Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story

Reviewed by:

Katie Winner from Defiance, OH, a student at Taylor University in Upland, IN.

Introduction

Title:

Find Your Place: Locating Your Calling Through Your Gifts, Passions, and Story

Authors:

Rob Wegner and Brian Phipps

Publisher:

Zondervan

Publication Date:

2019

Format:

Print book

Length:

191 pages

Overview

Find Your Place helps readers learn more about themselves and how they can utilize their gifts, passions, and stories to have a fulfilling career. Wegner and Phipps, using the analogy of a GPS, show readers how to identify any “jammers” that can keep individuals from using their God-given gifts. Wegner and Phipps also go into greater detail with chapters on gifts, passions, and story with the culminating chapter on the impact of combining one’s gifts, passions, and story into a fulfilling career.

The authors give an example of Shawn who originally separated his heating and cooling technician job from his volunteer prayer ministry at church. Later, though, Shawn combined his technician skills with his passion for prayer and it fulfilled him. Along with examples like Shawn, the free accompanying assessment aids readers in learning how to use their gifts, passions, and stories.

Assessment

Rating (1 to 5)

4 stars

Suggested audience

This book, along with its free online assessment, will be helpful for both high school and college students thinking about their future careers, as well as working individuals who feel their current career does not align with their gifts, passions, and stories.

Christian Impact

This book shows how readers can combine their gifts, passions, and stories to serve God’s people. The authors give several examples of people who have felt more fulfilled after changing their work to something that aligns with how God created them.