This wasn’t just a personal journey of discovery. She was not searching for roots of physical ancestry. She was searching for the Jewish roots of the Church, of the Hebrew scriptures and of Jesus, her Jewish Messiah.

This journey required not just traveling across the sea to the Holy Land. It also involved learning new concepts and new ways of thinking.

You’ll learn about things like Zionism, anti-Semitism, the Hebrew language, relations between Jews and Gentiles, what is a Christian Zionist, and who are the chosen people. You’ll be challenged to think about the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, how the church needs to relate to the Jewish people and how to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. You will begin to see the Jews as the natural brothers of Jesus, and, above all, learn to love God’s chosen people as you experience Nancy’s journey to deeper understanding.

Jewish Roots Journey: Memoirs of a Mizpah is currently 30% off during Energion Publications’ “NO Black Friday Sale.” As always, we offer free standard shipping in the United States and Canada.

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Endorsements

Here are some comments from advance readers Jewish Roots Journey:

I thank God for calling Nancy Petrey to be a “mizpah for Israel” and using her in such powerful ways.  In this book she gives the exciting account of how God awakened her to the Jewish roots of our faith and how it changed her life.  Interwoven with her testimony are many nuggets of precious truths about Israel.  There is an awesome power in the truth.
There is a spiritual battle raging today over Israel and the Jewish people.  Satan is making a final attempt to wipe out the chosen people, like he has tried so many times before in history.  It is the 1930s all over again, and we must not be silent but speak out on behalf of Israel.  Experts predict that the young generation of Christians in America will take the side of the Palestinians in the conflict in the Middle East.  May God use this book to open the eyes of many people and raise up hundreds of mizpahs for Israel to undo that prediction!

Blessings in abundance!

Lars Enarson
Founder of The Watchman International (www.thewatchman.org).
Founder of The Elijah Prayer Army
(A Worldwide Network of Prayer for Israel and the Middle East)

In her Memoirs of a Mizpah, Nancy Petrey combines stories from her personal journeys to Israel and around the United States with the knowledge of Israel’s biblical and modern history she has gained through study to provide an account of her understanding of God’s coming redemption.  Inspired by Corrie ten Boom and Lydia Prince, this book is a passionate retelling of her personal encounters with the God of Israel, the Messiah of Israel and the People of Israel and her God given passion for the Jewish people.  Through sharing these experiences she hopes to inspire and encourage her readers to become “watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem” and connect to the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.  Read her memoirs and be encouraged by what God has done and continues to do in Israel and within the body of Messiah.

Avi & Chaya Mizrachi
Directors of Dugit Messianic Outreach Centre
(www.dugit.org) (www.adonairoi.com)

Nancy Petrey is one of the most exuberant and enthusiastic people I know who is involved with the Israel work.  She loves the country, the State of Israel, the history of the Jewish people, and with her marvelous gifts of music and radiant worship, she is able to reach many people with her influence.  Israel is truly blessed to have a friend like Nancy.

Pamela Suran
Licensed Israeli tour guide
Ministry of Chazon Yerushalayim
with husband, Pastor Shmuel Suran
Prophetic artist – “Pamela Suran, Biblical Artist”
(www.pamelasuran.com)

It is a delight for us to recommend the reading of this book by our friend, Nancy Petrey.  Mary and I always enjoy our encounters with her and her husband Curtis, when he is with her.  We consider it an honor to be mentioned several times in the recounting of her memories in and out of Israel.  Come and join Nancy on a journey.  Yes, the physical journey of her life and times since discovering the incredible reality of God.  But even more than that, a journey of amazing learning and understanding of how God shows us, like a time-released capsule, His reality through the Land and People of Israel.
Each chapter is like sitting down with a cup of coffee or tea and listening as Nancy shares with you the wonderful things she has seen and learned.  I particularly enjoyed the story of her encounter with a sparrow while she was playing the piano and singing, “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”  As you follow along with her on this journey, you will also learn as she did so many incredible truths about God’s love story in His Word, and how that relationship is available to us today.  You’ll even get practical advice about “Mr Expert Guide” and wild taxi rides!  The Appendix section of this book alone, along with the richness of the memoirs of Nancy Petrey, will make this book a treasure in your home.

Roy and Mary Kendall
Directors, School of Worship
SOW in Jerusalem
(www.sowij.com)

This is no Black Friday or any-other-day sale! From NOW until DECEMBER 20 all Energion Publications’ books are 30% off and shipping in the US remains FREE! Enter promo code, Christmas2012, in the promo box on the checkout page. The discount will appear when your order is totaled.

Give a gift that encourages and builds your loved one’s relationship with God, a gift that may last a lifetime. Here are some suggestions from our catalog page:

TEEN:

Crewed Awakening: Not Your Everyday Devotional for Every Day by Greg May
Covenant by Daniel Martin (Christian fiction)
Traveler’s Advance by Heath Taws (Christian fiction)
The Sacred Journey by Chris Surber (study on the Beatitudes)

Rite of Passage in the Home and Church: Raising Christ-Centered Young Adults
Prayer Trilogy by Kimberly Gordon (Christian Christmas Fiction)
Uncommon Questions from an Extraordinary Savior by Chris Bozung
Megabelt by Nick May

ADULTS:

Creation in Scripture by Herold Weiss
Creation: The Christian Doctrine by Edward W. H. Vick
Crewed Awakening: Not Your Everyday Devotional for Every Day by Greg May
It’s in the Bag by Kimberly Gordon
The Journey to the Undiscovered Country by William Powell Tuck
Soup Kitchen for the Soul by Renee Crosby
The Jesus Paradigm by David Alan Black
Jewish Roots Journey: Memoirs of a Mizpah by Nancy Petrey
Healing Marks: Healing and Spirituality in Mark’s Gospel by Bruce G. Epperly

We have over 60 books in our catalog from 35 authors. There is a book in our catalog for your every need. If you have any questions, give us a call at (850) 525-3916 or email at pubs@energionpubs.com and we will be glad to help you.

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Get the Creation package, Creation in Scripture by Herold Weiss and Creation: The Christian Doctrine by Edward W. H. Vick.

Get the Edward W. H. Vick package, regular price $59.96, now at $39.99.

Here’s what some of our advance readers had to say about From Inspiration to Understanding:

Praise for From Inspiration to Understanding: Reading the Bible Seriously and Faithfully

With characteristic erudition and acute theological insight, Dr. Edward Vick has given us the most comprehensive guide to an intelligent and faithful understanding of the inspiration of the Bible, of which I know. For the serious student of scripture he thus clears the path to a solid apprehension of its meaning and message.

Earle Hilgert
Professor of New Testament (Emeritus)
McCormick Theological Seminary
Chicago

Dr. Vick provides a thorough look at the inspiration of the Bible, giving the reader a better grasp at the way scripture should be interpreted. Most importantly, he rediscovers the scriptures to be fundamentally the Church’s book, a book that is important only because of God’s self-revelation to a people called Israel and Church. From Inspiration to Understanding is a helpful resource to any pastor or Bible study teacher interested in knowing what it means for the Bible to be the Word of God.

Rev. Geoffrey Lentz
First United Methodist Church
Pensacola, Florida

Professor Vick’s approach to the Bible is informed, clear, and immensely helpful. If we view the Scriptures as the means by which God is revealed to the community of faith, he argues, we can account for the Bible’s authority, without trying to “prove” it. And on this basis, we can appreciate the complex history and varied contents of the Bible, while avoiding the pitfalls that surround mistaken views of “biblical inspiration.”

Richard Rice
Professor of Religion
Loma Linda University

Seldom does one read so thoughtful, so disciplined and so scholarly an account of the need to rethink the basis for the authority of Scripture in the Christian church. Vick meets head-on most (if not all) of the difficult issues surrounding the traditional concept of “inspiration” as the foundation of Biblical supremacy for the community. While some may be discomfited by Vick’s argument that the traditional understandings are inadequate for the modern church, every reader will greatly profit from taking seriously his urging that we ground biblical authority in the believing community itself. This work should be read by every lay and professional theologian.

James J. Londis, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Humanities
Kettering College

Those who have recently browsed in bookstores looking for a book that would give them a handle on the Bible most likely left the store frustrated, or bought a book that either put out propaganda or propagated diluted sentimentalism. In marked contrast, Edward W. H. Vick’s book gives us a most welcome, rigorous, measured, illuminating tour of the concepts that must be considered if one is to understand what the Bible is. Here the Bible is not an abstraction floating in a vacuum. It is the church’s book on the basis of two basic principles. It is the mediator of the reality of God, and functions in the church as the provider of meaning for the present. In From Inspiration to Understanding the reader finds engaging discussions of concepts like inspiration, revelation, authenticity, authority and others with both feet on the ground. In this process a long list of fallacies are shown to be what they are. Vick’s presentation takes its clues from what the Bible actually contains, and builds its arguments according to the demands of serious theological reflection. I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires a better way of reading the Bible, no matter whether one is a believer, a non-believer, a lay person or a member of the clergy.

Herold Weiss, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of New Testament
St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN

These are:

Preserving Democracy by Elgin Hushbeck, Jr. This was the book that opened our political category. Elgin is a conservative author who surveys the American political scene carefully and in some detail. Because of the low price we’re offering you on this book, quantity discounts won’t apply for numbers less than 50.

Suggested Retail: $14.99 Sale Price: $10.00

Faith in the Public Square by Bob Cornwall. This is the second book in our political category, and in keeping with the Energion approach of generating discussion by presenting different points of view, it is written by a progressive author. The focus in this case is specifically on the place of faith in the public square. How can and should people of faith act in the political sphere?

Suggested Retail: $16.99 Sale Price $11.00

The next two books are directed more at the church than at the broader community, and point to a greater separation between the political sphere and the religious. Neither author is claiming that Christians should not be involved, but they do raise serious warnings about the impact of such involvement on our faith.

Christian Archy by David Alan Black. Based on the writings of Eller and Ellul, this short, easy-to-read book argues that the rule of Christ is above all. In one sense, this is not a surprising thing to argue, but Dave Black will push you to go a bit farther in making God’s kingdom first.

Suggested Retail: $9.99 Sale Price: $7.00

The Politics of Witness by Allan R. Bevere. You might think by the title that this is a book that is primarily about the political sphere. It’s not. It’s primarily about the church and how our involvements in politics can go wrong. Short and readable.

Suggested Retail: $9.99 Sale Price: $7.00

Special prices will end midnight November 6, 2012.

Here are the titles:

$5

• Words of Life, Light, and Love
• Ephesians: A Participatory Study Guide
• The Sacred Journey
• Grief: Finding the Candle of Light
• Identifying Your Gifts and Service: Small Group Edition
• Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Confessions of a Liberal Charismatic
• 52 Weeks of Ordinary People – Extraordinary God
• Tales from Jevlir: Oddballs
• Preserving Democracy (Hardcover)
• I Want to Pray
• Disciples: Jesus With Us

$10

• Rite of Passage for the Home and Church
• noise flash
• God’s Desire for the Nations: The Missionary Theology of John Piper
• The Character of Our Discontent
• Soup Kitchen for the Soul
• When People Speak for God

Remember when comparing prices that standard shipping is completely free. There will be no shipping or handling charge added. Your book will be shipped to you for precisely $5 or $10. (Florida residents will be charged sales tax.)

This sale will last until office stock on the title is exhausted (and that’s only three books for two of the items), or until we remove the sale price which will happen as soon as possible Wednesday morning.

And yes, shipping continues to be free!

Rev. Shauna Hyde

June 13, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gonzalez, Florida

New Book: Victim No More! by Shauna Hyde.

Energion Publications announces the release of a new book, Victim No More!. This is the first book for Rev. Hyde, who has already traveled extensively with her Victim No More! message, speaking at rehab centers, counseling centers, women’s retreats, church services, youth rallies, etc.

With a BS in Biology from Marietta College, Marietta, OH, Shauna worked at Microbac Labs for 11 years doing environmental work. She then obtained a Masters of Divinity from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH, and was appointed to the Belmont-Nine Mile charge in the St Marys, WV area.

“As a United Methodist minister who is also a black belt in Shota Kahn karate I am often asked how I can be both a martial artist and a pastor. There have been a lot of jokes about how I will force people to the altar or smack people who get out of line. Then there is always the joke about no one wanting to disobey me in the church because I know how to hurt them! In reality, anyone who is a true martial artist and/or has a deep understanding of the martial arts knows that it is not about violence – it is about mercy, self-discipline, a lot of routine practice, and a whole other host of characteristics that I would like to address [in this book].”

Shauna Hyde is currently the Pastor of Parish Life at Christ Church United Methodist in Charleston, WV. “Karate is a tool that can help people grow, understand, and become disciplined. Church is a tool that also helps people grow, understand, and become disciplined. The greatest tool of all to be used to empower others is the constant and abundant application of grace.”

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