A Pastor's Highways on the Way to the New Jerusalem - Hardcover

by Arthur Jarrell Tankersley (Author), John Huffman (Foreword by)

David Brooks wrote in The Second Mountain, "A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in response to a story." My life story has been lived in response to God's story revealed in the Bible. This book is about the highways I have traveled in obedience to the Voice of the Holy breaking into my successes and failures, desires and doubts, and leading me by the power of grace in ever merciful and transforming ways. If you are drawn to my story, it is because the same Voice is calling you to share the adventure of a lifetime in following Jesus as he set his face to go up to Jerusalem. Through my story may you hear Aslan's (Christ's) invitation, "Come further in! Come further up!" This story travels by way of the "highways to Zion" (Ps 84:5-7). Those highways become deeply paved in the hearts and minds of those who work for the healing of the world and who bring the blessings of the reign of God to barren, dry, and thirsty lands.

Author Biography

Arthur Jarrell "Jerry" Tankersley is an honorably retired pastor of the Presbyterian Church USA. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Los Angeles in 1963, and he retired in the Presbytery of Los Ranchos in 2018. For nearly sixty years he served three churches. His last call was to the Laguna Presbyterian Church. That call lasted for forty-six years and was a special gift of God's grace. Along the way of his journey, he graduated from Westmont College, earned several advanced degrees, namely a BD from Fuller Seminary, a ThM from Princeton Seminary, a PhD from Claremont Graduate School in Government, and a DMin from the School of Theology in Claremont. He and his wife, Katherine, have been married for over fifty-three years, have one son, Jeffrey, and his wife, Rachel, and two grandsons, Quinn and Luke, who are the sources of great thanksgiving.