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Title: Wrestling with Doubt, Finding Faith

Author: Adam Hamilton

Narrator: John Mclain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Does your faith make room for questions? Everyone has doubts. Where is God when bad things happen? Does God hear our prayers? Is there a heaven? How can we know? Often we treat such questions as the enemy of faith. But uncertainty doesn't mean our belief is lacking. Doubt can be a path to a deeper, richer encounter with God. In Wrestling with Doubt, Finding Faith, join bestselling author and pastor Adam Hamilton as he discusses some of our most significant sources of doubt and shows how a steady trust in God can emerge from them. You will delve into questions like: 'Does God exist? How can I know?' 'Is the Bible true?' 'Why do prayers go unanswered?' Hamilton approaches these sources of doubt with honesty and insight, drawing on the rich wisdom of the Bible, Christian tradition, and his experience walking with thousands of people on their spiritual journey. Whether you're a longtime Christian or someone brand new to faith, this book will lead you to a trust in God that is unafraid of hard questions. Wrestle with doubt and find faith—belief and trust, not certainty; mystery rather than simple answers.

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Title: Introduction to Christian Worship: Fourth Edition Revised and Updated

Author: James F. White

Narrator: Asa Siegel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

James White's classic Christian worship text, revised and updated. This must-listen book for students of worship is now revised and updated for the first time in more than twenty years. Author Ed Phillips, one of White's graduate students, is joined by practitioners and teachers from emerging generations, who contribute timely and well-researched material from their own areas of expertise. This new content brings the original up to date, filling significant gaps since the original publication on topics like technology, arts, embodiment in and of worship, pluralism and multiculturalism, denominational changes, and changes in the spaces and forms of worship, including worship in the age of pandemics. This new edition is perfect for every student, pastor, and leader of Christian worship.

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Title: When a Friendship Falls Apart: Finding God's Path for Healing, Forgiveness, and (Maybe) Help Letting Go

Author: Elizabeth Laing Thompson

Narrator: Nan Mcnamara

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

They say friends are the family we choose. And that choosing—the joy of loving and being loved by someone who isn't genetically obligated to share life with us—adds priceless worth to our days, but also great risk. Because hurt can happen even in the closest friendships, and sometimes friendships fall apart. The loss can be staggering. As we struggle to digest the pain and confusion, we wonder, How could this happen? And what do I do now? In When a Friendship Falls Apart, beloved author Elizabeth Laing Thompson comes alongside listeners as they process their struggling friendships—the faltering, the fractured, and the failed. Blending personal story, biblical examples, and faith-filled wisdom, the book explores questions like the following: ● How do we guard against the poison of bitterness so we can process the hurt and move forward? ● When and how do we seek reconciliation? What does forgiveness look like? ● How do we know when it's time to leave a friendship behind? ● How do we open up again and entrust our wounded hearts to new friendships? If you find yourself in the midst of a friendship that's falling apart, or you're grappling with past hurts and regrets, this book is for you.

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Title: A Radiant Birth: Advent Readings for a Bright Season

Author: Leslie Leyland Fields

Narrator: Kellye A. Saunders, William Sarris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

'In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love.' —Madeleine L'Engle 'At the birth of Jesus, an event of cosmic significance by which we humans still mark our calendars, the invisible and visible worlds come together.' —Philip Yancey 'Help us to realize, as those who love and believe in you that we, too, are pregnant with Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, and that day by day we are being enlarged.' —Luci Shaw The first Christmas sermon preserved in church history was preached by St. John Chrysostom in AD 386, in which he declared, 'Behold a new and wonderful mystery!' In this volume, the Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful season of anticipation and glory. Through forty-two readings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, contributors prepare us in watchful waiting for the coming of Jesus. We enter slowly so that the familiar can astonish us and become wondrous once again. Jesus is born in Bethlehem. But not only there. He is also born in us, that we might bear his presence and impart his goodness to the world.

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Title: The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

Author: Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, Dwight J. Friesen

Narrator: William Sarris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Christianity Today Award of Merit Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore 'When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive, and show grace like never before. . . . The gospel becomes so much more tangible and compelling when the local church is actually a part of the community, connected to the struggles of the people, and even the land itself.' Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen have seen—in cities, suburbs, and small towns all over North America—how powerful the gospel can be when it takes root in the context of a place, at the intersection of geography, demography, economy, and culture. This is not a new idea—the concept of a parish is as old as Paul's letters to the various communities of the ancient church. But in an age of dislocation and disengagement, the notion of a church that knows its place and gives itself to where it finds itself is like a breath of fresh air, like a sign of new life.

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Title: Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character

Author: Dennis R. Edwards

Narrator: Dennis R. Edwards

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into these same traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue: humility. New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards illuminates humility as a, if not the, distinctive identity marker of followers of Jesus. Tracing the theme throughout Scripture, he demonstrates how true humility is grounded in submission to God and becomes manifest in all areas of life. Edwards defuses common misconceptions about humility and explores its role in Christian community, conflict, leadership, suffering, worship, and stewardship. As we learn from and honor the humble instead of the power-hungry, humility paradoxically empowers God's people—including those who are often marginalized. Filled with stories from the author's ministry experience, Humility Illuminated addresses common areas of leadership failure and how to avoid them, applies biblical texts on humility to multiethnic ministry and justice work, and issues a compelling challenge to the church.

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Title: Hopeful Lament: Tending Our Grief Through Spiritual Practices

Author: Terra Mcdaniel

Narrator: Terra Mcdaniel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Release date: December 26, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

We need to rediscover lament to heal and hope again. We've lost the practice of lament. Most people don't know how to process personal or communal mourning and instead struggle to honor their tears, vulnerability, and the full weight of these disillusioning times. But tending our grief might be exactly what we need to reimagine a way forward. Tracing her difficult experiences of a catastrophic home fire, a threat to her child's well-being, and other devastating losses and upheavals, Terra McDaniel offers a clear framework for expressing heartache and burdens. McDaniel says, 'Lament is surprisingly hopeful. As strange as that may sound now, I promise it's true. It's an act of trust both that we can face pain and survive, and that God cares about our anger, confusion, doubt, grief, and fear. Lament refuses to bury pain or, just as dangerous, to give in to despair.' Hopeful Lament makes space for the powerful act of crying out before a loving God and offers provoking reflection questions, embodied practices, and applications for families with children. Learn how to journey gently through suffering.

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Title: Know Love Like This: 21 Days of Discovering God's Heart for You

Author: Various

Narrator: Katie Smith, Patrick Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Release date: December 22, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

God’s love for you is unconditional, inescapable, and unstoppable. John understood this love, and it changed his life. As you read each day of this 21-day devotional along with the Gospel of John, you'll discover there is no love like Jesus’ love for you and you'll know His love in your heart.

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Title: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Author: Donald S. Whitney

Narrator: Tyler Boss

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

We aren't meant to wait for holiness—we're meant to pursue it. God commands Christians to actively 'be holy,' but what does that look like in daily life? Rather than overwhelming legalism or loose boundaries, Don Whitney encourages us to find a practical middle ground through biblical habits. Don Whitney's convicting insight on spiritual disciplines will challenge you to grow in new ways as a Christian. Now updated and revised, this edition offers practical suggestions for cultivating spiritual growth, diving into practices such as: absorbing Scripture, prayer, worship, Evangelism, serving, fasting, silence and solitude, journaling, and more. Regardless of where you are in your Christian walk, this anniversary edition provides refreshing and profound encouragement for your spirit.

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Title: Working from the Inside Out: A Brief Guide to Inner Work That Transforms Our Outer World

Author: Jeff Haanen

Narrator: Jeff Haanen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2023

Genres: Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Many today are experiencing social isolation, deep anxieties about the future, and various difficulties in the workplace. For too many of us, work seems tedious, painful, or meaningless. And we don't know what to do about it. Working from the Inside Out pulls back the veil on the deep emotional and vocational challenges faced by the majority of workers and shows how work can become a way to love God, serve our neighbors, and demonstrate the gospel to the world. Bringing together emotional, relational, vocational, intellectual, and civic health through the seamless thread of vocation, Jeff Haanen offers a way out of the disintegration of our culture and toward a reintegrated life lived in response to God's voice. The inner work of transformation leads to external transformation of our relationships and our work, and that good work influences our cities and the culture around us. Living from the inside out can change our work and heal our world.