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Title: Aflame: Learning from Silence

Author: Pico Iyer

Narrator: Pico Iyer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Release date: January 14, 2025

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

“Reading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three decades to a small Benedictine hermitage high above the sea in Big Sur, California. He’s not a Christian—or a member of any religious group—but his life has been transformed by these periods of time spent in silence. That silence reminds him of what is essential and awakens a joy that nothing can efface. It’s not just freedom from distraction and noise and rush: it’s a reminder of some deeper truths he misplaced along the way. In Aflame, Iyer connects with inner stillness and joy in his many seasons at the monastery, even as his life is going through constant change: a house burns down, a parent dies, a daughter is diagnosed with cancer. He shares the revelations he experiences, alongside wisdom from other nonmonastics who have learned from adversity and inwardness. And most profoundly, he shows how solitude can be a training in community and companionship. In so doing, he offers a unique outsider’s view of monastic life—and of a group of selfless souls who have dedicated their days to ensuring there’s a space for quiet and recollection that’s open to us all. Radiant, intimate, and gripping, Aflame offers ageless counsel about the power of silence and what it can teach us about how to live, how to love, and, ultimately, how to die.

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Title: Lower: Igniting Spiritual Awakening Through Radical Humility

Author: Zach Meerkreebs

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Release date: January 14, 2025

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In this inspiring account, a pastor shares how radical humility ignited a sixteen-day revival on a small college campus—and why it is an essential tool for building a closer relationship with God. As Zach Meerkreebs ended his sermon on the campus of Asbury University, he challenged, “Do not leave here until you experience the love of God so that you can pour it out.” Several students remained, praying and worshipping, and others joined them until a crowd formed that grew to over 65,000 and covered the campus and small Kentucky town. As the worshipping and praying continued, for sixteen days and nights, the media began reporting on what came to be called the Asbury Outpouring.   In Lower, Zach shares his experiences at the Outpouring and answers his own question, what sparked this revival? With personal stories, Scripture, testimonies from Asbury, wisdom from other Christian writers, and key insights he has received in quiet moments with Jesus, Zach shows readers the path to radical humility and deeper friendship with God. As we go lower in our pursuit of humility, we can steward spaces prepared for a move of God and shine Jesus to all those who are watching.

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Title: Prophetic Reset: 40 Days to Aligning with God's Plan for Your Life

Author: Joshua Giles

Narrator: William Andrew Quinn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 0 minutes

Release date: December 31, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

God is doing a new thing—be ready for it! Join prophetic leader and pastor Joshua Giles for a forty-day journey unlike any other—one that will reposition you under God's powerful anointing, deepen your relationship with Him, and propel you forward. Through empowering Scriptures, biblical insights, and prophetic tips, you'll revitalize your spiritual life, discovering how to reactivate your spiritual gifts and faith; release the old to seek Him anew; rest your mind in His counsel; hear His words and wisdom for your next season; witness His word manifest in your life; reset your heart and relationships; and realign your will with God's and return to His promises for you. Just as God used forty days to consecrate Moses on Sinai and Jesus in the wilderness, He will use it to consecrate you, too. Now is your appointed time for your prophetic reset.

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Title: Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology

Author: G. K. Beale

Narrator: William Sarris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 35 minutes

Release date: December 17, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Southwestern Journal of Theology 2023 Book Award (Biblical Studies) Union with Christ is an important theological and practical concept that has received considerable attention in recent years. But not much consideration has been given to this union and its benefits in light of Jesus's resurrection and ascension. In this follow-up to his monumental A New Testament Biblical Theology, G. K. Beale summarizes and expands on that work with an eye to fleshing out the theological implications of the resurrection and ascension. Beale explains that Christ's resurrection and ascension place him as the beginning of the eschatological fulfillment of the new creational kingdom. Specifically, Christ is the fulfillment of a cluster of nineteen Old Testament end-time expectations. These eschatological realities attributed to Christ are imprinted on believers through their dynamic union and identification with him. Through careful exegesis, Beale explores these facets and deliberately draws out important practical applications for everyday Christian living in the overlap of the old creation and the new. Students of the New Testament will benefit from this important contribution to New Testament theology.

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Title: Sundays at the Track: Inspiring True Stories of Faith, Leadership, and Determination from the World of NASCAR

Author: Lee Weeks

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Maneuvering a 3,400-pound machine at nearly 200 miles per hour among dozens of other race cars is intense. So is life. And the experiences of NASCAR drivers, crews, owners, and executives on and off the track are ones all of us can benefit from in our everyday lives. In thirty-six chapters about many of your favorite NASCAR personalities, Sundays at the Track shares true stories and testimonials that offer hard-won lessons on forgiveness, grace, perseverance, patience, endurance, sacrifice, winning graciously, losing honorably, self-control, faithfulness, integrity, suffering, purpose, and more. Perfect for the stock car racing enthusiast in your life, Sundays at the Track celebrates the drive to overcome trials, experience God's best, and reach our own victory lane.

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Title: Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture 15th Anniversary Edition

Author: Makoto Fujimura

Narrator: David Shih

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

This timeless collection of reflective essays invites you to explore themes of grief, loss, tragedy, and disruption through the eyes of an artist's soul. Originally conceived in the shadow of the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center, near where Fujimura's New York art studio stood, this anniversary edition includes new essays unpacking the author's further insights into his concepts of culture care and a theology of making. Refractions carries the weight of history and the urgency of the moment, illuminating beauty, healing, and hope. A gift for any artist or supporter of the arts, Refractions connects faith, art, and life, offering insight into ● healing with the wisdom and perspective of a leading contemporary artist and follower of Jesus, ● making beauty from ashes, and ● the gospel as a message as breathtaking and intricate as the lives it touches. In a world marred by violence and despair, Fujimura guides you toward a deep understanding of life's intricate tapestry, where beauty emerges from unexpected places, and healing finds its roots in the goodness of God and human resilience.

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Title: Grace Abounds: God's Abundance against the Fear of Scarcity (Walter Brueggemann Library)

Author: Walter Brueggemann

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

The Bible often associates God's grace with abundance. While it is sometimes equated with forgiveness, more often grace is described much more broadly in the texts of ancient Israel: as the divine self-giving that stands against various forms of scarcity. We are bombarded daily with the idea that there is not enough of anything—housing, jobs, resources. By contrast, the Bible shows again and again how God meets our needs abundantly but in such a way that unveils our profound ongoing need for God and for one another. The first part of Grace Abounds lays out fundamentals of biblical grace by focusing on some of our most basic needs—to eat, to use land, to find shelter—and four different types of responses from people in Scripture struggling to survive experiences of exile and forced migration. In the second part of the book, Brueggemann advocates for specific biblical practices that are appropriate to the reality and experience of God's grace and grace-full relationships with fellow creatures: keeping Sabbath, making doxology, bestowing blessing, offering forgiveness, and realizing reconciliation. Questions for reflection are included at the end of each chapter, making this book ideal for individual or group study.

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Title: With God in Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

Author: Daniel L. Flaherty, Walter J. Ciszek

Narrator: James Conlan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

“. . . a human and historical document of compelling interest.” — The Atlantic Powerful and inspirational, With God in Russia captures the heroic patience, endurance, and religious conviction of a man whose life embodied the Christian ideals that sustained him. While ministering in Eastern Europe during World War II, Polish-American priest Walter Ciszek, S.J., was arrested by the NKVD, the Russian secret police, shortly after the war ended. Accused of being an American spy and charged with ''agitation with intent to subvert,'' he was held in Moscow’s notorious Lubyanka prison for five years. The Catholic priest was then sentenced without trial to ten more years of hard labor and transported to Siberia, where he would become a prisoner within the forced labor camp system made famous in Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize—winning book The Gulag Archipelago. In With God in Russia, Ciszek reflects on his daily life as a prisoner, the labor he endured while working in the mines and on construction gangs, his unwavering faith in God, and his firm devotion to his vows and vocation. Enduring brutal conditions, Ciszek risked his life to offer spiritual guidance to fellow prisoners who could easily have exposed him for their own gains. He chronicles these experiences with grace, humility, and candor, from his secret work leading mass and hearing confessions within the prison grounds, to his participation in a major gulag uprising, to his own ''resurrection''—his eventual release in a prisoner exchange in October 1963 which astonished all who had feared he was dead. “More than a superbly interesting adventure story, With God in Russia is a moving document of a man’s faith in his God and his God’s goodness in allowing him to live through his ordeal.” — The Advocate

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Title: Everything Good about God Is True: Choosing Faith

Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow

Narrator: David Shih

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

You know what you don't believe: about the Bible, the church, and God. You don't agree with the doctrines of an exclusionary, dominant Christianity. But what if someone asked you: 'What do you believe?' In this primer on progressive, expansive, generous Christianity, writer and pastor Bruce Reyes-Chow helps us reconsider—or consider for the first time—what it means to choose faith. With clarity, vulnerability, and wit, Reyes-Chow helps us learn a grammar of faith about God, Jesus, and the Spirit that breathes fresh meaning into old words like sin, confession, salvation, baptism, communion, and gratitude. He doesn't shy away from calling out the hateful and hurtful dogmas of many churches, but he also turns our attention toward essential questions: What if God created humans to be beautifully complex? What if the Spirit calls us to lament and repent and also beckons us toward pathways of healing, wholeness, and hope? And if Jesus equips us for lives of justice and kindness, how might our imaginations expand for what the world could be? Reyes-Chow offers his own 'faith montage' and helps individuals and groups create their own. There is a more loving, more genuine vision of God than the one we see being performed around us, and this book helps us find it.

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Title: When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded

Author: Diane Langberg

Narrator: Andrea Emmes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Release date: November 12, 2024

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Internationally recognized psychologist Diane Langberg has come face to face with the crushing trauma of sexual abuse, trafficking, domestic abuse, and rape—and its cover-up. Even more tragic, she has encountered it all within Christian communities and the church. As a highly respected trauma scholar and psychologist working in the United States and around the world for more than fifty years, she envisions a better way. In When the Church Harms God's People, Langberg unveils what she has learned about how churches cause harm and why Christian communities often foster unhealthy leaders who end up hurting rather than protecting God's people. She also offers hope for the future, describing how churches can reflect Christ not just in what they teach but also in how they care for themselves and others. This book is an invaluable tool for leaders and laypeople alike who want to help the church resist abuses of power and become a safe place for survivors.