A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C.S. Lewis

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By C.S. Lewis
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Alister E. McGrath
• Narrated By Robin Sachs
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis - A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of this Oxford don, who spent his days teaching English literature to the brightest students in the world and his spare time writing.

The Pilgrim's Regress

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 4 mins)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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The first book written by C.S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress is, in a sense, a record of Lewis's own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction that eventually led him to Christianity.

Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Timothy Keller
• Narrated By Sean Pratt
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Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces

• UNABRIDGED (39 hrs and 1 min)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and storytelling. In this essay collection we find a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics.

The Problem of Pain

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 50 mins)
• By C.S. Lewis
• Narrated By James Simmons
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"If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?" And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle this knotty issue. With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C. S. Lewis offers answers to these crucial questions and shares his hope and wisdom to help heal a world hungering for a true understanding of human nature.

Jerusalem: The Biography

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Narrated By John Lee

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.

You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By James K. A. Smith
• Narrated By Claton Butcher

In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps listeners recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices.

Miracles

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 23 mins)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Julian Rhind-Tutt

"The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this." This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation.

Mere Christianity

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 52 mins)
• By C.S. Lewis
• Narrated By Geoffrey Howard
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Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion.

The Pursuit of God

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 17 mins)
• By A. W. Tozer
• Narrated By Mark Moseley
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During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night, and when the train arrived at his destination, the rough draft was done. The depth of this book has made it an enduring favorite.

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 6 mins)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Nadia May
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Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself, and Orual, Psyche's unattractive and embittered older sister, who loves Psyche with a destructive possessiveness. Her frustration and jealousy over Psyche's fate sets Orual on the troubled path of self-discovery. Lewis's last work of fiction, this is often considered his best by critics.

The Abolition of Man

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 36 mins)
• By C. S. Lewis
• Narrated By Douglas Gresham
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Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man remains one of C. S. Lewis's most controversial works. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the ongoing importance and relevance of universal objective values, such as courage and honor, and the foundational necessity of natural law. He also makes a cogent case that a retreat from these pillars of our educational system, even if in the name of "scientism", would be catastrophic. National Review lists it as number seven on their "100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century".

Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Ravi Zacharias
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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This is a story about an amazing man. Yet it is also everyone's story about belief - how it begins, how it grows, and the struggles associated with it. Walking from East to West is a heartfelt personal story of one man's discovery that God is the author of our destinies, no matter how dark the shadows that hide the light.

George MacDonald: A Biography of Scotland's Beloved Storyteller

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Michael R Phillips
• Narrated By Johnny Heller

Scotland's beloved storyteller, George MacDonald, 19th-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to 20th century Christians by C. S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald's Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced similar acknowledgements. G. K. Chesterton said of MacDonald, "If we test the matter of originality of attitude, George MacDonald was one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century."

A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs)
• By George M. Marsden
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Jonathan Edwards is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. Arguably the most brilliant theologian ever born on American soil, Edwards (1703 - 1758) was also a pastor, a renowned preacher, a missionary to the Native Americans, a biographer, a college president, a philosopher, a loving husband, and the father of 11 children.

The Four Loves

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 7 mins)
• By C.S. Lewis
• Narrated By C.S. Lewis

In this remarkable recording, C.S. Lewis shows why millions of readers have acclaimed him the greatest spokesman for Christianity in the twentieth century. In a resonant, baritone voice, Lewis explores the nature of the four Greek words that are translated love in English: "storge" (affection), "philia" (friendship), "eros" (sexual or romantic love) and "agape" (selfless love).

Systematic Theology: Audio Lectures

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Wayne Grudem
• Narrated By Wayne Grudem

The Christian church has a long tradition of systematic theology - that is, studying theology and doctrine organized around fairly standard categories such as the word of God, redemption, and Jesus Christ. This introduction to systematic theology has several distinctive features: a strong emphasis on the scriptural basis for each doctrine and teaching; clear writing, with technical terms kept to a minimum; and a contemporary approach, treating subjects of special interest to the church today.

The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events in Our Lives

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ravi Zacharias
• Narrated By Ravi Zacharias
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With inspiring stories and thought-provoking questions, Ravi Zacharias traces the multiple threads of our lives, describing how the unseen hand of God guides our joys, our tragedies, and our daily humdrum experiences to weave a pattern of divine providence and meaning.

The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Larry Alex Taunton
• Narrated By Maurice England
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At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. "Nobody is not a divided self, of course," he once told an interviewer, "but I think it's rather strong in my case." Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror; and, after 9/11, something of a neocon.

Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Os Guinness
• Narrated By Ralph Lister
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In the post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open to, interested in, and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. The urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade - to make a convincing case for the Gospel to people who are not interested in it.

Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Darlene Deibler Rose
• Narrated By Lorna Raver

Newlywed American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose survived four years in a notorious Japanese prison camp set deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Thinking she was never to see her husband again, Darlene Rose was forced to sign a false confession and face the executioner's sword, only to be miraculously spared.

Becoming Who You Are: Insights on the True Self from Thomas Merton and Other Saints (Christian Classics)

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 42 mins)
• By James Martin
• Narrated By James Martin
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By meditating on personal examples from the author's life, as well as reflecting on the inspirational life and writings of Thomas Merton, stories from the Gospels, as well as the lives of other holy men and women (among them, Henri Nouwen, Therese of Lisieux, and Pope John XXIII), the listener will understand how becoming who you are, and becoming the person that God created, is a simple path to happiness, peace of mind and even sanctity.

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Henri J. M. Nouwen
• Narrated By Dan Anderson

This powerful meditation illuminates the parable of the prodigal son found in Luke's Gospel. Nouwen discovers anew the reality that God's love is unconditional and shares his own spiritual journey with us. In this audiobook, Nouwen shares his own experience as the wayward son as well as the vengeful older brother and the compassionate father.