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Title: The Jesus Dynasty

Subtitle: A New Historical Investigation of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity

Author: James D. Tabor

Narrator: James D. Tabor

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-06

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 98 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In The Jesus Dynasty, biblical scholar James Tabor brings us closer than ever to the historical Jesus. He sheds new light on Jesus' relationship with John the Baptizer, the role played by his brother James, and how Paul's ministry transformed Jesus' message into what would become Christianity.

James Tabor has studied the earliest surviving documents of Christianity for more than 30 years. He reconstructs for us the movement that sought the spiritual, social, and political redemption of the Jews, a movement led by one family. The Jesus Dynasty offers an alternative version of Christian origins, one that takes us closer than ever to Jesus and his family and followers.

Critic Reviews:

"This book is accessible and sure to be highly controversial, attracting the attention of reporters, spiritual seekers, historians, and fans of The Da Vinci Code." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Provocative book

This is not historical mumbo-jumo like the "The Da Vinci Code." Tabors clearly works within the academic tradition, relying heavily on historical-critical method, but he is willing to fashion some unique ideas in his vision of who Jesus and his family member were and what they believed. Some of his ideas I don't buy. St. Matthew is one of Jesus' brothers? Maybe not. The ossuary of James is genuine? Doubt it. James is the ambiguous "beloved disciple" of John's gospel? I'm not so sure. But Tabor does much to restore James to his rightful place in the early church and elevate the importance of his letter. Bottom line: The author is unafraid to toss out novel interpretations while using tried and true methods. Try the book if you like the work of Bart Ehrman, Elaine Pagels or John Dominic Crossan.

excellent

-As a newcomer to the "historical" Jesus, I found this audio book hard to put down.

-Indeed, the authors' views come from a critical yet respectful reading of the new testament gospels.

-I thought it was well read.

Worth a listen

I would recommend to those who are interested in the history of the times of Christ. If you are offended by challenges to accepted religious teachings, this book will fan the flames of indignation. The facts presented are fascinating, the conjectures interesting, the ruminations are food for thought. His depth of knowledge by archeological experience is evident. I believe the book suffers greatly by abridgment. I do not like the technique of posing, could it be, perhaps, is it possible, so that the listener forms the hypothesis as if it belongs to them. To Discovery Channel. He uses this technique way to much.

Why, Why, Oh Why must authors think they should narrate their own work? Spend the money and hire an actor, it is worth it.

Great Book

A must read for anyone who is interested in truthful history .Dr.Tabor gives a knowledgeable and thoughtful narrative. I have listened to this book more than once each time I learn something new. There is so much information that you may want to buy the hard copy to keep on your personal library.

Interesting, but not Satisfying

Ignore the fact that the listening gets pretty dry in places. The author begins by debating the accuracy and origins of the accepted Gospels.

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Title: Messages from Your Angels

Author: Doreen Virtue

Narrator: Doreen Virtue

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-06

Publisher: Hay House

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 72 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

This is a channeled audiobook that contains uplifting and fresh information from the angelic realm.

Members Reviews:

I Love Doreen's Messages from your Angels!!

This is a wonderful book to get introduced to your Angels. Doreen has such a pleasant voice you can almost hear your Angels coming thru her! I highly recommend this book if you are new to working with Angels :)

Excellent I just love Doreen Virtue's work

If you could sum up Messages from Your Angels in three words, what would they be?

I really enjoy all of Doreen's work, it's so inspirational. This book is particularly enjoyable to me as it guides one through the processes of spirituality.

Simply Awful

Can't even stay awake for it.

Gaining inner love and peace

If you are feeling low and worried about anything please try this audiobook. It helps you realise that you are not alone and do not have to be scared at any time. Reawaken the good feelings inside you and learn to love yourself and others more.

Fondest wishes

Alisonxxx.

A beautiful experience reading this amazing book!

A must read for anyone interested in Angels and how to increase joy and love in your life. Doreen you are an Angel xx

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Title: The Case for Christmas

Subtitle: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger

Author: Lee Strobel

Narrator: Lee Strobel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-28-05

Publisher: Zondervan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 79 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Who was in the manger that first Christmas morning? Some say he would become a great moral leader. Others, a social critic. Still others view Jesus as a profound philosopher, a rabbi, a feminist, a prophet, and more. Many are convinced he was the divine Son of God. Who was he, really? And how can you know for sure? Consulting experts on the Bible, archaeology, and messianic prophecy, Lee Strobel searches out the true identity of the child in the manger. Strobel asks the tough, pointed questions you'd expect from an award-winning legal journalist sifting through the Eyewitness Evidence: Can the biographies of Jesus be trusted? Scientific Evidence: What does archaeology reveal? Profile Evidence: Did Jesus fulfill the attributes of God? Fingerprint Evidence: Did Jesus uniquely match the identity of the Messiah? Somewhere beyond the traditions of the Christmas holiday lies the truth. It may be more compelling than you've realized. Weigh the facts...and decide for yourself.

©2005 Lee Strobel (P)2005 The Zondervan Corporation

Members Reviews:

meh

it was a disappointment compared to his other works. I want my money back. I feel it fell short.

Nothing really new

Lee pulled notes from the Case for Christ and added some additional notes... No actual new information... I was disappointed...

Absolutely fantastic book! Clear and fascinating.

Cleared up the meaning of Christmas for me! Loved it!

Lee Strobel is a wonderful writer and reader. I hung on to every word and learned so much!! Highly highly recommended!!

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Title: A Woman's Call to Prayer

Subtitle: Making Your Desire to Pray a Reality

Author: Elizabeth George

Narrator: Melinda Schmidt

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-05

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Women long for a meaningful prayer life but the demands of family, work, and home can get in the way of good intentions. Elizabeth George, best-selling author and popular teacher, leads women to deeper communication with God. Sharing from personal experience and biblical insights, Elizabeth encourages women to create, nurture, and grow a prayer life.

©2004 Elizabeth George; (P)2004 Oasis Audio LLC

Members Reviews:

lovely read

Pleasant reader, uplifting, convicting, directing, encouraging

Excellent

I found this audiobook to be a very useful tool for developing my prayer life. The reader is cheerful and affirmative. She gives good advice which I found to be different from much of the prayer instruction I'd received before. Overall, I had a great experience with this book and i would recommend it to others without doubt.

My desire: Praying

If you could sum up A Woman's Call to Prayer in three words, what would they be?

easy understanding, personal

Who was your favorite character and why?

Author: because of teaching to yeild to Jesus

What does Melinda Schmidt bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

The different types of voice pitches easy listen why driving

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Pray, Pray, Pray

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Title: Masterful Leadership

Subtitle: Leading Like Jesus

Author: Ken Blanchard, John Ortberg, Henry Blackaby, Bob Buford

Narrator: Ken Blanchard, John Ortberg, Henry Blackaby, Bob Buford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-05

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 77 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Masterful Leadership includes new concepts from Ken Blanchard's Lead Like Jesus Celebration which helps peoples take God out of the spiritual compartment of their private spiritual life and give Him free reign in all of their daily actions and relationships, particularly in their leadership roles. During His time on earth, Jesus poured His life into the training of twelve disciples and equipped them to follow His leadership principles after His departure.

Members Reviews:

Must read for all leaders

This a reference book to be listened to more than once. I wasn't expecting a live recording of a leadership conference. I found myself taking notes, pausing the audio, and taking more notes. Thank you Audible for making this available!

Excellent! A must read for all leaders.

Amazing. The conference recording style was very different for an audio book but still an excellent choice.

The 5 stars is for the last speaker

The 5 stars is for the last speaker, Henry Blackaby, who embodies what it truly means to lead like Jesus. The rest is normal leadership stuff you've read in other books but with a nod to Jesus' leadership style, some marginally biblical, others completely secular. Worth a listen even just for the very last speaker on the program.

I'm a devout Catholic and this was still bad

What disappointed you about Masterful Leadership?

I liked Ken Blanchard's 1 minute manager so I was expecting something easy to follow that had great insights. Instead, I hear pretty generic "things" that Jesus did to be a leader. It was extremely pandering. Very disappointed that I spent money on this book

Has Masterful Leadership turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, I like the other books

What didnt you like about the narratorss performance?

Pandering

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Masterful Leadership?

I'd just throw out the whole thing and start from scratch.

Great fabulous relevant

It was a wonderful way to hear from so many leaders about how they discover and carry out the will of God

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Title: There Were Two Trees in the Garden

Author: Rick Joyner

Narrator: Rick Joyner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-04

Publisher: Destiny Image

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

As we proceed toward the consummation of this age, the struggle that began in the Garden of Eden will reach its zenith. With each passing day, it becomes more crucial for us to understand the battle that is raging for the hearts and souls of every human being.

This book is for those enmeshed in conflict: relational, internal, or spiritual. Rick Joyner uses the images of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life to explain the nature and existence of conflict and the way to achieve victory.

If it is your resolve to stand for the truth and to confront the darkness of our times, this audiobook will help you.

Members Reviews:

exellent

It had alot of valid points. I have listened to and read several of Rick Joyner's books. They sit well with my understanding of scripture. Very enlightening.

Two realms of life

Would you consider the audio edition of There Were Two Trees in the Garden to be better than the print version?

audio version is more practical as you can be listening while driving thus redeeming time and renewing your mind.

What was one of the most memorable moments of There Were Two Trees in the Garden?

Too many truths to pick one.

What does Rick Joyner bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

freedom to listen while doing boring tasks.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Where do you live? in the head or the heart.

Any additional comments?

it is a really efficient way to gain knowledge and wisdom.

Can't but it down, nuggets of truth.

This is about the fourth time I'm reading this book. life changing. manual for life.

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Title: Vertical Church

Subtitle: What Every Heart Longs For, What Every Church Can Be

Author: James MacDonald

Narrator: Wayne Shapherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-12

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

An emergency call, and I rush from my coziness into the dark community where the police have requested a chaplain. Arriving in minutes, I find the family imploding with grief having just discovered their son hanging in the garage. In a moment of unshakable pain, he jumped off the ladder and into eternity. And I will never shake the look in their eyes when I asked why he hadn't called a church.

"Why would he do that?"

Across town, a pool of tears on my kitchen table as an out of town guest feels the weight of his infidelity, despairing that his famished soul finds no refuge and that he has to board a plane to feel fellowship.

"Has your church tried to help you?"

And the Christian leader confesses he hasn't been to church in years. Infighting, backbiting, heartbreaking, frustrating...church.

Though exceptions do exist, the reality is that church in America is failing one life at a time. Somewhere between pathetically predictable and shamefully entertaining, sadly sentimental and rarely authentic, church has become worst of all...godless. Vertical Church points to a new day where God is the seeker, and we are the ones found.

In Vertical Church God shows up, and that changes everything. If you want to experience God as you never have before and witness His hand at work, if you want to wake up to the first thought, "Thank God it's Sunday," if you're ready to feel your heart beat faster as you drive to your place of worship...then devour and digest the lessons of Vertical Church.

Members Reviews:

Incredible Resource

What made the experience of listening to Vertical Church the most enjoyable?

Pastor James McDonalds delivers this message with both conviction and precision! Wow!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

This is not the kind of audiobook one can simply sit and take in all at once. Too much info. Take your time with it. Nevertheless it's amazing info I'd recommend for anyone to get. Every church needs to hear this!

Best church book I've read in a while

If you could sum up Vertical Church in three words, what would they be?

James MacDonald really presses every button and rings every bell for anyone who is in church ministry leadership. Everything he said is true and I knew it the moment I heard it. I just had never put it all into words the way he has in the Vertical Church book.

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Title: Just Give Me Jesus

Author: Anne Graham Lotz

Narrator: Anne Graham Lotz

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-01

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

John probably didn't know. But God did. That's why he just gives you Jesus! No one can serve up the Bread of Life like Anne Graham Lotz, who has described herself as simply God's able "waitress." Poignantly, passionately, and with spellbinding insight, she focuses the light of Christ's life on Earth so that its relevance burns true in your life today. Listen to these messages presented at the National Christian Women's Conference in Aukland, New Zealand, and see how the Father gives you Jesus to make...God visible, sin forgivable, and Heaven available...to you!

Members Reviews:

Poor Sound - Live Message

Beware of sound quality - listen to it first! I didn't - the message behind it is as expected. Just hard to listen to.

love!

anne is one of my all time favorite authors, speakers, and people in general. this book delivers!

Live performance

Would you consider the audio edition of Just Give Me Jesus to be better than the print version?

No. I love the book. It was a little hard for me to get past the live recording noises of the audio edition.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Jesus!

What about Anne Graham Lotzs performance did you like?

Love Anne Graham Lotz -- she is a great communicator.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed and cried throughout this recording! Anne's message is well constructed and makes total sense to me. She has a way of communicating difficult concepts in clear and easily understandable ways.

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Title: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio

Subtitle: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Author: Hubert Wolf

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-15

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In 1858 a German princess who had been recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and that she feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of Sant'Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful, young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations, Maria Luisa began to lead and coerce her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies. She entered into a highly eroticized relationship with a young theologian known as Padre Peters, urging him to dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them referred to as the "special blessing".

What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical significance, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and drawing on written testimony and original documents, Hubert Wolf tells the incredible story of how one woman was able to perpetrate deception, heresy, seduction, and murder in the heart of the Church itself.

Critic Reviews:

"This sordid tale of sexual indecency, false saints, and murder within a 19th-century convent in Rome has all the trappings of a good thriller." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

OMG so boring

Even as a religious scholar (studied at Harvard Div), I was expecting a far less narrative. This puts me to sleep within 30 minutes every time I try to listen.

good. interesting.

it goes on for quite a bit. If you're into history, you'll really like it. But the names and places are a bit tricky to follow, so you must focus on the info. it is nice and scandalous though ;)

So boring.

I couldn't get through much without giving up. I appreciate many genres, including nonfiction and history generally, but this is unbearable.

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Title: Meditation for Christians: Entering the Mind of Christ

Author: James Finley

Narrator: James Finley

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-04

Publisher: Sounds True

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

A practice-oriented course in Christianity's unique meditation tradition, contemplative prayer, presented by James Finley, author, teacher, and former student of Thomas Merton.

Finley has been at the forefront of the Christian meditation movement for over 20 years, and in this guided retreat, he leads you into your own direct experience of the heart of contemplative prayer. Includes a complete guided session on the practice of Christian meditation.

Note: Excerpted from the full-length audio course Christian Meditation.

Members Reviews:

Excellent meditation primer

I've heard James Finley speak in person and I've read a number of Fr. Keating's books on meditation. Finley's comments dovetail nicely with Fr. Keating's suggestions and provide a good template for beginning and advanced meditation. Finley's tutelage by Fr. Thomas Merton adds credibility to his concepts. Finley speaks clearly and succinctly in this book with good pace that allows for absorption and comprehension of his material.

Profound yet approachable

I'm lucky to hear Jim Finley speak regularly, and am thrilled that others now have access to his teachings. He makes the meditative, contemplative tradition approachable to everyone, whether you have experience with meditation or not. I've listened to the set (especially the last piece, on Compassion) repeatedly and hear something new each time. Like many other teachers, when recorded he's less spontaneous than in person, but still vibrant and profound.

Contemplative listening at its best

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I have read Finley's book, Palace of Nowhere, and heard him speak on other audios, but this recording is very special. I felt as if Finley were personally speaking to me, not just giving me information to process in my head, but leading me into a contemplative space where I could intuit and know reality in a new way. I would recommend it to anyone who is seriously interested in the contemplative way of the Christian tradition - though I suspect that those who are Buddhist or Sufi meditators would also find a treasure here.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, but I also wanted to savor it, and drag it out to last a long time.

Warning! This is not meditation!

This should be under the title of contemplative prayer! Alos, does "dry mouth" spring to mind? I have done some public speaking and this would never happen to me! There are things you can do! I have a strong feeling that Mr. Finley has more will power and control than spiritual fervor! Otherwise he would have allowed a different title and someone to show him how to speak so that your tongue isn't sticking to your back teeth! If you just want history and information and you can tolerate mouth sounds, You will like this, otherwise I wouldn't reccommend this book for any kind of enlightenment!

A fantastic listen

This is a fantastic guide to meditation. James Finley really understands trance and is able to guide you to experience it in its fullness. If you're pondering on what audio to get next, you've found what you're looking for.