The accomplished poet and preacher J. Barrie Shepherd retells a series of dramatic Old Testament "encounters" from a contemporary point of view, using poetic imagery and diction. Among the stories he reexamines are Jacob at Jabbok, Moses on the Mountain, Jacob at Bethel, Elijah and the Voice, Gideon at Harod, Adam and Eve in the Garden, Abraham in Moriah, Sarah at the Tent Flap, Joshua at Jericho, Isaiah at the Altar, and Ezekiel and the Wheel, By retelling these familiar stories in new and unexpected ways, Shepherd challenges us to reexamine many of the basic issues of biblical theology and their relevance to the contemporary world.

"The voice of Barrie Shepherd is an uncommon, even rare, possession of the church in our time. In him and in his ministry are combined the qualities essential to authentically distinguished preaching."

-from the foreword by Davie Napier