"God is in the business of raising up leaders." --J. Robert (Bobby) Clinton When good leaders are needed, when the work is urgent, our immediate reaction is to enlist new leaders. Instead we are called to invest in new leaders. Good leaders are developed in and through slow, deep mentoring. To think[...]

The Message är en av världens mest omtalade bibelöversättningar. Den tar sitt avstamp i Nya testamentets grekiska och landar rakt i vår tid. Språket är mycket mer vardagligt och temperamentsfullt än vad vi vant oss vid i svenska översättningar. Gör dig beredd på en ny upplevelse av Bibel[...]

SVARA, NÄR JAG ROPAR. Gud, stå upp för mig! En gång fick du mig ur värsta knipan; nu sitter jag där igen: Visa nåd! Hör mig! ur Psaltaren 4 Nya testamentet The Message på svenska har blivit en av Libris mest uppmärksammade titlar på senare år. Många vittnar om hur Eugene[...]

"God has a plan for our lives," but what does that mean in practical terms? How do we know God's will for important life decisions, like who to marry, what job to take, what church to join? How can we be free if God has a perfect plan for us? Sittser explores these questions and offers a biblically [...]

Reflections on the Revelation of John and its meaning for our lives.

In The Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson, the translator of the multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty books, offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly neglected question: What does it mean to be a pastor? When Peterson was asked by his denomination to begin a new[...]

If your translation of choice is the New International Version (NIV), and if you appreciate The Message for the freshness and insight it brings to your reading of the Bible, then you'll love the NIV and The Message Side-by-Side Bible. By setting these two versions together, this parallel Bible allow[...]

Continuing Peterson's major evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality, EAT THIS BOOK focuses on spiritual reading. Taking its title from the angel's instruction to John in the book of Revelation: 'Take it and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth', EAT T[...]

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 ki[...]

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.[...]

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 ove[...]

Spiritual reading has fallen on bad times. Today, reading is largely a consumer activity, done for information that may fuel ambitions or careers-and the faster the better. Take and Read represents Eugene H. Peterson's attempt to rekindle the activity of spiritual reading, reading that considers any[...]