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The Message

The New Testament in Contemporary Language

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The Message

By: Eugene H. Peterson
Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan, Carol Nix
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Summary

 "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need to be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life."

Those familiar with any part of the Bible will recognize John 3:16, with a mind-altering difference. The words are fresh, new, and sound like the 21st century. That's because they are from The Message, a presentation of the Word of God crafted for a modern age. Eugene Peterson, translator and editor, learned from his years of teaching and pastoring that most people, through familiarity or frustration with the Bible, were missing the whole message of Scripture: the Word that God uses to create and save us, heal and bless us, judge and rule over us. So he set out to give us that word in language we use every day, a reading Bible that would enable the Word to penetrate our hearts and minds, transforming us day by day into the person God desires us to be.

©2003 Eugene Peterson (P)2003 Oasis Audio LLC, Under Arrangement With NavPress, Publisher Of The Original Book Version Bibles Bibles & Bible Study Christianity
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Critic reviews

"Acclaimed biblical language scholar Peterson has paraphrased the original Greek and Hebrew of these most popular books of the Bible into vibrant, easy-to-read modern English." ( Ingram)
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Would you consider the audio edition of The Message to be better than the print version?

Great for listening when walking the dog

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Message?

Language makes the bible readable as a story

What about Kelly Ryan Dolan and Carol Nix ’s performance did you like?

Easy to listen to

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Easy listen

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- liked the expression given by the speaker.
-Great way to explore the Bible
- only thing I didn’t like was that there are no chapters in the contents eg Matthew 1. You have to bookmark them yourself.

Great Quality

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Would you listen to The Message again? Why?

Again and again

Who was your favorite character and why?

Jesus

Have you listened to any of Kelly Ryan Dolan and Carol Nix ’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Not yet

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Already has ....... The Greatest Story Ever Told :-D

Any additional comments?

You will NOT be disappointed!!!

wonderful true story!

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The words, the voice, the introductions to each chapter, it's all simply brilliant. I really do recommend this version of the bible. It has helped me 'rediscover' the bible.

Brilliant!

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I found it very unhelpful that I could not ask for the bible book or chapter and verse that I wanted to listen too. Instead the Message seemed to broken up into unusable time spans as the chapter markers, so if you ask for chapter 2 or some other number it will just start in the middle of some book of the bible somewhere, without telling you where.
To make this a good buy it would need to be able to take you to the book you ask for such as 'read Luke' or read 'James' and it would also be of great help to be able to say, for example 'read John chapter 8' and also 'read John chapter 8 from verse 12'.

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