Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Tinsel Tales: Favorite Christmas Stories from NPR Author: NPR Narrator: David Greene Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Each year, listener’s tune in to NPR for holiday offerings of all kinds: funny, touching, insightful, and surprising. Now anyone can listen to these evergreen delights while driving to the mall, wrapping gifts, entertaining friends, or relaxing in front of a crackling fire. More Tinsel Tales includes many of the outstanding storytellers featured regularly on NPR: Kevin Kling finds that Christmas in his family usually includes some type of family disaster, but it provides a wellspring of memories as the family gathers again, undaunted. Ken Harbaugh wonders at the perfection of the unadorned tree in his house—until his family breaks the spell. Bailey White spreads the Christmas guilt as she implicates her mother and sister in their life of yuletide crime. Jay O’Callahan remembers a boyhood Christmas that veered from tragedy to hope. A very merry, but wary Dave Barry shares his latest take on the hazards of celebrating Christmas. Cowboy poet Baxter Black reflects on the modern manger. Julie Zickafoose remembers a frigid but magical night of “Caroling in the Cold.” And available exclusively in this edition of More Tinsel Tales: “All Things Considered” host Audie Cornish shines with her inspired reading of O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi.” With all the promise of an overstuffed stocking on Christmas morning, More Tinsel Tales from NPR is brimming with stories that will soon be holiday classics.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words Author: Francesca Ambrogetti, Sergio Rubin Narrator: Henry Levya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: His Life in His Own Words On March 13, 2013, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, longtime Archbishop of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, was elected to succeed Pope Benedict.  He is the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis Assisi, the 13th century monk known for his charity and kindness. Elected in one of the shortest conclaves in history, the former Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina reveals, in a series of extensive interviews conducted over the course of two years, the very image of a humble priest, inspired teacher, and wise and adroit cardinal. What emerges is a portrait of a man more interested in substance over style, a compassionate cleric and teacher who has shunned the spotlight. In spontaneous, intimate terms, Archbishop Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, covers topics as wide-ranging as his childhood, family life, and the importance of his first job to discovering his calling and his early days in the seminary. The former archbishop was a teacher of psychology and literature until John Paul II consecrated him as a cardinal. He befriended writers like Jorge Luis Borges and cites Homer, Cervantes, and German and Italian poets with ease and offers nuanced thoughts about teaching. Thoughtful, intelligent, and even witty, he names Babette’s Feast as his favorite movie and Marc Chagall as his favorite painter. A learned and introspective man, he does not avoid the uncomfortable subjects: the declining numbers of priests and nuns; celibacy; the sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Church; and his opinions about and experience with the military dictatorship of his own crisis-riddled country. It also discusses the incredible role he played in the last conclave, where he is said to have been tied with Ratzinger in the second of three votes, and asked that the votes for him be transferred to Ratzinger. Through his own words, we come to know a man whose actions and words reflect his deeply-rooted humility. The book concludes with the Pope’s own writings and reflections, full of wisdom and inspiration.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/209842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Flight from God Author: Max Picard Narrator: Robin Lawson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 3, 2012 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: In this powerful classic, the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard argues that though the “flight from God” is not a phenomenon unique to this age, man has nevertheless put himself and society in an extremely dangerous situation with the progressive secularization of Western culture. In the age of faith, Picard says, a man had to make a conscious decision to separate himself from the world of faith. Today, the world, not just the individual, is in flight, and men must extricate themselves from modernity and make a deliberate decision to find and affirm faith. Gabriel Marcel says Picard is “among the few who appear capable of redirecting the thinking elite toward an awakening of reason, without which it is impossible not to despair of mankind.” The Flight from God is one of the most acute, and yet hopeful, analyses of modern man and society.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heaven Is Now: Awakening Your Five Spiritual Senses to the Wonders of Grace Author: Andrew Farley Narrator: Jon Gauger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 16, 2012 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: What if heaven wasn't just meant to be experienced after we die? What if heaven can be enjoyed here on earth—right now? Through story and conversations with Jesus, bestselling author Andrew Farley reveals how much you can take in the beauty of heaven no matter what your circumstances. With insight firmly rooted in the reality of pain and suffering in his own life, Andrew assures you that heaven is not merely some pie-in-the-sky dream for the future - it is now. He shows you how to awaken your spiritual sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel the grace of heaven, even in the midst of trouble here on earth. The heaven you can experience in this life lies within you, far beyond the reach of the world - but well within your grasp.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twilight's Last Gleaming: How America's Last Days Can Be Your Best Days Author: Robert Jeffress Narrator: Robert Jeffress Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 3, 2012 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: As the sun sets on a once-great nation, American Christians face a vital question: what now? It’s evening in America. The remarkable society whose light once shone as a beacon to the world is dimming. This is the sobering assessment of Robert Jeffress in Twilight’s Last Gleaming, yet he brings with that diagnosis a remarkably redemptive and hopefilled prescription for American believers. It’s a timely message. Rarely in U.S. history have Christians been more discouraged and fearful about our country’s future. Now Dr. Jeffress points a way out of this malaise, calling believers to action—not to restore a fading empire’s glory, but to make an eternal impact on millions of eternal souls. With a foreword by Governor Mike Huckabee, here is a bold roadmap to guide your attitudes and actions in these volatile last days.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amish Values for Your Family: What We Can Learn from the Simple Life Author: Suzanne Woods Fisher Narrator: Mimi Black Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: When it comes to strong families that know how to truly enjoy life together, there is much we can learn from the Amish. Just how do they establish such strong family bonds, such deeply held values, and such wonderful family traditions? In Amish Values for Your Family, bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher shares the secrets of Amish family life. In this inspiring and practical audio book, you will meet real Amish families that are a lot like yours. Through their stories you’ll discover how to slow down, safeguard family time, raise children who stand strong in their faith, and prioritize what’s truly important. Amish values like community, forgiveness, simple living, obedience, and more can be your family legacy—without selling your car or changing your wardrobe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Managing God's Money: A Biblical Guide Author: Randy Alcorn Narrator: Jon Gauger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Is what we do with our money really any of God’s business? Does God mind if we spend money on ourselves? What about debt? Savings? Retirement? How much does God expect us to give? God cares immensely that we manage money with an eternal perspective. Scripture’s teaching on this subject practically screams for our attention. In fact, Jesus says more about money than any other topic—including Heaven and Hell. In a simple, easy-to-follow format, Randy Alcorn addresses exactly what the Bible says about how we should handle the money and possessions God owns and entrusts to our management. Filled with helpful Scripture, Managing God’s Money is the perfect resource for anyone interested in gaining a solid biblical understanding of financial stewardship. It’s great for groups and churches, too!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Domesticated Jesus Author: Harry Kraus Narrator: Brandon Batchelar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 1, 2011 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Domesticated Jesus. Or “DJ”. It’s a horrible name—but a name that accurately reflects what each of us has done in our own lives. “I can hear your protests,” says author Harry Kraus, “and believe me, they are my own. Jesus Christ cannot be domesticated! I’m talking about the way I make myself big. And in the process, I’ve domesticated the Almighty. Tamed him. Advised him. Put him in a box. Expected him to function like a divine vending machine. That sickens me. Shocks me. And it should.” All of us try to domesticate Jesus, too—in little things like doubt, anxiety, or fear about the future. We let him into our lives, but only so far, until our control is threatened. Then we send him back to his room, back to his box. Harry Kraus takes a hard-hitting, soul-searching look at this atrocity that we commit every day. He challenges each of us to find Jesus as the grand treasure that he is and see him in real life more and more every day. “Pull up a chair, fellow traveler,” he concludes. “Let’s sit together to reason about a horrible thing that I’ve done. I’ve domesticated the Lord of the universe.”

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Collected Works of Saint Patrick Author: Saint Patrick Narrator: Sean McKinley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: St. Patrick's Breastplate - This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick and his diciples. It is written with some celtic pagan elements, but is definitely a Christian prayer asking God for protection through daily life. A Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus - Patrick writes this letter to excommunicate the soldiers of Coroticus' army who pillaged villages in Ireland and forced many Christian converts into slavery. Confession - A short autobiography by St. Patrick who tells of being abducted into slavery and taken to Ireland, the growth of his faith, his ministry as a bishop in ordaining many priests and baptising thousands of people, and a trial where he had to defend himself against his accusers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heavenly Life Author: James Allen Narrator: Gabriel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 71 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 20 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: James Allen’s most famous work, As A Man Thinketh, has gained almost cult status among those studying spiritual mysticism. He wrote all of his works without copyright for the benefit of man, and this work, The Heavenly Life, one of his more obscure writings, contains the wisdom of the meaning of spiritual oneness with God.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Second Apology of Justin Martyr Author: Justin Martyr Narrator: M. White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: A defense of the Christian faith delivered by St. Justin Martyr to the Roman Senate in the second century AD (Summary by IWYLLPA)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/208384 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The City of God Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo Narrator: Darren L. Slider Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 40 hours 34 minutes Release date: January 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Rome having been stormed and sacked by the Goths under Alaric their king, the worshippers of false gods, or pagans, as we commonly call them, made an attempt to attribute this calamity to the Christian religion, and began to blaspheme the true God with even more than their wonted bitterness and acerbity. It was this which kindled my zeal for the house of God, and prompted me to undertake the defence of the city of God against the charges and misrepresentations of its assailants. This work was in my hands for several years, owing to the interruptions occasioned by many other affairs which had a prior claim on my attention, and which I could not defer. However, this great undertaking was at last completed in twenty-two books. Of these, the first five refute those who fancy that the polytheistic worship is necessary in order to secure worldly prosperity, and that all these overwhelming calamities have befallen us in consequence of its prohibition. In the following five books I address myself to those who admit that such calamities have at all times attended, and will at all times attend, the human race, and that they constantly recur in forms more or less disastrous, varying only in the scenes, occasions, and persons on whom they light, but, while admitting this, maintain that the worship of the gods is advantageous for the life to come. In these ten books, then, I refute these two opinions, which are as groundless as they are antagonistic to the Christian religion. But that no one might have occasion to say, that though I had refuted the tenets of other men, I had omitted to establish my own, I devote to this object the second part of this work, which comprises twelve books, although I have not scrupled, as occasion offered, either to advance my own opinions in the first ten books, or to demolish the arguments of my opponents in the last twelve. Of these twelve books, the first four contain an account of the origin of these two cities—the city of God, and the city of the world. The second four treat of their history or progress; the third and last four, of their deserved destinies. And so, though all these twenty-two books refer to both cities, yet I have named them after the better city, and called them The City of God. (Summary by the author in his Retractationes (ii. 43) as translated by Marcus Dods)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Which None Can Shut: Remarkable True Stories of God's Miraculous Work in the Muslim World Author: Reema Goode Narrator: Jon Gauger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 1, 2010 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: “See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it.” -Revelation 3:8...  Imagine a place where becoming a Christian is a punishable crime—and your own family exacts the punishment. Where those who spread the Gospel among locals are deported if discovered. Where converts to Christianity face persecution, isolation, or even death as the price for their faith. “Reema Goode” and her family are Christians working in a closed Middle Eastern country where all of these things are true. Yet they are also firsthand witnesses of a whole new trend that is taking shape in missions to Muslims. Despite all obstacles, God is opening miraculous doors in the Islamic world, where an unprecedented number of Muslims are becoming followers of Jesus. In this powerful collection of personal stories, Reema takes us deep inside her Arab neighborhood to show how God is opening doors in just one of many Islamic communities. As she walks us through everyday life in a Muslim town, she reveals the diverse, creative, unexpected, and thrilling ways God is reaching her neighbors with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This encouraging, uplifting, and even humorous firsthand account of a Christian family living among Muslims will inspire you in your own walk of faith, teach you how to pray for Muslims and those who minister to them, and encourage you with the knowledge that God’s loving Light is penetrating the darkness.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding God in the Shack Author: Roger E. Olson Narrator: Roger Mueller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 1, 2009 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: The Shack has touched millions of readers with its portrayal of a compassionate God in the face of great evil. Many have identified with the main character’s Great Sadness, the terrible burden of grief that often accompanies and follows a deep loss. The Great Sadness is part of the human condition. And it compels us to ask, Where is God? Who is God? Can God be trusted? Roger Olson, who has faced his own Great Sadness, finds a good deal of comfort in this much beloved story as have so many others. Olson also views The Shack with a theologian’s eye and finds much to endorse. He delves into many of the significant issues raised by the book, such as forgiving those who have done us great evil, how God acts in the world, how God is three persons in one and what difference this makes to us. While he offers his own criticisms and questions of the book, he largely finds the truth about God in The Shack.