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Title: Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0-8028-0660-0 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Ministry As Usual
Comment: Eugene Peterson does not call us to practical ministry. He offers much more, a pastoral theology. In this particular volume he digs into several Old Teatament texts and encourages pastors to engage the work of Prayer-Directing, Story-Making, Pain-Sharing, Nay-Saying, and Community-Building. These themes have the capability of reigniting that inner passion for ministry and restoring that God-given youthful vision to the pastor who has become worn down from trying to run the church as a business. This book should be in the library of every pastor.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource for preaching and community
Comment: Eugene Peterson is my mentor's mentor, and has become mine as well. His insight and mastery at the art of crafting words makes all of his books easy, enjoyable and highly challanging resources for spiritual formation, especially for the pastor.
In Five Smooth Stones, Peterson challanges us as pastors to lead our people through five somewhat obsure books of the Old Testament. These five books, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Ruth and Esther are wonderful tools for discovering some of the most important elements of Christian community.
In Song of Solomon, Peterson illuminates the challanges for us to seek intimacy in our personal relationships - but most of all intimacy with our God through prayer. In Lamentations, we are led to give validity to suffering. We are challenged to live out the full scope of suffering with each other in the midst of community, ultimatly being fully dependant upon the God who sustains us.
In Ecclesiastes, everything under the sun/Son is given meaning and time.
In Ruth, our commitments to community and to each other are emphasised. The power of going beyond what is required or expected are powerful tools that God uses to build true community, and even bring forth Messiah.
Esther is the call to community through taking risks for the sake of God's people, realizing that God would raise up another, if we choose not to not be a part of God's plan.
I have used this book as a primary resource for preaching these texts. As a pastor of a small rural church, and having worked in large suburban churches, I highly recomend this powerful resource to all who want to grow in spiritual depth and Christian community.
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Title: The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802801145 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802808484 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802802656 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0830822577 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call by Marva J. Dawn, Eugene H. Peterson, Peter Santucci ISBN: 0802846785 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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