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…
Unbroken *Mutsuhiro “The bird” died in 2003 (85). -For years in two POW camps in Japan he tortured “Louie” Zamperini who died in 2014 (97) *Louie was an Olympian, a…
INTRO: NPR program entitled: Facebook and Mortality: Why your incessant joy gives me the blues. The stories’ producer, Jon Brooks (not the local John Brooks) said he had an existential…
Say the word church — and people automatically think of a building—a place where Christians go to worship God. Or they think of a denomination — “I go to the…
Intro: *In 1970 Hal Lindsey, a dispensational theologian published the best-selling end-times book “The Late Great Planet Earth.” *54 languages, 35 million copies…still in print. *This book put the end-times…
Psalm 96 Praise and Proclamation INTRO: When two-year-old Hakani did not walk or talk, the leaders of her tribe ordered her parents to kill her. The leaders’ decision reflected a…
*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…
Psa. 23:0 A psalm of David. Psa. 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads…
O. Intro: *Last week I heard an resiliency expert talk about how there are three things that best predict resiliency in individuals. *If these three things are true about you,…