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Products>And Upon This Rock: Peter’s Transformative Journey from Fisherman to Follower to Foundational Leader

And Upon This Rock: Peter’s Transformative Journey from Fisherman to Follower to Foundational Leader

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Have we robbed Peter to pay Paul? Look at most evangelicals’ bookshelves and plenty of pages feature Paul. Why not Peter? Why not the man who walked with Jesus and played a foundational part in the early church? This book invites the reader to take another look at the fisherman turned foundational leader. By looking at his early days walking with Jesus through the end of his life and letters, this book will present Peter as an encouraging example for pastoral ministry and Christian formation.

“Accessible scholarship with pastoral applications! I love this book and will be reaching for it every time I read one of the four Gospels, any pericope about Peter, and any of his epistles.”

—Kat Armstrong, Podcast Host, Holy Curiosity



“Peter is the disciple we all recognize in the mirror—bold one moment, broken the next. One day, he’s proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah; the next, he’s rebuking Him for speaking of the cross. He vows unwavering loyalty, only to deny his Lord when the pressure mounts. He swings a sword in impulse, then preaches a sermon that births a movement. Peter is raw, real, and redeemed—a portrait of grace in motion. This book invites us to walk in his footsteps, to witness his stumbles and triumphs, and to be freshly reminded why Jesus chose him to help build his church.”

—Derwin L. Gray, Co-Founder, Transformation Church



And Upon This Rock could be titled The Peter I Never Knew. Before I read McKnight and Spaulding’s compilation, I would have described the fisherman-turned-disciple simply as the impulsive one. But this book led me through a course correction—taking me from Peter’s early days as a Christ-follower through his denial and restoration. From there it led me from Peter’s time as a Jew/gentile mediator to his latter days as a shepherd. Now I know Peter as a sheep-feeder—exactly who our Lord called him to be.”

—Sandra Glahn, Professor, Dallas Theological Seminary



“Careful biblical-contextual scholarship that’s integrated with the research of real life is rare, but this one hits the mark and delivers hard-won wisdom. It feels like a lucid, insightful adventure with Simon Peter in his world and our world at the same time. Light bulbs in every chapter.”

—Ben Tertin, Editing Scholar, BibleProject



“’You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.’ It is an unfortunate idiom of our contemporary biblical imagination that our attention has neglected the leader of the earliest apostolic community, Peter. Or rather, whenever we have engaged with Peter, we have read him as naïve, impulsive, immature disciple; a cipher for our own shortcomings. The Peter whom we meet in the Bible was none of that. This exceptional collection of essays—at the same time academic and deeply personal—reflects on the actual person, ministry, and writings and reveals Peter to be as he truly was: a faithful, mature disciple, who loved his Lord and yearned for the good of the communities of Jesus. At the end, Peter, the rock, is revealed to be a model from whom we can learn about life and ministry, faithfulness, failure, repentance, reconciliation, and the deep joy of being the followers of Jesus. For Peter had the tensile strength needed to be a true friend of Jesus.”

—George Kalantzis, Professor of Theology, Wheaton College

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    $19.25

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