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....
by Doug Hammack | Mar 22, 2020 | Message Audio, Spiritual Community in the Time of Virus
Every day, even as we are overwhelmed, we are determining together: who will we be when the crisis is over? The ancient wisdom provides us a roadmap. Have a listen....
by Doug Hammack | Mar 15, 2020 | Finding God in All Things, Message Audio
I am not unaware that for a lot of people, organized religion is a big, big problem. It has been for me too. But what if… What if, under all that toxic craziness, there are deep, human, communal ways — we find the sacred, find the Divine, we “find...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 8, 2020 | Finding God in All Things, Message Audio
Pain is yet another place we experience the Divine, experience the sacred. However, it really can go either way. Pain can either sidetrack us, reinforcing all kinds of false-self distractions, or it can ennoble us, stripping away and refining. Have a listen...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 1, 2020 | Finding God in All Things, Message Audio
Awe is the humbling feeling we get when we encounter something vast. A sky full of stars. An overwhelming idea. Anything that shrinks the ego-as-self points us toward Divine experience. Let’s talk Sunday. ...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 23, 2020 | Finding God in All Things, Message Audio
We belong. We just do. We may not feel like it, but that doesn’t matter. We belong. And our souls will be hungry, until that reality is actualized in our lives. This week, we talk about how....
