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A Living Letter: My Friend Jim Amundson
This week, my dear friend and a fixture in our spiritual community died. Jim Amundson was a letter from God, written for us to read. In today’s lesson, I discuss Divine Grace, and my text will be Jim’s life.
Jim Amundson
1936-2009 Continue reading
Posted in Individual Lesson, Memorial Service
Tagged community, grace, spiritual friends, spiritual journey
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Spiritual Allies for the Journey (part 2)
We continue our break from our 2-Views series of lessons, and revisit a central them of NRCC, spiritual friendships and community. We’re looking at the importance of having allies for the spiritual journey, and in this lesson, we look at how one acts as an ally, how one is a spiritual friend. Continue reading
Spiritual Allies for the Journey (part 1)
We take a break from our series of lessons on Two Views to revisit a central them of our spiritual community. We’re looking at the importance of spiritual friendships, “allies for the spiritual journey.”
In this lesson, we look at how Jesus commissioned his followers generations ago, and how we are recipients of the same Mission, the same mandate to gather with others.
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Sabbath Consciousness: Our Descriptive Selves (part 3)
Continuing our discussion of sabbath-consciousness… Continue reading
Posted in Sabbath Consciousness
Tagged busyness, community, inner rest, inner voice, peace, peculiar people, sin, true/false self, value/worth
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Sabbath Consciousness: Peculiar People (part 1)
Before the holidays we looked at two elements that help us find a place of internal rest and leisure that the ancients tell us is our heritage on the spiritual journey. There was another I wanted to discuss, and now that we’re though the holidays and our community meetings, I want to finish that up. God bless you. Continue reading
Posted in Sabbath Consciousness
Tagged community, everyday priests, Mission, peculiar people, spiritual wellness
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Community Meeting: Finding Those Assigned Us
Marketing, advertising, invite your friends to church… Do these words and phrases bring up fear or revulsion inside of you? Despite this, we have something to offer to those God has assigned to us and we need to get the word out. However, NRCC is not for everyone and we want to be as open as possible so that people can self-select NRCC as the Christian community that is right for them; then we need to leave the results to God. Listen as Michelle explains what promotion steps we have already done and how we plan to continue searching in the coming months for those God has assigned to us. Continue reading
Hard Times and Teachable Hearts
by Doug Hammack Add synopsis [Download MP3]
Posted in Learning From Our Pain
Tagged ancient spiritual paths, community, faith, Love, pain/suffering, perseverance, teachable
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Awakened to the Dance: Settle For Nothing Less
by Doug Hammack Add synopsis [Download MP3]
Posted in Dancing With the Divine
Tagged ancient spiritual paths, Church history, community, gratitude, purgatory, repentance, simplicity
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