Planned books:
- Purity of Heart (Harper Torchbooks) by Soren Kierkegaard
- Living Love: A Modern Edition of Treatise on the Love of God (Christian Classics (Brewster, Mass.).) by De Sales, Saint Francis
- True Spirituality by Francis A. Schaeffer
- Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith by Henri J. M. Nouwen
- The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O by Thomas Keating
Current books:
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Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship by Lesslie Newbigin
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The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series) by Sister Joan Chittister OSB
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The Art of Christian Listening by Thomas N. Hart
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Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who’s Already There by Leonard Sweet Ph.D
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Recent books:
- Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Delicate Art of Dancing With Porcupines: Learning to Appreciate the Finer Points of Others by Bob Phillips
- The Art of Talking So That People Will Listen: Getting Through to Family, Friends by Paul W. Swets
- Invitation to Biblical Preaching: Proclaiming Truth with Clarity and Relevance (Invitation to Theolo by Donald Sunukjian
- On the Incarnation: De Incarnatione Verbi Dei (Popular Patristics Series) by St. Athanasius
Posts Tagged ‘The Contemplative Pastor’
The Contemplative Pastor
July 5th, 2009 | 
Author: “With the vastness of the heavenly invasion and the urgency of the faith decision rolling into our consciousness like thunder and lightning, we cannot stand
around on Sunday morning filling the time with pretentious small talk on how bad the world is and how wonderful this new stewardship campaign is going to be…”
“I have been a pastor for thirty years to American Christians who do their best to fireproof themselves against crisis and urgency. Is there any way that I can live with these people and love them without being shaped by the golden-calf culture? How can I keep from settling into the salary and benefits of a checkout clerk in a store for religious consumers? How can I avoid a metamorphosis from the holy vocation of pastor into a promising career in religious sales? Here is a way: submit my imagination to St. John’s apocalypse–the crisis of the End combined with the urgencies of God–and let the ergies of the apocalyptic define and shape me as pastor. When I do that, my life as pastor simplifies into prayer, poetry, and patience.” Eugene Peterson; The Contemplative Pastor (pp. 39-42)
Praise God and Amen.
Posted in A Deeper Walk, Becoming the Word, Books, Shaping Me | 
Tags: Apocalypse, Christians, Eugene Peterson, Revelation, St. John, The Contemplative Pastor | 
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