Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson
Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson
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Pastor
A Memoir

Author: Eugene H. Peterson

Narrator: Eugene H. Peterson

Unabridged: 12 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2011


Synopsis

“If anyone knows how to be a pastor in the contemporary context that person is Eugene Peterson. Eugene possesses the rare combination of a pastor’s heart and a pastor’s art. Take and read!” (Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline )“I’ve been nagging Eugene Peterson for years to write a memoir. In our clamorous, celebrity-driven, entertainment culture, his life and words convey a quiet whisper of sanity, authenticity, and, yes, holiness.” (Philip Yancey, author of What Good is God )“A good book for folks who like pastors. And a good book for folks who don’t. The Pastor is the disarming tale of one of the unlikely suspects who has helped shape North American Christianity.” (Shane Claiborne author of The Irresistible Revolution )“More than a gifted writer, Eugene Peterson is a voice calling upon the churches to recover the vocation of the pastor in order to experience the renewing of their faith in the midst of an increasingly commercialized, depersonalized, and spiritually barren land.” (Dale T. Irvin, President, New York Theological Seminary )“Eugene Peterson excavates the challenges and mysteries regarding pastors and church and gives me hope for both. This a must read for every person who is or thinks they are called to be a pastor and for every person who has one.” (William Paul Young, author of The Shack )

About Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene Peterson was the James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also served as founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland. In addition to his paraphrase of the Bible, The Message, he has written many other books.


Reviews

One of my favorite quotes is by Amos Bronson Alcott. He once said, "That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit." Well, I found a book that thoroughly meets that description. Although I had never read any of his stuff, I had heard that Eugene Peterson's b......more

Goodreads review by K.J.

If a rock tumbled from a ledge into a river, the current would slowly change its shape. Hard edges become softer from decades of staying in the stream. So it is in the life of a pastor. Peterson’s story shows us the rounded rock of a soul set in the stream of a grace we cannot earn. Careful—if you r......more

Goodreads review by Bethany

I can't say I've ever before considered the distinction between an autobiography and a memoir. But reading them simultaneously, I can see the difference and fell in love with memoir style. It's more heart than head, more process than fact. The only thing I really knew of Eugene Peterson before this b......more