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...
by Doug Hammack | May 17, 2020 | Getting Comfortable—Being Uncomfortable, Message Audio
It was kind of a s***storm week at Common Thread. Listen to us aspire to do better living in a racially divided world. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/05-17-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | May 10, 2020 | Message Audio
It’s fear. Our brains on fear, are nothing if not predictable. In this lesson, we talk about rising above our own fear, AND, being patient with others in theirs....
by Doug Hammack | May 3, 2020 | Getting Comfortable—Being Uncomfortable, Message Audio
Uncomfortable is a cleverly disguised invitation to live on a higher plane. But it’s an easy invitation to miss, an easy invitation not to ignore. Have a listen...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 26, 2020 | Getting Comfortable—Being Uncomfortable, Message Audio
Turns out, the spiritual tradition has a lot to say about that. Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/04-26-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 19, 2020 | Message Audio, Spiritual Community in the Time of Virus
We continue a spiritual theme we began on Easter. How do we thrive, when there is chaos and uncertainty all around us, and there’s no end in sight? Have a listen....
by Doug Hammack | Apr 12, 2020 | Message Audio, Spiritual Community in the Time of Virus
How to thrive in times of uncertainty and pain. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2020/04-12-20_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 5, 2020 | Message Audio, Spiritual Community in the Time of Virus
At life. At the spiritual journey. In times of crisis. We’re better together. Today’s lesson starts with stories I’ve heard since the virus began, encouraging us to be in it together....
by Doug Hammack | Mar 29, 2020 | Message Audio, Spiritual Community in the Time of Virus
Whatever helps us become ego-self forgetful, helps us access the Inner Divine, our better angels. No time better for that than this, the time if virus. Have a listen....
