The Roofless Church

Category: Power

  • 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…

  • No More of This!

    Luke 22:47-53 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus 47 While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him; 48 but Jesus said to him, “Judas, is it with a kiss that you are betraying the Son…

  • 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…

  • What Your Power Looks Like

    I know some people may feel like I’m making a big deal about this waterfall like the double rainbow dude, but the fact is I cannot deny the awesomeness of Creation and I also can’t help but know that the very Power through which this waterfall came into being is active in each and everyone…

  • We’re All Invisible

    When I was meditating the other morning, I was listening for guidance from the Holy Spirit on what I should pay attention to that day.  In my form of meditation I mostly just pray and then just sit still for a long time afterward just listening as thoughts come up.  I don’t follow the thoughts. …

  • How Certain Material “Miracles” Become Distractions

    Nothing used to annoy me more than the preachers of the Prosperity Gospel.  I felt like they were turning Christ’s message of faith into something you could find on an infomercial.  It seemed like money and “blessings” were the only things on their minds and like any other pyramid system it was the people on…

  • You Won’t Like Me When I Am Angry

    In Ephesians 4:26, 27 it says “‘Be angry, and do not sin’:do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.”  This is a verse that I have had to remind myself of more frequently in the past few years than I ever have before.  In general I am…

  • Seeing The Green Lantern As a Parable (Power Through Weakness)

    Several days before actually going to see The Green Lantern, I was feeling this nagging sense that I was going to find some answers to some issues I was working on within the storyline of the film.  I was researching the biblical idea of God’s strength being made perfect in weakness and as such had been…

  • Warriors In Unseen Worlds

    Ephesians 6:12-20 — “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers…

  • The Foolishness and Weakness of God

    On my knees in the prayer room at Andover Newton Theological School where I am attending seminary, I admitted to God how weak and poor in spirit I was.  I am praying for the strength of mind, body, and soul so that I will be able to complete the six papers I have due in the…