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. ...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 3, 2016 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
Our Bill of Rights enshrines four essential, socio-political freedoms… – The freedom to speak and say what we think – The freedom to write and publish what we think – The freedom to assemble together and work toward changes we want – The...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 19, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
Nope. That’s not a typo. Tikkun olam is a thing. A real thing. An ancient thing. When we set ourselves to the ancient practices of listening, the accumulated experience of those gone before us in our tradition gives us a set of expectations about some of the...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 12, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
We continue introducing our summer focus on the spiritual practice of listening. This summer, we’re focusing on the art of spiritual listening. If you’re in Raleigh, I encourage you to be part of our Sundays at 1417 Clifton St. in Raleigh, to experience the...
by Doug Hammack | Jun 5, 2016 | A Summer of Listening, Message Audio
We begin this week, a new lesson on the spiritual practice of listening. We’re combining the lesson with a summer of practicing the art of listening together. If you’re in Raleigh, I encourage you to be part of our Sundays at 1417 Clifton St. in Raleigh,...
by John Pavlovitz | May 29, 2016 | Guest Speaker, Message Audio
By John Pavlovitz One of the images that most attracted me to church was the table of God where all were congregated together in unity. However, the church has done a lot since the time of Jesus to make the table of God smaller and more exclusive. We owe it to those...
by Doug Hammack | May 22, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
Desire. Pay Attention. It’s one of the central ways we talk about finding our way forward on the spiritual journey. Have a listen, Doug https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2016/05-22-16_Sermon.mp3Podcast:...
by Doug Hammack | May 15, 2016 | Conflict Resolution, Message Audio
We continue looking at how the story we tell ourselves about sin profoundly shapes our instinct about ourselves, about one another, and about how we deal with the divided lives we all live. In particular, we explore how it affects the instincts we bring to resolving...
by Doug Hammack | May 8, 2016 | Conflict Resolution, Message Audio
As we’ve seen the story we tell ourselves about sin profoundly shapes our instinct about ourselves, about one another, and about how we deal with the divided lives we all live. Turns out, the story we tell ourselves about sin impacts how we approach conflict...
by Doug Hammack | May 1, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
It’s not a big deal (listen to the last three lessons), but it’s a deal. It’s a “ruin-our-lives” kind of deal. So we need to deal with it. When we tell ourselves that our defining center is ugly, ugly, sin-consciousness, we tend to deal...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 24, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
It’s not a big deal (listen to the last two lessons), but it’s a deal. It’s a “ruin-our-lives” kind of deal. So we need to deal with it. When we tell ourselves one story about what sin is, we deal with it one way. Another story. Another...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 19, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
We saw last time, it’s counter-intuitive, but when we make sin a bigger deal than it is, we don’t deal with it as effectively as we could. In today’s lesson, we lay some term-defining groundwork that will help us figure out how to deal with it...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 9, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
Counter-intuitively, when we make sin a bigger deal than it is, we don’t deal with it as effectively as we could. Getting sin out of our lives is not the point of the spiritual journey, it’s the by-product. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 27, 2016 | Easter, Message Audio
As we do each year, in this lesson we highlight a dimension of our ancient story, and how it impacts our daily lives. This year we focus on the spiritual principle of oneness — how it is rooted in Easter, and how it affects the lives we live. Have a listen, Doug...
by Robin Camu | Mar 21, 2016 | Enneagram, Guest Speaker, Message Audio
by Robin Camu https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2016/03-20-16_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 19, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
We say God is good, we are safe. Really? That’s hogwash…Unless we broaden our framework of the most fundamental things about being human. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 7, 2016 | Message Audio, Revisiting Some Core Truths
As we begin this new season of our community life together, we are going over some of the significant lessons that have shaped our life together. Our history informs our future. Today, we talk about two important truths that grant us both freedom and responsibility....
