Over the last few months we have been blogging summaries from Eugene Peterson’s Book “A Long Obedience In The Same Direction,” based upon the Songs Of Ascents. This colletion of Psalms serve as a wonderful guide in the pursuit of glorifying God through all of life. Here is a pdf of the entire series. LongObedienceSameDirection.rb.d

Psalm 134 (ESV) 1Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD! 2 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD! 3May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! Stand, Stoop, Stay: The way of [...]

Psalm 133 (ESV) 1Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! 2It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! 3It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of [...]

Psalm 132 (ESV) 1Remember, O LORD, in David’s favor, all the hardships he endured, 2how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, 3 “I will not enter my house or get into my bed, 4I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5until I [...]

Psalm 131 (ESV) 1O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within [...]

Psalm 130 (ESV) 1Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! 2O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 4But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. 5I [...]