by Doug Hammack | Apr 13, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
The story we Christians tell about the afterlife is deeply rooted in our psyches — so deeply in fact, that very few of us every think about it critically. However, it is certainly problematic, and may not be as “Christian” as we think it is. Have a...
by Doug Hammack | Apr 6, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Afterlife
The Christian narrative most traditional church folks learned growing up is pretty heavily weighted toward the afterlife. We look today, at Jesus’ central focus, the Kingdom of God. What we learn is that the afterlife was at best a footnote to the central...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 30, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Salvation
Have a listen, Doug https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2014/03-30-14_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 23, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Salvation
After some time looking at the unintended and negative consequences of telling the Christian salvation story in only one way, and ignoring the other historical ways, we turn now to imagining how we might tell the salvation story if we restored those ancient and other...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 16, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Salvation
The way most Western Christians have the story of salvation since the Enlightenment (the 11th century, really), has some unintended and negative consequences. As we saw at the beginning of this lesson, when we take our Christian doctrine of ineffability seriously, we...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 9, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Salvation
Again, we shape our stories, and then our stories shape us, and our religious stories most of all. And also again, when our stories gets unhealthy, our souls get unhealthy. In this lesson, we tell the Christian salvation story in the way most Enlightenment Christians...
by Doug Hammack | Mar 2, 2014 | Message Audio, Rethinking Our Story: Salvation
We shape our stories, and then our stories shape us. Of all the stories that shape our lives, our religious stories the most power. And for Christians, of all our religious stories, the one most shaping of them, is our salvation story. So, if that story gets...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 23, 2014 | A Christian Church for the Quantum Era, Message Audio
I was all set to move on to the next in a cluster of lessons around the theme: “Quantum Christianity.” However, some really great questions came up on our “How’s Your Soul?” Facebook page. “Doug, how can you say what you said last...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 16, 2014 | A Christian Church for the Quantum Era, Message Audio
At our community meeting earlier this year, we reviewed what we do and why we do it. Being “A Christian Church for the Quantum Era,” we said, is our most basic purpose. Today we pick up where we left off two weeks ago (before Tripp Fuller our guest...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 9, 2014 | Guest Speaker, Message Audio
In this current series of lessons, we’ve been observing how the Christian Church is in a time of upheaval and reformation we haven’t seen for 500 years. If you’re part of NRCC, you see how that is happening here, but today, I invited Tripp Fuller...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 2, 2014 | A Christian Church for the Quantum Era, Message Audio
At last week’s community meeting we reviewed what we do and why we do it. Being “A Christian Church for the Quantum Era,” we said, is our most basic purpose. Today we begin a series of lessons talking together about what that means. First up, why...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 26, 2014 | Community Meeting, Message Audio
Not a normal Sunday. We’re talking about what we do as a community, and why we do it. Not a normal Sunday, but if you’re part of the community you need to hear. If you’re not, you’ll learn a lot about us this way. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 19, 2014 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
We speak often of the four categories of spiritual practice. Today, we set them before ourselves as we begin the new year. Let us integrate these practices into our lives together. Have a listen, Doug ps… download the worksheet you hear about in the lesson...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 12, 2014 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
One of the four essential spiritual practices is serving the well-being of the earth. One of the ways we are helping one another embrace the practices of service is to develop a relationship with the Ferrier Village in Haiti. Today, Nick Errato from HelpOneNow is...
by Doug Hammack | Jan 5, 2014 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
We talk a lot about self-awareness and self-disclosure when we speak about our community’s practice of conflict resolution. But as always, we speak of it as an “off-label” use of an ancient spiritual discipline. Today we talk about the...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 29, 2013 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
Each new year, I think about growth points and change in my life. I bet many of you do as well. But forget the individual changes set before us or a moment, and let’s consider how we approach change. In this lesson we think together about the relationship we...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 22, 2013 | Advent, Message Audio
We conclude this year’s Advent message–on Advent. We’ve been looking at the ancient wisdom around celebration, and today finish off with an informed understanding of why the holidays so often exhaust, instead of energize us. Have a listen, Doug...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 15, 2013 | Advent, Message Audio
We continue looking at why we do Advent, expanding our discussion into some of the “how’s.” Advent is a two-step dance, both feasting and the preparation that makes the feasting meaningful. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 8, 2013 | Advent, Message Audio
It’s been a while since we’ve spoken about why we do Advent. A few folks in the community asked me that recently, so for the next few Sundays, we’ll look at the history and practice of Advent. Turns out, if anxiety is a big deal for you, you ought to...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 1, 2013 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
We just went through Thanksgiving week. One would think that the week to talk about gratitude is before the holiday. However, as you’ll hear in this lesson, gratitude doesn’t stop with words we say. Our ancient tradition teaches us the importance of...
