{"product_id":"every-step-an-arrival-isbn-9781601429735","title":"Every Step an Arrival","description":"\u003cb\u003eWalk through the pages of the Bible in 90 days with a definitive voice in Christian spirituality. In this devotional, Eugene Peterson provides brief commentary and challenging thoughts designed to stir the biblical imagination and encourage even the weary believer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife is a mixture of deep joy, heartbreaking disappointment, and hopeful dreams. We long for quick answers, yet God invites us into something far better—a dance of worship, wonder, and mystery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover this beautiful rhythm in \u003ci\u003eEvery Step an Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e, a ninety-day devotional from the beloved translator behind the popular \u003ci\u003eMessage Bible \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of spiritual classics, including \u003ci\u003eRun with the Horses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Long Obedience in the Same Direction\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEugene Peterson believes our confusion about the world comes from a lack of clarity regarding who we are and, more important, who God is. Each reading focuses on a unique facet of God’s nature or of our identity. Drawing insights and stories from a number of books in the Old Testament, Peterson stirs the imagination and encourages travel-weary readers to keep moving forward. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife is full of unexpected moments. But when we enter each day in rhythm with God, every step is an arrival.\u003cb\u003eEugene H. Peterson,\u003c\/b\u003e translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Message\u003c\/i\u003e Bible, authored more than thirty books, including the spiritual classics \u003ci\u003eRun with the Horses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Long Obedience in the Same Direction\u003c\/i\u003e. He earned a degree in philosophy from Seattle Pacific University, a graduate degree in theology from New York Theological Seminary, and a master’s degree in Semitic languages from John Hopkins University. He also received several honorary doctoral degrees. He was 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 death in 2018.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDay 1: The Contrast of Darkness and Light\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is significance in the first day’s creative act: God said, “Light!” And light appeared. The universe is established with God’s light shining through everything. There is a profound understanding of this in the way in which a day is described in Genesis and subsequently in all Jewish life. “And there was evening and there was morning, one day” (verse 5, RSV). An odd way to describe a day, but not if you see it as a victory of God’s light. Evening has the sense, in Hebrew, of termination, bringing to a conclusion. A day is described first as the conclusion of the creative work of God, then night, a time of sleep, the incursion of darkness, a threat to the order of creation, a sign of chaos to come. Does night or light have the last word? The answer is in the phrase “and there was morning, one day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorning in Hebrew has the meaning of “penetration.” [1] God’s day is not complete until light shines again, penetrating the darkness and dispersing the shadows. The creative action of God is light, which encloses and limits a temporary darkness. All that we see as a threat to God’s creative action is held in check and controlled by his light. The shadows are there—night descends upon life—and there is that which seems to defy God, to disturb his order and his purpose: sickness, death, trouble, and sorrow. But it does not have the last word: “And there was morning, one day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentify an area of your life in which you need God’s light to penetrate the dimness. Will night or light have the last word? Talk with God about the clarity you seek.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1]. Strong’s Concordance, s.v. “boqer: morning,” \u003ci\u003ehttp:\/\/biblehub.com\/hebrew\/1242.htm\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WaterBrook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302958158053,"sku":"NP9781601429735","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781601429735.jpg?v=1767726443","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/every-step-an-arrival-isbn-9781601429735","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}