NavPress releases “The Message® Prayerful Reading Bible” by Eugene Peterson

NavPress releases “The Message® Prayerful Reading Bible” by Eugene Peterson Released on February 8, 2022, this new resource aims to introduce readers to the practice of lectio divina as a helpful form of Scripture engagement. Carol Stream, IL. (March 3, 2022) — “Reading the Bible, if we do not do it rightly, can get us into a lot of trouble.” So wrote Eugene H. Peterson in his landmark Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading. That insight is observable across…

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Eugene H. Peterson: A Life Well Traveled

Eugene H. Peterson: A Life Well Traveled The End of Death-as-the-End for Eugene Peterson (1932–2018) We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.  —Romans 6:6-11, The Message CAROL STREAM, Ill. (October 22, 2018) — “I’ve always liked Billy Sunday’s formula for the ideal Christian life,” Eugene Peterson wrote in the opening lines of his book, Living the Resurrection. “Hit the sawdust trail,…

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World Renowned Bible Scholar & Best-selling Author Eugene H. Peterson Enters Long-Term Agreement with WaterBrook

World Renowned Bible Scholar & Best-selling Author Eugene H. Peterson Enters Long-Term Agreement with WaterBrook COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Apr. 11, 2016)—One of the world’s most respected and influential pastors, authors, and biblical scholars, Eugene H. Peterson, has signed a significant multiple-book deal, including world rights, with WaterBrook, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The first book in the agreement, titled As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God, will release May 16, 2017, in…

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