“Every day contemporary culture invites me to rush about in a hundred different directions that tear at my soul.

I have found Eugene Peterson to have no patience for such crazed busyness. Instead he shows me how to stay focused on the long, biblical direction home to God.”

 

CRAIG BARNES

author of When God Interrupts

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“I thank God for A Long Obedience. It is a pioneer message, first coming to us at a time when no one was talking about either ‘long’ or ‘obedience.’ And while, thankfully, others have added their voices in the intervening years, A Long Obedience retains its prophetic edge for us who live on the cusp of the twenty-first century. Rooted in the ancient psalmist’s Songs of Ascents, it invites us to journey with Jesus into the rich spiritual landscape of ‘righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.’”

 

RICHARD J. FOSTER

author of Celebration of Discipline

and Streams of Living Water

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“There is a clean, bright rigor to honest life before God. Burnishing the language of the Psalms, Eugene Peterson makes that life sing like a taut wire. A long obedience is the only path of discipleship to Jesus, and this is a message we desperately need to hear and implement today.”

 

DALLAS WILLARD

author of The Divine Conspiracy

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“I’ve never read a book by Eugene Peterson that didn’t stir and challenge me.”

 

MAX LUCADO

author of In the Grip of Grace

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“Eugene Peterson’s special gift is to stand beside us and keep our feet on the ground as he lifts our hearts to God and our minds to godliness. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, which does this stunningly well, is also the best pathway into the Psalter you are likely to find. If, like me for twenty years, you find it hard to get into the Psalms, that is another reason to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest this brilliant book.”

 

J. I. PACKER

author of Knowing God

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“It has been said in today’s instant society that evangelism has never been easier: it’s discipleship that has never been harder. Eugene Peterson not only instructs us in his considerable wisdom about authentic discipleship, he helps us see the passion and excitement of living lives fully devoted to Jesus.

And with the current torrent of interest in spirituality, his guidance on what constitutes genuine spirituality is pure gold.”

 

REBECCA MANLEY PIPPERT

author of Out of the Saltshaker

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“Bind this book in the burlap of servanthood: a course in the weak times, a celebration in the strong! Twenty years ago I first read this tolle lege book. Now it is a well-read friend who looks down from my Peterson shelf and daily asks:

Are you faithful long-term?

Are you going always in the same direction?”

 

CALVIN MILLER

author of The Singer Trilogy

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“Words are weapons for good or ill, and Eugene H. Peterson uses them to wield the sword of Scripture to pierce our minds and hearts. He is one of God’s most gifted wordsmiths, and we are privileged to have his work among us.

“I have constantly used his writings and concepts in my ministry; putting them to use in drama, teaching and books, and they have hugely enhanced my own gifting.

Not least, those words have had a sweet influence in my own ‘obedience in the same direction’!

I am honored to endorse this Christian classic.”

 

JILL P. BRISCOE

author of Running on Empty

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“Into a world that does its best to deceive us into believing that everything changes, God speaks his unchanging Word. Ours is a time and a world that needs to hear in fresh ways all that that Word might mean if we would only listen.

Eugene has listened. In this book he tells us all that he has heard about those fixed facets of that unchanging Word.”

 

MICHAEL CARD

recording artist

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“A wonderful book, one of the very best guides to the Psalms.

Peterson’s combination of passion and insight match the psalmists’. And he is very nearly as good a writer!”

 

TIM STAFFORD

author of Knowing the Face of God

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“All of the marks of a classic—profound, timeless, life-impacting.”

 

LEITH ANDERSON

author of Leadership That Works