Most Christians have felt it, but very few name it out loud — that gap between knowing God is real and being unable to feel Him. It shows up on ordinary mornings, after a hard week, or in the middle of a season that should feel good and doesn't. If you've ever wondered whether that gap means something is wrong with your faith, this episode is for you.

We open with the story of a Thursday morning after a layoff — dread already waiting before the day even started — and the second wound underneath the dread that most people never talk about. Then we walk through three people in Scripture who lived in that exact gap: David lamenting from the middle of Psalm 13, Elijah collapsing under a broom tree after the biggest victory of his life, and Jeremiah writing about darkness and mercies new every morning in the same chapter of Lamentations.

This is the first episode of Start at Home, a new series about where we actually are as Christians in America, what God originally designed for the family, the church, and government, what went wrong, and what one person does about it starting at their own kitchen table.

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Read the companion blog: https://discipleblueprint.com/when-you-cant-feel-gods-hope-start-here/

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