by Robin Camu | Jan 9, 2013 | Enneagram, Guest Speaker, Message Audio
by Robin Camu This is a summary of the characteristics of the Enneagram Type 2 personality (The Helper/Giver) from our Wednesday night discussions. Join us for the next one! Type Two in Brief (from http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/typetwo.asp) Twos are empathetic,...
by Robin Camu | Jan 6, 2013 | Enneagram, Guest Speaker, Message Audio
by Robin Camu The Enneagram is a scholarly study of personality types across time and cultures. There are 9 basic personality types, each with ts own virtues, vices, motivations, interaction styles and challenges. We each carry all of these 9 personality types, but we...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 30, 2012 | Message Audio, New Year
Today we prepare ourselves for a new year. Have a listen, Doug https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2012/12-30-12_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window |...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 23, 2012 | Advent, Message Audio
The Psalms tell us to lift up our eyes… to see with an elevated vision. This is exactly what Advent invites us to do. In this lesson, I’ll recognize that it’s tough in our culture, to make December a month of vision-elevating. But, I’ll suggest...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 16, 2012 | Advent, Message Audio
On Friday, 20 children were murdered in their school and 6 adults who tried to protect them. Can we celebrate this season’s focus on “hope” when something like that happens? We’ll see. I have a few remarks to make, but most of this...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 9, 2012 | Advent, Message Audio
So sure, hope is a great thing. Sure, prophets speak and angels sing… “Comfort… comfort my people.” That’s all well and good. But brass-tacks reality insists we at least mention the high price exacted of those who bring hope into the...
by Doug Hammack | Dec 2, 2012 | Advent, Message Audio
When we think of “prophesy” we think of predicting the future. That’s not what the ancients thought. They thought of prophets as “seers,” seeing what the rest of us miss – and in particular, seeing the things of the Divine. Today,...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 25, 2012 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
Perseverance is easy to say… difficult to maintain. Today we look at what perseverance does for us, and what in the world might motivate us to do it. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 18, 2012 | Message Audio, Thanksgiving
Again… Sometimes we make gratitude a perfunctory practice. Let it not be so! This is big! Transformative! Big! Have a listen, Doug https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2012/11-18-12_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 11, 2012 | Message Audio, Thanksgiving
Sometimes we make gratitude a perfunctory practice. Let it not be so! This is big! Transformative! Big! Have a listen, Doug https://media.blubrry.com/north_raleigh_community_church/s3.amazonaws.com/nrccaudio/2012/11-11-12_Sermon.mp3Podcast: Play in new...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 4, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Continuing our look at how language informs meaning, and in particular how the future perfect tense helps us think about… – the spiritual journey before us… – how we live in spiritual community. Have a listen, Doug ...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 28, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Living in the Future-Perfect Tense. Yet another skill necessary if we would reweave the spiritual community so necessary for our souls to thrive. Here’s how it works. We live in Time-X. But the great hope of our tradition is a state of redemption and...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 22, 2012 | Message Audio, Service
“Service.” We continue looking at how service wears down and wears out the false-self beliefs we build our lives on. It’s a hassle, to be sure. However, it is a hassle the way eating salad is a hassle. We may prefer nachos and beer, but two things:...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 14, 2012 | Message Audio, Service
“Service.” One of the ancient skills necessary to live well in the environment in which our souls thrive. One of the ancient skills necessary to live in authentic spiritual community. But perhaps not for the reasons you might think. We come to the ancient...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 7, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
“Confession.” That’s a word I hate to use because of the images I know it conjures up. If we grew up Catholic, we see images of boxes and priests telling us to say “hail-Mary’s.” If we grew up Protestant, we see ourselves telling...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 30, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
It’s tough to put a name on skill #3 in this lesson… maybe “developing a tougher skin?” Maybe “being able to receive criticism?” No, neither of those are right. In fact, in this lesson I never give this skill a name. Probably...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 22, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Humility. As we saw earlier this year, humility is often misunderstood. It smacks of servility or insecurity. Not so. Humility starts with a profound understanding that we carry the image of God, and a settled understanding of what it means to be human –...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 16, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Skill #1: Growth. Stands to reason doesn’t it? If we don’t have a learning and growing posture, we don’t grow into the skills, competencies, and emotional framework to do spiritual friendships well. Look around if you don’t believe me. As a...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 9, 2012 | Community in a Mid-Sized Church, Message Audio
Before the holiday break we were talking about how we, as we are becoming a mid-size church, can keep alive one of our core values – authentic spiritual community. Continuing that lesson today, we’re talking about several related themes; today, some...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 2, 2012 | Individual Lesson, Message Audio
We’re in the middle of a lesson on authentic spiritual community, but it’s Labor Day Sunday and many of us are traveling. So, rather than continue the lesson that’s building one week on the next, I thought I’d just do a stand-alone,...
