Lloyd James
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If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses?' -Jeremiah 12:5. All Christians long to live life at its best: to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do they often find their lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or else so frantic, so full of activity, but still devoid of fulfillment? How do Christians learn to risk, to trust, to pursue wholeness and excellence:...
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Society today is no less obsessed with the immediate than when Eugene Peterson first wrote this Christian classic. If anything, email and the Internet may have intensified the quest for the quick fix. But Peterson's time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same: a long obedience in the same direction. Tucked away in the Hebrew Psalter, Peterson discovered 'an old dog-eared songbook,' the Songs of Ascents that were sung by pilgrims on...