Insights of a Thoughtful Life 

Reflective thoughts, original poems and cultural commentary–posted weekly

Read the Reflective Thought–>What Should “Church” Really Be?

Why We Often Mistake Church for a Place to Go Instead of a People to Become On Sundays we “go to church.” I still picture the sign out front—the one that tells the community, Christians meet here. For years, that’s how I thought of church too: the building and the time we spent inside it. […]

Branson Made Me Ask: What Happened to Evangelism?

What I saw on vacation made me ask: are we drifting into the same future? Recently, we were in Branson, Missouri, on vacation. As is our custom, we visited the local congregation of our faith group. It was a traditional building from the 1950s–1960s era. The pews were in two straight rows, and the auditorium […]

Equipped to Care

Before we talk frameworks and training, it helps to remember this: God has already placed gifts among His people—and those gifts, rightly used, become care and witness. We all have talents— Some call them gifts. We recognize some, But, others we missed!   Some feel a calling – Apostles of old, Established the church And […]