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Title: Your Life is God's Story: Trusting God’s Plan Through Life’s Ups and Downs

Author: Tim Dilena

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Release date: May 7, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Biblical stories and powerful testimonies that encourage faith in God's plan for your life. In Your Life is God's Story, pastor and teacher Tim Dilena guides readers through the faith-building journeys of eleven Bible characters whose ordinary and painful experiences led to unforeseen results. Alongside the Bible stories are powerful testimonies from Tim and people in his life. Your Life is God's Story gives readers a new set of lenses to view experiences and events in life with hope. The hope is seeing how God gets ordinary people to their intended destinies. Readers will gain a renewed passion for persevering through life's challenges to trust God's process. Together, they illustrate how God has a perfect plan for everyone. Your Life is God's Story includes: - Stories from 11 biblical people whose destinies were unclear throughout most of their lives - Experiences of ordinary believers who have trusted the process, living through big trouble and getting to the other side to give praise to God   The discussion questions can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

Author: Scott Morrison

Narrator: Scott Morrison, Mike Pence

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Release date: April 30, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Read by the author. Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a global pandemic and recession, he chronicles God's faithfulness throughout, win or lose, public criticism or public success. Less political memoir and more pastoral encouragement, Morrison is passionate about encouraging others to discover how they can access and see the many blessings of God in their own lives, no matter their circumstances, drawing on Jeremiah 29:11, that God's plans are for our good and not our harm, to give us a future and a hope. In each section Morrison asks the questions all of us are looking to find answers to: - Who am I? Discovering your purpose. - How should I live? Finding your pathway. - What should I hope for? Embracing your future.   Full of fascinating insights into the handling of some of the most significant global events and issues of our time Morrison's honest, vulnerable and reflective answers offers a unique lens to better understand your relationship with God and the blessing that can flow from such a relationship. Alongside an account of high-level politics in a new media age where cancel culture, identity politics and deep secularization is taking hold across so many western societies, creating a truly post Christian west, Morrison testifies to the faithful love and blessings of God.

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Title: Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace

Author: Elizabeth Neumann

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol—and which threatens to destroy the American Church from within.   How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of Peace - become a breeding ground for violent extremism?   When Elizabeth Neumann began her anti-terrorism career as part of President George W. Bush’s Homeland Security Counsel in the wake of the September 11 attacks, she expected to spend her life protecting her country from the threat of global terrorism.   But as her career evolved, she began to perceive that the greatest threat to American security came not from religious fundamentalists in Afghanistan or Iraq but from white nationalists and radicalized religious fundamentalists within the very institution that was closest to her heart – the American evangelical church. And she began to sound the alarm, raising her concerns to anyone in government who would listen, including testifying before Congress in February of 2020. At that time, Neumann warned that anti-Semitic and white supremacist terrorism was a transnational threat that was building to the doorstep of another major attack. Shortly after her testimony, she resigned from her role as Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention in protest of what she believed was then-President Trump’s failure of leadership and his stoking of the hatred, anger, and division from which she had dedicated her life to protecting her country.   Her worst fears came true when she witnessed the attack on the capital on January 6, 2021.   In Kingdom of Rage, Neumann explores the forces within American society that have encouraged the radicalization of white supremacist, anti-government and other far-right terrorists by co-opting Christian symbols and culture and perverting the faith’s teachings. While Neumann offers decades of insights into the role government policies can play to prevent further bloodshed, she believes real change must come from the within the Christian church. She shines a bright light on the responsibility of ordinary Americans – and particularly American Christians – to work within their families and their communities to counteract the narrative of victimization and marginalization within American evangelicalism. Her goal for this book is not only to sound a warning about one of the greatest threats to our security but to rescue the Church from the forces that will, if left unchecked, destroy it – culturally, morally, and ultimately quite literally. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand the unholy marriage of right-wing politics and Christian exceptionalism in America and who wants to be a part of reversing the current path towards division, hatred, violence and the ultimate undermining of both evangelical Christianity and American democracy.

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Title: [Spanish] - Proverbios para necios: Sabiduría sencilla para tiempos complejos

Author: Pepe Mendoza

Narrator: Pepe Mendoza

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

En Proverbios para necios, Pepe Mendoza desglosa cada capítulo de Proverbios de forma ligera y coloquial para mostrar cómo se aplica a nuestra vida cotidiana y contemporánea. En el viaje de la vida, la necedad suele llevarnos por senderos equivocados, causando daño no solo a nosotros mismos, sino también a quienes nos rodean. La sabiduría, por otro lado, comienza con el reconocimiento de que Dios es soberano y que solo conociéndolo y obedeciéndolo podemos alcanzar la vida plena que anhelamos. En este libro, Pepe Mendoza anima a los lectores a buscar el sabio consejo de las Escrituras y a despojarse de su propia necedad para vivir de forma beneficiosa, productiva y saludable. Cada uno de los 31 capítulos incluye: - El capítulo completo de Proverbios - Un análisis del proverbio - Un dilema contemporáneo general presentado como 'necedad' que nos afecta a todos - Aplicaciones para la vida cotidiana - Reflexiones que culminan con el evangelio Entre los temas, los lectores encontrarán: - El necio siempre se pasa de la raya - La necedad sin límites en el mundo virtual - El necio habla, pero no concreta - Los secretos de una amistad sabia y verdadera con el Señor Proverbios para necios ilustra un camino claro lejos de la necedad, instándote a buscar la sabiduría con fervor. Aprovecha la oportunidad de transformar tus elecciones, dejar atrás la necedad y emprender un viaje hacia una vida de cumplimiento duradero. Proverbs for Fools In Proverbs for Fools, Pepe Mendoza breaks down each chapter of Proverbs in a light and colloquial way to show how it applies to our daily and contemporary lives. In life's journey, foolishness often leads us down wrong paths, causing harm not only to ourselves, but also to those around us. Wisdom, on the other hand, begins with the recognition that God is sovereign and that only by knowing and obeying him can we achieve the full life we long for. In this book, Pepe Mendoza encourages readers to seek the wise counsel of Scripture and to shed their own foolishness in order to live beneficially, productively, and healthfully. Each of the 31 chapters includes: - The complete chapter from Proverbs. - An analysis of the proverb - A general contemporary dilemma presented as 'foolishness' that affects us all. - Applications for everyday life - Reflections culminating in the gospel Among the themes, readers will find: - The fool always oversteps the mark - Foolishness without limits in the virtual world - The fool speaks, but does not act - Secrets of a wise and true friendship with the Lord Proverbs for Fools illustrates a clear path away from foolishness, urging you to seek wisdom with fervor. Seize the opportunity to transform your choices, leave foolishness behind and embark on a journey toward a life of lasting fulfillment.

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Title: As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

Author: J. S. Park

Narrator: J. S. Park

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Read by the author. 'A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss.' —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace. In As Long As You Need, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving—spiritual, mental, physical, and relational—and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way. If you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last few years or the last few minutes, J.S. is an experienced and deeply empathetic listener and grief catcher who has held the pain and questions of thousands of patients. While social and cultural narratives about grief are dominated by 'letting go, moving on, or turning the page' in his nearly decade of service as a chaplain at a major hospital with a designated level one trauma center J.S. understands firsthand how rushing or suppressing grief only adds a suffocating layer of pain on top of the original wound. From his unique window into the stories of the ill, injured, dying, and their families, J.S. offers you: - Permission to dismantle all too common myths about grief and replace them with a guilt-free and unrushed approach to navigating your losses. - Encouragement for how entering grief, rather than avoiding it, leads to a hard but meaningful holding of your loss. - Empathy and hope if you are struggling with a crisis of faith in the midst of grief. - Recognition that grief spans a wide narrative of loss: loss of future, faith, mental health, worth, autonomy, connection, and loved ones. - Affirmation that your grief is your own. While the DNA of grief might be universal to the human condition, how you experience and process grief is unique to you.   From the ER to deliveries to deathbeds across every sort of illness and injury imaginable, J.S. Park has provided meaningful counseling for people in all walks of life and death. Now, through his book he wants to assure you that, while everybody else might rush past your pain, grief is the voice that says, take as long as you need.

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Title: Seen, Secure, Free: How a Life Hidden with Christ Strengthens and Transforms You

Author: Allison Allen

Narrator: Allison Allen, Lisa Harper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Read by the author. In a world that screams Be Seen! Be Known! and often measures value by likes and shares and follows, it's easy to feel invisible, unheard, unloved. But God's Word offers a powerful and freeing counternarrative: true treasure is actually found in the 'hidden' life of Christ. Somewhere along the way, we've confused our level of visibility with our value. We've mixed up fame with fruitfulness. We've equated exposure with excellence. But what if we stopped trying so hard to be seen, recognized, and affirmed by the world around us? What if there's a different way of living altogether? Seen, Secure, Free unpacks the great promise in Colossians 3:3: 'Your life is hidden with Christ in God' and reminds us that when God hides us in himself, he provides a non-negotiable, never-ending source of contentment, identity, and worth. Join Bible teacher Allison Allen as she explores the incredible power of hiddenness in nature, history, and Scripture, which will help you: - Let go of the pressure to be recognized and praised by others; - Release the resentment that comes from feeling unseen or misunderstood; - Find contentment in a loving God who knows you deeply; - Find security in a powerful God who establishes your identity, worth, and purpose; - Reset your motivations and goals to align with his kingdom; and - Feel freed to pursue new adventures with Jesus   No more striving to be seen or wondering if you matter; no more pressure to perform or be visible to the world. Instead, rest assured that God truly sees, knows, and loves you more than any person ever could. And let him lead you into the freedom, joy, and transformative power of a life hidden in him.

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Title: Faith Embodied: Glorifying God with Our Physical and Spiritual Health

Author: Stephen Ko

Narrator: Max Newland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Scientist, physician, and pastor Stephen Ko explains how to live and worship incarnationally and glorify God with our bodies. Many of us don't see much connection between spiritual and physical health. We say grace before digging into greasy, fatty meals we know are bad for us. We read Scripture on our phones before switching to social media feeds that hijack the neural circuitry in our brains. Or we take our physical health too seriously, distancing ourselves from the sick and the needy whom Jesus embraced. On his journey from pediatrician to public health officer for the CDC to senior pastor of the largest New York Chinese Alliance Church, Stephen Ko has seen that these divisions between physical and spiritual health are artificial. In Faith Embodied, he reminds us that our 'bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit' (1 Corinthians 6:19). Christ incarnate is deity in flesh, and His spirit is incarnate in us. Living and worshiping incarnationally is consciously embracing what the Creator has designed in His image, from the finest, microscopic details to vital organs within our body, enabling the Holy Spirit to work in us. Faith Embodied will teach you to: - Understand subconscious ways that thwart the design of the Creator. - Embrace choices that invite incarnational health, living, and worship. - Experience God in every aspect of your life, from flesh and bone to heart and soul. - View the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste) in a different light - Reflect the image of God in the way you breathe, move, create, love, and rest.   Weaving together insights from faith, science, and medicine, Ko reveals the marvelous ways in which our physical and spiritual health can prepare us to become instruments of God's healing in the world. Questions for reflection can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More

Author: Ruth Chou Simons

Narrator: Ruth Simons

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Release date: April 9, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Read by the author. Your right now matters. Discover how to press in and not check out. Do you ever feel like your present moment is so far from where you really long to be? Do you ever struggle with embracing your right now because you are so focused on the future? Too often, we feel disappointed with our 'right now'—our life circumstances, our relationships, our lack progress towards our dreams and goals, our daily grind. We want to do so many things—good, godly things—but our situations don't allow us to step into them. In Now and Not Yet, bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons has a powerful message for you when you're restless in your current season of life and just waiting—waiting to get beyond the pain, waiting for God to show up, waiting to get to tomorrow—she reminds you that it's okay to not like the right now we've been given, but we don't have to like it to lean in. Join Ruth as she shares a beautiful invitation for you to: - Embrace the biblical truth that someday is made up of thousands of right nows - Discern how the difficult parts of your life are actually a unique gift from God by discovering five ways to flip the script on a hard season - Stop feeling trapped when you're not where you want to with guided liturgies for what you are facing today - Live faithfully in the tension between what is and what is not yet   Now and Not Yet will help you see that your right now matters. And you can choose to press in and not check out. With deep compassion, Ruth will help you see how God is profoundly present, how He wastes nothing, how He’s active and using this exact moment for the very purposes he's calling you to. Templates and Scripture references can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: Treasures in the Dark: 90 Reflections on Finding Bright Hope Hidden in the Hurting

Author: Katherine Wolf

Narrator: Alex Wolf, Katherine Wolf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Release date: April 9, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Sometimes the most valuable treasures are found in the darkest of times. In fact, it's often in the very heart of our deepest pain and struggle that God chooses to reveal his most precious gifts. Let Katherine Wolf lead you in finding the hope God has for you in your most painful places. In our lowest, most difficult moments, it's often impossible to see any good thing around us. We suffer, we struggle, we grow weary. We wonder, Is God at work in my life? Is he near me? Is there any point to my suffering and any hope for change? Though it's easy for our overwhelming pain to cloud our view of reality, the truth is that, even though we can’t see it or feel it, God is at work in the darkness. Our Creator is in the business of bringing dead—and nearly dead—things to life. Even now, no matter how fresh your wounds might be, he invites you to unearth his hidden treasures in your hurting, to reframe your darkness as a sacred space in which the light of hope can shine most brilliantly. Come join Katherine Wolf as she vulnerably shares her own places of wounding and the life-changing insights she has found there. Treasures in the Dark will guide you as you - find grace for the heartbreak of unmet expectations; - explore the surprising intersection of pain and purpose; - wholeheartedly embrace the life you never imagined living with perseverance and joy; and - recognize how your healing can be a part of the world's healing.   With her vibrant faith and unique perspective on life as a stroke survivor and person living with significant disabilities, Katherine will inspire, encourage, and strengthen tender and hurting hearts.

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Title: Wishful Thinking: How I Lost My Faith and Why I Want to Find It

Author: Donna Freitas

Narrator: Donna Freitas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Donna Freitas wants to believe. Raised Catholic, she sang songs about Jesus as a child and lived in a house where nuns and priests were regular guests, yet she found herself questioning the faith of her family, examining the reasons none of it added up, and distancing herself from the God of Christianity. Despite her questions—or perhaps because of them—she made a career out of trying to understand God, pursuing a PhD in religion. But even as she taught college students about mystics, theologians, and others who wrestled with God, she was never able to embrace a faith of her own. In this searingly honest and deeply personal book, Freitas retraces her roundabout path up and out of the wilderness toward hope, and her dogged—and ongoing—search for faith. She talks about her experience with the Catholic abuse scandal, about being embraced as a speaker at evangelical colleges, about how the death of her mother and the loss of her marriage made her question everything she thought she knew about love, how she cannot reconcile the ways the concept of God makes absolutely no sense, and how she cannot stop trying to believe, despite it all. Real, raw, and beautifully written, Wishful Thinking is a powerful story about the author’s search for belief in God and about finding God in the most unexpected places.