


Do You Have Stuff . . . Or Does Stuff Have You?
by Doug Hammack | May 30, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
The practice of spiritual detachment helps us cut through our false self to excavate our deepest desires and to set about attaining them. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/05-26-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play...
How to Miss … The Abyss
by Doug Hammack | May 22, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
When we find ourselves looking into the abyss, we struggle to reverse course because our path there was unconscious. Spiritual practices help us to “wake up”, observe our false-selves and discern the next right step. ...
Valuate Your Values
by Doug Hammack | May 14, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
A fearless inventory of how you spend time — and money… These are powerful spiritual tools. They tell us if our actions line up with what we want to be our values. Have a listen. ...
5/5/19
by Doug Hammack | May 7, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
Sermon from NRCC on 5 May 2019 https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/05-05-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
04/28/2019
by Doug Hammack | Apr 29, 2019 | Message Audio
Sermon from April 28, 2019 https://s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/04-28-19_Sermon.mp3 https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/04-28-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
Easter 2019
by Doug Hammack | Apr 22, 2019 | Easter, Message Audio
Today is a day for stories. Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/04-21-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
Taking Inventory
by Doug Hammack | Apr 16, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
A fearless inventory of how we spend our dollars and our hours… – it detaches us from habit, – it gives us time to ask: “Is this the life I want?” ...
Somebody Else’s Desires — Stuck in MY Head!
by Doug Hammack | Apr 15, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
A whole industry goes to work every day, trying to get you and me to want stuff. Not stuff our souls need. Not stuff that takes us toward the lives we really want… Just stuff. And we suffer the consequences. ...
It Doesn’t Ad Up
by Doug Hammack | Apr 9, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
Advertisers promise us our egos’ desires and encourage onto the rat wheel, leaving our divinely-inspired, deepest desires unrealized. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/04-07-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in...
All That Glitters is Not Gold. Don’t Buy It!
by Doug Hammack | Apr 2, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
Our consumerist culture has perverted our instincts toward relationships. When we approach relationships from a transactional posture, only concerned about what we’ll get, what we get is anxiety and depression. ...
Chasing Acorns . . . Drives Us Nuts
by Doug Hammack | Mar 26, 2019 | Chasing Acorns, Message Audio
Endlessly chasing after stuff — thinking it will meet a need or fill a void. Nope. It’s an exercise in futility — trying to meet higher level needs with lower level tools. Better — chase awakening to the deep reality that we belong, we fit....
Core Workout (core stories, that is)
by Doug Hammack | Mar 18, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/03-17-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
Desire . . . And Pay Attention
by Doug Hammack | Mar 12, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
SUNDAY SLIDE DECK https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/03-10-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
What’s Found on the Other Side of Loss
by Doug Hammack | Mar 5, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
After we grieve the loss of old thinking about God, our tradition invites us to a more expansive experience of God. Grieving the loss of the old ways, helps us prepare for the new ways of seeking, knowing, interacting, and relating. SUNDAY SLIDE DECK ...
Updates Available: God 6.0
by Doug Hammack | Feb 26, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
Our Enlightenment-era, reformation God metaphors were stellar – for the Enlightenment era. But this new era begs new, expanded God metaphors, which will require our approach to God interactions to update as well. SUNDAY SLIDE DECK ...
When We Mistook the Mystic
by Doug Hammack | Feb 19, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
In our haste to throw out the superstition bathwater 500 years ago, our mystical tradition of direct encounter with God was tossed too. Slowly, we are reclaiming this tradition and finding ways to relate to God in us. SUNDAY SLIDE DECK ...
Why we should nurture our hearts
by Doug Hammack | Feb 12, 2019 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
By Robin Camu What does the “Heart” or heart center mean? Heart-dominant people tend to feel first, and then they think and then they know. We often believe that our feelings always tell us the truth. But we need the sum total of our feelings, thoughts...
Spiritual Puberty – The Coming of Age Talk
by Doug Hammack | Feb 5, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
As we grow spiritually, our journey can become stale and rote. God Is not the problem, it is our man-made God metaphors that are in need of an update. ...
Pecking Orders are Real . . . Just Not Real Enough
by Doug Hammack | Jan 28, 2019 | Divine Love Is in You and Me, Message Audio
https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2019/01-27-19_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...