As a pastor, I’m often curious about where people find self-worth – and what happens as they’re looking for it. How does the need for self-worth guide unbelievers to do and say what they do? How does it guide Christians to behave as we do?

For many years, my wife Phyllis and I have traveled to your churches. We’ve stayed in your homes, eaten meals in your fellowship halls, listened to you in meetings, and learned to love you. But now my role as conference pastor has ended. And Darren

My wife and I and our two little daughters are currently in the process of moving from our home in urban Michigan to the home where I spent my high school years in rural Ohio–a house with lots of land attached and huge opportunities for

A new growing season is fast approaching. Last year’s harvest is completed and the winter has come, and is going. While fields and gardens are now dead and desolate, an opportunity is coming to plant another crop—to prepare the soil and plant the seed.