Showing Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution by James Tipton

Pub Date: 2008-11-04 Pages: 528 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US In The Pastor. Eugene H. Peterson. the translator of the multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty books. offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly neglected question: What does it mean to be a pastor When Peterson was asked by his denomination to begin a new church in Bel Air. Maryland. he surprised himself by saying yes And so was born Christ Our King Presbyterian Church. . But Peterson quickly learned that he was not exactly sure what a pastor should do. He had met many ministers in his life. from his Pentecostal upbringing in Montana to his seminary days in New York. and he admired only a few. He knew that the jobs demands would drown him unless he figured out what the essence of the job really was. Thus began a thirty-year journey into the heart of this ...