Run with the Horses

The Quest for Life at Its Best

Eugene H. Peterson, Eugene H Peterson

• Publisher: IVP Formatio
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9780830855483
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, "If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?"We all long to live life at its best—to fuse freedom and spontaneity with purpose and meaning. Why then do we often find our lives so humdrum, so unadventuresome, so routine? Or else so frantic, so full of activity, but still devoid of fulfillment? How do we learn to risk, to trust, to pursue wholeness and excellence—to run with the horses in the jungle of life?In a series of profound reflections on the life of Jeremiah the prophet, Eugene Peterson explores the heart of what it means to be fully and genuinely human.His writing is filled with humor and self-reflection, insight and wisdom, helping to set a course for others in the quest for life at its best.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Commemorative Preface by Eric E. Peterson
• Preface to the Second Edition
• 1. What Makes You Think You Can Race Against Horses?
• 2. Jeremiah
• 3. Before
• 4. I’m Only a Boy!
• 5. Don’t for a Minute Believe the Lies
• 6. Go to the Potter’s House
• 7. Pashur Whipped Jeremiah
• 8. This Ever Worsening Wound
• 9. Twenty-Three Years It’s Been!
• 10. Get a Scroll and Write
• 11. The Recabite Community
• 12. To All the Exiles
• 13. Guard . . . King . . . Official
• 14. I Bought the Field at Anathoth
• 15. Regarding the Godless Nations
• 16. No One Will Escape the Doom
• Notes
• Praise for Run with the Horses
• About the Author
• More Titles from InterVarsity Press
• Copyright