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The Great Upending: Toward a Better Earth
Listen to this prayer from Francis of Assisi. It sums up today’s lesson. Have a listen.
Doug.
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
…where there is injury, pardon;
…where there is doubt, faith;
…where there is despair, hope;
…where there is darkness, light;
…where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
…to be consoled as to console;
…to be understood as to understand;
…to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
…it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
…and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Continue reading
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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Tagged Advent, comfort, discernment, humility, Love, Mission, power, tolerance, transformation
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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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Tagged Advent, discernment, Mission, power, transformation
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Two Views of God (part 2)
How we think about God profoundly affects how we think of the Christian journey. Today, we continue examining how our image of God as King, creates a different version of Christianity than does an image of God as Lover. Continue reading
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Tagged fear, justice, Love, Mission, nature of God, power, Rethinking Religion
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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
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Tagged community, everyday priests, Mission, peculiar people, spiritual wellness
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Another Story About Stewards: Luke 12 – Rich Farmer
by Doug Hammack [Download MP3]
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Tagged Church history, fear, generosity, justice, Mission, our Story, prayer, spiritual reading, steward
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Did We Get Jesus All Wrong? (The Unjust Steward 2)
by Doug Hammack [Download MP3] In this lesson we look at two parables, Jesus’ parable of “The Unjust Steward” (improperly named, we’ll conclude), and Doug’s parable of Fred the Goldfish. The point of both is to ask ourselves if the … Continue reading
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Tagged Church history, compassion/kindness, deception, goldfish parable, Mission, our Story, slavery/jubilee, steward
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Did We Get Jesus All Wrong? (The Unjust Steward 1)
by Doug Hammack [Download MP3] In this lesson we look at two parables, Jesus’ parable of “The Unjust Steward” (improperly named, we’ll conclude), and Doug’s parable of Fred the Goldfish. The point of both is to ask ourselves if the … Continue reading
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Did We Get Jesus All Wrong? (introduction)
by Doug Hammack [Download MP3] In this lesson we look at two parables, Jesus’ parable of “The Unjust Steward” (improperly named, we’ll conclude), and Doug’s parable of Fred the Goldfish. The point of both is to ask ourselves if the … Continue reading
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Tagged deception, goldfish parable, Mission, our Story, purgatory, steward
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