The Roofless Church

Author: Higher Up IDEALS

  • A Word to the Prophets

    I don’t usually listen to the radio because my mind is so full of rhymes and songs that I just rap or sing to myself.  It’s real cool to feel the words going from my heart to my mouth without my mind getting in the way. 99.99% of the time I don’t even write down…

  • Sorry To Disappoint You

    Why are you looking at me? I woke up this morning thinking about how difficult it is to live up to people’s expectations.  It was sparked by all this talk about Tiger Woods cheating on his wife and President Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize right after signing off on sending 30,000 troops to war.  I…

  • God’s Love Is Not Human

    When taping a local spiritually focused TV show, the host asked me what The Roofless Church was all about.  My first response was that it was my opportunity to give.  The second thing that came up was that a church with no roof symbolizes the idea that God cannot be confined to a building or box like…

  • Overcoming Gravity

    Every morning that I don’t have to go to work I go through a battle with gravity.  With no alarm and no justification for getting out of the bed, I find myself struggling to get up.  It’s always the same thing. First I wake up and notice that it’s somewhere between 5:30 and 6:30 AM.…

  • What Would Pedro Do?

    On the steering wheel of my truck there is a cover with the letters WWJD on it.  As most of you know, that stands for “What Would Jesus Do?”.  For a long time you could find all sorts of  new WWJD merchandise everywhere.  Maybe it was because some people thought the world was about to end and…

  • Being Who You Are

    I remember the first time I heard cuss words.  I was seven years old and had just recently moved to a neighborhood called Chesterfield Heights in Norfolk, VA.  Until moving there I had been pretty sheltered from children outside of my family and none of us cussed.  To this day, unless we are really trying…

  • The Life You Were Born To Live

    “Nice parking job,” are the first words I say to my friend Russ after not seeing him for almost thirteen years to the day.  Several months ago we found each other again thanks to a Facebook Linkedin connection combo and now here we are at the Salt Lake International Airport.  Has it really been 13 years?  Why does it feel…

  • There Are Two Ways To Burn Your Candle

    There are two ways to burn a candle. Americans are strange.  Despite our relative prosperity, we are one of the most emotionally depressed cultures on the planet.  It’s been said that one of the main causes for our mental state is that we try to cram more activities into a 24 hour day than what…

  • Being “Normal” Versus Being Natural

    All my life I have struggled with being “normal”.  No, you wouldn’t find me with my Fruit o’ the Looms on my head singing Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or anything like that.  I just rarely did what I was expected to do.  Expectations indicate having some preconceived notion of how events should unfold in some future…

  • How To Glow In the Dark

    It’s creeping on 6AM on Sunday morning.  I was hoping that I’d still be sleep until at least 8:30 AM or whenever Calista gets up because I haven’t had much sleep in the past few days.  But nature and a flip in my stomach has me up.  I need to write.  This morning I need…