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Don’t Waste Your Time Going to Church (conclusion)

Today, we conclude this lesson on the ancient exercises we do together on Sundays. We look at the exercise that includes stilling our hearts, becoming attentive, interpreting, and discerning.

This may be one of the only times you’ll ever hear a minister tell you to argue with him or her. Continue reading

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New Year 2010

As we come to another New Year, we look again at how human beings best change. We all have areas of growth before us in the coming year, areas originating in the heart of God. Today’s lesson talks about discerning the purposes of the Divine, and partnering with them in our own transformation. Continue reading

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Good Power vs. Bad: Insiders and Outsiders

Continuing our look at good and bad power, we turn to how one comes to be a user of the former. How do we become good-power people? Jesus had a lot to say about power, and critical to his teaching was an understanding that successful people, in-group people, tend to become so inwardly focused, they miss the big issues, and trip into the use of bad power. Continue reading

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Good Power vs. Bad: Definitions

s we’ve been looking at the ancient pathways that tend the soul’s well-being, we’ve seen that many of those practices involve interacting with other people. Consequently, the issue of power comes into play. In these Advent lessons, we take a side excursion into thinking about good power and bad, and in this lesson in particular, we define what good and bad power are (in spiritual terms). Continue reading

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New Year: A Time to Examine Our Lives

The turning of the calendar invites us to look at our lives, our values, and the habits that accumulate over time. Are these habits serving us well? In this lesson we talk about how one goes about shifting from one way of being alive, to a new and improved one. Continue reading

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The Earth: Are We Owners or Renters? (part 2)

by Doug Hammack [Download MP3]

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Striving, Driving, Manipulating, Conniving

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Awakened to the Dance: Uncomplicating Our Lives (part 2)

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The Ordered Life: Developing Self-Control (part 5)

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