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- Nine Heart Postures for Approaching God's Word
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Publisher's summary
We know the Bible is important, but many of us struggle with it. We're not biblical experts—though we may have started enough reading plans to be really familiar with Genesis. If we're honest, the Bible often intimidates us, confuses us, and reading it doesn't always thrill us.
And yet, the Bible is where God reveals his loving character and incredible plan of redemption. In a practical and engaging manner, Matt Smethurst—managing editor of The Gospel Coalition—presents nine heart postures that will prepare you to unpack all that's awaiting you in God's Word.
Although there are many great resources on how to read and study Scripture, hardly any focus exclusively on how to approach it in the first place. That's what Smethurst provides in this unique "prelude" to opening your Bible. For without the right heart postures, we're not yet ready to start reading.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 131
Best-selling author John Ortberg dispels the myth that eternal life is something way out in outer space that we can only hope to experience after we die - and that being saved is merely about meeting the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven. Instead, John unpacks the reality that the moment we trust Christ, we are initiated into “eternal living” with God as a here and now reality, one that will continue beyond our life on this earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Speaker
- By Karla J Altman on 06-14-20
By: John Ortberg
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Crazy Love (Revised and Updated)
- Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
- By: Francis Chan
- Narrated by: Francis Chan
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,956
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,394
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,376
The God of the universe - the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do's and don'ts - it's falling in love with God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Blessing
- By Red on 11-02-13
By: Francis Chan
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Wholehearted Faith
- By: Rachel Held Evans, Jeff Chu
- Narrated by: Daniel Jonce Evans, Jeff Chu, Jamie Wright, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 536
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 475
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Story5 out of 5 stars 467
Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith. At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress has been woven together with some of her other unpublished writings into a rich collection of essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Orthodox but Boundary Pushing
- By Anyone on 11-14-21
By: Rachel Held Evans, and others
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The Joy of Fearing God
- By: Jerry Bridges
- Narrated by: Al Sanders
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
For most of us, fear is something we try to avoid. And fearing God hardly sounds like an occasion for joy. But Jerry Bridges shows how the fear of the Lord is actually the key that opens the door to a life of true knowledge, wisdom, blessing, and joy. We all want a deeper, more intimate relationship with God - one that's characterized by joy. But how does fearing God lead to joy? After all, aren't we supposed to love him and live in intimate relationship with him?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Incomplete, even though it's advertised as unabridged
- By DamagesFan on 05-06-19
By: Jerry Bridges
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Upward, Inward, Outward
- Love God, Love Yourself, Love Others
- By: Daniel Fusco
- Narrated by: Daniel Fusco
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
This book is about discovering together how to understand and live the Greatest Commandment. We're not after the "art of thinking about God a little differently". We're here to uncover the needs God created within us - needs for meaning, intimacy, honesty, humility, justice, compassion, and more - and how he designed us to find those needs fulfilled in him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!!
- By kim morgan on 06-17-21
By: Daniel Fusco
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Follow Me
- A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
- By: David Platt
- Narrated by: David Platt
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 532
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 458
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Story5 out of 5 stars 453
In this new audiobook, David Platt, author of the New York Times best-selling book Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, contends that multitudes of people around the world culturally think they are Christians yet biblically are not followers of Christ.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Needed this!
- By Curan on 12-09-15
By: David Platt
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Yawning at Tigers
- You Can't Tame God, So Stop Trying
- By: Drew Nathan Dyck
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
When was the last time you were overawed by God’s majesty? Have you ever stood in stunned silence at his holiness and power? In our shallow, self-centered age, things like truth and reverence might seem outdated, lost. Yet we’re restless. And our failed attempts to ease our unrest point to an ancient ache for an experience of the holy. Drew Dyck makes a compelling case that what we seek awaits us in the untamed God of Scripture - a God who is dangerous yet accessible, mysterious yet powerfully present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perspective changing
- By Chris A. on 01-06-19
By: Drew Nathan Dyck
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Open to the Spirit
- God in Us, God with Us, God Transforming Us
- By: Scot McKnight
- Narrated by: Jeremy Richards
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Who exactly is the Holy Spirit? What does he do in our lives? How can we know him more deeply, and is it possible to tap in to his power? Should we pray to the Holy Spirit? Is it possible to be aware of his promptings and speaking into our lives? Dr. Scot McKnight answers these questions and more in this comprehensive examination of what the Bible says about this divinely important but often confusing member of the Trinity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Spirit Is Essential.
- By Adam Shields on 09-03-19
By: Scot McKnight
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Ignite Your Life
- By: Barry Meguiar
- Narrated by: Barry Meguiar
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 40
Using fear as his weapon, Satan is sterilizing Christians today on a mass basis, making it impossible for them to reproduce themselves. Without faith, you can't share your faith because you can't share what you don't have. When you're worrying as much as the world is worrying, you've left the faith; in fact, you're no longer a “believer.” Here's the good news: there is a way to effortlessly achieve unwavering, wholehearted faith...and it will Ignite Your Life!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring and encouraging
- By Maria on 04-20-24
By: Barry Meguiar
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What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
- By: J.D. Greear
- Narrated by: J.D. Greear
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story5 out of 5 stars 68
J.D. Greear considers Jesus’ radical call to give your life away to the greatest cause of all. To view your life from the perspective of eternity. To start making decisions now that you’ll be glad you made. It’s time to put your “yes” on the table and let God put it on the map.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A convicting read
- By Hartley on 12-24-20
By: J.D. Greear
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Praying
- Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight
- By: J. I. Packer, Caroline Nystrom
- Narrated by: Rob Lamont
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Is praying a duty or a delight? J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom say that it's both; an essential, expected practice as a follower of Christ, but also a privilege and joy. As we start out learning to pray properly, however, the delight often seems to be missing. Here is practical help for active, honest praying that involves all of who we are - heart, hands and head - and moves us to deeper obedience, joy and intimacy with our Father.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Abridged, Heck
- By R.K. Herrell on 11-13-15
By: J. I. Packer, and others
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Living the Cross Centered Life
- Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
- By: C. J. Mahaney
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Have the extremities taken over and left the core of your faith forgotten? Do you get confused by what you feel versus what is real? Let dynamic pastor C. J. Mahaney strip away the nonessentials and bring you back to the simplest, most fundamental reason for your faith: Jesus Christ.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tech issues are very distracting!
- By Lorax on 04-28-18
By: C. J. Mahaney
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Prayer
- How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9Marks: Building Healthy Churches)
- By: John Onwuchekwa
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body - but it often doesn't come quite as naturally. In fact, prayer in the church often gets subtly pushed to the side in favor of pragmatic practices that promise tangible results. This book focuses on the necessity of regular prayer as a central practice in the local church - awakening us to the need and blessing of corporate prayer by examining what Jesus taught about prayer, how the first Christians approached prayer, and how to prioritize prayer in our congregations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathing Treatment for the Spiritually Asthmatic
- By David C on 06-28-23
By: John Onwuchekwa
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Good or God?
- Why Good Without God Isn't Enough
- By: John Bevere
- Narrated by: John Bevere
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 933
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 812
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Story5 out of 5 stars 805
If it's good, it must be God. Right? These days the terms good and God seem synonymous. We believe that what's generally accepted as good must be in line with God's will. Generosity, humility, justice - good. Selfishness, arrogance, cruelty - evil. The distinction seems pretty straightforward. But is that all there is to it? This audiobook will do more than ask you to change your behavior. It will empower you to engage with God on a level that will change every aspect of your life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such an important message
- By Nicole Roldan on 10-26-16
By: John Bevere
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Thoughtful Content
I grew up in a church pew. I attended a Christian college. It can be easy to think I’ve heard it all when it comes to Bible study. I found this content thought-provoking and refreshing. The only recommendation I could offer would be to have the author read the book. The reader blandly reads sections where the author clearly conveyed emotion. I would like to have heard the emotion in the author’s voice.
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- 06-23-23
A great guide to get deeper into the Word
This is a great guide to get us started or to go deeper in the Word.
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