New Releases by Eugene H Peterson

The bestselling author of "The Message" challenges believers to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God''s revelation, and to live them as they read them.

EUGENE H. PETERSON is a pastor, scholar, writer, and poet. He has authored more than twenty books. He is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Eugene founded Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he was the pastor for twenty-nine years. He lives with his wife, Jan, in Montana. They have three children and six grandchildren.

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Peterson meets graduates where they''re living, offering solid advice, encouragement, and direction to seniors leaving home for the first time. Promises in the everyday language of "The Message" accompany prayers and thoughts on relevant topics.

Expanding on the popularity of The Power of a Blessing, these are books women can open up any time, any place, to any page and find an encouraging message from the Bible. Features the modern, easy-to-read language of The Message.

A promise book based on "The Message," a popular paraphrase of the Bible, Peterson deals with sin and promotes a healthy view of sex to help students walk through life with a better understanding of God.

Written in the Message style, this product includes scripture regarding the prophecy of Christ''s coming, the Christmas Story of Christ''s Birth and a special section entitled: The Savior Lives On.A Savior ForetoldOld Testament scriptures told us of Christ''s coming. The wonderful plan that God was putting in place to a plan for sanctification of His creation. The passages from Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Luke show how God worked in people''s lives and hearts to open their thinking to the Messiah''s coming.The Birth of a SaviorPassages from Luke and Matthew tell the story of a primitive birth, a beloved son, the visit of the magi and Elizabeth and Mary''s ponderings as they await their special children. In Message text the story unfolds of this awaited King that came to earth in the form of a human child, ready to grow, serve and die for the sins of mankind, past, present and future.A Savior Lives OnThe reader will meet Jesus as a child presented in the temple from Luke. From Colossians, the preeminence of Christ is presented. "He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment". The text ends with Celebrating the Visit of Christ from Luke 68:69 -- "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he came and set his people free. He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives, and in the very house of David his servant".

In this twelve-session LifeGuide® Bible Study on Psalms teaches you how to relate to God as you pray your doubt, fears and anger. They show you how to respond to God in praise. Here you find the best place to explore who you are and what God means to you.

The power of story as God''s word to the community of faith is never more clear than in the books of Samuel. Emotion, drama, complexity of character, and mystery fill the pages of these two biblical books. Eugene Peterson''s commentary emphasizes the resonance and interplay between these stories of kings and prophets and the social and cultural issues that concern us today. Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series assist laity in their study of the Bible as a guide to Christian faith and practice. Each volume explains the biblical book in its original historical context and explores its significance for faithful living today. These books are ideal for individual study and for Bible study classes and groups.

Jesus didn''t tell stories to entertain, but to reveal the nature of God and draw us closer to him. His stories bring us into the realm of truth where we find ourselves in touch with the reality of our humanity. Topically arranged and based on The Message, a best-selling contemporary rendering of the Bible, Stories of Jesus invites you to think and live in ways that change the story of your life.

This book represents Peterson''s attempt to rekindle the activity of spiritual reading. The present volume is an annotated list of the books that have stood the test of time and that, for Peterson, are spiritually formative for the Chrisitan life.

Adolescence is a gift, writes author Eugene Peterson. "God''s gift, to the parent in middle-age. This ''gift'' dimension of adolescence is my subject. For adolescence is not only the process designed by the Creator to bring children to adulthood, it is also designed by the Creator to provide something essential for parents during correspondingly critical years in their lives. Christian parents are most advantageously placed to recognize, appreciate, and receive this gift God so wisely provides." In Like Dew Your Youth Peterson shows how adolescence is a time for parents to enjoy a deeper, richer relationship with their children and for both parents and children to grow in their relationships with Jesus Christ. In addition to its wealth of positive, effective ways to deal with many of the problems and pains of growing up, this insightful book offers an understanding of parent-adolescent relationships that will help promote an atmosphere of communication, growth, frankness, forgiveness, love, and harmony in the home. Study questions at the end of each chapter help readers apply Peterson''s practical, Bible-centered teaching. There are also tips for using this material within the framework of parental support groups. Like Dew Your Youth provides a much-needed balm against the fear and anxiety bred by traditional views of this exciting period of life and properly orients parents and teenagers within this God-provided environment for spiritual growth.

In this book Peterson clarifies the pastoral vocation by turning to the book of Jonah, in which he finds a captivating, subversive story that can help pastors recover their "vocational holiness". Peterson probes the spiritual dimensions of the pastoral calling and seeks to reclaim the ground taken over by those who are trying to enlist pastors in religious careers.

A new title in the Praying with the Bible series, this book explores the unflagging faith of Moses and the early Israelites as recorded in the first five books of the Bible. Written by one regarded by many as the J.B. Phillips of our time, this book is part of a fully contemporary Bible-based devotional series.

Concerned with the "unselfing" of our self-preoccupied, self-bound society, Peterson offers insightful, thought-provoking reflections on eleven select psalm-centered prayers that can help us to overcome such things as self-centeredness, self-assertiveness, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, self-pity, self-service, and self-love.

Any pastor who needs and wants to get back to basics will do well to absorb this book. Eugene Peterson, well known as "a pastor''s pastor," here speaks words of wisdom and refreshment for pastors caught in the busyness of preaching, teaching, and "running the church." In The Contemplative Pastor Peterson highlights the often-overlooked essentials of ministry, first by redefining the meaning of pastor through three strengthening adjectives: unbusy, subversive, andapocalyptic. The main part of the book focuses on pastoral ministry and spiritual direction "between Sundays": these chapters begin with poetic reflections on the Beatitudes and then discuss such themes as curing souls, praying with eyes open, the language of prayer, the ministry of small talk, and sabbatical--all with engaging, illustrative anecdotes from Peterson''s own experience. The book ends with several meaning-full poems that pivot on the incarnation, the doctrine closest to pastoral work. Entitled "The Word Made Fresh," this concluding section is a felicitous finale to Peterson''s discerning, down-to-earth reflections on the art of pastoring.

Peterson has taken the stories and words of Jesus from the Gospels of St. John and St. Matthew and spread them across 365 days of reading, reflections, and prayer, in a series of readings that shapes the heart as it informs the intellect.

Examines how five books of the Old Testament provide direction for pastoral work. Focuses on the work of prayer-directing, story-making, pain-sharing, nay-saying, and community-building.

Eugene Peterson issues a provocative call for pastors to abandon their preoccupation with image and standing, administration, success, and economic viability, and to return to the three basic acts critical to the pastoral ministry: praying, reading Scripture, and giving spiritual direction.