by Doug Hammack | May 25, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
We conclude our lesson rethinking the afterlife with this — if it is true that the texts on which we built our afterlife narrative were not what we thought they were — shall we keep the afterlife as part of the Christian narrative? Yes, we conclude, but...
by Doug Hammack | May 18, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
If, as we have suggested, the texts we Christians have cited to construct our afterlife story — were not written about the end of time . . . Shall we abandon the idea of the afterlife altogether? Perhaps not. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | May 11, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
Have you ever heard Jesus’ parable of the sheep and the goats? If you have, there’s a good chance you thought it was a parable about the afterlife – the final judgment before we all go on to eternity. It might surprise you that that’s not what...
by Doug Hammack | May 4, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
As we have been discussing, the Greco-Roman world view has influenced our thinking on the afterlife to separate the here and now from the here-after. It also made the afterlife a much more prominent part of our story than it ever was before. The message of Jesus...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 27, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
We pick up from our lesson before Easter, building a foundation for rethinking the Christian story of the afterlife. How we imagine what happens after we die, has a great deal to do with how we live. If Christians are, in general, not behaving well these days (pretty...
