The Roofless Church

Author: Higher Up IDEALS

  • How’d I Get So Rich?

    Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: What life is all about! Yesterday when I was on facebook, I saw this post that showed this huge stack of hundred dollar bills that came with a prayer that said that if people wrote the word “Amen” in the comments, then in Jesus’ name, the person would…

  • Hate the World, Make It a Better Place

    There are whole industries dedicated to minimizing risk, variation, cost, and waste.  They fall under the umbrella of what is called “quality control” and when it comes to manufacturing products, I think that there is a brilliance to it that can be applauded.  It is so brilliant in fact that many people have integrated the…

  • Sometimes Words Aren’t Enough

    Originally posted on The Roofless Church: My Bruhdas Ever since we returned from Hawaii, I have been trying to put our experience into the perfect words for this blog.  After struggling for weeks, I finally surrendered to the fact that I can’t and embraced that I’ll just have to do the best that I can. …

  • Belief as a Contextual Framework for Spiritual Application

    A few posts ago, I put up what I called “The Roofless Church’s Statement of Faith“.  In some ways what I wrote was an accurate account of how I would express my faith if I was forced to do so for some reason or the other. And in some ways what I said was a…

  • What Is Real?

    In a facebook discussion, the question, “what is real?” came up.  The context was in regard to the reality of idealized experiences or what we actually experience in the the world.  We were also discussing how the survival mentality affected one’s experience of reality. The response I came up with is below. Sometimes when these…

  • B In Prayer

    Today as I was entering into a surprisingly silent Newton Centre, I was surprised to hear from my friend that the entire town was on lockdown as a result of the ongoing manhunt for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.  Already on campus by the time I was  clear on the gravity of…

  • The Roofless Church’s Statement of Faith

    Today I have to teach a confirmation class about what is called a Statement of Faith.  If you are not familiar with what that is, then it is pretty much what it sounds like.  I am supposed to help them see how important a statement of faith is and encourage them as they begin writing…

  • One In All and All In One

    May the Radiant Love of God permeate your very being as you engage the message of this post.  May it once and for all remove all doubt that you are One with the Creator eternally.  Can you hear it when I tell you that you have been with God from the beginning and beyond.  Just…

  • The Gospel According to You

    Let me begin this post by saying that I absolutely love the Bible.  I have read a lot of books in my life and the Bible by far has been the most intriguing work I have ever engaged.  With the exception of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, C.S. Lewis’ Mere…

  • The Future Is Full of Problems

    Recently I have been having a difficult time because everyone knows that I am about to graduate from seminary and they keep asking me what I am going to do when I graduate.  No one wants to hear the truth, which is that I don’t know.  They are asking me about a future that I…