Sermons on Testing

A Long Obedience SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction:  Friedrich Nietzsche was not the kind of philosopher with whom Christians find much in common, but even radical unbelievers sometimes have good things to say.  In his book, Beyond Good and Evil he wrote, “The essential thing in heaven and earth is that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”  Eugene H. Peterson borrowed Nietzsche’s phrase for…