Surviving the Deconstruction Trend Without Losing Your Jesus What to do when the people who were supposed to represent Him became the reason you almost walked away                    Image Generated with Meta AI   Let's name the thing nobody wants to name. You didn't start questioning your faith because you read a Richard Dawkins book. You started questioning because of what's his name. The senior pastor. The one who prayed over your marriage. Who laid hands on your sick mother. Who stood behind that polished wooden pulpit every Sunday with tears in his eyes talking about integrity. Then you found out. Not gossip. Proof. The affair. The secret credit card. The way he manipulated the young couple into tithing their rent money while he flew first class to a "leadership conference" that was really a vacation. Or maybe it wasn't a pastor. Maybe it was your small group leader who preached against divorce and then left his wife and...

  The Near Love: When God Feels Distant and Your Heart Is the Lock Image Generated with Meta AI  There is a quiet ache familiar to many earnest believers—the gap between the love we know is proclaimed and the love we struggle to feel. It's the space between solid theology on a Sunday and a sense of strange loneliness by Tuesday afternoon. For a long time, I lived in that gap. I could teach about grace, yet inwardly perform for scraps of approval. I knew God was love, yet often related to Him as a distant benefactor rather than a present Father. The turning point wasn't finding a new spiritual technique or unlocking a deeper secret. It was a humbling, grace-drenched realization: the problem was never God's proximity, but my reception. My new book, "The Near Love: Unblocking Your Heart to the God Who Is Already Close," is the map of that journey from self-hindrance to secure abiding. What You'll Find Inside This book is not a superficial pep talk or a d...