The Roofless Church

Author: Higher Up IDEALS

  • Some Bridges Need To Be Burned

    Ok people.  I am aware that this message may confuse some of you so I am going to piggy back off of Jesus because whenever people want to sound authoritative they validate it by saying “Someone smarter than me said the same thing a long time ago.”  So in the tradition of other people who…

  • Is Life More Than Food and Clothes?

    Whenever I go to the grocery store or the mall I think about what Jesus said in Matt 6:25, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Seeing people with their shopping bags…

  • What’s It To You If All Religions Are True?

    My thoughts are strong on this point. Listen with caution. Excuse the blurriness. Over the past couple of weeks, I have seen several people reposting an article from the blog, Diversity Chronicle, entitled POPE FRANCIS CONDEMNS RACISM AND DECLARES THAT “ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRUE” AT HISTORIC THIRD VATICAN COUNCIL.  My first thoughts when I saw this article were…

  • 2013 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,600 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 43 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

  • Do You Want To Be Made Well?

    Working in a hospital as a chaplain intern has brought the thoughts of healing to the forefront of my mind in a way unlike anything ever has before. Prior to taking on this role, my relationship to physical healing was shaky.  I barely spoke of it because I really don’t have an idea of how…

  • Make Your Anger Count

    Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. –Ephesians 4:25-27 Are you one of those people who think that “spiritual people” don’t get angry?  Do you…

  • Living for the Questions Dying for the Answers

    How frustrating would it be to be able to speak every language in the world fluently and yet have a language of your own that no one else could speak? Imagine that.  Here you are able to understand everyone in their native tongue, but no one can understand you when you speak yours.  What’s worse…

  • We All Have Wounds

    Originally posted on The Roofless Church: I’m a firm believer that when we offer up our wounds in service to others–as I see Christ doing–then what can at first seem like a dysfunction, can actually become our function.  In this sermon, my intention is to invite us into the possibility that the Christ within us…

  • Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional

    Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: Let me start by saying that this post is a generalization.  I have no intention of minimizing anyone’s pain.  I am in no position to do so.  Also, I am aware that I need to continually put in the work to listen to and practice everything I say…

  • Who Are You?

    The video speaks for itself so I am not writing a lot of commentary on this post.  There’s just going to be the scripture passages, this prayer below, and this question “Who are you?”  I hope you are blessed by this message.  The video is shaky, but the intention is solid. If it makes you…