Pete Briscoe - Secrets from the Treadmill: Discover Gods Rest in the Busyness of Life

Advance Praise forSecrets from the Treadmill
by Pete Briscoe and Patricia Hickman

The secret (which unfortunately it is) that Gods people need to observe the gift of rest is urgently needed today. Pete and Patricia have given us one of the most needed antidotes for our overly busy lives. Take time to learn how to get off the treadmill. It will save your life.

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
President, Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary

If you find yourself panting just to keep up on the treadmill we call life, this book is for you! Briscoe and Hickman have unearthed the rare jewel of rest, and present it to us in all its irresistible brilliance. Not to be missed!

Angela Hunt
Author of The Debt

Hooray for my pastor, Pete Briscoe! He has discovered what I found out many years ago. A balanced mixture of desire, ambition, dedication, hard work, and rest can and will help you reach your goals in the sports world, in your spiritual life, and all other pursuits.

Bruce Lietzke
PGA Tour and Champions Tour
Veteran

Just try to rationalize your too-busy-to-slow-down lifestyle after reading Secrets from the Treadmill: Discover Gods Rest in the Busyness of Life. It gave me a soft God-jolt. The book makes clear, God says rest, not just your blood-pressure doctor! This is a great book with a timely message.

Marilyn Meberg
Women of Faith core speaker, and
author of Zippered Heart

Reading Secrets from the Treadmill did for me what the book encouragesit made me relax and reflect. I learned years ago that I have to say no to the great majority of things Im asked to do, so Im available to say yes to those few God wants me to do. But I need to relearn that lesson periodically, and Pete Briscoe and Patty Hickman helped me do that. Jesus calls upon us to carry our crosses, yet paradoxically promises a light burden and rest for our souls. If the burdens usually heavy and our souls arent at rest... were missing something. This book will help you find what youre missing.

Randy Alcorn
Author of The Grace and Truth
Paradox and Safely Home

Stop, take a deep breath and read this book. My friend and fellow pastor Pete Briscoe and Patricia Hickman offer wise counsel for the weary and balance for every believer. You will learn the secrets of living in the soulrest and strength of Gods grace when you embrace the message of this much needed book.

Jack Graham
Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist
Church

Secrets from the Treadmill speaks a rare but essential word to our hurried, overcommitted generation. As a busy work-from-home mother of small children, I especially appreciated Briscoe and Hickmans call to rest and quiet. Secrets from the Treadmill has given me permission to do what's right for my soul!

Marlo Schalesky
Author of Only the Wind
Remembers (Moody, 2003
Foreword Magazine Book of the
Year Finalist), Cry Freedom
(Crossway, 2000), Freedoms
Shadow (Crossway. 2001), and
Empty Womb, Aching Heart
(Bethany House, 2001)

When will I find time to read it? I wondered when Secrets from the Treadmill arrived. Im so weary. But within the first paragraphs, as the sweet scent of a Shabbat rest drew me in, I knew this was not another how-to book but rather a God will book. God will invite us into such a living restif we listen. God will give us the time and the way to find the peace Hes promised. Peter Briscoe and Patty Hickman have not only brought words of rest to my harried soul, theyve been the breath of the Holy Spirit telling me how to hear Gods voice on the treadmill and given me the way to step off. Theyve shown me a way to share these Biblically inspired and personally lived words with others. A life-changing book.

Jane Kirkpatrick
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
and award-winning author of A
Simple Gift of Comfort and Hold
Tight the Thread

Secrets from the Treadmill calls Christians to outrageous persistence in the pursuit of quietness and stillness so that Gods voice can be heard and His presence savored. It is a wise book for believers tyrannized by noise and activity. I was drawn into rest just by reading it.

Jan Winebrenner
Author, Intimate Faith and The
Grace of Catastrophe

In Hebrew, Psalm 46:10 literally means Be still and sink into the flame of the Lord. Here is abook that helps us do just that. Filled with the cinematography of natures landscape juxtaposed against the true-to-life conflict that our fast-paced lives cast upon our spiritual well-being, Briscoe and Hickman invite us to embrace Gods rest in our lives, and offer us a lyrical, practical guide to getting there.

Deborah Bedford
Best-selling author of The Story
Jar, A Memory Like This, Just
Between Us, and If I Had You

This book conveys the central message of the value of Sabbatical rest in the broadest biblical sense, as the subtitle suggests. Even more so, Pete Briscoe (my pastor) presents many ways to deepen ones relationship with the Father and ones own family in non-Pharisaical freedom.

Del Harris
NBA Coach

Pete Briscoe addresses a pressing need faced by every 21st century leader. His honest approach and thoughtful illustrations are a catalyst to personal growth in connecting with God at a deeper level.

Mike Duggins Associate U. S. Director, Campus
Crusade for Christ

If clean and reinstall happens at conversion, and hard resets on forced occasions, all Christians need soft resets to optimize life. The more I pursue life without soft resets, the more sluggish, complex, and performance-oriented I become. My pastor, Pete Briscoe, points us towards the Makers instructions on resetting life, regularly and intentionally. Struggling but succeeding, he shares Gods liberating strategies for measuring pace and making space for God in the normal, busy course of life.

Ramesh Richard, Ph.D. Th.D.,
Professor,
Dallas Theological Seminary
President, RREACH International.

Copyright 2004 Pete Briscoe and Patricia Hickman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Briscoe, Pete, 1963
Secrets from the treadmill : discover Gods rest in the busyness of life / Pete Briscoe and Patricia Hickman.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7852-6215-6 (pbk.)
1. RestReligious aspectsChristianity. 2. Sabbath. I. Hickman, Patricia. II. Title.