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This Hallelujah Banquet
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In this powerful new interpretation of the book of Revelation, the late, revered author and translator of The Message Bible offers timely insights into how we can lean into growth, not in spite of challenging times, but because of them.
“Insightful and inviting . . . This is Eugene at his pastoral best.”—Rev. Dr. Glenn Packiam, associate senior pastor at New Life Church and author of Blessed Broken Given
The book of Revelation is filled with angels and dragons, fantastic beasts and golden cities, bottomless pits and mysterious numbers. It’s dramatic, sure—but what exactly does that have to do with the tests we face today?
Actually, a lot.
When the apostle John penned the book of Revelation, believers lived in a time of deception and injustice. But his message doesn’t just reflect their cries for things to be made right; it reveals heaven’s perspective of the bigger picture.
In this never-before-published work, Eugene H. Peterson traces the dramatic symbolism found in John’s letters to the seven churches, uncovering Christ’s instructions to these ancient communities. Along the way, encounter seven key tests, of our love, suffering, truth, holiness, reality, witness, and commitment, tests from Christ that can deepen our faith and even shape our future.
This Hallelujah Banquet is your personal invitation to grow deep and begin living now in a generous, abundant, and hopeful reality in Christ.
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“This is, frankly, the first book I've read by Peterson aside from _The Message_ (which I wasn't a huge fan of; helpful at times, distracting at others--but I digress)--and it won't be the last.
I was surprised to discover it's a posthumous publication, and an edited compilation of Peterson's sermons on the seven letters in the first few chapters of Revelation. That being said, it read very easily and quickly--and yet was no less convicting because of either!
Helpful, informative, educational, and insightful. Well worth the read; I fully expect to reread it down the line.”
About Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson, translator of The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, authored more than thirty books, including Every Step an Arrival, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, and A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. He earned his master’s degree in Semitic languages from Johns Hopkins University and also held several honorary doctoral degrees. Peterson was the founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he and his wife, Jan, served for twenty-nine years. Peterson held the title of professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, British Columbia, from 1998 until his passing in 2018.
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