The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God's Design for Life Together

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Scot McKnight
• Narrated By Van Tracy
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In this compelling audiobook, Scot McKnight shares his personal experience in the Church as well as his study of the Apostle Paul to answer this significant question: What is the Church supposed to be?

The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Scot McKnight
• Narrated By Maurice England

Contemporary evangelicals have built a 'salvation culture' but not a 'gospel culture.' Evangelicals have reduced the gospel to the message of personal salvation. This book makes a plea for us to recover the old gospel as that which is still new and still fresh. The book stands on four arguments: that the gospel is defined by the apostles in 1 Corinthians 15 as the completion of the Story of Israel in the saving Story of Jesus; that the gospel is found in the Four Gospels; that the gospel was preached by Jesus; and that the sermons in the Book of Acts are the best example of gospeling in the New Testament.

The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 5 mins)
• By N. T. Wright
• Narrated By James Langton
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In The Day the Revolution Began, N. T. Wright once again challenges commonly held Christian beliefs, as he did in Surprised by Hope. Demonstrating the rigorous intellect and breathtaking knowledge that have long defined his work, Wright argues that Jesus' death on the cross was not only to absolve us of our sins, it was actually the beginning of a revolution commissioning the Christian faithful to a new vocation - a royal priesthood responsible for restoring and reconciling all of God's creation.

The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More than Our "Correct" Beliefs

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Peter Enns
• Narrated By Tom Perkins
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With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar Peter Enns offers a fresh look at how Christian life truly works, answering questions that cannot be addressed by the idealized traditional doctrine of "once for all delivered to the saints".

As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Eugene H. Peterson
• Narrated By Fred Sanders
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"Sixty years ago I found myself distracted," Eugene Peterson writes. "A chasm had developed between the way I was preaching from the pulpit and my deepest convictions on what it meant to be a pastor."

And so began Peterson's journey to live and teach a life of congruence - congruence between preaching and living, between what we do and the way we do it, between what is written in scripture and how we live out that truth.

Nothing captures the biblical foundation for this journey better than Peterson's teachings over his 29 years as a pastor.

What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Rob Bell
• Narrated By Rob Bell
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In Love Wins, Rob Bell confronted the troubling questions that many people of faith are afraid to ask about heaven, hell, fate, and faith. Using the same inspired, inquisitive approach, he now turns to our most sacred book: the Bible. What Is the Bible? provides insights and answers that make clear why the Bible is so revered and what makes it truly inspiring and essential to our lives. Rob takes us deep into actual passages to reveal the humanity behind the Scriptures.

Uncommon Gratitude: Alleluia for All That Is

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Joan Chittister, Rowan Williams
• Narrated By Joan Chittister, Dan Havron
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This series of reflections reveals the importance of gratitude in helping us see beyond the immediate to a broader and deeper reality. The discovery of this perpetual alleluia will help you discover what you are, become who you are, and grow with gratitude into the unknown.

Eat This Book: A Conversation on the Art of Spiritual Reading

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Eugene H. Peterson
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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The second part of Peterson's momentous five-volume work on spiritual theology, Eat This Book challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God's revelation, and to live them as we read them. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading. In these pages he draws readers into a fascinating conversation on the nature of language, the ancient practice of lectio divina, and the role of Scripture translations.

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By E. Randolph Richards, Brandon J. O'Brien
• Narrated By Allan Robertson
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Drawing on their own cross cultural experience in global mission, O'Brien and Richards show how better self-awareness and understanding of cultural differences in language, time, and social mores allow us to see the Bible in fresh and unexpected ways. Getting beyond our own cultural assumptions is increasingly important for being Christians in our interconnected and globalized world. Learn to read Scripture as a member of the global body of Christ.

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Peter Enns
• Narrated By Joe Barrett
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Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion by teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. But the further he studied the Bible, the more he found himself confronted by questions that could neither be answered within the rigid framework of his religious instruction nor be accepted among the conservative evangelical community.

The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Richard Rohr
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

The Trinity is supposed to be the central doctrine grounding Christianity, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it's a mystery. But what if we breached that mystery? How might it transform our relationship with God?

One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Scot McKnight
• Narrated By Tom Parks
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What is the 'Christian life' all about? Studying the Bible, attending church, cultivating a prayer life, witnessing to others---those are all good. But is that really what Jesus has in mind? The answer, says Scot McKnight in One.Life, lies in Jesus' words, 'Follow me.'What does it look like to follow Jesus, and how will doing so change the way we live our life---our love.life, our justice.life, our peace.life, our community.life, our sex.life---everything about our life.

Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Gregory A. Boyd
• Narrated By Gregory A. Boyd

Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd tackles the Bible's biggest dilemma. The Old Testament God of wrath and violence versus the New Testament God of love and peace - it's a difference that has troubled Christians since the first century. Now, with the sensitivity of a pastor and the intellect of a theologian, Gregory A. Boyd proposes the "cruciform hermeneutic", a way to read the Old Testament portraits of God through the lens of Jesus' crucifixion.

How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By N. T. Wright
• Narrated By James Langton
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New Testament scholar N. T. Wright reveals how we have been misreading the Gospels for centuries, powerfully restoring the lost central story of the scripture: that the coronation of God through the acts of Jesus was the climax of human history. Wright fills the gaps that centuries of misdirection have opened up in our collective spiritual story, tracing a narrative from Eden to Jesus to today.

The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins)
• By John H. Walton
• Narrated By Steve Coulter
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In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends 20 propositions supporting a literary and theological understanding of Genesis 1 within the context of the ancient Near Eastern world and unpacks its implications for our modern scientific understanding of origins.

Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 33 mins)
• By N. T. Wright
• Narrated By James Langton
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“Jesus - the Jesus we might discover if we really looked,” explains Wright, “is larger, more disturbing, more urgent than we had ever imagined. We have successfully managed to hide behind other questions and to avoid the huge, world-shaking challenge of Jesus’s central claim and achievement. It is we, the churches, who have been the real reductionists. We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety; the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience; Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale. Piety, conscience, and ultimate happiness are important...."

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Rachel Held Evans
• Narrated By Rachel Held Evans
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Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals - church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back. And so she set out on a journey to understand the Church and to find her place in it.

God Has a Name

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 34 mins)
• By John Mark Comer
• Narrated By John Comer
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Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's more of an idea we believe in our head than a person we relate to. But God has a name: Yahweh. This one simple idea has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way.

How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth, Fourth Edition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart
• Narrated By Henry O. Arnold
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Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be comprehended by everyone from armchair listeners to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your 21st-century life. More than three quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth to inform their understanding of the Bible.

Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 45 mins)
• By N. T. Wright
• Narrated By James Langton
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Many people think the message of the Gospel is that if we believe in Jesus, we will be saved from hell and be transported to heaven after we die. But what if that is not what the Bible actually teaches? What if the good news Jesus came to announce is much bigger, much better, and includes much more than merely what happens after we die? Revered best-selling scholar N. T. Wright reveals what the gospel really is and how it can transform our todays just as much as our tomorrows.

Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 37 mins)
• By N. T. Wright
• Narrated By James Adams

In this revised and expanded edition of The Last Word, Wright, Bishop of Durham, one of the preeminent Bible scholars of our day and author of such beloved works as After You Believe and Simply Christian, gives new life to the old, tattered doctrine of the authority of Scripture, delivering a fresh, helpful, and concise statement on the current battles for the Bible and restoring Scripture as a place to find God's voice.

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Rod Dreher
• Narrated By Adam Verner
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The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over the West. American churches are beset by a rapidly secularizing culture, the departure of young people, and watered-down pseudo-spirituality. Political solutions have failed, as the self-destruction of the Republican Party indicates, and the future of religious freedom has never been in greater doubt. The center is not holding. The West, cut off from its Christian roots, is falling into a new Dark Age.

Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence for Every Believer

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 45 mins)
• By J. Oswald Sanders
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Spiritual Leadership has proven itself a timeless classic in teaching the principles of leadership. J.Oswald Sanders presents and illustrates those principles through biographies of eminent men of God - men such as Moses, Nehemiah, Paul, David Livingstone, and Charles Spurgeon.

A Survey of the Old Testament (Audio Lectures)

• ORIGINAL (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton
• Narrated By Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton

The purpose of studying the Old Testament is to understand God and his redemptive work more fully. However, this goal is complicated by the fact that it was transmitted through a very different language and culture from our own. A Survey of the Old Testament provides an indispensable guide for undergraduate students and other listeners by exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues behind the Old Testament and its various books.