

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• Text: ...e biologist that I cited last week, Jacque Monaad, said we are aliens on the edge of a universe, which is indifferent to our music, to our hopes, to our suffering, to our crime. No one out there—nothing more. Hans Küng agreed that our human existence is ambivalent and impenetrable. Yet H...

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• Text: ... that grace reaches you around the table of an AA meeting. Some of you might say simply to come into this place, to hear the music begin, to see the candles flicker, to have the table set. Some of you, simply feeling the body of the one next to you, reminding you that you are not alone and ...

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• Text: ...He became one of the world-renowned organists; he became one of the greatest scholars of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This guy, before he was 30 now. Now listen to this out of his autobiography: Long ago in my student days I had thought about it. It struck me as inconceivable that I ...

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• Text: ...n case you missed the news, Michael Jackson is dead. I acknowledge some lack in myself but I could never get into him or his music. But I know it has to do with some deficiency; I never got into the Beatles either. In both cases it was I against the universe I guess. Certainly there is ...