By Florian H. Berndt Before there was time, before there was dust, before there was breath drawn into human lungs, there was relationship. At the centre of all  things is not force, not power, not hierarchy, but love. A living, giving, receiving love. A dance. And for this dance, all things were made. Abba, in His love, has always desired intimate relationship with His creation. This was not a response to human brokenness. It was not a rescue mission conceived in urgency. It was the eternal...

By Florian H. Berndt Growing up in a patchwork family with multiple parents and siblings, in a culture less than accommodating since my paternal grandparents arrived as refugees in the South of Germany after WWII, music and writing had always helped me to express my inner conflicts of living in a broken world. So, when I picked up my first instrument shortly after encountering the love of Jesus, my writing and music were soon transformed from tools to express my pain to ways to express my...

By Florian H. Berndt The deepest search in life, it seemed to me, the thing that in one way of another was central to all living was...