A Fragile Stone: The Emotional Life of Simon Peter - Softcover

Card, Michael; Manning, Brennan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830834451 ISBN 13: 9780830834457

Publisher: IVP, 2006

Synopsis

• Winner of a Chicago Book Clinic 2004 Design Award

A Fragile Stone explores the dynamic life of the apostle Peter, revisiting well-known passages and revealing unexpected insights. Author Michael Card sketches out Peter's life, showing how the impetuous fisherman of the Gospels was transformed into the pivotal leader of the early church. "The ultimate reason for getting to know Peter," Card explains, "is so together we might better know Jesus. For the story of Peter is the story of Jesus. Perhaps, if you and I do our best, the same will be said of us someday." Peter's life serves as a model for Christian discipleship, offering hope that we likewise can be changed as Jesus calls us to follow him.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"A Fragile Stone--a fitting title indeed. Peter, the most well-developed character in the Gospels aside from Jesus, is presented in all his misery and magnificence. Just as Paul is remembered as the one who persecuted the church before his own conversion on the road to Damascus, Peter is remembered forever as the apostle who denied Christ. The Rock on whom Jesus would build his church proved to be a sand pile. When he attempted to walk on water, the Rock sank like a stone.

"The author's unabashed love for Peter shines through these pages and permits him to probe the emotional complexity of the man without romance or sentimentality. . . .Card is not a neutral, dispassionate observer when Jesus dismantles Peter's false self of inner agitation, drivenness, bravado and emotional turmoil in order to shape a new creation who will become the unquestioned leader of the apostolic community.

"A Fragile Stone speaks to wobbly disciples who never seem to get it all together and to naive leaders who think they have. Michael Card has written a lyrical love song about Peter, and, personally, I found the melody contagious." - from the foreword by Brennan Manning, author of A Glimpse of Jesus

About the Author:

Michael Card is an award-winning musician, performer and writer. Having written such songs as "El Shaddai" and "Immanuel," he has produced over twenty albums and authored numerous books, including Scribbling in the Sand. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and four children.

About this edition

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0830834451
• ISBN 13: 9780830834457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192