What happens when fear, guilt, pain, and anxiety begin to isolate us from the people who love us most?

In this week’s Sunday Spark, “Anxious Unity,” Pastor Zach draws an unexpected connection between Stranger Things, the Psalms, 1 Peter, and the life of the church. Like the characters of Hawkins, we can become most vulnerable when we carry our wounds alone—when anxiety convinces us to hide, withdraw, or believe the worst about ourselves.

But faith was never meant to be lived in isolation.

We are invited to cast our anxieties on the God who cares for us, to remember that accusation does not get the final word, and to lean on a community that helps us remember who we are when we forget. The church, at its best, becomes a people united across distance and difference—bearing one another’s burdens, resisting ...