The Roofless Church

Category: Strength

  • Strong Too Long

    Strong Too Long

    …Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but God said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,…

  • Strength Through Being a Non-Anxious Presence (#BoulderStrong)

    Strength Through Being a Non-Anxious Presence (#BoulderStrong)

    In the wake of tragedies that expose our vulnerabilities and limitations, as what we witnessed here in Boulder after the shooting at King Soopers, we often find ourselves looking back and wishing we were stronger. With this message, we explore transforming our pain and past weaknesses through the decision to consciously become a non-anxious presence.…

  • Where Are You?

    One of the words that freaks out many of my fellow liberal Christians and people abused by religion or even the people who qualify themselves as “spiritual but not religious” more than anything is “REPENT!!!” Sometimes I imagine myself saying it in a sermon and seeing people’s eyes bug out.  They might say, “Oh crap!…

  • Coming Out of the Dark…

    Somewhere in time there is a part of me that I visit frequently.  He is in a dark room and he feels alone.  He is living a lie.  He believes that he is separate from God and from everything else in life–the consummate individual.  Even though he knows that he can get up and walk…

  • Let This Cup Pass (Feeling Crappy Is Not a Crime)

    Have you ever watched a documentary or life story about some awesome person who did some thing that you know in your heart was the right thing to do, only to walk away feeling kind of like you suck?  Here is this person with all of this adversity that they go through to get to…

  • Angels In Distress

    I was blessed to be asked to speak about my experiences and understandings on domestic violence on the Angels in Distress radio show with Janie Deadwyler in Atlanta. Please share and comment.

  • PTSS (Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome)

    Recently, I heard that another childhood acquaintance, who we called “Professor”, died from a gunshot wound.  When my mom told me, I felt this wave of feelings pass through me and for a brief moment I felt like I might be next.  It was a familiar feeling that I had grown up with—the persistent consciousness…

  • When Your Strength Becomes Your Weakness

    One of the hardest things I have ever had to deal with was coming to terms with the fact that sometimes the things that are our greatest strengths can lead to our greatest weaknesses.  In other words, there is such a thing as being so strong that you don’t even sense your own weaknesses.  There…

  • Sometimes Enough Is Tooooooo Much

    Sometimes Enough Is Tooooooo Much

    Do you ever  just feel like you can’t take it any more?  You feel like you have taken all that you can take but yet it seems like things keep piling up?  What do you do? Well for a long time I lived by the maxim that says, “what doesn’t kill you only makes you…

  • And Then Comes Spring

    In the winter season, it is easy to forget that in spite of gray skies and lifeless looking trees, there is something wonderful happening.  Life is begetting life even when we cannot see it.  The same is true for the winters of our souls.  In each of our lives we experience seasons.  Things grow, blossom,…