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EUGENE H. PETERSON

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EUGENE H. PETERSON

EUGENE H. PETERSON

“is is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son.And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone canhave a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Sonmerely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came tohelp, to put the world right again.”

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• The Bible translated in American English

• Single-column format and an exclusive numbering system unique to The Message

• Written thought for thought in words that peoplespeak every day

• Translated by Eugene H. Peterson from the originalGreek and Hebrew text and evaluated and confirmedby a committee of twenty-one exegetical scholars ofOld and New Testament languages and theology

• Guide from Eugene H. Peterson on how to use this reading Bible

• introductions to each book and sections of the Bible

• “The Story of the Bible in Five Acts”

• Paired with a favorite study Bible, the passages in The Message are easier to understand and study

• The Message reads like a novel, making it a true reading Bible

• Allows readers to experience firsthand the same relevance and directness of the original Scriptures, in today’s American English

• The Message is the authentic Word of God

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Study Bible

The Message Study Bible combines this best-selling contemporarytranslation with personal insights from Eugene H. Peterson’s lifetimeof studying the Word. With 640 study notes from his writings and sermons, contemplative readings and prayers, and a unique “Readingthe Scriptures” essay, this study Bible gives readers a new appreciationfor God’s Word.

Features:• 640 notes from the writings and sermons of Eugene H. Peterson• A topical concordance on eighty different subject matters• Contemplative readings and prayers throughout the text• Peterson’s introductory essay “Reading the Scriptures”• A comprehensive bibliography of Peterson’s writings• Peterson’s biography and the complete list of translation

consultants for The Message • Blank pages for personal notes and reflections • Verse-numbered, single-column format, making The Message

a true reading Bible

R O M A N S

deep wisdom — Paul is talking about here. All the evidence we have is illuminated from a central Source. The world is ordered and beautiful, and we see things in relationship shaped toward a goal. But as the light gets stronger, our eyes can’t bear to look at it. The closer we get to the light, the less we can see. We blink, we squint, and finally we must shut our eyes altogether. But we don’t think for a minute that our blindness is because someone is hiding something from us or preventing us from seeing. The mystery comes not from hiddenness but from human limitation.

And the only proper human response is not further probing but simply stopping at the threshold of the mystery, kneeling, and offering praise.

Which is precisely what Paul does. And precisely what we should do.

P L A C E Y O U R L I F E B E F O R E G O D

1-2 12 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take youreveryday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering.

Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

C O N T E M P L A T I O N

Contemplative Readings

Romans 12:10-21 — The example of the body of Christ caring for its individual members.

1 Peter 2:18-25 — The example of Christ responding to injustice.

Paul summarizes Christian living in a sentence: “Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life — and place it before God as an offering” (Romans 12:1).

God doesn’t throw out the past and tell us to forget about it. He uses all the material, but he rearranges it, and in his hands it becomes new. The vocabulary in Romans 12:1 uses the same words from the sacrificial system of the past: l ife and offering. But each of those words is given a radically new orientation.

Life. Substitute sacrifices will no longer do. It’s your life God wants, and it’s mine. Cows, birds, goats, and sheep will no longer be acceptable. It must be your life. By using the word life, Paul leaves no room for escape. Life includes our whole self, the entire collection of feelings, actions, ideas. Brain, nerves, muscles, drives, instincts, perceptions. Life. It is me that’s offered up — all of me.

Offering. The drama of the blood flowing out of a sacrificial animal was impressive in its symbolism, but the animal was worthless from that time on, except to be eaten. A short-lived usefulness. This new concept is no less a sacrifice, but the blood stays in the veins and continues to nourish the life of the individual. Thus, this new offering becomes an extended one.

This offering of the whole of our lives is a worshipful act that’s pleasing to God. And here I would like to say a word or two about worship as it relates to our everyday lives. Worship is generally understood as the service that takes place in the Temple and at the altar. A priest leads it and directs the participation of the people. It focuses our attention on God and involves us in dynamic relationship with him. It’s central to all religion and provides the deepest relationship possible to humankind.

But Paul does something extreme here. He cuts the word loose from its moorings

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in the Temple and the church. Worship is now total — the offering of one’s entire life as a living sacrifice.

Here’s a basic tension: We keep trying to confine worship to the sanctuary — to preaching, prayers, and parish announcements, to religious experiences. But God is commanding us to extend it to home, work, neighborhood, and leisure. Worship is the style of life in which our bodies become living sacrifices offered up before God.

People have dif ferent skills, dif ferent strengths, dif ferent sensibilities. God has given us one another so that we may have a shared l ife. None of us can live the abundant life as hermits. Nor can we live to the glory of God if we carefully pick whom we’re willing to associate with. All who live are God’s creation and parts of the body of Christ. We’re members of one another. We exist in a family, together, not alone.

And here’s how God wants us to live in such a family: worshipfully.Life is full of financial inequities, and worship involves a generous response to

the economic needs of others. This reverses the natural inclinations of all of us. We sometimes convince ourselves that everything we have has come from our own hard work and achievements. And with pride we then hold on to it all, and in moments of good, we’ll dole out a little to church or to charity.

But worship is meant to be more complete than that: It’s the offering of our total economic selves to the glory and service of God. It means a liberal and generous assessment of other people’s needs in relation to our own. Income and earning capacity is God’s gift to us, too — and must be part of offering our lives.

Another way we express our worship to God is by giving him our heart — our total heart, including the sinful impulses that reside there. When people wrong us, for example, we feel resentful, and we have the impulse to hurt them in return. We can do it directly, lashing them with our tongues or our fists. Or we can do it indirectly through gossip, coldness, indifference, or manipulation. One thing is certain: None of us have the impulse to bless the person who does us wrong. We all have the impulse to avenge ourselves. Worship means the reversal of those equations of hurt and revenge. It means returning a blessing for a curse, forgiveness for revenge, peace for strife.

Worship isn’t a religious performance we sit back and enjoy; it’s an act in which we participate. And as we participate, we’re changed. Worship is the presentation of our bodies as a sacrifice to God so that he can act upon us. Either the world shapes us or God shapes us. Either we’re conformed to the world or we’re transformed by God. And worship is what he uses to bring about that transformation.

Contemplative Questions

God doesn’t want a tithe from you, minced out of the pocket change of your life. He wants all of you. All of your heart. All of your mind. All of your time, your energy, your resources. All of your hopes and dreams. Every bit of who you are and what you have, he wants you to put on the altar as an offering to him.

How should that change the way you live your everyday, ordinary l ife — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life?

Contemplative Prayer

Dear Lord,Help me to place my life — all of my life — before you as an offering.Let me be a living sacrifice,

knowing that it’s the most worshipful way I can live my life.I realize, though, that the tendency of living sacrifices is to crawl off the altar.

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Contemplative Readings to take you further in

your study of the Scripture

Notes from Eugene H. Peterson that provide

personal insight to the text

Contemplative Questionsthat provide a personal

application

Contemplative Prayer prompts conversations

with God

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Reader’s Edition

it’s been ten years since NavPress brought you the full edition of The MessageBible. To celebrate, we have introduced two special limited-time editions. in itsoriginal format with no verse numbers, this true reading Bible gets your customers back to enjoying God’s Word. When pairing it with a favorite studyBible, your customers will encounter many passages they have read hundredsof times before, yet it will be like reading and studying them for the first time.

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The Message//REMIX 2.0:Containing the original text of The Message, //REMIX 2.0 also includesthe added features of in-depth book introductions to help students fully understand what they are reading. With a variety of colors and differentcover materials to choose from, there is an option for every student.

feAtureS Of //remix 2.0:• Same Message text as the Numbered Edition• Translated into casual, conversational American English, a language students will understand• Single-column, verse-numbered paragraphs that make it a reading Bible• Expanded book introductions for deeper knowledge of God’s Word• Different colors and covers to attract all ages• Convenient size for carrying everywhere• Easy-to-read 8.75-point type size • Satin ribbon marker (except hardcover editions)• Reference material with maps, charts, and timelines• A topical index

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New Testaments

These New Testaments are perfect for outreach or to use as an evangelistic tool. Easily taken anywhere, these affordable New Testaments also make great gifts!

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THE MESSAGE NEW TESTAMENT COMPARISON

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Devotionals

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A Year with JesusEugene H. Peterson emphasizes the importance of spending time with Jesus through prayer.

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The Daily MessagePaperback | 5 1/2 x 8 1/297816000635721600 pages | $19.99

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My First Message

My First MessageMy First Message is a children's illustrated devotional Bible that offers all of the accessibility and quality that customers have come to expect from The Message. MyFirst Message is designed for parents to introduce children to God's Word throughlively illustrations, short lessons, and a format that considers a small attention span.Young children will be encouraged to learn how to read and understand the Biblethrough a unique devotional approach called Read, Think, Pray, and Live.

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My First Message Bible SearchMy First Message Bible Search is a Bible concordance anddictionary for kids ages six through ten. it presents honest,age-appropriate answers that offer guidance to forty common situations children face today:

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EUGENE H. PETERSON is a writer, poet, and retired pastor. He has authored more than thirty-four books (not including The Message). He is Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. Eugene also founded Christ OurKing Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he ministeredfor twenty-nine years. He lives with his wife, Jan, in Montana.

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