by Doug Hammack | Oct 4, 2020 | How We Broke Religion, Message Audio
We’ve been talking about how religion divides us. But, when we get religion right, it does just the opposite. Kinda important these days.Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/10-04-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast:...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 27, 2020 | How We Broke Religion, Message Audio
Ask anybody. Yep. Religion divides people. It’s a big problem — but one we can fix! Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/09-27-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 20, 2020 | How We Broke Religion, Message Audio
That’s a problem we can fix. It takes some rethinking of the instincts that have betrayed us, but we can fix that! https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/09-20-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 13, 2020 | How We Broke Religion, Message Audio
I (Doug) got a few emails after last Sunday’s lesson. “Damn, Doug. That’s what religion did to ME!” Well, it’s easy to only hate religion, but have a listen. There really is some baby in with that bathwash....
by Doug Hammack | Sep 6, 2020 | How We Broke Religion, Message Audio
Religion often does more harm than good. Damn! I hate that. Because it could be a powerful pathway toward healing—our souls, our world. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/09-06-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new...
by Robin Camu | Aug 30, 2020 | Enneagram, Message Audio
The Enneagram. A centerpiece of our curriculum for the soul — Working the Circle. Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/08-30-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 23, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
We continue last week’s exploration of how we turn our afflictive experiences from enemies that destroy us—to friends that enhance us. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/08-23-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 16, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
A bunch of days like that day lately, Right? They can make us better people. They can also make us terrible people. The former is better! Have a listen....
by Doug Hammack | Aug 9, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
We finish this section on tenacity, with one of the strengths of our community — how human beings change, grow, and develop. We’ve distilled the ancient spiritual practices to an easy-to-remember icon — “Working the Circle.” Have a...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 2, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
We’re talking about how carefully considered routines help us live tenaciously — long, sustained effort in the same direction. In the livestream notes last week, one commenter asked in essence, “So yeah. Noticing my habits. Noticing my routines. Got...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 26, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
Shared routines, carefully considered, allow us to sustain commitments over the long haul, even when we don’t have the internal infrastructure in place, to build new habits. Hey! we can do that with one another. Have a listen....
by Doug Hammack | Jul 19, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
People of our time, people working on the most important moral issue of our day — racial harm, racial inequity — must be tenacious. We must be tenacious, because racism is tenacious. Have a listen. Another principle in how we develop tenacity....
by Doug Hammack | Jul 12, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
People of our time will be about the slow, steady, dismantling and rebuilding of systems that create inequity — especially racial inequity — generation after generation. We’ll need to be tenacious! How does that happen? Have a listen....
by Doug Hammack | Jul 5, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
Crisis evokes “fear-brain.” And fear-brain shuts down the best thinking, big-picture seeing, and sends us into evolutionary instinct, survival mode. The spiritual tradition gives us wisdom and practices, to help us do better....
by Doug Hammack | Jun 23, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
Far from naval-gazing narcissism, meditation opens us to the kind of new possibilities this moment in history is demanding of us. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/06-28-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 21, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
Meditation won’t cure a virus or stop fake news. But it will break down tribal blindness. And that’s a big component in the crisis we now face. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/06-21-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 14, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
Let’s think about how courage helps make us people of our time. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/06-14-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 7, 2020 | Becoming People of Our Time, Message Audio
“The greatest glory lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail” (Nelson Mandela). Our nation has failed. Each of us has failed. AND, we can rise again. We can do better....
by Doug Hammack | May 31, 2020 | Getting Comfortable—Being Uncomfortable, Message Audio
That makes “the good life” tough. So, we walk the spiritual journey together. We help one another stay on track! This week we explore together, how to keep rising rise above our fear-brains....
by Doug Hammack | May 24, 2020 | Getting Comfortable—Being Uncomfortable, Message Audio
Sure looks like it! We do behave very badly. But the real enemy is the fear driving our bad behavior. This week: dealing with the real enemy. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/05-24-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in...
