FINGERPRINTS OF GOD: His Hand in History and in Human Hearts

About the Book

Fingerprints of God is drawn from the author’s experience during 50 years of parish ministry to a broad spectrum of worshippers, from teen-agers to senior citizens, from farmers to physicists, from blue collar workers to PhDs. All shared a common hunger to know God as an eternal reality in a world of change and pursued a quest to find reasons for faith.

Evidence for the presence of God can be found in history, human experience and in Holy Scripture. Fingerprints of God relates contemporary situations to biblical precedents and personalities from Genesis to Revelation in search of Truth. The author follows the footsteps of others who found the “fingerprints” of God’s hand in their lives. With illustrations from literature, biography, and his own personal experience, he shares insights of pastors and teachers who guided his own faith journey.

The reader follows the foibles and faith of Old Testament characters leading to the person and work of Jesus Christ, “the finger of God” among us (Luke 11:20). The significance of his life and death and resurrection as the foundation for our faith are the focus of the concluding chapters.

The author makes no claim to be profound or prophetic. Each chapter is a simple attempt to answer some question or address a current issue or need in the life of ordinary people.  None of the featured topics purport to be “the last word” on the subject under consideration. Like the words and works of Jesus, much more could be said which is “not recorded in this book, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:30-31.

About the Author

Franklin S. Nauman is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and neighboring Haverford Township. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also earned degrees at Pittsburgh-Xenia Seminary, Butler University, and San Francisco Theological Seminary.

For more than 50 years he served as a pastor in Presbyterian churches, small and large, urban and suburban, in New York, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Florida.  In addition to participating in his presbytery and synod, he has been active in renewal movements within the denomination and in civic and service clubs in his community.

Frank is an avid reader of mystery and detective novels as well as American history and biographies. He and his wife, Shirley, traveled extensively before their retirement. They are the parents of three children, Paul, David, Elizabeth, and five grandchildren, for whom he has written Fingerprints of God.