Intro: *Sound of Music: Broadway musical made into a film in 1961. *Broke records in 29 countries…made (2.3 billon in today’s dollars) *Story of a nun who leaves the Abbey…
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*If you have small children what do you say most frequently to them? *Many possible answers “No!” or “stop” *But what I hear a lot from parents is… “Say please”…
INTRO: Days of Anguish Days of Hope *Robert Preston Taylor -Chaplain Robert Taylor was stationed in the Philippians in 1941 when the Japanese invaded. -He was a part of the…
Read MorePsa. 4:2 How long, O men, will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? Psa. 25:2 in you I trust, O…
Abandonment and Despair: The Loss of Hope The Martian: Matt Damon, 2015. *In 2035 a manned mission to Mars encounters a storm on the planet and so they leave behind…
Ps 73 Desire: Envy & Jealousy What does it take to survive? What does a human need? *Food, Water, sleep, air *How long can we survive without the basics? Air:…
Psalm. 55:1 Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea; 2 hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught 3 at…
INTRO: Emotions and the Complexity of systems: *So let’s imagine that I was a farmer and a certain insect was eating my crops, this caused me to have fewer crops…
Mayo Clinic: Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of…
*Christianity is hard to believe. *A God who is unmade, made everything. *Humans, made in his image with the capacity to love or to reject him…in fact, rejected God and…
6.5.16 Ps 90 *VIDEO Life’s Greatest Questions *I recently attended a spiritual care in disaster training. *Experts from a variety of fields, testimonies from a number of responders to disasters…
*So…Self-serving attribution bias…do you ever struggle with that? *”How in the world would I know…I don’t know what you are talking about.” *Fancy name for…”Taking credit when its not really…