Gospel Horse Series

Leadership. Relationship. Faith. Learn how to earn your horse's complete attention, deserve his faith, and inspire consistent obedience.  Horses are born looking for a herd, dogs for a pack, and people for God. The quality of every horse, dog, or human life is the quality of the relationships enjoyed or endured.  The "Amazing Grays" are two gray quarter horses who led the author from a successful career in the horse industry to ministry with horses. As Lynn says, "You can't fool God and you can't fool a horse. And, like God, horses treat you precisely as you deserve, unless they give you grace." The search for love, security, companionship, and fun is universal. Creating relationships that deliver great blessing without excessive baggage isn't easy in our complex world. Ultimately, the search for security and meaning is the search for a relationship with God.  Horses are perfect study partners for anyone willing to work, learn, and practice both followership and leadership. "Amazing Grays" applies simple gospel truths to your relationship with horses. The foundations of commitment, faith, and effective correction are shared in stories from the author's years as an equine professional. Gratitude, distraction, temptation, willingness, and humility are recurring characters in life with horses and your walk with Christ.  "Amazing Grays" leads you on the joyful path to building new depths of commitment and relationship with your horse.  The author credits her life, her successes, and the priceless gift of life with horses to God's amazing grace. Through horses, Lynn learned the truth of how deep and complete Jesus's commitment is to her — because it's the same one she makes to her horses and knows the cost. 

Experience this compelling and uplifting story of a real horse in desperate need of rescue - and how God delivered it in the nick of time. The best stories are often true; with promising beginnings that wander through change and uncertainty, fall into the darkest of pits, then joyfully rise to heartwarming, blissful endings. That describe Ace and Shiner's story. Born as Princes of the Pasture they lived without fear until they were sold into confusion and despair.  Until the author and her husband were sent to find them and bring them home.  Only the hand of God could arrange events with the precise sequence and timing to give this story life - and a happy ending.  Shiner and Ace were rescued at the moment it was most needed. Their story, however, is for everyone who has ever felt hopeless or abandoned. There is hope. There is something bright and beautiful ahead. "He Came Looking for Me" is a message that Jesus's promise of a mansion in heaven is true. Need proof? Shiner shares part of the story in his own unique equine way. If you loved "Black Beauty", you'll love this book. Even better, Shiner is a real horse in Weatherford, Texas.

Horsemanship. Leadership. Discipleship. This is a practical book sharing the what, why, and how of creating transformative relationship with a horse.  Few know how to achieve it, but it is possible when you know how to offer it, guide it, and deserve it. Horsemanship is understanding how horses think, how they learn, and what they need. Leadership offers horses options that let them be right, teaches them confidence, and creates reflexive obedience because the horse wants to do as you ask. Discipleship is knowing what you know well enough to teach others how to get the same results you do.  The parallel between your relationship with a horse and your relationship with God follow similar paths. Christian author Lynn Baber ties the two together in inspiring and practical ways. She explains why your horse doesn't do as you ask and how to change both the question and the answer. From the practical to the inspirational and the round pen to the prayer closet, Lynn provides specific how-to's and concepts to help you develop the right program for your horse, or anyone you lead, based on timeless gospel principles. For example, Jesus used four basic commands with His disciples: Come Follow Go or Send Yield Every request you make of your horse falls into one of those four categories. When you don't get the result you want, which of those four did your horse say "No" to?  Christian Horse Training (CHT) is simple, systematic, and a labor of love. "Discipleship With Horses" is the guidebook to help you connect with the heart of a horse in a way many only dream of. This is a journey of joy.

Horses make Dreams. Come. True. Why do women love horses? Husbands, fathers, and sons try to understand us, but often give up, accepting that just as kittens grow up to be cats, the horse-loving woman in his life was born that way. She is a force of nature, unknowable, unchangeable, and the smart ones learn it's better to join than resist. The thought of horses changes my spirit; inhaling their sweet aroma, fingers pulling softly through silky tail hair, my heart translating their secret language of snuffles, whuffles, and whinnies. There's no way to explain it to someone who isn't in love with horses. But for those who are, no words are necessary. Eyes meet, lips curl in a secret smile, and with a nod of recognition, you know that you are sisters. Life with horses is real. It's a mixture of spreading your arms to catch the sky on mountain peaks of joy and wallowing in sand dampened by tears. The greatest losses reveal the greatest loves. If you have the dream, please know that it isn't a fairy tale, but a blessing that stretches you every way humanly possible. And those who live it wouldn't trade it for anything. I've been blessed to live with horses for over thirty years, trading in my training facility for a barn shared with my husband, four horses, two dogs, and a cat. Until I was thirty-three years old, I held the dream of horses in my heart, doing everything possible to ride, pet, talk to, or simply be near one. This book is for my horse-crazy sisters, those who live the dream and those still clinging to the hope that one day hers will come true. Horses are wonderful, obedient, sweet, obstinate, frustrating, challenging, joyous, fulfilling, and obsessive. Most are creative communicators capable of telling you precisely where to scratch, what perfume is most annoying, which treat is the bomb, and when you've ticked her off or hurt her feelings. Horses make sense in a world that doesn't. I don't understand why people hate, argue, scheme, belittle, and harm one another. We humans can be quixotic, generous, hateful, loving, and nasty. Horses aren't that way. They're consistently horse. All of them. Delightful, comical, challenging, endearing, frustrating comedians and dramatists of the stable. Who wouldn't be captivated? Some women are born with a fully-activated horse-crazy gene. Others live a half-century before theirs is triggered, opening up a new world of possibility, emotion, insight, fulfillment, and love. Enjoy stories from real women who share their horse dreams and what they've learned. Generously illustrated with actual photos. Some are professionals, some aren't, but all are sisters. Share memories, realize opportunity, and take advantage of tools shared throughout "The Breath of Horse Crazy" to make your dream bigger, bolder, and more satisfying. You breathe and you love horses. What's so difficult to understand?