Leap Over A Wall Earthy Spirituality For Everyday Christians [Paperback]

Leap Over a Wallis Eugene H. Peterson’s vibrant, insightful, and heartfelt exploration of one of the Bible’s most controversial figures: King David. Peterson beautifully elucidates the Old Testament’s rich depictions of David's failures and victories, recapturing their excitement and immediacy to reveal David himself as a crucially human example of how we relate to God. A vision brought to life by one of the world’s most respected and influential theologians, the author ofThe Pastor,The Jesus Way,Practice Resurrection, andThe Message—a bestselling contemporary translation of the Bible—Leap Over a Wallis a unique opportunity to reconnect with David, a man simultaneously admirable, soulful, and dark, and one of the most complex and vital characters of the greatest story ever written.

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.

In this inspirational volume, Professor Eugene H. Peterson, translator ofThe 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.

Eugene H. Peterson skillfully uses the David story to talk not about David, but about you and me. Leap Over A Wall is the human story in all its wonder and terror and pity.Leap Over A Wall brings King Davids life so close to us, each event a devotional experience, each application an experience that walks us step by step to Davids God and ours.The author brings the Old Testament world revealinlã)