Leap Over a Wall

Of all the characters in the Bible it is David who is most human. His life is lived on the rough-edged actuality of real life and his relationship with God is an energetic one. Through the passions the trials and the lyrical poetry of this beloved figure we gain powerful insights into the role of God in our own lives.<P>In this inspirational volume Professor Eugene H. Peterson translator of The Message uses stories from David's epic life as vivid lessons in everyday faith and spirituality. Exploring David's experiences of friendship grief love sin and suffering as well as sanctuary beauty and wilderness he reawakens us to the enduring truths behind these beloved stories.<P>As we tell and listen to the David story we're at the same time being trained in the nature of story itself as the primary literary form for receiving God's revelation.<BR>--from Leap Over a Wall <P>Eugene H. Peterson skillfully uses the David story to talk not about David but about you and about me. Leap Over a Wall is the human story in all its wonder and terror and pity.<BR>--Richard J. Foster author of Celebration of Discipline and Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home <P>The author brings the Old Testament world revealingly close to our own century and he makes vivid the notion that God's purposes are worked out in the ordinariness of specific human lives. <BR>-- Publisher's Weekly <P>This Everyman analysis brings new life to the stories of David and Goliath David and Bathsheba David and Absalom David and the Temple. <BR>-- The Washington Post