Rethink Your Self, Trevin Wax
Rethink Your Self, Trevin Wax
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Rethink Your Self
The Power of Looking Up Before Looking In

Author: Trevin Wax

Narrator: Trevin Wax

Unabridged: 4 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2024

Synopsis

Follow your heart. You do you. You are enough. We take these slogans for granted, but what if this path to personal happiness leads to a dead end? In Rethink Your Self, Trevin Wax encourages you to rethink some of our society’s most common assumptions about identity and the road to happiness. Most people define their identity and purpose by first looking in (to their desires), then looking around (to express their uniqueness), and finally - maybe - looking up (to add a spiritual dimension to life). Rethink Your Self proposes a counterintuitive approach: looking up before looking in. It's only when we look up to learn who we were created to be that we discover our true purpose and become our truest selves.

About The Author

Trevin Wax is senior vice president of Theology and Communications at LifeWay Christian Resources and a visiting professor at Wheaton College. A former missionary to Romania, Trevin hosts a blog at The Gospel Coalition and regularly contributes to The Washington Post, Religion News Service, World, and Christianity Today, which named him one of thirty-three millennials shaping the next generation of evangelicals. As former director of Bible Publishing at LifeWay, he led the launch of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB) and served as general editor of the CSB Worldview Study Bible. Currently he is the general editor of The Gospel Project, and an author of many books, including This Is Our Time, Eschatological Discipleship, Gospel Centered Teaching, and Rethink Your Self. He and his wife Corina have three children and live outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on August 22, 2020

Such a valuable book for our cultural moment, marked by Trevin’s characteristically penetrating insight and engaging style. Pre-order it now!......more

Goodreads review by Jason on May 13, 2024

A good intro to the effects, positive and negative, of expressive individualism. Trevin explains how looking into ourselves, around at others, and then finally up at God, leads us down a pathway to disappointment and frustration in trying to “be our truest self”. We must first look up to God, see wh......more

Goodreads review by John on April 29, 2023

In "Rethink Your Self," Trevin Wax confronts the way that the contemporary Western world tells us we form our identity. The world tells us that the way to find our true selves is to do so by looking inward. In fact, a survey shows that 91% of Americans agree with the statement, "The best way to find......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on June 16, 2023

Surprisingly excellent. I don't know what I was expecting. Maybe the cover made it seem like it would be an academic study, but it was a wonderful little study on the deceitfulness of the idol of SELF. There was a good balance of history and philosophy to give some outside perspective, but it was th......more

Goodreads review by markala on April 11, 2024

this book was a little difficult to grasp ahold of in the beginning. but boy, oh boy, did it deliver in the end. looking up to live is my new intention. “…look up first because only God is strong enough to withstand the weight of all our hopes and dreams, fears and anxieties… start with God, and you......more

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