The Race: Run Like a Champion

I never fail to come away inspired after hearing or reading something from Sammy Tippit. The Race is no exception. You’ll be challenged and refreshed if you let its message reach your soul.
Jerry B. Jenkins Co-Author of the Left Behind series

In The Race: Run Like a Champion you will read the Bible through the eyes of a runner. The truths found will place you on the path of success as you pursue your life’s purpose. You will learn how to overcome life’s greatest adversities. But most important, you’ll understand what it takes to run the race of life and finish well.

The running principles in The Race provide wisdom and inspiration for athletic performance and health benefits for readers while the biblical truths direct the reader down the path of spiritual renewal and personal growth. Sammy Tippit uses the imagery of the runner to show the reader the way to build the character, strength, and endurance of a champion. It includes testimonies and interviews with Ryan Hall, American record holder for the half marathon; Charles Austin, Olympic and American record holder for the high jump; and Jerry Stovall, former All-Pro football player and former head football coach at Louisiana State University.

As you read The Race, you will cry out with Phidippedes, “Nenikékamen! Rejoice, we conquer!”

I was gripped from the first word of The Race! If you are a sports fan, a God fan, or just a fan of living the life you were meant to live, you are going to love this book. Even better, you will be changed by it. You will run!
Dr. John Avant Senior Pastor First Baptist Church, West Monroe, Louisiana

As a runner throughout my life and as one who has competed in the Boston Marathon, I have been enthralled with the stories and life lessons in The Race. . . . The athletic insights in The Race will help you turn life’s painful experiences into awesome victories, and they will cause you to run life’s daily race with a more intense focus on The Finish Line!
Barry St.Clair President, Reach Out Youth Solutions, Atlanta, GA

The Race is a book you will want to read and recommend to others.
Michael Catt Senior Pastor Sherwood Church, Albany, Georgia, and Executive Producer, Sherwood Pictures

What an incredible challenge! I just couldn’t put it down! In a day of lukewarmness and half-heartedness, The Race challenged me to a higher level of personal discipline.
Dave Engbrecht Senior Pastor Nappanee Missionary Church, Nappanee, Indiana

Sammy Tippit brings together his experiences as a runner along with the wealth of biblical material that applies to running and physical fitness, and gives us a challenging word for running the Christian life in a way that honors Christ.
Dave Butts Chairman America’s National Prayer Committee

Embedded within these pages lie some critical forgotten factors that will help ignite a fire for personal revival while enabling you to endure the challenges we all experience on our journey toward Christ-likeness. Discover and digest these truths, and the times of refreshing God wants you to experience will enable you to complete life’s race successfully.
Byron Paulus Executive Director Life Action Ministries

The Race is the perfect example of a dramatic human plot portrayed before divine themes that are as real to the reader as the pages upon which they are written. A masterpiece! You can’t put this one down!
Dr. Joe Aguillard President Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana