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Title: Wild and Free: A Hope-Filled Anthem for the Woman Who Feels She Is Both Too Much and Never Enough

Author: Hayley Morgan, Jess Connolly

Narrator: Jess Connolly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Release date: July 18, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Read by the author. You don't have to be everything to everyone. You don't have to try so hard to button it up and hold it together. Join best friends and coauthors Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan as they reveal how women today can walk in the true liberty we already have in Jesus.  For all the fullness of God available to his daughters, we often feel limited by two defining insecurities: 'I am too much' and 'I am not enough.' Jess and Hayley felt the same until one essential question turned the tables: If God is wild and free and he created women, what does this mean for us today?  Wild and Free is an invitation to find freedom from the cultural captivity that holds us back, and freedom to step into God's wild and holy call in our lives. Jess and Hayley answer difficult questions that so many women have asked them over the years, including: - How do I compete with the burden of expectation of what women are 'supposed' to be? - Where do I actually fit in? - How can I start living out my God-given identity every day of my life?   With fresh biblical insight tracing all the way back to Eve and a treasury of practical application, Jess and Hayley reveal how women today can walk in the true liberty we already have in Jesus--because you certainly don't have to quiet the voice that God gave you when he created you to sing.  Wild and Free will help you shake off the lies of insecurity in your life and step forward to maximize your God-given influence for his glory and the world's good.

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Title: Help Is Here: Audio Bible Studies: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit

Series: Part of Audio Bible Studies

Author: Max Lucado

Narrator: Max Lucado

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

When you feel powerless . . . help is here Bills pile up. Savings go down. Marriages go south. Work goes off the rails. Stress goes off the charts. It’s all too much to take on by yourself. Fortunately, you don’t have to take it all on yourself. In fact, God never intended for you to do so. He has provided heaven-sent help to walk with you, guide you, and shoulder the load. Someone who never gets tired. Someone who is strong and powerful. Someone who is unhindered by what hinders us. Someone who is always nearby. Interested? If so, join Max Lucado in this five-session audio Bible study to learn more about this “helper” whom we know as the Holy Spirit. You will receive the tools and encouragement you need to become joyful, enthusiastic, and empowered as you draw closer to God; learn who the Spirit is and how he can help you; find true rest and peace as you let him carry your burdens; and discover your unique gifts to further God’s kingdom. Help Is Here reminds us that our Good Shepherd doesn’t just feed us; he leads us. He does more than correct us; he directs us. God keeps us on track—and best of all, he’s commissioned the Holy Spirit to guide us down the winding roads of life, wherever they may lead us. Sessions and run times include: - Our Powerful Ally (17:00) - Our Strength and Guide (16:30) - Our Peace and Guarantee (18:30) - Our Intercessor and Advocate (16:30) - Our Gift-Giver of Life (16:30) The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

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Title: Help Is Here: Finding Fresh Strength and Purpose in the Power of the Holy Spirit

Author: Max Lucado

Narrator: Max Lucado

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Read by the author. Bills pile up. Savings accounts go down. Marriages go south. Pandemics rage. Work goes off the rails. Stress goes off the charts. Suddenly, you feel powerless to calm life's chaos. It's all too much to take on by yourself. But pastor and bestselling author Max Lucado has great news for you--Help Is Here. Now more than ever, we're all weary from the loads we carry and the challenges we face. We have questions we cannot answer and problems we cannot solve. We'd hoped that life would be an invigorating adventure or an inspiring journey. We never expected to grow so tired so quickly. But Max teaches us that we can find fresh strength and purpose in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible makes more than a hundred references to the Holy Spirit, and Jesus says more about the Spirit than he does about the church, marriage, finances, and the future. But do we really know the Spirit? In Help Is Here, Max will give you the tools and encouragement you need to: - Learn who the Spirit is and how the Spirit can help - Become joyful, enthusiastic, and empowered as you draw closer to God - Confidently take on any difficulty with the power of the Spirit - Discover your unique gifts and purpose to further God's kingdom   Help Is Here reminds us that our Good Shepherd doesn't just feed us; he leads us. He does more than correct us; he directs us. God keeps us on track--and best of all, he's commissioned the Holy Spirit to guide us down the winding roads of life, wherever they may lead us. No more walking this path alone. No more carrying weight you were not intended to bear. It's time for you to enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit and experience the vigorous life he offers. You can rest easy knowing that Help Is Here. A study guide is included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: Wrong Lanes Have Right Turns: A Pardoned Man's Escape from the School-to-Prison Pipeline and What We Can Do to Dismantle It

Author: Michael Phillips

Narrator: Michael Phillips

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

The unforgettable true story of one man’s escape from the school-to-prison pipeline, how he reinvented himself as a pastor and education reform advocate, and what his journey can teach us about turning the collateral damage in the lives of our youth into hope. “A heart-wrenching and triumphant story that will change lives.”—Bishop T. D. Jakes Michael Phillips would never become anything. At least, that’s what he was told. It seemed like everyone was waiting for him to just fall through the cracks. After losing his father, suffering a life-altering car accident, and losing his college scholarship, Michael turned to selling drugs to make ends meet. But when his house was raided, he was arrested and thrown into a living nightmare. When it looked like he would be sentenced to spend years behind bars, the judge gave him a choice—go to a special college program for adjudicated youth or face the possibility of a thirty-year prison sentence. It wasn’t hard to pick. From that choice, a mission was born—to help change the system that shuffles so many young Black men like Michael straight from school to prison. Today, Michael is the pastor of a thriving church, a local leader in Baltimore, and a member of the Maryland State Board of Education. He discovered that education was the path to becoming who he was created to be. Armed with research, statistics, and his powerful story, Michael tackles the embedded privilege of the education system and introduces ideas for change that could level the playing field and reduce negative impacts on vulnerable youth. He explores ways in which the readers can help advocate and provide resources for students, and points us to the one thing anyone can start doing, no matter who we are or what our role is: speak into young kids’ lives. Tell them of their inherent worth and purpose. In this inspiring, thought-provoking, and energizing call to action, Michael’s practical steps provide a way forward to anyone wanting to help create space for collateral hope in the lives of for young people around them.

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Title: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Expanded Edition: Audio Bible Studies: Discipleship that Deeply Changes Your Relationship with God

Author: Peter Scazzero

Narrator: Peter Scazzero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

In the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality audio Bible study, Peter outlines a roadmap for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. He unveils what's wrong with our current definition of 'spiritual growth' and offers not only a model of spirituality that actually works, but seven steps to change that will help you experience authentic faith and hunger for God. Though Peter was an experienced pastor of a growing church, his life and faith remained emotionally unhealthy. Like so many in the church, he routinely: - avoided healthy conflict in the name of keeping the peace - ignored and suppressed emotions - used work for God as an excuse to run from God - lived without limits In this study, Peter helps you unpack core biblical principles to guide you into an experience of lasting, beneath-the-surface transformation in your relationship with Christ. This study is Part One of the Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course that also includes the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day-by-Day. Join us for a powerful journey that will walk you through a door that will change forever the way you love God, others, and yourself. Sessions include: - The Problem of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality (25:00) - Know Yourself That You May Know God (17:30) - Going Back in Order to Go Forward (19:00) - Journey through the Wall (22:30) - Enlarge Your Soul through Grief and Loss (22:30) - Discover the Rhythms of the Daily Office and Sabbath (24:30) - Grow into an Emotionally Mature Adult (18:30) - Go the Next Step to Develop a “Rule of Life” (21:00 Coordinating study guide available separately.  The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

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Title: God and Race: Audio Bible Studies: A Guide for Moving Beyond Black Fists and White Knuckles

Author: John Siebeling, Wayne Francis

Narrator: John And Wayne Siebeling And Francis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Release date: December 14, 2021

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

How you—and your church community—can play a part in ending racism. Pastors John Siebeling and Wayne Francis—whose thriving congregations are the embodiment of diversity—have pooled their insights and experiences to help others have conversations about racism. Many churches and leaders have sought their counsel, hoping to emulate their success, and yours can too. God and Race provides a non-threatening means for pastors, church leaders, and churchgoers to speak to each other about this difficult and pervasive problem. In this audio study, Wayne and John show how neither black fists nor white knuckles are the answer to the problem, but that what is needed are open hands, open hearts, and open minds. Together, they: - Examine the White-Black tension from both perspectives. - Answer all the uncomfortable questions we're afraid to ask—regarding ourselves, our families, our work and relationships, and the church. - Discuss seven key statements that they believe the church needs to acknowledge today—including that racism is a real problem, that it's more than just a spiritual issue, and that the Gospel is the solution. - Provide practical steps anyone can take to become part of the solution. In the Gospels, we see how the crowds came to Jesus because he talked about real issues and was not afraid to engage in the important issues of his day. In the church of today, we need to be doing the same: only by recognizing, addressing, and openly dialoguing about the racial tension in America can we begin to work toward real solutions together. Coordinating study guide available separately.  The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

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Title: Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

Author: Greg Johnson

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Release date: December 7, 2021

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Charting the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care—not a cure— for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, 'I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted.' For orthodox Christians, the way forward is to take a close look at our history. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on caring over attempting to cure. With warmth and humor, as well as original research, Still Time to Care provides: - Guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. - Guidance for the church to repent of its homophobia and instead offer gospel-motivated love and compassion.

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Title: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature

Author: Peter Scazzero

Narrator: Peter Scazzero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Release date: November 16, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.74 of Total 39

Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A road map for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do--avoid conflict in the name of Christianity; ignore his anger, sadness, and fear; use God to run from God; and live without boundaries. Eventually God awakened him to a biblical integration of emotional health and the spiritual practice of slowing down and quieting your life for to experience a firsthand relationship with Jesus. It created nothing short of a spiritual revolution in Scazzero, in his church, and now in thousands of other churches. In this updated edition, Scazzero shares new stories and principles as he outlines his journey and the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality. Then he provides seven biblical, reality-tested steps to become emotionally mature: - Become your authentic self - Break the power of the past - Let go of power and control - Surrender to your limits - Stop to breathe by practicing rest and Sabbath - Learn new skills to love well - Love Christ above all else   Plus, check out the full line of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality books dedicated to many different key areas of life. Workbooks, study guides, curriculum, and Spanish editions are also available. Accompanying checklist and graphic are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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Title: Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

Author: Jordan Raynor

Narrator: Jordan Raynor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Manage your time the way Jesus managed his with a biblical antidote to swamped to-do lists and hurried schedules. “A highly practical road map.”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author and lead pastor of National Community Church Despite the overwhelming amount of resources for time management and work-life balance, the ability to cultivate the efficiency and equilibrium needed to manage all our worthy pursuits can often feel frustratingly out of reach. The reason for our struggle is that productivity and time-management systems focus on individual habits rather than more meaningful and lasting lifestyle changes. But as it turns out, there is a better way to reach our full potential. We don’t need just another approach to changing our habits. What we need is an operating system that takes into account the full scope of our lives. In these pages, bestselling author Jordan Raynor presents this system, using seven powerful time- management principles drawn from the example of how Jesus lived:   1. Start with the Word: Find meaningful connection with the author of time daily. 2. Let Your Yes Be Yes: Accept only the commitments you can fulfill. 3. Dissent from the Kingdom of Noise: Create room for silence, stillness, and reflection. 4. Prioritize Your Yeses: Confidently maintain your commitments. 5. Accept Your “Unipresence”: Focus on one important thing at a time. 6. Embrace Productive Rest: Live the God-designed rhythms of rest which are productive for our goals and souls. 7. Eliminate All Hurry: Embrace productive busyness while ruthlessly eliminating hurry from our lives. With these principles, you’ll see how Jesus managed his time on earth and how he responded to human constraints much like the ones you face today. More than that, you’ll discover corresponding practices that will help you embrace the best, most Christlike version of yourself possible: purposeful, present, and wildly productive.

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Title: Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle

Author: Danté Stewart

Narrator: Danté Stewart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Release date: October 12, 2021

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world “Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy—both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience, and remembrance—and explores how these virtues might function as a work of love against an unjust, unloving world. In 2016, Stewart was a rising leader at the predominantly white evangelical church he and his family were attending in Augusta, Georgia. Like many young church leaders, Stewart was thrilled at the prospect of growing his voice and influence within the community, and he was excited to break barriers as the church’s first Black preacher. But when Donald Trump began his campaign, so began the unearthing. Stewart started overhearing talk in the pews—comments ranging from microaggressions to outright hostility toward Black Americans. As this violence began to reveal itself en masse, Stewart quickly found himself isolated amid a people unraveled; this community of faith became the place where he and his family now found themselves most alone. This set Stewart on a journey—first out of the white church and then into a liberating pursuit of faith—by looking to the wisdom of the saints that have come before, including James H. Cone, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and by heeding the paradoxical humility of Jesus himself. This sharply observed journey is an intimate meditation on coming of age in a time of terror. Stewart reveals the profound faith he discovered even after experiencing the violence of the American church: a faith that loves Blackness; speaks truth to pain and trauma; and pursues a truer, realer kind of love than the kind we’re taught, a love that sets us free.