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  The Near Love: When God Feels Distant and Your Heart Is the Lock 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 dry theological treatise. It's a ...

  When Amen Feels Like Lying A devotion for the dry places I sat in the pew again. Same row. Same stain on the hymnbook page. Same scratch on the floor where someone's heel dug in. A wedding ring? A nervous foot? Who knows. The worship team sang about a fire. Woman two rows up? Crying. Real tears. The kind that leave salt tracks. Me? Nothing. Not sad. Not angry. Just... nothing. Like a TV channel went off air at 3 AM. Snow. Static. No one home. My fire went out three months ago. Or maybe last year. You know how it is. Days blur when you're just going through the motions of a faith that used to breathe but now just... sits there. On the couch. In its underwear. Eating cold pizza. Sorry. Is that too honest? Too bad. Prayer bounces off the ceiling now. Like a rubber ball thrown at a wall by a bored kid. Thwack. Thud. Thwack. Thud. Scripture reads like a grocery list. Milk. Eggs. Love your neighbor. Bread. Don't commit adultery. Dish soap. Everyone else has tears. Raised hands....