♪An infinitely happy God is good news to a world in pain. God has no baggage. Nothing triggers him. He is always in the best imaginable space to hear our prayers and enter our pain.

♪Do you remember learning about “above,” “beyond,” “in,” “of,” and the other approximately 150 prepositions that belong in the English language?

♪Early Anabaptists, highly committed to missions despite the danger, employed security measures similar to our own.

Citizens of heaven: Abundant Springs 2025 in photos.

♪One of the tasks when I began my job here at the EMC office was to examine our external partnership: which were beneficial and which should change.

♪Peace is your portion. Grace is your gift. Love is your language. Son or daughter is your identity. Heaven is your home. You are a citizen of heaven!

♪As I struggled socially and intellectually in the church and with faith, I felt there was some other category that might better anchor me.

I gave up trying to make it look “correct,” fiddled with it a little longer to try and make it look intentionally impressionistic and—failing at that, too—walked away from the easel, defeated.

♪Extrinsic value matters because we want our life and work to mean something. We want influence and respect, and to have the capacity to do things we consider important. But this kind of value often conflicts with our intrinsic value—the worth we have just because we are human, made in God’s image.