The Roofless Church

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  • Get Rich or Try Dying

    Picture this.  You’re watching a commercial for luxury cruise travel.  It shows happy rich people clinking together champagne glasses, dancing, and dining on the finest foods.  The ad implores you not to settle for less.  After all, when you travel, you deserve the best.  You start trying to project the image of yourself into the…

  • 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…

  • A Forgiveness Prescription

    “Just forgive it.”  That’s something we try to tell our daughter Calista whenever something upsets her.  We don’t expect that it makes too much sense to her at three years old, but the hope is that if she hears it enough it will start to work its way into her consciousness and eventually she will…

  • No One Can Make What God Has Created

    My friends do you trust in the reality of your true being?  Jesus taught that the person that lives within you is greater than the one seen by the world.  How often do you let that person within you see the light of day?  For many of us it is not often enough.  For a…

  • Sometimes A Song Is Just For You

    If I wrote down every song or rap that has ever come to me then I would probably be able to make about 60 albums.  Pretty much everyday I catch myself making music that will never be heard by ears other than mine or perhaps my wife, child, or dog.  The words come from nowhere…

  • In Light of the Red Letters

    In Light of the Red Letters

    When I asked my friend Will from school what denomination he was, he simply responded, “Jesus follower.”   I wonder when they will make a check box for that because soon I will have to begin my ordination track which means going through the process set out by a specific denomination.  You would think that by now…

  • S.A.D. – Sadness, Anger, and Desire

    I spent the whole week of January 9, 2011 in Glastonbury Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Hingham, MA.  It was part of a class I was taking for my Masters of Divinity program at Andover Newton Theological School.  Before entering, I had to do my best to empty myself of all expectations and desires for my time…

  • Living In Mystery

    Not Knowing Have you ever had the feeling That there’s something that you know But you can’t get the Answer Unless you let the question go It’s staring you in the face But you can’t see it with your eyes And if you listen with your ears All you’ll ever hear is lies It’s the…

  • A Thief and a Liar (Shine)

    Is there anything in your life that you would give absolutely everything to?  Can you even imagine such a thing?  There used to be a time when I felt like I could absolutely give myself to whatever I set my heart to.  My heart was disciplined to Love and my belief was that I had…

  • In It, Not Of It

    Every once in a while I get this feeling that comes over me where I feel like I just want to quit trying to live my ideal.  I start thinking about how much love is in my heart and how difficult it has been for me to find an expression that translates universally and it hurts. …