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
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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....
by Doug Hammack | Feb 21, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
Here is Doug’s message for Feb 21, 2016 Have a listen. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2016/02-21-16_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 14, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
To talk about this radical version of hospitality—without also talking about the transformative spiritual journey… Well, that’s just a non-starter. We can’t do – what we can’t do. And we can’t do it – unless we first awaken to a reservoir deep within us – that most...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 7, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
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by Doug Hammack | Jan 31, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
We Christians would have become just another sectarian religious group — if it hadn’t been for a really important thing on a really important day. It’s one of our most important stories. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 17, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
If hospitality is about tea cozies and finger sandwiches, it’d just be a matter of tidying up the house and having people over. But in the spiritual tradition, hospitality is a much more demanding proposition. It means “radical inclusion of the other, the...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 10, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
“The Prince of Peace…” That’s one of the things our tradition calls Jesus. Which is certainly an apt description… Unless your religious posture was to out-group others… In which case, he had some rather choice words. Have a listen,...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 3, 2016 | Hospitality vs. Out-Grouping, Message Audio
The Twelve Days of Christmas doesn’t mean much any more. But back in the day, each of the days celebrated an important story — the last day, the story of the three magi. It is a story about God abolishing sectarianism. What? Yep. It’s a story about...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 27, 2015 | Message Audio, New Year
. Janus. The Roman god of transitions. https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2015/12-27-15_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 13, 2015 | Advent, Message Audio
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by Robin Camu | Dec 6, 2015 | Advent, Guest Speaker, Message Audio
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by Doug Hammack | Nov 22, 2015 | Message Audio, Thanksgiving
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by Doug Hammack | Nov 15, 2015 | Message Audio, Time
Today we conclude a long series of lessons on the prayers of detaching. And we conclude the last in this series of lessons – “the prayer of detaching from the power of time,” or . . . “the prayer of this next breath; this next step.” Have...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 8, 2015 | Message Audio, Time
We don’t use the word “sin” very often at NRCC because it has gotten kind of encrusted with toxic meanings over the centuries. However, it is an important spiritual concept. In this lesson we look at the double nature we tend to carry inside...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 1, 2015 | Community Meeting, Message Audio
A lot has happened to our community recently. Our minister (me) got the boot from the denomination we were part of. Our community voted to keep the minister (again, me), which meant our vote was to both leave the denomination, and since the denomination owns the...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 25, 2015 | Message Audio, Time
Last week, we saw how our brains have a built-in motivation system to get us up, out of bed, eating, drinking, procreating, and doing the things we need to further our lives and the species. The whole system is a real blessing. But it’s also a curse. It sucks us...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 18, 2015 | Message Audio, Time
There are some chemicals in our brains that create a motivation cycle which really helps us. These chemicals get us out of bed, and motivate us to eat, and work, and make babies — all the stuff we need to do to sustain life. What a relief! When something goes...
