The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.
Eugene H. PetersonThe only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.
Eugene H. PetersonI cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.
Eugene H. PetersonI didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Eugene H. Peterson