Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms That Summon You from Self to Community

by Eugene H. Peterson

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1993

Overview

This is a bold book. It has to do with changing the life of American society, from the inside out, through "source action" of prayer.

"I have written a book for Christians," says Eugene Peterson, "who want to do something about what is wrong with America and want to plunge into the center, not tinker at the edge. I have chosen eleven psalms that shaped the politics of Israel and can shape the politics of America, and I have taken them seriously...I have written to encourage Christians to pray them both as children of God with eternal destinies and as American citizens with daily responsibilities in caring for our nation."

Peterson is concerned with the "unselfing" of our self-preoccupied, self-bound society through the action of praying together with other believers. He offers insightful, thought-provoking reflections on eleven select psalm-prayers that can help us overcome such things as self-centeredness, self-assertiveness, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, self-pity, self-service, and self-love.

Originally published under the title Earth and Altar and now being reprinted for wider distribution, Where Your Treasure Is provides solid fare for any thoughtful, concerned Christian. But the book is especially suitable for group study and discussion: what Peterson writes here will serve to stir small groups of Christians to pointed reflection and prayer-action.

Key Features

• Offers insightful, thought-provoking reflections on eleven select psalm-prayers
• Encourages Christians to pray both as children of God with eternal destinies and as American citizens
• Makes a great resource for group study and discussion on self-centeredness, self-assertiveness, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, self-pity, self-service, and self-love

Praise for Where Your Treasure Is

Challenging and thought-provoking... Peterson helps readers focus on the essential need of prayer — individual and communal, very much communal! — as regards the healing of our society and its ills.

Vox Reformata

Where Your Treasure Is embraces the Book of Psalms and provides perceptive reflections upon its relevance to and for our age.

Monday Morning

Product Details

• Title: Where Your Treasure Is: Psalms that Summon You from Self to Community
• Author: Eugene H. Peterson
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 180
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Devotional use; Christianity and politics › Biblical teaching; United States › History--Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780802801159, 0802801153
• Resource ID: LLS:WHERETREASURE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:45:17Z

About Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and numerous works of biblical spiritual formation, including Run with the Horses, also available in a commemorative edition. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.