I'm Josh.

What I do

I'm the lead pastor of Generation Church in Eastern North Carolina, where my family and I get to do the slow, beautiful work of building a church that prioritizes the local table over the algorithm. I host the UnLost Podcast on YouTube, where my whole job is to remind people of one thing:

Nobody is too far gone.

And I write books, through City Hill Ministries, for the conversations the church often avoids.

Why these resources exist

There's a generation of students and young adults who love Jesus but feel like the church can't handle their real questions.

There's a generation of pastors and leaders who are exhausted by curriculum that's too shallow, too thin, or too disconnected from the actual people sitting in their small groups.

I write for both.

Every book here started somewhere real: a small group room, a hospital visit, a hard conversation in my office, a late-night text from a student I'd been pastoring for years. None of them were written in a vacuum. All of them are built around small group guides, because I believe the same thing now that I believed before the aneurysm:

Discipleship doesn't happen on a stage. It happens around a table.

A word for the wanderer

If you ended up here through the podcast, through a hard season, a deconstruction question, an "I'm not sure I still believe this" moment, I want you to hear me clearly:

Nobody is too far gone.

Not you. Not the friend you're worried about. Not the student in your youth group who's stopped showing up. Not the spouse who walked away. Not the version of yourself you don't talk about anymore.

You're not the exception.

— Josh

Official bio

For event hosts, media, and anyone introducing Josh.

Rev. Dr. Josh Clark believes one thing with his whole heart: nobody is too far gone.

He comes by that conviction honestly. Raised in a family of preachers, Josh is a third-generation Pentecostal pastor who has spent his life watching God reach people everyone else had written off. Surviving a brain aneurysm made that belief non-negotiable. Once you've faced how fragile life really is, you can't tolerate a religion that keeps hurting people at a distance. You start caring more about whether people actually get free than whether they look put-together on Sunday.

Josh is the lead pastor of Generation Church, a bilingual congregation in Eastern North Carolina, and the founder of City Hill Ministries, a nonprofit publishing ministry that equips churches to disciple the next generation. He holds a B.A. in Romance Languages and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Theology from Nashville Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Theology and a Doctor of Sacred Music from North Carolina College of Theology. He writes for young adults, students, and the leaders who walk with them: people who are tired of being talked down to and ready to take their faith seriously.

His books include the Covenant Over Culture series (adult, high school, and middle school editions, plus a 90-Day Prayer Journal), Redeemed, Not Erased, Too Real for Church, Ancient Faith, The Beginner's Guide to the End Times, Gifts of the Spirit, and The Promise and the Prayer devotional series. Every title ships with a built-in small group guide, because Josh is convinced discipleship happens best in honest conversation and close relationships inside the local church, not on stages or feeds. The Beginner's Guide to the End Times has been adopted by a Bible college for its course on the Book of Revelation.

Josh also hosts UnLost, a YouTube podcast telling true stories of people God brought home against all odds, from church history to today.

Away from the pulpit and the page, Josh is a licensed general contractor who is as comfortable on a job site as in a study. He and his wife, Amber, make their home in Eastern North Carolina, and together they co-authored The Porch Light Girls, a series of Christian novels for middle schoolers.