by Doug Hammack | Mar 18, 2012 | A God Big Enough Not to Bore Us, Message Audio, The Art of Humility
Humility, it turns out, is a precursor to awe and wonder. Awe and wonder, it turns out, awakens us to a God too big to be reduced into a mental construct. This, it turns out, is a recipe for a religion that inspires us, surprises us, and draws us into the Way, Truth,...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 11, 2012 | Message Audio, The Art of Humility
The word “humility” comes from the Latin word “humus,” which means “dirt,” or “earth.” To be humble is to be connected to the earth; to our earthiness and creatureliness. Absent this, we end up carrying a load we cannot...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 4, 2012 | Message Audio, The Art of Humility
If our souls were gardens, we just finished a lesson on weeding them. Today we turn to a lesson on fertilizing them. How do we nurture the true-self? I hesitate to use the word “humility” (as you’ll hear), because of how it militates against our...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 26, 2012 | Message Audio, Toxic Hurry
As we conclude this part of our lesson on toxic hurry, we look again at how our American culture makes us vulnerable to the temptation Jesus warned us about in the parable we’re unpacking. We conclude by a bit of review of these six weeks, but some concluding...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 19, 2012 | Message Audio, Toxic Hurry
Avarice… Impatience… Un-chastity… These words describe spiritual illness. We know that. What we often don’t know is how our own history and society as Americans embeds these character flaws deep in our national psyche. We don’t see...
