The Gospel in Miniature: Meditations for When You Have a Minute
Witty, wise, and powerful meditations on the New Testament are presented in the perfect form for readers with busy lives who sometimes find that there is not enough time in the day to focus on their spiritual well-being. Martin Copenhaver feels their pain and has packed this volume full of insight into the teachings of Jesus that anyone, no matter how busy, can find the time to digest, reflect on, and enjoy. In addition, a scripture and a prayer accompany each of the 140+ lessons, the distilled results of decades of spiritual scholarship and teaching.
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Book details
- Author
- Martin Copenhaver
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Meditations
Religion › Christian Living › Devotional
Religion › Christian Living › Prayer - Topics
- daily devotional · New Testament · teachings of Jesus · Christian living · prayer · scripture · faith
- ISBN-13
- 9781683367192 (Paperback)9781683367208 (Hardcover)
About the author
MARTIN B. COPENHAVER is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and former president of Andover Newton Theological School, the oldest graduate school of any kind in America. His recent books include Room to Grow: Meditations on Trying to Live as a Christian, Jesus Is the Question: The 307 Questions Jesus Asked and the 3 He Answered and five others.
Copenhaver holds a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, received in 1980, and a degree from Dickinson College. He serves as Editor at Large at The Christian Century and contributes to numerous other periodicals.
When not writing, Copenhaver draws on more than 20 years as senior pastor of Wellesley Congregational Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and earlier pastorates in Phoenix, Newton Centre, Burlington, and Westport. Much of his writing engages questions of Christian faith and practice.