Something is wrong, and most believers can feel it even if they can't name it. We sing on Sunday and carry the same anxieties into Monday. We profess one kingdom and quietly serve another. The gap between the faith we claim and the lives we live has grown so familiar that we have stopped noticing it.

In A Three Days' Journey, pastor Chris Carter traces that gap to its source-and to God's enduring remedy. When Moses stood before Pharaoh, the demand was startlingly specific: let My people go a three days' journey into the wilderness to worship. Not in Egypt. Not in the middle of the old routines. Out. And when Pharaoh countered with compromise after compromise-go, but don't go far; go, but leave the children; go, but leave the livestock-Moses answered every offer the same way: not a hoof shall be left behind.

That refrain is the heartbeat of this book. Following a pattern that runs from Abraham's departure from Ur to the early church under Rome to the pressures of our own moment, Carter names the modern idols we have never examined-materialism, entertainment, political entanglement, fear-driven speculation about the end times, and worship shaped more by Egypt than by God. Then he charts the way out: recognition, departure, and the wilderness where God strips away what does not belong and raises His people to a life that is genuinely new.

This is not a summons to anger or culture war. It is a call to holy defiance-gentle, clear, and unwavering-for sincere believers who feel the hollowness and long for the better thing waiting on the other side of their departure.

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Chris Carter has served in pastoral ministry for more than three decades and currently shepherds a congregation in Tupelo, Mississippi. Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and raised as the son of an evangelical minister, he grew up in a home where love for God and lived-out faith were part of ordinary life. He studied Pastoral Ministry at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Theology and Pulpit Communication at Trinity College and Theological Seminary. Since 1999 he has served as a senior pastor in Mississippi churches, in both fully supported and bivocational roles. Alongside his pastoral work, he serves in the logistics division of a Christian, family-owned building-products manufacturer-a dual calling that lets him test these convictions where faith and culture actually collide, not in the study alone but in staff meetings, loading docks, and the ordinary moments where Christ's lordship is either real or decorative. A Three Days' Journey is the first volume of the Holy Defiance Series, published under the Going Pastoral imprint. Chris is also the author of Grace in Everyday Relationships, hosts the Holy Defiance podcast, and leads the Holy Defiance community on Skool. He and his wife, Denise, have been married since 1994; together they have raised two children, welcomed foster daughters into their family, and recently become grandparents. His writing and teaching can be found at chriscarterauthor.com.