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Title: Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear

Author: Michael J. O'loughlin

Narrator: Michael J. O'loughlin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

The 1980s and 1990s, the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, was decades ago now, and many of the stories from this time remain hidden: A Catholic nun from a small Midwestern town packs up her life to move to New York City, where she throws herself into a community under assault from HIV and AIDS. A young priest sees himself in the many gay men dying from AIDS and grapples with how best to respond, eventually coming out as gay and putting his own career on the line. A gay Catholic with HIV loses his partner to AIDS and then flees the church, focusing his energy on his own health rather than fight an institution seemingly rejecting him. Set against the backdrop of the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the late twentieth century and the Catholic Church's crackdown on gay and lesbian activists, journalist Michael O'Loughlin searches out the untold stories of those who didn't look away, who at great personal cost chose compassion. This is one journalist's—gay and Catholic himself—compelling picture of those quiet heroes who responded to human suffering when so much of society told them to look away. These pure acts of compassion and mercy offer us hope and inspiration as we continue to confront existential questions about what it means to be Americans, Christians, and human beings responding to those most in need.

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Title: Counsel for Couples: A Biblical and Practical Guide for Marriage Counseling

Author: Jonathan D. Holmes

Narrator: Carson Wishart, Jon Watson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Many pastors feel ill-equipped to handle the challenges that arise when a couple is going through marital difficulties. If you are or have been in this situation before, this book shows church leaders how to counsel married couples from both a logical and biblical perspective. Author and pastor Jonathan Holmes offers you a practical guide to get started with the first sessions and then offers specific guidance on nine of the most common topics that come up in marriage counseling. In Counsel for Couples, Holmes provides you with: - a biblical methodology that navigates you through the world of marriage counseling based on God’s word - a theological counseling approach addressing the deepest of marital issues - advice from several respected voices in the biblical counseling community In each chapter, you'll meet a new couple dealing with a different issue, much like the people in your church, office, and neighborhood. Whether you're a novice or already knowledgeable, Counsel for Couples provides theologically sound and biblically practical tools to help you as you help couples in need.

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Title: How to Help People Change: The Four-Step Biblical Process

Author: Jay E. Adams

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Change is the essential goal of the counseling process. How can a Christian counselor facilitate such change? The answer, of course, may be found in Scripture, specifically in 2 Timothy 3:14-17. Professor, pastor, and well-known counselor Jay E. Adams bases his whole approach on Scripture. This book provides an unparalleled opportunity to see how he discovers and applies biblical principles as well as the way in which Scripture functions as the basis for his counseling approach. In How to Help People Change, this book answers two questions: - “How does a counselor help people change?” - “How does Scripture provide the source of a counselor’s method?”   This book has much to say about the ongoing discussion of the relationship between theology and psychology in the enterprise of Christian counseling. Jay presents a fresh perspective not only on how to counsel, but also on what measures to take at what stages of counseling. While touching on many aspects of counseling, How to Help People Change is specifically designed to elucidate the process of counseling. Assignments are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World

Author: Jake Meador

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

What does a Christian political witness look like in our day? Politics ought to be defined by fidelity to the common good of all the members of society. But our modern Western politics are defined by a determination to bend the natural world and human life to its own political and economic ends. This wholesale rejection of the natural order is behind the dominant revolutions in our history, and defines our experience in Western society today—our racialized hierarchy, modern industry, and the sexual revolution. In What Are Christians For?, Jake Meador lays out a proposal for a Christian politics rooted in the givenness and goodness of the created world. He is uninterested in the cultural wars that have so often characterized American Christianity. Instead, he casts a vision for an ordered society that rejects the late modern revolution at every turn and is rooted in the natural law tradition and the great Protestant confessions. Here is a political approach that is antiracist, anticapitalist, and profoundly pro-life. A truly Christian political witness, Meador argues, must attend closely to the natural world and renounce the metallic fantasies that have poisoned common life in America life for too long.

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Title: The Lonely Letters

Author: Ashon T. Crawley

Narrator: Benjamin Charles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: 'Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding.' But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley—writing as A—meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, The Lonely Letters gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.

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Title: 10 Principles for Studying Your Bible

Author: Charles F. Stanley

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Release date: February 22, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

What would you give to have true contentment, joy without end, and lasting peace? Most of us would say, “Anything!” especially when we are dealing with the stormy pressures of life. In 10 Principles for Studying Your Bible, Dr. Charles Stanley provides practical insight into God’s word by walking you through the highlights of his own personal Bible study. He states how you don’t have to go through life wondering if the next storm will be the one that washes your life out to sea. In this book, Dr. Stanley will help you discover how to: - Be faithful in prayer and have a heart for worship, - Apply God’s promises to your life, - Hide God’s word in your heart, and more! God tells us that if we seek Him, we will find Him and when we uncover His truth, we gain clear direction for our lives and circumstances. Those who begin this journey into understanding the Bible quickly realize his word is a doorway to divine principles and life’s greatest blessings. 10 Principles for Studying Your Bible reveals how God has an answer for your greatest need, but it is only found in the study of His Word.

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Title: The Heartache No One Sees: Real Healing for a Woman's Wounded Heart

Author: Sheila Walsh

Narrator: Kate Roy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 22, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Do you belong to the 'silent community of the broken', hiding your pain under a veneer of busyness and perfection? Sheila Walsh, best-selling author, popular Women of Faith speaker, and gifted recording artist, has a God-given passion for reaching out to women who are privately carrying around broken hearts. She knows what they are going through because she used to be one of them. The Heartache No One Sees helps women experiencing heartache by asking these questions: - Are you lonely but too ashamed to open up? - Are you a victim of well-meaning friends who have told you to get over it? - Have you tried to heal yourself, to tidy up your pain with a quick fix? - Is there a voice inside you saying that you will never change, that you are not worthy of God's love, that you will always be stuck as you are right now?   In The Heartache No One Sees, Sheila shows you why some people are able to access and maintain an absolute hope that cannot be shaken while others lose it like the morning mist. You're invited to join her on a prayer-filled, God-seeking journey to understand how to live in this world, with all its potential for hurt, pain, and fear, and still experience a deep healing that you are able to hold on to, no matter what life throws at you. Application points and an accompanying Bible study are available in the audiobook companion PDF download. Application points and a Bible study are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith

Author: Monica A. Coleman

Narrator: Machelle Williams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Overcome with mental anguish, Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather had his two young sons pull the chair out from beneath him when he hanged himself. That noose remained tied to a rafter in the shed, where it hung above the heads of his eight children who played there for years to come. As it had for generations before her, a heaviness hung over Monica throughout her young life. As an adult, this rising star in the academy saw career successes often fueled by the modulated highs of undiagnosed Bipolar II Disorder, as she hid deep depression that even her doctors skimmed past in disbelief. Serendipitous encounters with Black intellectuals like Henry Louis Gates Jr., Angela Davis, and Renita Weems were countered by long nights of stark loneliness. Only as Coleman began to face her illness was she able to live honestly and faithfully in the world. And in the process, she discovered a new and liberating vision of God. Written in crackling prose, Monica's spiritual autobiography examines her long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death in light of the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism that masked her family history of mental illness for generations.

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Title: Body Connections: Body-Based Spiritual Care

Author: Michael S. Koppel

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Too often we think and teach in ways that reinforce a mind-body split. This can lead people to self-alienation, impeding holistic, healthy relationships between people, God, and each other. Body Connections takes a different approach, teaching us to see the connections between our embodied experience and faithful spiritual care. Author Michael Koppel focuses on the human body and its relationship to faith and spiritual care. He engages religious texts and traditions as well as scientific insights, offering accessible theology and spiritual practices for healing and care of the body. Our bodies are amazing resources, but we are too often unaware of their power, or unable to harness it in helpful ways for our own good. This remarkable book empowers pastors, counselors, chaplains, seminarians, and caregivers to understand and provide the ministry of care in an entirely new, life-giving way. This book is highly useful for individuals and groups. It is for clergy, chaplains, spiritual directors, seminarians, clinical educators, laypeople in churches, and those who are institutionally unaffiliated but care deeply about fostering a holistic spiritual path.

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Title: It's Better to Bite Your Tongue Than Eat Your Words: The No-Regrets Guide to Better Conversations

Author: Dr. Mike Bechtle

Narrator: Mike Bechtle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Ever come away from a conversation wishing you'd said something differently, something else, or just something? We've all had conversations that took an unproductive turn or avoided conversations that really needed to happen. If you want to become a better communicator, Dr. Mike Bechtle has good news: the art of confident conversation is something you can develop through simple, repeatable habits. In this book, he shows you how to ● embrace your temperament ● overcome feelings of intimidation ● choose the right words at the right time ● speak up for others and yourself ● and much more Say goodbye to fear, regret, and 'I should (or shouldn't) have said that.' Say hello to intentional, appropriate, timely conversations that get your point across even as they build relationships. This book provides mastery of the skills of confident communication in any situation.