The Roofless Church

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  • Belief as a Contextual Framework for Spiritual Application

    Originally posted on The Roofless Church: A few posts ago, I put up what I called “The Roofless Church’s Statement of Faith“.  In some ways what I wrote was an accurate account of how I would express my faith if I was forced to do so for some reason or the other. And in some…

  • The Threat of Equality

    Originally posted on The Roofless Church: Have you ever thought about how most religious ideas seem like common sense?But for some reason, they are hard as I don’t know what to live out?  I mean think about it.  Jesus’ whole message was pretty much “treat people the way you want to be treated” (Luke 6:31). …

  • Controlling Your Path, Part III

    This post does an excellent job at framing how we are sometimes influenced by other people’s fears.

  • 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…

  • On Being A Single Mother In A Married Father’s Body

    Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: Recently, I hit a wall with trying to express some of my outlooks on the world when it hit me that I didn’t make sense to people because while they were looking at this married father form, it was the single mother in me speaking.  I was talking…

  • Choosing to Be Different? (More from the Bronies)

    Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: For the past couple of days I have been responding to the comments that I received from my previous post, Loving What You Love.  In doing so, I learned a lot more about the Bronies I wrote about.  People shared their thanks, links to videos, and valuable insights…

  • Loving What You Love (Lessons from the Bronies)

    Originally posted on Seriously Tripping Through Life: As I mentioned in the above video, I learned a thing or two from seeing adults, who were not accompanying children, at the showing of the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls movie at one of our local theaters.  When I saw how disappointed some of the people were when…

  • Judge

    Originally posted on It's All In Me – Poetry Blog: Judge Am I jealous of your ignorance Because I wish that I were too? Do I call your innocence, stupidity Because I can’t do what you can do? Why do I judge When I know that I don’t like it? Is it because I know…

  • Forgive Them For They Know Not…

    Originally posted on The Roofless Church: In my last post, You Won’t Like Me When I’m Angry, I said that in my opinion the greatest miracle Jesus ever did was stay on the cross.  Well, if that was the greatest, the second was to pray for the people who were cheering to see him there. …

  • Be It Til You See It

    Hebrews 11:1-3 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” How cool…