Run with the Horses – The Quest for Life at Its Best

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Darris McNeely] Good afternoon everyone. Thank you very much, class, for that beautiful music. I, too, would like to extend my thanks to all of you parents that sent your children here for us to teach this year at ABC. It's always a pleasure to be able to build on the foundation of the work that is done in the home when students come for the Bible classes here. It's a great honor and we've enjoyed having them here. Thy feet run, and they cause thee to faint; how wilt thou prepare to ride upon horses? and thou hast been confident in the land of thy peace? how wilt thou do in the roaring of Jordan?

Jeremiah learned to live persistently toward God because God lived persistently toward him…God’s persistence is not a dogged repetition of duty. It has all the surprise and creativity, and yet all the certainty and regularity, of a new day” (117). All 3 races begin Saturday @ 7:00 a.m. in front of the pavilion at The Expedition Island. Elevation is 6100' at start. The first 2 miles are city streets and the paved Greenbelt Trail along the Green River. The course then turns onto The Wild Horse Loop Tour Road, a County graded dirt road. You will begin your run up 1st Springs Canyon, approx. 2 miles. At the head of the canyon the elevation will now be about 7300'. You will then be running across the top of White Mountain on the Wild Horse Loop Tour over rolling hills between 7300 and 7500'. Previous runners described the course as challenging and rewarding.As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable."5 Read more at location 1559 I rated this book with 5 stars in all three areas, Overall, Performance and Story because it flowed well with the Scriptures and the continued mention of faith in practice rather than faith in word only. Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt… And if we are going to live in the world, attentive to each particularity, loving it through all the bad times without being repelled by it or afraid of it or conformed to it, we are going to have to face its immense evil, but know at the same time that it is a limited and controlled evil.” Follow the harrowing rescue of the Lipizzaner horses during World War II in this picture book. The book is nonfiction woven with fiction, seen through the eyes of a fictional character, Nina, the daughter of the stablemaster at the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna. As the war came closer to Vienna, Nina’s school was closed and people were fleeing the city. To save the last four stallions, Nina would have to ride over the Alps with her father. But she could not leave her favorite old cab horse, Zelda, behind in the deserted city. So Nina rode Zelda, following her father and the horses, not knowing the dangers that she and Zelda would face together as they crossed the Alps to safety.

To Jeremiah, in the semi-apocalyptic era of the Babylonian invasion of Israel, it was next to impossible to stop. It seemed like the end of civilization itself was near... You've come to Ambassador Bible College to expand your knowledge of the Word of God. We've taken you through the Scriptures and we've taught you many things, and now, as you go out the door and on to the rest of your life, I have a challenge for you. Will you settle for less than the life that God intends for you? After you weigh all the options, will you choose life, that you may live? Will you count the cost to see if you have enough to finish? Will you decide to run with the horses? A prophet wakes us up from our sleepy complacency so that we see the great and stunning drama that is our existence, and then pushes us onto the stage playing our parts whether we think we are ready or not. A prophet angers us by rejecting our euphemisms and ripping off our disguises, then dragging our heartless attitudes and selfish motives out into the open where everyone sees them for what they are. A prophet makes everything and everyone seem significant and important—important because God made it, or him, or her; significant because God is actively, right now, using it, or him, or her” (48). I didn’t read it that way, however. I rushed to meet a deadline, and I feel like I missed a whole lot. At the same time, I do think it was hard to find the through-line, and I wish Peterson had done a better job of regularly orienting his reader to his larger intentions. It all felt slightly disconnected and honestly a bit overzealous at times. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds…

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This is the kind of book that requires meditation, discussion, and review-particularly of your own life, and how you square up with his vision of a life well-lived. Peterson knows how to cast that vision because he’s a masterful storyteller, and he speaks in a way that cuts through the wind to bury deep in your lungs. Breathing it in and letting it sit is how this work comes to life, I believe. Any part of our lives that is turned over to the crowd makes it and us worse. The larger the crowd, the smaller our lives…If we can’t do it well, we make it larger. We add dollars to our income, rooms to our houses, activities to our schedules, appointments to our calendars. And the quality of life diminishes with each addition.

In crowds the truth is flattened to fit a slogan…The crowd makes spectators of us, passive in the presence of excellence or beauty. The crowd makes consumers of us, inertly taking in whatever is pushed at us. As spectators and consumers the central and foundational elements of our being human—our ability to create, our drive to excel, our capacity to commune with God—atrophy” (135). The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one in the same time to lose the self and find the self” (15). Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

It is not our feelings that determine our level of participation in life, nor our experience that qualifies us for what we will do and be; it is what God decides about us” (50). Biblical faith has always insisted that there are no special aptitudes for a life with God—no required level of intelligence or degree of morality, no particular spiritual experience. The statement ‘I’m not the religious type’ is inadmissible. There are no religious types. There are only human beings, everyone created for a relationship with God is personal and eternal” (137). Scripture, however, doesn't play that game. Something very different takes place in the life of faith: each person discovers all the elements of a unique and original adventure. We are prevented from following in another's footsteps and are called to an incomparable association with Christ. The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. He never, fatigued and unable to maintain the rigors of creativity, resorts to mass-producing copies. Each life is a fresh canvas on which he uses lines and colors, shades and lights, textures and proportions that he has never used before.