by Doug Hammack | Oct 31, 2010 | Message Audio, The Suffocating Power of Self
Ps. 98 says the the judgment of God is a good thing. Go figure! How could coming up short, and then hearing about it from God be good? In this lesson, we see that we’ve really misunderstood the whole idea of “the judgment of God.” It’s a...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 24, 2010 | Message Audio, The Suffocating Power of Self
We continue thinking about what we can learn from Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan, and his cryptic remarks about “eternal life.” What is eternal life? How does one access it? Turns out, it has very little to do with the afterlife as so many...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 17, 2010 | Message Audio, The Suffocating Power of Self
In the last lesson, we looked at “the suffocating power of stuff.” An extension of the same thinking that went into that lesson applies to this one. In this lesson we look at how we orient ourselves to life by looking through the lens of what’s...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 10, 2010 | Message Audio, The Suffocating Power of Stuff
Today, we conclude this lesson on the suffocating power of stuff. We began the lesson with Jesus’ teaching in Mt. 6 on stuff, and an analysis of why it is so difficult for us, living under the socio-economic system of consumerism, to heed Jesus’ words. We...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 3, 2010 | Message Audio, The Suffocating Power of Stuff
That we are suffocated by stuff in a literal sense is not the biggest problem we face. Yes, it’s true that possessing too many things stifles and loads us down, but the more dangerous form of suffocation, is the mindset, the heartset, that believes we’ll...
