The Roofless Church

Author: Higher Up IDEALS

  • We All Have Wounds

    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 can transform our wounds and make…

  • Nothing Is Never What We Think It Is

    If you don’t want to slap me for making the above video, then we are friends for life even if we never meet.  I can say that with honesty because if you can embrace the hub-bubbery that I spoke then it means that you are not living in the fear of loss and so we…

  • Abundance is Reality

    Warning:  If none of what I say in this post makes sense, then you probably read it correctly. What I am attempting to convey in this post can only be understood from the place of absolute inclusion–total Oneness, nothing left out. These words stand on the foundation that God is giving everything to everything and…

  • Originally posted on It's All In Me – Poetry Blog: Faith Though I’ve spoken at length I haven’t said a word And all this nothing that I’m saying Is nothing but absurd I speak with lies So that you might hear the truth I display for you illusion That you might have proof Do you…

  • Do You See What Eye See?

    What do you get out of the following words of Jesus from Matthew 7? 1“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but…

  • Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Jesus

    When I was a kid I used to walk through woods on my way home from school reading my New Testament and be laughing to myself.  I’d be like, “Jesus, you so crazy,” when I would read things like him telling some Pharisees and scribes that they were, “Blind guides, who strain out a gnat…

  • No Reason to Pray

    Why is it that so many of us pray to God like we’re running for office?  In my opinion the biggest benefit to a relationship with God is that we are supposedly talking to someone who knows everything about us and loves us anyway.  If I have to fake around God like I can trick…

  • Anger, But Don’t Miss the Mark

    If you read my older post, You Won’t Like Me When I’m Angry, you probably have a pretty good idea on my views about anger.  In that post I pointed out the time Jesus flipped out on the money changers and how in Ephesians 4:26, 27 it says “‘Be angry, and do not sin’:do not let the…

  • The Mystery of the Prosperity God-Spell

    If you look at the leaves on a tree or the grasses in the field, it is easy to see that abundance is an integral part of God’s reality.  That’s why in  Matthew 6:27-30 Jesus was quoted as saying, “Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you…

  • Christ Is In the Crisis With Us

    Einstein said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”.  However, most of the time we try to do that very thing.  When I talk to people about my thoughts on Christ, it is generally from the point of view that Christ is an open invitation and access to better thinking about…