The Roofless Church

Author: Higher Up IDEALS

  • Facing My DEMONs

    Ever since becoming vocal about my ministry I’ve been coming face to face with my prior acts of denial.  Some people may call it the skeletons coming out of the closet or facing your demons.  I chose to use the term facing my demons specifically because it allowed me to come up with this nifty…

  • I Sing Because I’m Happy

    Someone I follow on Twitter posted a quote that said, “Birds don’t sing because they have an answer.  They sing because they have a song.”  I have never heard that one before, but it struck a chord with me and immediately led me to think about my younger brother Tony.  As long as I’ve known…

  • Evil Is Laziness

    In writing this post, I am making the assumption that most of you who visit this blog have made the choice to deliberately investigate your life and are open to going as deep as possible to know yourself.  I will also assume that you believe that it is possible to know yourself as your Creator knows you much the…

  • You Are Not Your Thoughts

    I’m fat.  I’m skinny.  I’m pretty.  I’m ugly.  I’m in style. I’m out of style.  No one is looking at me.  Everyone is looking at me.  I’m special.  I’m just like everyone else. I’m popular.  I’m unpopular. And the list goes on and on. In fact, it’s been said that the average human brain processes…

  • More Addiction

    One of my daughter’s first words was “more”.  Anytime she wants anything that she doesn’t know the word for–especially food–she screams, “more, more, more.”  On one side I think it’s cute, but on the other hand, I’m thinking, “Oh no.  It’s started.”  Since time began human beings have been fascinated with the idea of more. …

  • Some People Need Professional Help

    I hope that after reading this post I will be able to save some of you a big chunk of time in your life.  The time I am talking about comes from the time we spend trying to help people that just won’t take it.  I think that’s what Jesus was talking about when he was…

  • Life Is Who You Are, Not What You Do

    How often have you heard the question, “So what do you do?”, when meeting people for the first time?  How often do you ask that question yourself? And how would you feel if your answer was, “Oh, nothing right now. I was laid off.”?  The fact is you probably would never say that.  Even if you…

  • Make Friends With The Unknown

    Recently I read the book, “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal.  As you can imagine by the title, the book is satirical in nature. However, it does have a lot of depth. But I’ll get to that later.  It tells the story of Jesus’ (Joshua) missing years from the Bible and tells about his training to…

  • There Is No Loss

    Today on our way home from CT we decided to stop into the Mohegan Sun Casino. Now this might sound weird, but whenever I go to a casino I take it as an opportunity to consciously watch my thoughts as they relate to money and to learn life lessons. Oh money you deceiver, you maker…

  • Living Without A Plan

    When I sat down to write this blog the intention was to write about women who love trees. (It was a suggestion from my co-worker Tyler Brown.  You have to know him.)  Anyway I had it all planned out when all of a sudden I decided to drop that plan.  In this moment women who…