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Friends for the Fray: The Lost Art of Confession (part 1)
The ancient art of confession is lost to most Christians today. It is a loss that causes great peril to our souls. In this lesson, we talk about the importance of this ancient practice, and some of the reasons we tend to resist it. Continue reading
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Tagged ancient spiritual paths, breathing groups, confession, forgiveness, grace, greed, lust, prayer, pride, self-awareness, shame, sin, spiritual friends
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From Theology to Spirituality: "In The Image of God" (part 1)
For many weeks, we’ve been thinking about the theology of our faith, and how our unquestioned assumptions, and the things taught us often betray us and lead us into a sickened spiritual state. Today we begin to look at how rebuild a healthy spirituality on the foundations of these reconsidered Truths. Continue reading
Posted in Two Views...
Tagged Divine union, human nature, Image of God, sin, total depravity
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Thinking About Thinking About Jesus (part 2)
Christians say that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus was about more than just a good man, standing up for the downtrodden, and being martyred for his efforts. We believe that Jesus fulfilled something of great historical significance, enacting God’s purposes to save humanity.
To be able to think clearly about what it means that Jesus saves people, in this lesson we think about what sin is (the stuff we believe Jesus saves us from). Continue reading
Sabbath Consciousness: Our Descriptive Selves (part 3)
Continuing our discussion of sabbath-consciousness… Continue reading
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Tagged busyness, community, inner rest, inner voice, peace, peculiar people, sin, true/false self, value/worth
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Sin’s Just Not That Big A Deal (Scandalous!) part 2
by Doug Hammack [Download MP3]
Posted in Dancing With the Divine
Tagged Church history, fear, prayer, repentance, selfishness, sin
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Sin’s Just Not That Big A Deal (Scandalous!) part 1
For many of us, we were raised in a spirituality in which sin-consciousness, and the battle against sin, was the epicenter. Because of our individual backgrounds, when we think about sin, we tend to make individualistic interpretations. Sin doesn’t affect our standing before God, in this view: we are loved, we are loved, we are loved. But it does get in the way of dancing well w/ God. Sin is not that big a deal compared to the mountain of God’s mercy and grace, but it will mess up your life.
Also, sin-centric spirituality hasn’t helped us very much in developing the simple practice…the daily discipline…of repentance. Continue reading