"Best-selling authors Eugene Peterson and Marva Dawn offer encouragement to the leaders of today's counter-culture movement. Pastors are strategically placed to counter the culture. No other profession looks so inoffensive but is in fact so dangerous to the status quo. Their weapon? A gospel that is profoundly countercultural. But standing firm in today's world isn't easy. Powerful forces, both subtle and obvious, attempt to domesticate ..."
"Best-selling authors Eugene Peterson and Marva Dawn offer encouragement to the leaders of today's counter-culture movement. Pastors are strategically placed to counter the culture. No other profession looks so inoffensive but is in fact so dangerous to the status quo. Their weapon 'A gospel that is profoundly countercultural. But standing firm in today's world isn't easy. Powerful forces, both subtle and obvious, attempt to domesticate ..."
"Like Eugene Peterson's other books on pastoring, Under the Unpredictable Plant is full of stimulating insights, candid observations, and biblically grounded prescriptions. Yet this book emanates with a special poignancy out of Peterson's own crisis experience as a pastor. Peterson tells about the "abyss," the "gaping crevasse," the "chasm" that he experienced, early in his ministry, between his Christian faith and his pastoral vocation. ..."
""Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, says Peterson, isn't it obvious that growth in Christ is equally essential? Yet the American church does not treat Christian growth and character formation with equivalent urgency. We are generally uneasy with the quiet, obscure conditions in which growth takes place, and building maturity in Christ too often gets relegated to footnote status in the text of ..."
"Just as God used words both to create the world and to give us commandments, we too use words for many different purposes. In fact, we use the same language to talk to each other and to talk to God. Can our everyday speech, then, be just as important as the words and prayers we hear from the pulpit? Eugene Peterson unequivocally says “Yes!” / Tell It Slant explores how Jesus used language — he was earthy, not abstract; metaphorical, not ..."
" The third book in Eugene Peterson??'s momentous five-volume conversation on spiritual theology, The Jesus Way considers the "way of the Lord" that became incarnate and complete in Jesus. Arguing that the way Jesus leads and the way we follow are symbiotic, Peterson challenges the ways of the contemporary American church, showing how they often obliterate what is unique in the Jesus way. This helpful study guide is designed to enable s ..."
"In "Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places," Eugene Peterson has reminded us that spiritual theology must be about "God" and not about us. What better context could there be for continuing the conversation that he has begun than in an intensive study, either on one's own or in a group? This guide enables study groups in schools or churches to delve deeply into Eugene Peterson's long-awaited work on spiritual theology. His insights into the ..."
Eat This Book Study Guide by EugeneH. Peterson, PeterSantucci Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2006 by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-3263-4, ISBN: 0-8028-3263-6
"This guide to Peterson's groundbreaking work enables study groups in schools or churches to delve deeply into his advice on how we should read scripture, leading through the four elements of lectio divina: lectio (we read the text), meditation (we meditate the text), oratio (we pray the text), and contemplation (we live the text)."
"Subversive Spirituality is a gathering together of articles written by Eugene Peterson over the past twenty-five years. Made up of occasional pieces, short biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings and interviews, this book reflects on the overlooked facets of the spiritual life. Peterson captures the epiphanies of life with the pleasing pastoral style and inspiring depth of insight for which he is well known.Peterson desc ..."
"Made up of occasional pieces, short biblical studies, poetry, pastoral readings and interviews, this book reflects on the overlooked facets of the spiritual life."
Everyday Psalms Ancient Prayers in Everyday Language by PeterSantucci Paperback, 339 Pages, Published 2019 by Apocryphile Press ISBN-13: 978-1-949643-37-4, ISBN: 1-949643-37-9
"Refresh your prayer life with this fresh take on the Psalms. We all pray. And we all struggle at it. We need help. For thousands of years, God’s people have turned to the Psalms for that help. This ancient collection of prayers, songs, and wisdom poems has been a faithful guide for those who pray. Even Jesus used them. There’s no better place to shape a biblical spirituality that takes into account the realities of everyday life. "Trans ..."