Village Pres Sermons
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Village Pres Sermons
Latest Episodes
Commitment to Community - Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
“A healthy community is a thick system of relationships. It is irregular, dynamic, organic, and personal. Neighbors show up to help out when your workload is heavy, and you show up when theirs is. In a rich community, people are up in one anoth...
Commitment to Family - Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
“One problem with the individualistic view of the first mountain is that it traps people in the small prison of the self. If you go into marriage seeking self-actualization, you will always feel frustrated because marriage and parenting and bei...
Commitment to Faith - Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
“Really? You have never felt overwhelmed by, and in some way inadequate to, an experience in your life, have never felt something in yourself staking a claim beyond your self, some wordless mystery straining through words to reach you? Never? R...
Commitment to Our Calling - Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
“The thing everybody knows from finding a calling is that it's quite different from finding a career. In the calling mentality, you're not living on the ego level of your consciousness—working because the job pays well or makes life convenient....
The Mountain of Self and the Valley - Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka
Writer David Brooks’ concept of the “Second Mountain” speaks to a profound spiritual truth: that our lives are a journey from being centered on oneself to being centered on living in a way that creates a better world for everyone. The first mou...
