Author: Higher Up IDEALS
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Road Trip With God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water – Full Circle
There’s no way I can completely explain to someone who is “uninitiated”, the things that were ministered to me for the next 19 hours because as it says in 1 Corinthians 2, “ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” …
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Road Trip with God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water, Part 3
Do you remember that part in The Matrix where Neo had to choose between the red pill or the blue pill? Well that was where I was in that hotel in the middle of nowhere–both figuratively and actually. I had to make a choice on whether I wanted to sleep or stay awake. While driving…
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Road Trip with God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water, Part 2
There have been plenty of times when I heard people say that God talks to them. Spending so many days in church growing up, I saw plenty of people “get happy” or “catch the Holy Ghost”. I’ve been to every service a church could have–even down to choir rehearsal. I’ve been to quiet services where…
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Road Trip with God, DMX, and 23 Bottles of Water, Part 1
It’s been over 11 years since I walked into the Wherehouse and sold almost all of my rap CDs. Looking like a crackhead–no offense–I went in there all shaky asking, “How much can I get for these?” I’m sure the cashier thought I stole them. Why else would a young black man come into a store and…
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Sometimes Words Aren’t Enough
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. Words are funny things. They can be used…
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Under Pressure
Last week I saw this headline on Yahoo! that these brothers from the UK have done a remix of Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure. I’m in one of my distraction modes, so I click on it. Out comes these twins with these high top hairdos with back up dancer’s straight out of the 90’s. …
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The Only True Poverty There Is
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” — Rosalynn Carter Until sitting down to write about leadership, I thought I knew what leadership was. But upon reflection, I see that I really don’t. I have made several…
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Live Free or Die
I’m convinced that whenever we ask questions from the depths of our soul, our lives become about trying to find the answers. For some people it might be something simple like “what career will I have when I get older?” Those people will probably work and work until they find what fits them. Then they…
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The Business of Being Equal
One of my passions is Diversity and Inclusion. Of all the work available in the world, at this point in my life, I feel like this space is one where I can serve best . My story sounds like something out of a diversity handbook. Born to a multi-cultural family, very early on I dealt with issues that tend to separate…
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They Can’t Make Us
You have to admit, the great thing about The Roofless Church is that I get to go through these over thought rants of reflection so you don’t have to. My mind pretty much doesn’t shut off. If I’m not using it, it’s running on auto-pilot scanning the created and uncreated Universe looking for signs of Truth…
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