Hi, I’m Dr. Dan.

For more than forty years, my life has been shaped by one question: how do ordinary people find God in the hard places? I’ve asked it in seminary classrooms, on the mission field, and at my own kitchen table at 2 a.m. The books I write are the answers I’ve found — and the ones I’m still looking for.

The road here wasn’t a straight line. My wife and I planted three churches in Texas. Then we spent years on the mission field in Myanmar and Thailand, where I had the joy of helping local believers start hundreds of churches. Later we came home to Tennessee, where I served as an assistant vice president at Union University. Every season taught me the same thing: the people doing the hardest spiritual work often have the fewest resources in their own language — and that conviction became Lightkeeper Books.

I know the hard places aren’t theoretical. I’ve walked through grief that didn’t lift on schedule — including losing my wife, Holli — and I’ve learned that hope doesn’t mean pretending the dark isn’t dark. It means carrying a light into it anyway. That’s the kind of book I want to write: not a lecture, not a formula, but a companion for the next step.

Today I write on prayer, discipleship, healing, and family faith — for grown-ups and for kids, in as many languages as we can reach. Whether you found me through Powerful Prayers in the War Room or you’re just looking for a steady word for a hard week, I’m glad you’re here.

Pull up a chair. Let’s walk it together.
— Dan

About Lightkeeper Books

Lightkeeper Books exists for the hard places of life — grief, doubt, fear, shame — where people need real help most. Every book is written to be a companion, not a lecture: honest, grounded in Scripture, and always moving toward hope. The lantern isn’t a lighthouse — it’s a hand-carried light, one you bring into your own home and carry into your neighbor’s darkness.