The Message Ministry Edition (Softcover, Green): The Bible in Contemporary Language - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600065945 ISBN 13: 9781600065941

Publisher: NavPress, 2016

Synopsis

Increase your ministry’s impact with The Message Ministry Edition. At this great low price, churches and ministries can give it away to guests, small groups, and Sunday school classes.

New Bible readers will relate to The Message’s thoughtful language. Lifelong believers will be surprised by its deep insights. Offer everyone a Bible they’ll enjoy reading.

They can dive even deeper using these great features . . .

• Book Introductions help them spot each book’s big ideas.
• “The Story of the Bible in Five Acts” helps them see the Bible’s big picture.
• Timelines, charts, and maps help them navigate the Bible world.
• The Message’s unique, verse-numbered paragraphs help them find any passage.
• Eugene Peterson’s introduction helps them make the most of a “reading Bible.”

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Review

Readers who have either found the Bible to be an intimidating proposition or who are so familiar with it that the words have lost their meaning will discover that Eugene Peterson's The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language is a welcome way to read and reread one of the best-loved books of all time. It's directly translated from the Greek and Hebrew texts and is intentionally designed to be a reading Bible rather than a study Bible. Each of the 66 books has an introduction by Peterson, and there are no verse numbers to interrupt the flow of the passages.

The vibrant flavor of the text is evident from the opening verses of the book of Genesis: "First this: God created the Heavens and Earth--all you see; all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness."

There's renewed vigor in some of Jesus' most well-known words of the New Testament in John 3: "This 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 can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again."

Whether it's the poetry of the Psalms, the thundering tirades of the Old Testament prophets, or the ageless words of Jesus, Peterson breaths new life into timeless passages in this fresh-voiced paraphrase. --Cindy Crosby

From the Publisher

Voted as "Book of the Decade" by the Academy of Parish Clergy (2003)

About this edition

• Publisher: NavPress
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1600065945
• ISBN 13: 9781600065941
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 784