GPS: Finding Direction on Your Faith and Life Journey - Hardcover

Strommen, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666781479 ISBN 13: 9781666781472

Publisher: Resource Publications (CA), 2024

Synopsis

""What's the point of it all?"" In the postmodern world, the meaning and direction of human existence is increasingly a question mark with few satisfying answers forthcoming. People of faith are not immune to such questions as they struggle to meaningfully connect their faith to their daily lives. In GPS: Finding Direction on Your Faith and Life Journey, Strommen makes the case that much of this existential struggle is born of an anthropocentric worldview that has banished God to the margins, leaving humans with the futile task of playing God as they attempt to create their own meaning, purpose, and identity. Drawing on core Christian understandings through a Lutheran lens, the author asserts that life-giving meaning and purpose are gifts given by God alone, who frees people from their self-justifying ways to take an inventory of their many gifts and participate in a new creation where love of neighbor is the social currency. It is the core theme of this book that God is in fact present, deeply invested and at work in the everyday world, calling everyone daily to partner with God to co-create a more trustworthy, loving, and hopeful world.

About this title

About the Author

John Strommen is a retired Lutheran pastor, avid photographer, and recently completed a master of theology degree in systematic theology at Luther Seminary, St. Paul. He lives in Plymouth, Minnesota, with his wife, Heidi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666781479
• ISBN 13: 9781666781472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256