To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Duke Initiatives in Theology and Arts, we’re revisiting this sermon by Jeremy Begbie from February 22, 2015 at Oak Church during the first week of Lent from Luke 23:26-37.

09/01/2019 Luke 10:1-20 Yucheng Bai   Yucheng Bai is a doctoral student in World Religions in the Duke University Department of Religion. Originally from China, he has been a member of the Duke chapter of Graduate Christian Fellowship while in Durham.   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: This is Not the End by Arndt/Gungor Peace Like a River a Traditional […]

08/25/2019 Psalm 90 Chris Breslin   “Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.” – Isaac Watts, O God Our Help in Ages Past   “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” -William Faulkner   “When I first started photographing industry it was […]

08/18/2019 Hebrews 11:29-12:2 Chris Breslin   “How subversive, raising a liberator under Pharaoh’s roof!  She joined their efforts to thwart the death edict and turn the tide of the Great River itself. Perhaps Jochebed, Bithiah and the young Miriam founded the Nile Network that day, women determined to use their subversive strength to plant seeds of liberation that would one […]

08/11/2019 Revelation 22 Chris Breslin   With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling   We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover […]

08/04/2019 Revelation 21:1-22:5 Mindy Erdmann   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Fifty Miles of Elbow Room by McGhee Your Peace Will Make Us One by Assad Psalm 46 by Bifrost Arts We Abide, We Abide in You by McCracken Steadfast by McCracken/Jordan/Silverberg/Nouwen How Long? by Wardell Doxology   Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019)   Revelation Reading: […]

07/28/2019 Revelation 20 Chris Breslin   “There are two angels with a (hu)man—one of righteousness, and the other of iniquity.” -Shepherd of Hermas   “Most merciful God,  we confess that we have sinned against thee in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved thee with our whole […]

07/21/2019 Revelation 19:1-10 Chris Breslin   “For us, [sin] refers to something much more like the human tendency, the human propensity to f*ck up.  Or let’s add one more word; the human propensity to f*ck things up, because what we’re talking about here is not just our tendency to lurch and stumble and screw up accident, our passive role as […]

07/14/2019 Revelation 17:3-18 Sarah Neff   Behold the Lamb collage artwork by Chris Breslin (2019)   Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering: Eternity Already by DaPonte/DeConto/Walton All Creatures of Our God and King by St. Francis of Assisi Father Let Your Kingdom Come by Porter’s Gate Worship Project Hosanna by Fraser Agnus Dei by Smith Let it Be So by Way […]

07/07/2019 Revelation 12:1-17 Chris Breslin   “Jesus was faced with these same questions, but when he was asked to prove his power as the Son of God by the relevant behavior of changing stones into bread, he clung to his mission to proclaim the Word and said, “One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes […]