Lift Your Eyes: How to Live Outside Yourself (ebook Edition)

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.

Praise for Lift Your Eyes:

"Lift Your Eyes is a much-needed pastoral guide for Christians shaped by a culture that urges constant self-focus. Joshua Pfeiffer redirects our gaze upward to Christ and outward to those around us, drawing deeply from Scripture and Luther’s theology. This is not a self-improvement book offering empty promises, but an invitation to true rest in Christ’s righteousness—freeing you to love others in ways that truly count." 
— Marcus "FLAME" Gray, FLAME, GRAMMY®-nominated and Stellar Award-winning hip hop artist; author of Extra Nos: Discovering Grace Outside Myself and Because Jesus Taught It: Christianity Through the Eyes of the Church Fathers

"Pastor Joshua Pfeiffer echoes Luther’s insistence that Christian life is not self-enclosed; it is a life that is lived outside of the self through faith in Christ and through love in service to the neighbor. The Christian lives with feet firmly planted in creation but with eyes fixed on the hope that is ours because Jesus is the Lord over death. Pastor Pfeiffer demonstrates how our faith and the hope that it brings does not evacuate Christians from the world but enlivens believers for their callings in creation."

— John T. Pless, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Mission, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana