Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Petersonis an American-born clergyman, scholar, author, and poet. He has written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, a paraphrase of the Bible...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 November 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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feelings worship
Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
doubters performers persons
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
first-love blow dust
O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.
prayer want-something risk
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
prayer refusal
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
creative genius stories
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
overflow lives-of-others
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
stories hospitality
Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
plot stories
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
wine water use
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
sloth sin pastor
Pastors are highly susceptible to the sin of sloth.
use ends careful
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
prayer
Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.
teaching thinking giving
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.