Category: The Roofless Church
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Living Loveward Ch. 5 – Love Never Fails
In reflecting on Abraham’s potential sacrifice of Isaac, Søren Kierkegaard said, “To love God without faith is to consider oneself. But, to love God with faith is to consider God.” As I walked and contemplated how I interpreted that statement in light of everything else he said, I felt inspired to talk about how—despite appearances…
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Living Loveward Ch. 4 – Love is Wild
Love is not safe or predictable. In truth, it is mysterious. And it is Wild. In this video, I try to communicate the awesomeness of this awareness. Don’t freak out. But True Love is ferocious in ways that we find it hard to comprehend. Welcome to the wildness of Love.
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Living Loveward Ch. 2 – Certainty Kills Relationships
Most of us imagine that if we just had certainty, all of our relationships would run more smoothly. Like most love myths, it’s probably not true. In this video, I challenge hearers to ask ourselves if we really want what we say we want from our relationships.
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Living Loveward
For most of us, love is not possible until we first feel safe. In this video, I explore why I think this is and challenge us to explore facing the fear that often prevents us from receiving the love we long for. Another post that connects to this awareness is The Sin of Overprotection. I…
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The Great Fullness of Be Longing
What does it mean to belong? In my opinion you can get a sense of its meaning if you looked at the featured image on this post or on the attached video. The image is of what appears to be graffiti art of these little dots of a variety of colors coming together to create…
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Zoe and Sophia: The Feminine Was There in the Beginning
What if healing the fundamental division in our society enabled us to heal all others? Would you put in the work to be a part of the solution? In my recent meditations, study of Family Systems Theory, the way the brain tends to function, and working to practice non-anxious presence, I have come to see…
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Citizens of the Spiritocracy
As I have lifted up many times in other sermons, in the Lord’s Prayer, we pray for God’s kingdom to come and for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. We are literally asking for God’s Way to take precedence in the working out of our lives. In other words,…
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So Help Me Dog
A little more than two weeks ago, our family dog of 15 years, Journey, whose painting is on the above video, died. Since that time, our family has shed our fair share of tears. Yes, some of them have been tears of sadness. But most of them have been tears of joy that we were…
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The Sin of Overprotection
“Thou shalt not protect. Said No One Ever As I’ve been doing the work of intentionally reshaping my ministerial calling to becoming a non-anxious presence, a lot of things have been coming up for me—areas of tension that I want to surrender to the “Non-anxious Way”. For example, recently, I’ve been wondering what my life…
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Juneteenth – Liberation Takes a Holiday
“What do you mean there’s no Juneteenth Festival here?” Like ignoring Daylight Savings Time and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it seemed like Arizona was on its own page once again. Growing up with festivals that celebrated African African Heritage such as Juneteenth and Umoja Festivals in the Hampton Roads area of VA, I was…
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