Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God Author: Steve Cuss Narrator: Steve Cuss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Learn how to quiet your inner critic, confront chronic anxiety, and relax into God's perfect presence. Do you truly experience the promises Jesus gave to those who follow him—the benefits of peace, freedom, and love? The fact is that many of us struggle with a gap between what we believe about God and how we encounter him in our everyday lives. We don't want our faith to be merely conceptual—we want to experience it viscerally—and yet we often come up against one or more of these major gaps:   - I believe God loves me, but I don't feel it. - I believe God is with me, but I don't see him. - I thought I'd be further along in my spiritual progress by now.   In The Expectation Gap, Steve Cuss—pastor and founder of the leadership organization Capable Life—offers tangible tools for engaging with God in a deeper, more soul-satisfying way. You'll unveil harmful expectations and patterns that keep you spiritually stuck so that you can replace them with habits and practices that will lead to a more vibrant faith life. 'This is the most helpful book I've read in my thirty-five years of ministry when it comes to recognizing, naming, and bridging the gap between what we believe about God and what we experience from God.' —Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women Exercises, discussion questions, and appendixes can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sígueme: Cómo seguir a Jesús hace libre a nuestra generación enredada en influencias ideológicas Author: Carlos Erazo Narrator: Carlos Erazo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: En Sígueme, el pastor y autor Carlos Erazo nos explica cómo nos hemos convertido en la generación con los niveles más altos de ansiedad, preocupación, estrés, depresión, incertidumbre y temor en la historia porque seguimos al guía equivocado. En vez de enseñarle al corazón a seguir a Jesús, hemos permitido que alguien le enseñe a nuestro corazón a seguir otras influencias, otras tendencias, otras ideologías. Pero no es demasiado tarde para darle un nuevo destino al corazón comenzando hoy como aprendices de Jesús. En el nuevo libro de Carlos Erazo, Sígueme, el autor revela cómo estas plataformas influyen en nuestras vidas más de lo que creemos, abordando temas como: - La adicción a las redes sociales - El consumo desenfrenado de pornografía - La escalada de problemas de salud mental como la ansiedad y la depresión - La obsesión por uno mismo y la caída en picado de la autoestima A través de una mirada profunda a las Escrituras, descubriremos que Jesús nos ofrece una vida libre de todo aquello que te tiene enredado, atrapado o atascado. Para que cuando otros vean tu vida, comprendan que la única explicación de una vida tan radicalmente diferente a la de la mayoría es porque está marcada por la devoción a Jesús. Follow Me In Follow Me, pastor and author Carlos Erazo explains how we have become the generation with the highest levels of anxiety, worry, stress, depression, uncertainty and fear in history because we follow the wrong guide. Instead of teaching our hearts to follow Jesus, we have allowed someone else to teach our hearts to follow other influences, other trends, other ideologies. But it is not too late to give a new destiny to the heart starting today as apprentices of Jesus. In Carlos Erazo's new book, Follow Me, the author reveals how these platforms influence our lives more than we think, addressing topics such as: - The addiction to social media - The rampant consumption of pornography - The escalation of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression - Self-obsession and plummeting self-esteem Through a deep look at Scripture, we will discover that Jesus offers us a life free of anything that has you entangled, trapped or stuck. So that when others see your life, they will understand that the only explanation for a life so radically different from most is because it is marked by devotion to Jesus.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gospeler: Turning Darkness into Light One Conversation at a Time Author: Willie Robertson Narrator: Willie Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Includes the bonus Gospeler resource, Sharing Jesus with Confidence. Do you want to share your faith more easily and naturally? Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty says that if you can tell someone about your spouse, kids, friends, school, pets, and hobbies, you know how to talk about the most important thing in your life, your Lord! Could you share the gospel with another person? Would you know where to start? Do you even know what the gospel is? It's the Good News of Jesus, and a gospeler is simply someone who shares it with others. Willie Robertson writes about his story of faith, which came about in large part because a stranger went out of his way—as well as his comfort zone—to have a spiritual conversation with Willie's father, Phil. And from that story, he tells readers how they, too, can talk about Jesus with their family, friends, neighbors, and even people they meet along the way. Gospeler will help readers: - Celebrate the gospel genealogy that led to their faith and be inspired to grow their spiritual family tree. - Understand that sharing the gospel is not preaching but having a conversation. - Keep sharing the gospel with someone, knowing that Jesus never gives up on us. - Focus on what's truly important (Jesus) instead of what's not (religion).   Being a gospeler is not complicated. And the more you share Jesus, the easier it gets. Maybe you believe other people are better at sharing their faith and it is not your gift. Maybe you think you don't know the Bible well enough. Or you might say you haven't figured it all out yourself, so you aren’t equipped to help anyone else. Whatever may be holding you back will be covered in this book, giving you the inspiration, guidance, and encouragement you need. When the gospel is heard, accepted, and responded to, it's not just a cool story, it is a game-changer. And it can spread across the world—starting with one conversation you have with another. Sharing Jesus with Confidence Do you want to share your faith more easily and naturally? This companion booklet to Gospeler by Willie Robertson of Duck Dynasty is a practical guide for Christ followers to read and give to those seeking God's truth and love. Could you share the gospel with another person? Would you know where to start? Do you even know what the gospel is? It's the Good News of Jesus, and a gospeler is simply someone who shares it with others. Willie Robertson says that if you can tell someone about your spouse, kids, friends, school, pets, and hobbies, you know how to talk about the most important thing in your life, your Lord! This title is a companion to the trade book Gospeler, in which Willie writes about his story of faith that came about in large part because a stranger went out of his way—as well as his comfort zone—to have a spiritual conversation with his father, Phil. Sharing Jesus with Confidence will provide readers with: - Inspiration and encouragement to follow Jesus more faithfully. - Scriptures pointing to salvation found in Jesus alone. - Step-by-step guidance in understanding and responding to Christ's calling. - Guidance on sharing the Good News of Jesus effectively, whether a new believer or a Christian for decades. - Counsel on how to stay focused on what's truly important (Jesus) instead of what's not (religion)   When the gospel is heard, accepted, and responded to, it's not just a cool story, it is a game-changer. And it can spread across the world—starting with a simple conversation you have with someone. A “Sharing Jesus with Confidence Quick Guide” can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Your Life is God's Story: Trusting God’s Plan Through Life’s Ups and Downs Author: Tim Dilena Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Biblical stories and powerful testimonies that encourage faith in God's plan for your life. In Your Life is God's Story, pastor and teacher Tim Dilena guides readers through the faith-building journeys of eleven Bible characters whose ordinary and painful experiences led to unforeseen results. Alongside the Bible stories are powerful testimonies from Tim and people in his life. Your Life is God's Story gives readers a new set of lenses to view experiences and events in life with hope. The hope is seeing how God gets ordinary people to their intended destinies. Readers will gain a renewed passion for persevering through life's challenges to trust God's process. Together, they illustrate how God has a perfect plan for everyone. Your Life is God's Story includes: - Stories from 11 biblical people whose destinies were unclear throughout most of their lives - Experiences of ordinary believers who have trusted the process, living through big trouble and getting to the other side to give praise to God   The discussion questions can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hope in Our Scars: Finding the Bride of Christ in the Underground of Disillusionment Author: Aimee Byrd Narrator: Aimee Byrd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Aimee Byrd peels back the church's underlying and pervasive theology of power to face the shame that lurks there and find the lasting hope of belonging in Christ. Some things happening in the church these days should provoke our anger. It's racked with scandals of fraud, abuse, cover-up. It's embroiled in racism, misogyny, marginalization, and hatred. The truth is that we have to fight to love Christ's church. Many of us are left wondering what kind of hope can the church offer if its leaders will not care for its wounds, admit their complicity, and move toward true reconciliation with God's people. From the author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood comes a passionate plea to work through our disillusionment with the church and rediscover what's true and beautiful about our covenantal union with Christ. Having tread her own path of disillusionment, Aimee Byrd invites us to see Christ among the chaos so apparent in his church. Along the way, Aimee guides us through deeply theological and personal reflections on how we can: - Cultivate healthier forms of trust by recognizing power structures at work. - Understand the limits of authority, and free ourselves from tribes and celebrity culture. - Take appropriate social risks by speaking up when we're uncomfortable. - Rediscover how our stories matter to God.   This book is written to those who have been wounded by the church. To those who have suffered abuse at the hands of church leaders and are left with deep scars. To those who are disillusioned or deconstructing their faith, The Hope in Our Scars offers a way forward with a God who walks with us in our affliction and wants to make it into something beautiful. Reflection questions can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faith Embodied: Glorifying God with Our Physical and Spiritual Health Author: Stephen Ko Narrator: Max Newland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Scientist, physician, and pastor Stephen Ko explains how to live and worship incarnationally and glorify God with our bodies. Many of us don't see much connection between spiritual and physical health. We say grace before digging into greasy, fatty meals we know are bad for us. We read Scripture on our phones before switching to social media feeds that hijack the neural circuitry in our brains. Or we take our physical health too seriously, distancing ourselves from the sick and the needy whom Jesus embraced. On his journey from pediatrician to public health officer for the CDC to senior pastor of the largest New York Chinese Alliance Church, Stephen Ko has seen that these divisions between physical and spiritual health are artificial. In Faith Embodied, he reminds us that our 'bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit' (1 Corinthians 6:19). Christ incarnate is deity in flesh, and His spirit is incarnate in us. Living and worshiping incarnationally is consciously embracing what the Creator has designed in His image, from the finest, microscopic details to vital organs within our body, enabling the Holy Spirit to work in us. Faith Embodied will teach you to: - Understand subconscious ways that thwart the design of the Creator. - Embrace choices that invite incarnational health, living, and worship. - Experience God in every aspect of your life, from flesh and bone to heart and soul. - View the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste) in a different light - Reflect the image of God in the way you breathe, move, create, love, and rest.   Weaving together insights from faith, science, and medicine, Ko reveals the marvelous ways in which our physical and spiritual health can prepare us to become instruments of God's healing in the world. Questions for reflection can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692312 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West Author: Mary Ann Glendon Narrator: Julie-Ann Elliott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: A rare firsthand account of the three popes who worked to modernize the Catholic Church—and to evangelize the modern world—from a renowned international lawyer, Harvard law professor, and former ambassador to the Vatican “Mary Ann Glendon’s book joyfully, and with humility, brings us inside her deft, grace-filled, and brilliant public diplomacy career.”—Mike Pompeo, former U.S. secretary of state For twenty centuries, the Catholic Church has radically shaped world history—and survived it. In the decades following the Second Vatican Council, three popes have carried forward this legacy, striving to lead the Church and its governing body—the last absolute monarchy of the West—into the modern world. With In the Courts of Three Popes, accomplished diplomat, international lawyer, and Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon gives readers a rare inside look at the papacies of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. She shares her role in key developments in the Church’s recent history, like the Church entering the third millennium, in Pope John Paul II’s words, on its knees in penance for failures such as clergy sex abuse, or in leading the way for lay women to hold positions of power in the Church. Glendon illuminates the issues vexing the Church today: the place of faith in secular politics, relating the Church to other religions, clericalism and the power of laypeople, and corruption at the Vatican Bank and within the Roman Curia. Glendon provides a one-of-a-kind analysis of the inner workings of the Holy See, showing readers that, despite its many failings, the Catholic Church is a living, breathing community. Behind the Church’s doctrines and policies and institutions lie people, personalities, aspirations, and relationships that still promise to transform lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting Here for You: Audio Bible Studies: An Advent Journey of Hope Series: Part of Audio Bible Studies Author: Louie Giglio Narrator: Louie Giglio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 8 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Waiting is not wasted when waiting on the Lord. A season overflowing with anticipation, Christmas comes the same time each year with great hope and promise of a baby born long ago. But this season meant for joy is often consumed by busyness, pressure, mixed emotions, and is gone as quickly as it came. What is it all for? In this four-session study, pastor Louie Giglio reminds us that it’s in the richness of Advent—a season of expectant waiting and preparation—that we find our answer. And it is throughout this waiting season that we prepare our hearts to greet December 25th with joy, peace, hope, and refreshed promise in our newborn King.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.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gifts of Christmas: 25 Joy-Filled Devotions for Advent Author: Sheila Walsh Narrator: Sheila Walsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: When you think of Christmas, what do you see? Glittering lights, decked-out trees, brightly wrapped gifts, a tightly packed schedule? Look closer. What do you hear? Ringing bells, familiar carols, Mariah Carey on an endless loop at the grocery store? Listen harder. In a season that is busy and bustling, there is a deeper, softer, quieter truth that we too often miss in the mayhem. God in our midst. God with us. The greatest gift. The only reason for the season. And the source of all our joy. If you've been feeling overwhelmed and exhausted by what Christmas has become, this beautiful Advent devotional will refresh your faith, reactivate your wonder, and restore your joy. With stories of simple Christmases past, inspiration from Scripture, and pearls of wisdom from beloved author Sheila Walsh, The Gifts of Christmas offers you grace, peace, hope, and a sense of expectation for what truly can be the most wonderful time of the year.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seeing As Jesus Sees: How a New Perspective Can Defeat the Darkness and Awaken Joy Author: Alan Wright Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Life and relationships can be complicated and frustrating. But when we see ourselves, others, and the world through the eyes of Jesus, everything changes. Instead of pain we can see purpose. Instead of opposition, opportunity. Instead of fear, freedom. Thankfully, Spirit-filled sight isn't reserved for the spiritually elite. It's available to all of us through a simple, intimate prayer: 'Jesus, how do you see this?' When you see as Jesus sees, you'll be empowered to discover the wonder and beauty you've been missing; clear away needless frustrations and misunderstandings; take the limits off your life; see others with genuine compassion and faith; and have hope again for the world through Christ's victory over sin and death. If you long to live with greater joy, victory, and wonder, let pastor Alan Wright lead you through the Scriptures to the Savior's side to see everything from his perspective. You're going to love the view!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Changed into His Image: God's Plan for Transforming Your Life Author: Jim Berg Narrator: Jim Denison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 4, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: In this roadmap to spiritual growth, biblical counselor Jim Berg guides new and mature believers alike to better cultivate a deep relationship with Christ and respond wisely to God's direction for life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Popular Survey of Apologetics for Today: Fast Facts Every Christian Should Know Author: Ron Rhodes Narrator: Kent Klineman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: We need Christians trained in apologetics now more than ever. In a chaotic world where many people claim to have their own truth, Christians have been given the unshakable truth that comes from God alone. But simply knowing it isn't enough. The task of apologetics belongs to all believers, to 'make a defense to anyone who asks' (1 Peter 3:14). Although the call is clear, it can be difficult to know where to start. This comprehensive survey delves into key teachings about our faith, providing pearls of wisdom along the way to help us remember the heart of the matter. Ron Rhodes shares a wealth of straightforward, biblical answers to the questions and issues of our day, addressing: the nature of truth—absolute truth versus relative truth; hermeneutics—the principles of interpreting the Bible rightly; Christian ethics—including controversial topics such as abortion, suicide, and divorce; alleged contradictions in the Bible; and challenging questions unbelievers ask about God and Christianity. Fortify your own understanding of God's Word and God's world—from intelligent design to the prophetic future—and let the truths contained in this book equip you for meaningful, effective, and gracious conversations with others.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Church Revitalization: A Pastoral Guide to Church Renewal Author: Russell N. Small Narrator: George W. Sarris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Church Revitalization guides current and future leaders through the often-complex process of bringing a church to a place of vibrancy. This book demonstrates how the overarching goal of seeing people come to faith in Christ and develop into Christlikeness can—and must—inform the most foundational to the most fleeting aspects of revitalizing a struggling church. Church Revitalization Strategist Rusty Small systematically walks listeners through the many considerations of leading a church out of a decline. He helps identify the best approach for addressing what a particular church's revitalization need may be: ● Refresh—often most fitting after a difficult season in the church's life ● Renovate—needed when a decline has lasted five to ten years ● Restore—appropriate for churches with generational patterns focused on survival ● Replant—best for a church facing imminent closure Few joys compare to seeing God's life and power realized for the local church—when believers begin to think and serve as Jesus did. Small will encourage pastors and church leaders engaged in this critical task.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context Author: Jennifer C. Snow Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: The history of the Episcopal Church is intimately bound up with the history of empire. The two grew in tandem in the modern era, and as they grew they developed particular ideologies and practices around race. As slavery was carried over into the new political formations of the United States, so too were racially based exclusions carried over in the Episcopal Church. Mission, Race, and Empire presents a new history of the Episcopal Church from its origins in the early British Empire up to the present, told through the lenses of empire and race. The book demonstrates the dramatic shifts within the Episcopal Church, from initial colonial violence to reflective self-critique. Jennifer Snow centers the stories of groups and individuals that have often been sidelined, including Native Americans, Black Americans, Asian Americans, women, and LGBTQ people, as well as the institutional leaders who sought to create, or fought against, a church that desired to be a house of prayer for all people.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Magnificent Exit: Mastering the Art of Leadership Transitions Author: Neil Hart Narrator: Jim Denison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: The Magnificent Exit is a book about transitional leadership. Through personal stories, professional case studies, biblical exegesis, character studies, and spiritual insights, Neil Hart introduces the listener to a transformative principle of leadership: the best leaders know when to leave, which is far earlier than usually thought. Here are just a few of the key principles explored in the book: ● The inertia created by poor leadership handoffs is one of the biggest leadership problems. ● Jesus turned the task of building the church over to others and then left the scene, serving as an example of transitional leadership. ● God's vision for us as leaders is to think generationally. ● The best leaders envision their organizations without them in the picture. ● The best leaders know how to avoid 'Founder President Syndrome.' ● A good transition involves both selecting the right successor and not waiting too long to leave. ● Key quote: 'Organizations should exist for people, and people for the mission and kingdom of God. Leaders exist to serve people in that mission, to envision them, to encourage them, to course-correct, and to release them.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles Author: Kathryn Krick Narrator: Kathryn Krick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Become a Trusted, Effective Vessel of God's Power If it's God's will for each of His children to be vessels of His anointing, why are we not walking in His power to heal and deliver? Moving in healing and deliverance all over the world, rising apostle Kathryn Krick shares how we can access this anointing and why it's so important. With infectious, humble intensity, she equips you to strengthen your relationship with Jesus, the Anointed One; develop the godly character needed for powerful ministry; access the power that makes demons tremble; and launch your calling and release His anointing. The Holy Spirit wants to partner with you to demonstrate God's love by casting out demons, healing the sick and destroying every yoke. Now is your time to walk in the precious and powerful anointing of God.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spiritual Art of Business: Connecting the Daily with the Divine Author: Barry L. Rowan Narrator: Caleb Byrd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: We want the thousands of hours we will work over our lifetime to matter. But how do we know they're really significant? How do we go from being defined by what we do to having our work become an expression of who we are? There is not a quick fix but a progressive solution: it begins with surrendering our whole lives and then every moment of our lives to God. In The Spiritual Art of Business, 'corporate mystic' Barry Rowan invites us to be transformed by God that he might transform the world through us as we begin to see our work as an extension of our faith. He says, 'We don't derive meaning from our work; we bring meaning to our work.' Relating his extensive past in high-ranking executive roles, Rowan beckons us into a connection with God that will infuse our lives, our offices, and our world with meaning. With forty short chapters, this is not just a book to be listened to but instead is an invitation into an experience with God. Here's an opportunity to ponder new perspectives and see business as a chance to serve God by contributing to a better society.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty Author: Mark Valeri Narrator: Bob Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral appeal of Christianity, recount learned conversations between English merchants and Muslim scholars, and tell of encounters with hospitable and sincere priests in Catholic Canada and Europe. What explains this poignant shift? Using a variety of sources, The Opening of the Protestant Mind traces a transformation in how English and colonial American Protestants described other religions during a crucial period of English colonization of North America. After the English Revolution of 1688 and the subsequent growth of the British empire, observers began to link Britain's success to civic moral virtues, including religious toleration, rather than to any particular religious creed. Mark Valeri shows how a wide range of Protestants—including liberal Anglicans, Calvinist dissenters, deists, and evangelicals—began to see other religions not as entirely good or entirely bad, but as complex, and to evaluate them according to their commitment to religious liberty.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reformed Worship (Blessings of the Faith) Author: Jonty Rhodes Narrator: Jim Seybert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and wondered if it was worth getting out of bed? Have you wondered why you should bother to attend corporate worship every week? Unfortunately, it can be easy to miss the excitement of corporate worship—but the excitement is there. Because God is all-sufficient, he commands worship for his glory but our gain! A Reformed view of worship is shaped by God's Word, with the gospel as its context: God desires to meet with his people, and that meeting comes only in and through Christ, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus is our worship leader, and as our prophet, priest and king he teaches us what worship should look like. Writing with winsome enthusiasm, Jonty Rhodes celebrates the simplicity and freedom of Reformed worship and shows listeners the joys of meeting with God in the means and manner he promises to bless.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Death, the End of History, and Beyond: Eschatology in the Bible Author: Greg Carey Narrator: Jim Denison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Christianity Publisher's Summary: What happens at the end of our lives and of the course of history? Will God bring about a just and peaceful world? What lies beyond this realm, and what can we know of the beings who dwell there? In Death, the End of History, and Beyond, Greg Carey offers resources for understanding multiple, even conflicting, ways that the Bible imagines these ultimate realities. Carey opens the Scriptures with a breadth of insight that acknowledges its diversity of viewpoints about what lies beyond the veil, centering hope in God's action to bring good out of evil in our lived realities, in our personal journeys through death, and in visions of resurrection and justice restored. An appendix on preaching also invites clergy to help their communities imagine when and how eschatology can inform our lives today.