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Title: Vintage Saints and Sinners

Subtitle: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith

Author: Karen Wright Marsh

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Publisher's Summary:

Saints are people too. The word saint conjures up images of superstar Christians revered for their spectacular acts and otherworldly piety. But when we take a closer look at the lives of these spiritual heavyweights, we learn that they also experienced struggle, doubt, and heartache. In fact, we learn that in many ways they're not all that different from you and me.

Narrating her own winding pilgrimage through faith, Karen Marsh reveals surprising lessons in everyday spirituality from these "saints" - folks who lived and breathed, and failed and followed God.

Told with humor and vulnerability, Vintage Saints and Sinners introduces us afresh to 25 brothers and sisters who challenge and inspire us with their honest faith. Join Karen on her journey with the likes of Augustine, Brother Lawrence, and Saint Francis, as well as Amanda Berry Smith, Sren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Flannery O'Conner, and many more. Let their lives and their wisdom be an invitation to authentic life in Christ.

Members Reviews:

Such a wonderful and encouraging read!

Anyone who has the desire to walk through the doors of the Bonhoeffer House (near the Grounds of the University of Virginia) for discussions centered on men and women who have been touched and changed so as to live life radically different, authentically, in deep relationship and pursuit of God, will walk out changed, hungrier than before, but encouraged by the risen, real, and living Christ who joins them as they go. This is the way I first encountered the life of vintage saints and sinners through the eyes and reflections of Karen Marsh.

So, no surprise, but a deep delight to me to find Karen sharing some of the inspiration she has found in the lives and writings of Christ-followers who have gone before in the pages of her new book,Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith.

I now live in Southern California, and having Vintage Saints and Sinners on hand delights me and draws me to new fellowship and encouragement offered by those who have followed Christ in cultures and through crises I may never know, but in many ways parallel my own pilgrimâs path, pitfalls, and challenges.

I have always loved biographies of missionaries and Christians who, motivated by Godâs love and presence in their own lives, took on great things much larger than they could imagine taking on in their own strength. Such lives of other Christ-followers have always encouraged me. Vintage Saints and Sinners offers just such real, not polished, encouragement from the lives of 25, make that 26, such people.

Iâm not just encouraged by those in past generations and foreign cultures, but especially by a contemporary in my time and culture. Karen shares her life and wisdom while sharing the lives and wisdoms of others in Vintage Saints and Sinners. Karenâs reflections, insights, and experiences, drawn from her own life and encounters with these vintage Christ-followers, encourage me as much as their lives do.

I hope you will be encouraged as I am, and may this encouragement inspire us to transform the world around us as we walk together in gratitude and grace.

For the weary soul

I picked up this book in a season of doubt and dryness with my walk with the Lord. As I began to read it, I quickly found out that there is something beautiful inside these pages: empathy.