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Title: The First Jesuits

Author: John W. O'malley

Narrator: Rene Ruiz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

John W. O'Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one that heightens and transforms our understanding of the Jesuits in history and today. Following the Society from 1540 through 1565, O'Malley shows how this sense of mission evolved. He looks at everything—the Jesuits' teaching, their preaching, their casuistry, their work with orphans and prostitutes, their attitudes toward Jews and 'New Christians,' and their relationship to the Reformation. All are taken in by the sweep of O'Malley's story as he details the Society's manifold activities in Europe, Brazil, and India.

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Title: Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You

Author: Michael Walrond

Narrator: Michael Walrond

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

An overlooked background figure in the grand narrative of the apostle Paul, Agabus (Acts 21:10-14) bursts from the epistles with an audacious prophecy. In a world where everyone wants to be the main character, Agabus remains a minor one with powerful relevance for today. Gleaning from Agabus's story, we can bravely be our authentic selves, honoring what God has assigned us to do, no matter how small or insignificant it seems. Exploring Agabus to convey the countercultural message that an anonymous life of authenticity and service is more important than approval of others or even fame, popular pastor and speaker Michael Walrond, in Searching for Agabus, dares us to be our authentic selves and to fulfill our callings in joyful anonymity. Walrond shares a painful personal loss that taught him this lesson. Based on this minor prophet's role in the formation of the early church and his significance as represented by feast days that continue even now, we can release the societal need for 'likes' and 'follows' and instead enter a journey of self-discovery. There are blessings in anonymity; we can live quietly and find our way home to ourselves and to God.

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Title: Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus: Questioning Your Religion Can Lead You to a Healthy and Holy God

Author: Preston Ulmer

Narrator: Preston Ulmer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

What If Deconstructing Your Faith Isn’t a Phase but a Holy Process? There’s probably a really good reason you picked up this book. Are you desperate to be in relationship with family or friends who are questioning their faith? Are you experiencing your own deconstruction of faith? Here is your invitation to rethink everything you thought you knew. In this process, you’ll . . . - learn why it’s important to deconstruct (and how we are wired to do it); - define deconstruction and deconversion―what they really mean; - consider WWJD (What Would Jesus Deconstruct?); and - apply the FUSE method to deconstruct for yourself. Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus will help you to enter the mindset of a deconstructionist. A worldview with a high capacity for paradoxes. A mental space that outweighs your self-interest in being right. A tendency to see Christian beliefs as inseparable from Christian ethics. In doing so, you will find the original deconstructionist, Jesus, right beside you.

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Title: Serving as Jesus Served: Practical Ways to Love Others

Author: Michele Howe

Narrator: Pamela Klein

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In Serving as Jesus Served: Practical Ways to Love Others, Michele Howe equips men and women to better understand their calling as God’s chosen ones to make a distinct and holy impact in the world. She begins by unpacking what it means to serve God and what this looks like in day-to-day life. Designed to be highly practical, Serving as Jesus Served offers readers specific Bible passages that describe our responsibilities as servants and how to implement them in a world that pursues the opposite. Each chapter highlights a specific passage of Scripture for deeper study and includes a real-life story that illustrates how a servant is to respond to difficulties, opposition, or resistance from others. Every story is followed by a biblical application essay, a Take-away Thought, a Prayer of Confession, a Call to Action, and a Call to Serve prompt for every day of the week. Also included are inspirational quotations, memory verses, and introspective questions for readers to contemplate and pray about. Serving as Jesus Served answers the question posed by many earnest believers: “How do I best serve Jesus in a world so hostile to my faith?”

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Title: Small Talk: Learning From My Children About What Matters Most

Author: Amy Julia Becker

Narrator: Amy Julia Becker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Almost every day, one of Amy Julia's children says something or asks something that prompts her to think more carefully: 'What 'lasting' mean?' William wonders when he hears a song about God being an everlasting God. 'If the children who died went to heaven, then why are we sad?' Penny asks, when she passes by a funeral for a victim of the Sandy Hook shootings. 'I don't wanna get 'tized!' says Marilee about baptism. These conversations deepen her relationships with her children, but they also deepen and refine her own understanding of what she believes, why she believes it, and what she hopes to pass along to the next generation. Small Talk is a narrative based upon these conversations. It is not a parenting guide. It does not offer prescriptive lessons about how to talk with children. Rather, it tells stories based upon the questions and statements Amy Julia's children have made about the things that make life good, the things that make life hard, and what we believe. Amy Julia moves in rough chronological order through the basic questions her kids asked when they were very young to the more intellectual and spiritual questions of later childhood. Small Talk invites other parents into these same conversations, with their children, with God, and with themselves.

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Title: Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood

Author: Ashlee Gadd

Narrator: Ashlee Gadd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Motherhood and creativity can coexist. You have creative dreams swirling in your heart, but pursuing them while changing diapers and managing the carpool schedule feels impossible. You have no time. No space. You can mother, or you can create. You certainly can't do both (right?!). But what if you could pursue your God-given creative gifts alongside motherhood, for the enrichment of both experiences? What if you stopped viewing creativity as a selfish act, and started to see it as essential to your own flourishing as a mother? This book is a much-needed permission slip to do just that—through the pictures you take, the stories you write, the meals you make, the music you play, the gardens you grow. In this unforgettable book, writer and mother Ashlee Gadd helps you set aside the guilt and discover the sacred connection between creating and mothering. One-part commissioning, one-part pep talk, Create Anyway will propel you forward with a renewed sense of energy, purpose, and enthusiasm for stewarding the creative dreams God has planted in your heart—right alongside the diapers and carpool. Here's to creating in the margins of motherhood. Here's to creating anyway.

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Title: The Angels of Christmas

Author: Susan Robb

Narrator: Nan Mcnamara

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Release date: May 30, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Explore the four angelic visits surrounding the birth of Jesus with Susan Robb in The Angels of Christmas, a four-week Advent study. The Angels of Christmas: Hearing God's Voice in Advent, a four-week Advent study by Susan Robb, explores the four angelic visits surrounding the birth of Jesus with Zechariah, Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds. In this study, the listener will explore the visits and dive deep into the history of the angel Gabriel—and other angels—in the Old Testament. The Angels of Christmas uses these four angelic appearances to discuss God's presence in history and our lives today. The messages of the angels hold meaning for listeners both then and now.

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Title: [German] - Nimm dein Herz und geh los - Mit Mut und Sehnsucht durch das eigene Leben wandern (ungekürzt)

Author: Ann Kathrin Horstmann

Narrator: Katja Zimmermann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Release date: May 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Das Leben ist nicht linear, sondern durchläuft Höhen und Tiefen. Es ist voller Überraschungen und Herausforderungen. Und wir sind mittendrin - auf der Suche nach der Überwindung unserer Schwierigkeiten, nach mehr Lebensqualität und Gottes liebevoller Gegenwart. Als Beraterin kennt Ann Kathrin Horstmann diese Suche aus vielen Gesprächen und weiß, wie man sich auf den Weg dahin macht. Durch kurze Kapitel und warme, inspirierende Texte wird dieses Buch zu einem idealen Begleiter, der im Alltag stärkt und unterstützt. Kreative Impulse laden zum Innehalten, zu anderen Sichtweisen und neuen Aufbrüchen ein. Wunderschöne Erzählgedichte und Berichte eigener himmlischer Begegnungen der Autorin ermutigen auf dem Weg zu einem erfüllten Leben, erfüllt von der Liebe Gottes. Dieses Buch hilft, stark, mutig, hoffnungsvoll und einfach lebendiger zu werden.

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Title: Anger and Stress Management God's Way

Author: Wayne A. Mack

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Anger and stress affect each of us every day—even if we aren't feeling them ourselves, we come into contact with people who are. But their commonplace nature shouldn't cause us to shrug them away. Anger and stress are both destroyers, and they must be controlled before they bring devastating harm. Mack exhorts us: 'You don't have to be overcome and destroyed by ungodly anger or stress. By God's grace, you can be an overcomer.' Of all the resources available to us, the Bible contains the most trustworthy and helpful guidance on how to handle ungodly anger and stress. Internationally respected and experienced biblical counselor Wayne Mack shows how to turn to God's Word to find help, explaining principles that can be adopted for lasting positive change.

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Title: Faith Like a Child: Embracing Our Lives as Children of God

Author: Lacy Finn Borgo

Narrator: Lacy Finn Borgo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 23, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Embrace the invitation of childlike faith. A well-known challenge of Jesus to his followers is to become like little children. But it's often difficult to remember the natural patterns of our childhood selves that enabled us to live freely in God's wonder-filled presence. Is childlike faith simply an unquestioning faith, or is it being present with ourselves in a way that invites healing and wholeness? Faith Like a Child considers Jesus' invitation to childlike faith and explores seven distinct ways of welcoming the child within. Offering wisdom from years of experience as a spiritual director with both adults and children, Lacy Finn Borgo explores practices to welcome and enliven your childhood self. Offering examples of what becoming like children could look like, Borgo invites you to take Jesus up on his offer to live more deeply into a relationship with God. As we welcome our childhood selves, we allow God to heal our wounds so we can live in freedom with Jesus as our companion.