Overview

"Racing into the darkness, we had only the stars for light . . . driving us across plains we had never run, towards mountains we had never seen."

"Dark Horse surges with power."
Luci Shaw

"What a read!"
Mike Yaconelli

This stirring allegory of intrigue and adventure invites you to explore the deeper meanings of faith, leadership, and ...
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Dark Horse

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Overview

"Racing into the darkness, we had only the stars for light . . . driving us across plains we had never run, towards mountains we had never seen."

"Dark Horse surges with power."
Luci Shaw

"What a read!"
Mike Yaconelli

This stirring allegory of intrigue and adventure invites you to explore the deeper meanings of faith, leadership, and calling. Legendary author and musician John Fischer's haunting tale shows what can happen when you dare to break out of complacency, discover the challenge of taking difficult risks, and find freedom of spirit like you've never known before.

John Fischer has recorded more than eleven albums, published seven nonfiction books (including Real Christians Don't Dance), and four novels. He is a frequent speaker and worship leader at college campuses and at conferences. For more than twenty years, he consistently won awards for his columns in CCM magazine. John and his family live in Laguna Beach, California.

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This brief allegory by Fischer, a Christian singer and songwriter, traces the journey of a show horse that decides to leave its comfortable, conformist existence in favor of freedom on the wild plains. Where once he had striven to deceive others into believing that he was all white the coat color most prized by horse lovers the stallion comes to recognize his own natural beauty. "White isn't what you look like," says his liberator. "It's what you do when you follow the will of the White One." The allegory explores the Christian ideal of breaking through external boundaries to answer the call to discipleship; in one scene, the horse runs through a brush fire and finds refuge in a stream a clear reference to the saving waters of baptism. The story can be a tad obvious, but the novella's brevity and gift packaging will ensure reader interest. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781441239174
  • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/15/2003
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 96
  • Sales rank: 47,778
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

John Fischer has been mixing his unique combination of singing, speaking, and humor for a variety of audiences for over thirty years. His multifaceted talents of song writing, speaking, singing, and writing reflect the many avenues by which John carries on a spiritual dialogue with real life and real people.

John's books present a thought-provoking challenge to the Christian Church today, encouraging believers to pull the true essence of their faith from the trappings of the contemporary Christian subculture. John's debut into fiction, Saint Ben, received a Silver Angel award for fiction.

His other fiction books include Saint Ben, Saint's and Angel's Song, and Ashes on the Wind. Since l980, he has contributed a column to Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) magazine.

A graduate of Wheaton College, John and his family now live in California.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2012

    Awesome book

    It is an awesome book that shows a tale from a horse's perspective. I'm 10, and absalootly loved this book. If you decide to buy this you read it all together or with short breaks. But my overall rating is definetly a 5 .

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 2, 2006

    it is a totally cool book

    it is an interesting way of looking at it in a horses perspective, but to take it and to be able to look at yourself and your life, and where you might be on your journey.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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