Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide

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Is your faith disconnected from your life?

You go to church. You read your Bible. But somewhere between Sunday worship and Monday’s inbox, the sacred disappears, swallowed by the ordinary rush of seasons, work, money, and family.

If you have ever felt that your faith belongs in one compartment and your real life belongs in another, you are not alone, and you are not stuck. Peter DeHaan has seen that divide and found his way through it, one ordinary moment at a time.

In this warm and often hilarious memoir-style reflection, DeHaan takes readers through fourteen chapters of daily life: battling persistent woodpeckers, praying for twelve generations of descendants not yet born, celebrating Easter Communion over homemade bread, watching squirrels roll gleefully in his lawn, and navigating the sacred logistics of Friday night pizza with the whole family nearby.

Grounded in Scripture and rooted in decades of experience, each story reveals a God who never consented to be compartmentalized. The sacred, DeHaan shows, is hiding in plain sight, in every season, relationship, paycheck, and backyard encounter, and it has been there all along.

This book is not a theology lecture. It is an invitation. DeHaan writes with the kind of honest, self-deprecating humor that makes readers laugh at themselves, then pause, then see their own ordinary lives differently.

If you are hungry for a faith that breathes in every moment, not just on sacred occasions, Bridging the Sacred-Secular Divide offers exactly the kind of renaissance your daily life has been waiting for.