Lift Your Eyes: How to Live Outside Yourself

Where are you looking for meaning?

In a culture obsessed with self-discovery and personal authenticity, we've been taught to look inward for identity, purpose, and fulfillment. But what if this inward gaze is the very thing keeping us trapped, anxious, and unfulfilled?

Drawing on Martin Luther's transformative insight that Christians live "in Christ through faith and in the neighbor through love," author Joshua Pfeiffer offers a radical alternative to our age of expressive individualism. This isn't about self-improvement-it's about self-transcendence.

Lift Your Eyes charts a compelling path outward: upward to God in faith and gratitude, outward to our neighbors in love and service, and forward in joyful anticipation of resurrection. Grounded in Scripture and Lutheran theology, Pfeiffer reveals how the freedom we desperately seek comes not from looking within, but from lifting our eyes beyond ourselves.

Discover the ancient wisdom that speaks directly to our modern crisis-and find the peace that comes from living outside yourself.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Published: 06/12/2026
ISBN: 9780758679826
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.64w x 0.46d
Binding Material: Paper