The Roofless Church

Tag: Paul of Tarsus

  • Going With the Flow:The Way of the Mind

    Going With the Flow:The Way of the Mind

    The first thing to know about the mind is that it is not a container that holds your thoughts like some kind of cerebral cookie jar. It is more like a stream upon which thoughts might float and dissolve into. You are not your thoughts. Nor are you simply your mind. The essential and incorruptible…

  • We Will All Be Changed

    We Will All Be Changed

    Who would we be if we knew who we were becoming? Weird question huh? Out of the depths of confusion about where we are going as a nation and a planet, I prayed and meditated about why we are so seemingly divided. As I reflected on the scripture passage below, I remembered how the fear…

  • All Your Prayers Are Answered

    All Your Prayers Are Answered

    There are sermons that I sometimes I feel like I have to do battle to get them into words. This is one of those sermons. The hardest part was getting to a place where I could articulate what my soul seems to wordlessly know. After delivering messages like this one, I am often depleted for…

  • Crucify Your Mind

    Einstein said that “The significant problems we have, cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” I say that our world has significant problems. Problems that are solvable. However, for the last—let’s just say forever—too many of us have been trying to solve our problems at the same level…

  • Christ Is A Demonstrable Verb

    Christ Is A Demonstrable Verb

    Lately I don’t feel that comfortable in my skin. And that is a good thing. In some ways, I feel like what I imagine a butterfly or moth must experience when they are making their way out of their cocoon or chrysalis. I’m trying to spread my wings, but I am coming up against some…