Entries by Todd Hunter

Are You Listening?

June 17, 2016 in /by

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https://media.blubrry.com/holy_trinity_church_pastor/p/myholytrinitychurch.com/podcast/mp3-sermons/2016/160612.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | MoreOur task in the coming season: listen for the Spirit to teach us about how to be faithful followers of Jesus in the ordinary, but difficult times in which we live. The challenging days in which we live are nothing new: listen to this prayer from The Dark Ages (7th century). Hear us O never-failing Light, Lord our God, our only light, the fountain of light…May our souls be lamps of yours, sparked and illuminated by you. May our souls shine and burn with the truth, and never go out in darkness and ashes. May we be shining from your light, may our lamps be burning […]

Consumption Reveals My Truest Desires

May 25, 2016 in /by

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https://media.blubrry.com/holy_trinity_church_pastor/p/myholytrinitychurch.com/podcast/mp3-sermons/2016/160508.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS | MoreMy friend and mentor, Dallas Willard, was a professional philosopher who loved as a hobby, so to speak, the intersection of philosophy and science. From that lifelong consideration he once said to me: every advance in human history is simultaneously and ethical and spiritual challenge. To understand what Dallas meant by this, let’s work our way forward from ancient history: The discovery of the usefulness of fire to light a room or cook food—but it didn’t take long for sinful people to realize that they could also torture people with the pain of fire or that they could burn down the village huts of those they […]

One Vocation – Serving Others

November 10, 2015 in /by

Most Protestant look back to the Reformation as their theological touchstone. But we often wrongly think that the Reformation was only about doctrine, primarily justification by faith through grace. Actually, the Reformers were looking for a new kind of Christian life. They were disappointed by much of medieval spirituality and church life. They were looking for a version of the gospel that would produce sincere holiness and be a blessing to every village.  Speaking of the English reformation, historian Stephen Neill explains, “They were convinced that the new understanding of the Gospel, with it’s appeal to the whole man, mind, and conscience and will, could bring about that inner reformation that to them was more important than any change in […]

The Spirituality of Slowing Down and Shutting Up

October 24, 2015 in /by

The word “addict” may conjure images of a disheveled drug-user. But relatively few people are addicted to drugs. However, judging by the way we drive, the way we zone out on mobile devices (even when surrounded by friends), and the way we distract ourselves with multiple forms of media, it seems many of us are in the addictive grip of noise and hurry. An addiction’s power resides in the lies it tells us. On the surface certain stimuli look pleasurable. And they do in fact provide a moment of pleasure or numbness or distraction. But addictive powers are dehumanizing and soul-destroying. Addicts lose the ability to self-regulate and eventually the stimulus gains mastery over their lives. Everything in an addict’s […]