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A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "A Triangular Faith." Opening excerpt from the sermon: (26:35) "I vividly remember a train journey I made when I was around 20 years old. It was a bright spring day, and I got on the train in London. Gradually my heart breathed more smoothly, and my lungs expanded, as we left the city and the suburbs, and reached the open green fields and patterned hedgerows, and started to see grazing cows and sheep. As the train drew near my destination, my eyes began to fill with tears, and a whole host of memories pulled and prodded and shook me, like a gaggle of lively children demanding attention." Closing excerpt from the sermon: (43:22) "I hope that's what you do when you cross the threshold of this Chapel on a Sunday morning. I hope it's what you're doing right now as you're taking a step into this brave new year. It will have danger, and escape, and growth. May the danger be because your faith and your God are a threat to the Herods of today. May the escape be a time of preservation and renewal for greater tasks -- tasks closer to who you truly are and what you were truly made for -- tasks yet to be shouldered, when the time is right. And may the nurture be a time of growth and tenderness at the heart of the holy family. Happy New Year. You're entering the triangle. The triangle were Jesus abides. God bless you." Sermon begins at 26:35. Matthew 2.1-12 Bulletin: http://bit.ly/h83Onr