by Doug Hammack | Nov 27, 2016 | Advent, Message Audio
Advent 2016 – Week 1 During this season of Advent, we focus on waiting in the darkness (and especially so, in this present time of darkness) with hope. With gratitude being the fountainhead of hope, our tradition points us to intentionally stirring gratitude to...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 20, 2016 | Community Meeting, Message Audio
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by Doug Hammack | Nov 13, 2016 | Guest Speaker, Message Audio
by Chris Graebe This is the last lesson in the series that Doug started on Amos and what he had to say about social divisions and their impact. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2016/11-13-16_Sermon.mp3Podcast:...
by Scott Shackleton | Nov 6, 2016 | Guest Speaker, Message Audio
By Scott Shackleton Today is Orphan Sunday. It is a time to reflect on those who really need our caring for them and it gives us a chance to expand our empathy. Have a listen. ...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 30, 2016 | Amos and Social Solidarity, Message Audio
We continue our discussion around talking across the divide. In today’s lesson we look at the effects both affluence and poverty have on our brains, and the corresponding ways those effects influence our spiritual journeys. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 23, 2016 | Amos and Social Solidarity, Message Audio
In this lesson, we continue our discussion on civil discourse across the divide. I encourage us to be suspicious of our own righteousness. It’s a default response served up to us by our lower brains, which our upper brains dress up with nice justifications and...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 16, 2016 | Amos and Social Solidarity, Message Audio
In this lesson we continue exploring how to listen across the political divide by examining the six moral foundations of humanity. Discover which three moral foundations the liberals value most highly and which four traditionally underlie conservative positions....
by Doug Hammack | Oct 2, 2016 | Amos and Social Solidarity, Message Audio
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by Doug Hammack | Sep 25, 2016 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
Our sexual ground rules no longer serve us well. We developed them when we were agrarian and industrial societies. Now we live longer, we enter puberty earlier, and we marry later. Now, there is an average 15 year gap between sexual maturity and marriage. It is time...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 18, 2016 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
All signs point to the fact that we are not handling our sexuality well. When we reduce sex to “the act” and miss its much broader context, we also reduce our experiences and relationships. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 4, 2016 | Amos and Social Solidarity, Message Audio
As we saw last week, we can sum up the message of the ancient prophets pretty simply. “Do the right thing . . . or suffer the consequences.” That idea riled up some folks in our community this last week. It poked some old church hurts — preachers...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 28, 2016 | Amos and Social Solidarity, Message Audio
We can sum up the message of the ancient prophets pretty simply. “Do the right thing . . . or suffer the consequences.” To many religious folk, that sounds like a threat from God. In a recent TED talk, we realize, it’s a pretty accurate description...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 21, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
It’s been our focus this summer — the spiritual practice of listening. As the summer comes to an end, we revisit the important themes of the summer lesson, and point ourselves forward. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 14, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
We’re nearing the end of our “summer of listening.” We began this summer with the premise that when people set aside time for spiritual listening, one thing they have heard through the ages is the call to repair the earth. And it is clear to anyone...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 7, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
Jesus said it, not me! Hate your mother! Hate your father. But maybe that’s not the point. Maybe the point is being alert to the powerful pressure to conform — best exerted on us by our people — can keep us from discerning our ways forward. Yep. I...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 31, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
You have jerks in your life. Sure you do. But have you noticed that we usually have two categories of jerk around us? There are jerks that are “our” jerks, and those who are not. The one is not any jerkier than the other, but we somehow “get”...
by Robin Camu | Jul 24, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Enneagram, Guest Speaker, Message Audio
In our summer of listening, we are listening for “the Third Force,” “the Reconciling Force.” There’s a good chance you don’t know what that means. No problem. Robin Camu gave us a lesson recently (CLICK HERE) that helped frame for...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 17, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
This summer, our community is setting aside time for the spiritual practices of listening. This summer our society is in upheaval. – Black Lives Matter, HB2, Dallas, Nice Divisions that have long simmered, are boiling over. Which makes listening critical. In...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 10, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
This is Doug. I’m writing about the lesson Robin gave this day. I’m writing because Robin would naturally be reluctant to promote her own lesson, and I think it was a very important framing lesson for the future of our community. It’s important...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 10, 2016 | Living Comtemplatively, Message Audio
Doug leads the congregation through a very powerful and moving contemplative session before the message. Please have a listen in a quiet moment. ...
