Challenging, biblically-based insights that get back to the basics of what it is to be a pastor. Eugene Peterson offers words of wisdom and refreshment for pastors caught in the busyness of preaching, teaching, and running a church. 192 pages,...
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Challenging, biblically-based insights that get back to the basics of what it is to be a pastor. Eugene Peterson offers words of wisdom and refreshment for pastors caught in the busyness of preaching, teaching, and running a church. 192 pages, from Eerdmans.
Publisher Description
Peterson, who has been gaining a growing reputation as a "pastor's pastor", speaks words of wisdom and refreshment for pastors caught in the busy-ness of preaching, teaching, and "running the church". Chapters include poetic reflections on the Beatitudes, advice on spiritual direction "between Sundays", and the language of prayer.
PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 62269
- Product Code 0802801145
- EANÂ 9780802801142
- Pages 192
- Department Academic
- Category Leadership
- Sub-Category Church Leadership
- Publisher Eerdmans
- Publication Date Oct 1993
- Sales Rank 9122
- Dimensions 228 x 152 x 15mm
- Weight 0.210kg
Eugene H Peterson
Dr. Eugene H. Peterson is a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He has written nearly thirty influential books including, Praying with the Psalms; Praying with Jesus; Reversed Thunder; Leap Over a Wall; Run with the Horses and Answering God , but he is best known for The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language a contemporary paraphrase of the Bible. Eugene Peterson was educated at Seattle Pacific University, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, and in 1962, Peterson became founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for 29 years before retiring. He is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia retiring in 2002. His most recent publications have been the Spiritual Theology Series including Eat this Book; Christ Dances in a Thousand Places; The Word Made Flesh; The Jesus Way and the fifth volume Practising Resurrection.
Koorong -Editorial Review.