Sacred Ground Has No Address

What happens to faith when Sunday morning finds you hundreds of miles from home?For truck drivers, RV travelers, military personnel, traveling workers, caregivers, and countless others, life does not always cooperate with a church schedule. Sometimes worship happens far from a familiar congregation. Sometimes prayer happens behind a steering wheel, in a motel room, beside a campsite, during a night shift, or somewhere along a road you never expected to travel.In Sacred Ground Has No Address: Finding God Wherever the Road Takes You — Faith in Motion, Bill Riggs draws from his own journey to explore a simple but powerful truth: God's presence has never depended upon an address.After leaving the United States Marine Corps in 1982, Riggs bought a 1979 Peterbilt 359 and pursued a dream he had carried since childhood of becoming an over-the-road trucker. The reality looked much different from the driver's seat than it had standing beside the road watching trucks go by or listening to his grandfather's trucking tales as a boy. The highway brought freedom and adventure, but it also brought mechanical failures, financial responsibility, loneliness, changing plans, missed Sundays at home, passing strangers, difficult decisions, and long stretches of time alone with his thoughts.Those miles became an education.Through personal experience, biblical reflection, and the perspective of more than four decades of life afterward, Riggs explores what the road can teach about fear, contentment, responsibility, family, reconciliation, provision, comparison, gratitude, and faith. He writes about the people waiting at home, the strangers whose lives intersect with ours for only a few miles, the dreams that become responsibilities once we receive them, and the difference between being unable to attend church and becoming disconnected from God.This is not a book arguing that private faith should replace the church. Christian community matters. Worshiping together matters. Rather, Sacred Ground Has No Address is about carrying faith beyond the sanctuary and into the places where life is actually lived.It is about discovering that worship can continue when the highway stretches between you and home. It is about learning that strength sometimes means apologizing, that courage can exist alongside fear, that provision cannot replace presence, and that the things we once prayed for require stewardship after they become ours. It is about recognizing that faith must be durable enough to survive changing schedules, unfamiliar places, broken plans, lonely miles, and seasons we never intended to travel.For anyone who has ever watched a familiar place disappear in the rearview mirror, missed worship because responsibility required being somewhere else, wondered where God was during an unexpected detour, or discovered that the life once dreamed about carried more weight than expected, this book offers the companionship of someone who has traveled those roads.The address may change. The road may change. The season may change.God does not.Sacred Ground Has No Address is an invitation to recognize the sacred territory already beneath your feet—and to discover that wherever the road takes you, you have never traveled beyond the presence of God.