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Title: Church on Trial: How to Protect Your Congregation, Mission, and Reputation During a Crisis

Author: Phil Cooke

Narrator: Phil Cooke

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Release date: December 31, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In the ministry world where unpredictability is the only certainty, church leaders face a unique challenge—navigating the upheaval precipitated by crises. From unforeseen scandals to disruptive emergencies, leaders must be equipped with grounded solutions to manage them with confidence and poise. That is why Phil Cooke's Church on Trial is a must-listen. An essential guide for maintaining integrity and preserving the good standing of your church in the face of a crisis, you will learn how to maintain and earn congregational trust and unity; safeguard your church's reputation preemptively and proactively before it crashes and burns; implement best practices for crisis prevention and recovery; build relationships and collaborate with trusted legal advisors; and gracefully handle negative media attention and publicity. Crises do not have to break your church. Rather, your church can be built to weather the storms they bring.

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Title: Early Christian Martyr Stories: An Evangelical Introduction with New Translations

Author: Bryan M. Litfin

Narrator: Tyler Boss

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Release date: December 17, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Personal narratives are powerful instruments for teaching, both for conveying information and for forming character. The martyrdom accounts preserved in the literature of early Christianity are especially intense and dramatic. However, these narratives are not readily available and are often written in intimidating prose, making them largely inaccessible for the average reader. This introductory work brings together key early Christian martyrdom stories in a single volume, offering new translations and expert commentary. An introduction and explanatory notes accompany each translation. The book not only provides a vivid window into the world of early Christianity but also offers spiritual encouragement and inspiration for Christian life today.

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Title: Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up

Author: Tiffany Bluhm

Narrator: Tiffany Bluhm

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Release date: December 17, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

'A welcome book offering an important wake-up call to the Christian community and beyond.' —Gail Eubanks, Library Journal Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual harassment and sexual assault, it is. Bluhm explores the complex dynamics of power and abuse in systems we all find ourselves in. With honesty and strength, she tells stories of how women have overcome silence to expose the truth about their ministry and professional leaders—and the backlash they so often face. In so doing, she empowers others to speak up against abuses of power. Addressing men and women in all work settings—within the church and beyond—popular author and podcast host Tiffany Bluhm sets out to understand the cultural and spiritual narratives that silence women and to illuminate the devastating emotional, financial, and social impact of silence in the face of injustice. As listeners journey with Bluhm, they will be moved to find their own way, their own voice, and their own conviction for standing with women. They'll emerge more ready than ever to advocate for justice, healing, and resurrection.

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Title: Peace in the Dark: Faithful Practices as We Wait for the Light

Author: Jessica Herberger

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Release date: December 10, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

How do we stay faithful as we wait on God? The time after Good Friday but before Easter Sunday is one of the most overlooked portions of the Bible. We tend to rush ahead to the empty tomb seeking to find the resurrected Lord, but our lives don't come equipped with a fast-forward button. We all face seasons of waiting where we long for a new or better future. Peace in the Dark invites you to look again and acknowledge the reality of Holy Saturday. The example of the early disciples in those in-between hours offers a depth of wisdom about what to do when things have gone wrong. Their practices can serve us as we face our own disappointments, trials, and even traumatic experiences. There is a way to not just live but to experience peace when God seems silent. Rooted in Scripture, nature, and her personal experiences of years of trial, Jessica Herberger guides us through what was happening on that day, why it matters, and how we can approach our Holy Saturdays with hope and faithfulness.

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Title: Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

Author: Jacob L. Wright

Narrator: Jim Denison

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Release date: December 10, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable. For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon's devastation of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total humiliation the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible imagined a promise-filled past while reflecting deeply on abject failure. More than just religious scripture, the Bible began as a trailblazing blueprint for a new form of political community. Its response to catastrophe offers a powerful message of hope and restoration that is unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds. Wright's Bible is thus a social, political, and even economic roadmap—one that enabled a small and obscure community located on the periphery of leading civilizations and empires not just to come back from the brink, but ultimately to shape the world's destiny. The Bible speaks ultimately of being a united yet diverse people, and its pages present a manual of pragmatic survival strategies for communities confronting societal collapse.

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Title: Faithful, Creative, Hopeful: Fifteen Theses for Christians in a Crisis-Shaped World

Author: Jesse A. Zink

Narrator: Brandon Pollock

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

An urgent argument for the centrality of Christian witness in the world. The world is changing rapidly. Between climate change, an unequal economic system, and widespread human migration, our societies are under stress and strain like never before. And just at the moment when the world needs to hear good news, many people perceive the Christian church as too old, tired, or out-of-touch to respond. In Faithful, Creative, Hopeful, Jesse Zink demonstrates the importance of the Christian gospel and its witness to the flourishing of human societies. Zink offers fifteen theses—echoing those of the church reformers—that together offer a vision for a renewed faith and a renewed church in this crisis-shaped world. From the future of the Eucharist to the nature of Christian hope, from the challenges of neoliberal capitalism to the joys of local community, Zink skillfully weaves together theology, Scripture, liturgy, congregational ministry, and on-the-ground experience of church in a variety of contexts to provoke, motivate, and challenge Christians to renew their ministry and live our mission in a changing and challenging world.

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Title: Destroying Demonic Tactics: 8 Supernatural Strategies to Defeat Satan's Newest Schemes

Author: John Veal

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

The Devil Will Need Deliverance from YOU! As our world advances, so does the enemy, modifying his age-old weapons to match these challenging times. So we, too, must modify our weapons in order to resist and defeat him at every turn. Exposing the enemy's eight updated tactics and strategies, leading prophetic voice Pastor John Veal offers a customized, hands-on battle plan for today. Complete with prophetic revelations and decrees, deliverance prayers, and supernatural declarations, he equips you with eight practical strategies to upgrade and supercharge your weapons; stand for God in this day of evil; identify and combat the lies of our age; destroy our era's demonic strongholds; and live out your divine assignment and destiny. When the Lord of Hosts teaches your hands to war, you will prevail against the god of this age—and experience lasting peace, freedom, and victory in these perilous times.

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Title: Carlo Acutis: The First Millennial Saint

Author: Nicola Gori

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Carlo Acutis, born in 1991, fully embraced the gift of life. Known as a computer whiz, he liked to play soccer, video games, and the saxophone. He enjoyed watching his favorite dramas and making short films with his cast of cats and dogs. He had many friends and enjoyed spending time with them. Yet Carlo was a little 'different' at school, in the pizzerias, and on the soccer field. What set Carlo apart was his constant pursuit of holiness. He spent time teaching catechism classes and serving in soup kitchens. Carlo loved to attend daily Mass and frequent Eucharistic adoration. The Word of God and the Eucharist were the center of his life. Carlo's unwavering devotion to the Eucharist inspired him to tell the story of Eucharistic miracles through a website he created. He wanted to deepen his own knowledge of these phenomena, to strengthen his devotion to Jesus, and to invite others to grow in love for the Eucharist. The website caught the attention of people across the globe, introducing countless people to Eucharistic miracles. Carlo died from a sudden illness in 2006. In less than a decade, his story spread across Italy and around the world. After Pope Francis declared him venerable in 2018, his beatification was celebrated in Assisi on October 10, 2020. The next step will be canonization, making him the first millennial saint.

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Title: Healing Leadership Trauma: Finding Emotional Health and Helping Others Flourish

Author: Sheila Wise Rowe MEd, Nicholas Rowe PhD

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Countless books are designed to help leaders to become better leaders. But most resources neglect the underlying emotional struggles of both emerging and established leaders, who are often isolated and suffering in silence. Leadership professor Nicholas Rowe and counselor Sheila Wise Rowe offer their expertise in helping leaders process painful and traumatic experiences. Trauma contributes to how we lead others in either empowering or dysfunctional ways. Understanding how these experiences formed us is the beginning of the path to healing. Woven throughout each chapter are five themes—invitation, attachment, remembrance, healing, and reconnection. Healing Leadership Trauma lays out the emotional challenges of leadership and offers encouragement, prayer, and therapeutic tools to help leaders face their pain and begin to heal.

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Title: The Shroud: Face to Face

Author: Robert Orlando

Narrator: Pat Grimes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Murder, a true crime scene, controversies, leading scientists’ investigations, and a startling NASA study. “An incredibly detailed image of the man on the Shroud shocks the world and befuddles believer and skeptic alike. How to explain such a phenomenon?” writes Robert Orlando, award-winning writer, filmmaker, and director. When Orlando was first approached about making a documentary about the Shroud of Turin, he was skeptical of the project—and the Shroud itself. Then, he came across conflicting opinions in history and science. This, along with his desire to learn more about the life of Jesus and make sense of the final things, led him to investigate “a new crime scene.” This book was inspired by his new documentary with the same title. “The murder of Jesus of Nazareth, a carpenter from a small town outside Jerusalem, became the most historically debated crime scene in all recorded history,” Orlando explains. “Not only do people debate the historicity of the event, but unlike most other crime scenes, there’s a religious element. The murder of this simple carpenter somehow launches the largest, most widespread religion of modern times.” Through his scholarly research and his detective work, Orlando fascinatingly connects historical, archaeological, scientific, art, and theological research to unveil: - Evidence that dates back to the time and place of Christ - The results of a startling NASA study and leading scientists’ research - A biblical clue to where the Shroud may have been hidden - What Jesus really experienced according to science, history, and Scripture - A miraculous healing from the Shroud following the Resurrection Also included is a timeline of the Shroud’s history and an introduction to the key witnesses of Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection. While retelling the story of Christ through the lens of ancient customs and traditions, Orlando breaks open the mysterious discovery of the Shroud. In these gripping pages, Orlando lays out numerous opinions and fact-based arguments and systematically separates fact from fiction. He raises the question: Is the Shroud the connection between faith and science? If the Shroud really is the burial cloth of Jesus, it is the key to unlocking the world’s greatest mystery and shedding light in an age of disbelief. In the words of Orlando, “The death of Jesus is the most consequential death in human history.”