The Roofless Church

Category: Stress

  • Surrounded! – How Do You Respond Under Threat?

    Surrounded! – How Do You Respond Under Threat?

    In a world where we are constantly reminded of the dangers that surround us, who among us has not imagined what we would do if we found ourselves in a dangerous or perhaps life-threatening situation? It seems like everyday we hear some story of innocent victims of unspeakable crimes. And whether it is a shooting…

  • Is Life More Than Food and Clothes?

    Whenever I go to the grocery store or the mall I think about what Jesus said in Matt 6:25, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Seeing people with their shopping bags…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…