#eugene peterson

[apesoformythoughts]

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[theinwardlight]

Hebrews 13:13-15 (MSG)

[renee-writer]

First, God. God is the subject of life. God is the foundational for living. If we don't have a sense of the primacy of God, we will never get it right, get life right, get our lives right. Not God at the margins; not God as an option; not God on the weekends. God at center and circumference;God first and last; God, God, God.

Eugene Peterson in the introduction to Genesis in the Message bible.

[castyourline]

The metaphors Jesus used for the life of ministry are frequently images of the single, the small, and the quiet, which have effects far in excess of their appearance: salt, leaven, seed.

Eugene H. Peterson

[humorwithatwist]

What Is Revelation About?

We launched a new series on Revelation at Arise this past Sunday. You might think that means we’re looking at how Revelation connects to our world today and when we think Jesus is returning. But that’s not quite right.Instead, we’re talking an idealist approach to Revelation and looking at the Last Words that this letter gives to Christians on a whole host of very not-end-of-the-world-y topics.…

[jkoessler]

Spitting Away From the Angels: Faith, Imagination, & the Reality of the Church

You might think that imagination would be antithetical both to reason and to faith. We view reason as a realm of facts. Faith seems to us to be inconsistent with imagination. Yet faith, imagination, and reality are intimately connected.

The church is a caravan. It travels in company. In one of his sermons on the nature of Christ, Saint Augustine pictures the church as being in motion. The church“which is now traveling on its journey,” he observes, “is joined to that heavenly Church where we have the angels as our fellow citizens.” Augustine is saying this not only of the saints in heaven but also of those on earth. His view was…

[professorgtnt]

捨棄是將自我的雜質、錯謬的靈和虛假的生命一掃而空，騰出我們裡面的空間給神、真實的靈及永恆的生命。 eugene peterson

[heatherofthemoore]

Lake Argyle

The word 'Christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colourless and unbending. To another, it means a risky, surprise-filled venture, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation. . . If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

~ Eugene Peterson, 'Travelling Light', p.45.

[bethf1300]

Artists of the Everyday

Revisiting inspirational books I’ve been revisiting favorite books on my shelf – two that stand out are written by Eugene Peterson. Leap Over a Wall is about David’s life, and Run with the Horses is about Jeremiah. I wish I had dated my notes in these books. I may have been reading them for more than 20 years. A chapter in Run with the Horses is perfect for January when we reconsider our…

[pilgrimsandprophets]

Learning to Walk 13

Learning to see grace in ugly places...

CAMINHO PORTUGUÊS – Agueda (36,252 STEPS – 27.20 KMS – 16.89 MILES) “I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces…” – Gerald Manley Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire Guides Colors Paths The Last Will Be First… I was the last pilgrim to leave the Hilarios Albergue this morning, at least pilgrims heading towards Santiago. There was a pilgrim going the…

[ascientistofyourownexperience]

Propaganda works another person's will upon us, attempting to manipulate us to an action or belief. Insofar as we are moved by it, we become less, the puppet of a puppeteer writer/speaker. There is no dignity, no soul, in a puppet. - Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book

[drrus]

Expressing Love

It seems the body of Christ spends more time attempting to define the different levels of love from John 21.

I’ve discovered along this journey how love, which should be simple as we are called to “love one another” as Christ “has loved us” (John 15:12), is a complicated thing. Maybe the Queen song from the late 1970’s was right, it’s a “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. (more…) “”

[antigonenikk]

"i wish we were going together"

[castyourline]

“A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment or another pay raise might push us over the edge of anxiety into a life of tranquillity, we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of the life of faith. A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for the world of grace.”

— Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

[humorwithatwist]

The Difficulty is the Point

“The difficulty is the point…. Sometimes we need the difficulty to get us to slow down and look at ourselves.” James K.A. Smith (How to Inhabit Time, xv) Right now, parenting has me at something of an impasse. One of my children (who will remain nameless) is struggling to routinely accomplish a normal, everyday task. We have coached them through this task, helped show them how it’s done, offered…

[professorgtnt]

對我們的生活方式影響深遠的，莫過於我們對神的看法。當我們封神的認識有錯誤，生活的方式也會出現問題。對神錯誤的看法會使我們生活散漫、膽小懦弱、恐懼戰兢、情緒失常。

假如我們認為神是一個暴君，我們就會儘可能地躲避祂。

假如我們認為神是一位和藹可親的老祖父，我們就會毫無顧忌、漫不經心地生活，完全沒有任何高超的目標。假如我們認為神是一位講求效率的專家，我們就會氣慣自己被貶低為一個工具，而不被當作是一個人來欣賞。

Eugene Peterson