KEYNOTE SPEAKER & AUTHOR
Justin McLane Ministries: Equipping Fellow Veterans & Faith Leaders
KEYNOTE SPEAKER & AUTHOR
KEYNOTE SPEAKER & AUTHOR
KEYNOTE SPEAKER & AUTHOR
Two trips to Iraq with the 101st Airborne taught Justin McLane things no seminary classroom ever could. He came home carrying the weight of what he had seen, and spent years searching for something solid enough to hold it. That search eventually led him to a faith he had spent 28 years actively rejecting — and the encounter changed everything.
Today he speaks from that intersection: the foxhole and the pulpit, the family estrangement and the reconciliation, the political fracture and the conviction that the Church is still the answer. His message is not theoretical. He knows what it costs to change your mind in a world that punishes you for it, and he knows how to speak that truth to audiences who are living it.
His 2026 book, God Is Personal: Finding the Father in a Crowded World, draws directly from that journey. It is not a theological treatise. It is a pastor's honest reckoning with what it means to know God when the world, and sometimes your own family, is working against it.
Justin McLane spent 28 years as a practicing pagan before encountering Jesus Christ in 2022. Raised in an anti-Christian household, he moved through Wicca, Druidism, and every tradition that promised meaning, and found each one wanting.
Two tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division gave Justin a soldier's understanding of fear and loss, and a veteran's instinct for what is real and what is not. When his conversion came, it was not a quiet, private thing. It cost him his closest family relationships, and he paid that price without flinching.
Today he leads a growing church in eastern Tennessee and speaks nationally on convictional resilience: the hard-won ability to stand firm under cultural, familial, and political pressure without losing your identity.
Two deployments to Iraq with the 101st Airborne taught Justin McLane that conviction without cost is just opinion. He came home from war carrying that lesson, and then watched it tested in ways he never anticipated, by a church divided along political lines, a family that fractured over a vote, and a culture that treats faith as a liability.
This message is for audiences who are tired of being told to hold their ground by people who have never lost anything for doing it. Justin speaks from the place where military discipline, personal transformation, and pastoral experience converge, and he gives audiences a framework for standing firm without hardening their hearts.
The church is full of people who know about God but have never actually met Him. Justin McLane has spent years pastoring veterans, wounded believers, and people who walked away from faith not because they stopped believing, but because no one ever showed them the difference between religion as performance and God as Father.
Drawing from his 2026 book and his pastoral work at The New Hope Fellowship in Eastern Tennessee, Justin walks audiences through what it looks like to cut through the noise of a politically fractured, digitally saturated culture and encounter God in a way that is real, personal, and costly enough to change your life.
Justin McLane did not read about political division in the church. He lived it. The fractures that are splitting congregations and dinner tables across America are not abstract to him, and that is precisely why audiences lean in when he speaks about them.
This message draws directly from God Is Personal (February 2026) and from Justin's pastoral work with families navigating the collision of faith, politics, and broken relationships. He does not offer easy answers or partisan talking points. He offers a framework rooted in conviction, humility, and the hard-won understanding that unity in the church does not require agreement on everything, only on what actually matters.
In a world filled with noise, distraction, and performance, many have forgotten that God is not an idea to study but a Father to know. Drawing from his own dramatic story of transformation, Justin shows that God meets people in the quiet places of the heart.
"It's making me slightly uncomfortable in the best of ways. A much needed check! Excited to finish it this weekend!"
— Mandy B., Reader
"Amazing guide for your self journey back into making God the center of your life, not marginal."
— Verified Reader, February 2026
Every Sunday at The New Hope Fellowship, Eastern Tennessee. Watch the latest messages.
The God Is Personal community is a free space for men and women who are done going through the motions and ready to build something real with God. No performance. No pretense. Just honest conversation with people who are on the same road.
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Combat Veteran · Lead Pastor · Author · Speaker
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