Leap Over a Wall: Earthy Spirituality for Everyday Christians

“This retelling and reflection on the life of David, the most completely portrayed character in the Bible … depicts an epic figure with the foibles of modern men and women… . This everyman analysis brings new life to the stories.” - Washington Post“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.” - Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline“David, vaulter of walls, troop-crusher, flawed and passionate poet, never fails to capture the Christian imagination because of his whole-hearted lust for God. Now, Eugene Peterson examines this shepherd-king through the magnifying lenses of the people and events in his life and suggests new and powerful possibilities for the divine-human link in our own time and culture” - Luci Shaw, author of God in the Dark“Leap Over A Wall brings King David’s life so close to us, each event a devotional experience, each application an experience that walks us step by step to David’s God and ours.” - Walter Wangerin Jr., author of Reliving the Passion“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.” - Publishers Weekly

Eugene Peterson is a Greek and Hebrew scholar and Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver. He has been writing for more than 35 years and has dozens of books to his name. He has become more known in the UK through his best-selling The Message.