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"Now, with God's help, I shall become myself."
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In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world, Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith. With compelling examples from the Bible and today, Bird paints an enticing picture of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God wants for us. He helps listeners delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great messages for today
- By Amazon Customer on 07-24-22
By: Chad Bird
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Eternity Is Now in Session
- A Radical Rediscovery of What Jesus Really Taught About Salvation, Eternity, and Getting to the Good Place
- By: John Ortberg
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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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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 509
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 453
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Story5 out of 5 stars 445
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 Bad Habits of Jesus
- Showing Us the Way to Live Right in a World Gone Wrong
- By: Leonard Sweet
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Did Jesus have bad habits? In our culture we have a tendency to describe Jesus in ways that soften his revolutionary edge. Len Sweet uncovers and presents to us the offensive and scandalous Jesus described in the Bible. Did he disappear when people needed him most? Yes. Did he refuse to answer questions directly? Yes. Did Jesus offend the people of his day? Absolutely yes. Popular author and speaker Len Sweet examines the words and actions of Jesus and places them in context.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My I have the bad habits of Jesus
- By Bob I. on 02-26-17
By: Leonard Sweet
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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 3,883
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,325
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,307
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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Out of Sorts
- Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
- By: Sarah Bessey
- Narrated by: Joell A. Jacob
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 175
In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey, award-winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching. As she candidly shares her wrestlings with core issues - such as who Jesus is, what place the church has in our lives, how to disagree yet remain within a community, and how to love the Bible for what it is rather than what we want it to be - she teaches us how to walk courageously through our own tough questions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sounded like a robot reading this!
- By KNimblett on 02-23-16
By: Sarah Bessey
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Rumors of God
- Experience the Kind of Faith You've Only Heard About
- By: Darren Whitehead, Jon Tyson
- Narrated by: Darren Whitehead, Jon Tyson
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story5 out of 5 stars 26
Where is the life God promised us? Life is busy. We live like slaves to our fast-paced, suffocating schedules. We spend our energy and time in triviality, relegating God to the background. He seems distant to us, and we resist the idea that God wants to give, say, and show us more; we dismiss it as rumor. But Jesus calls us to a better way. Another dream - an unimagined future. Close the gap between what you hear about and what you see.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- By S. HARRIS on 06-24-15
By: Darren Whitehead, and others
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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 82
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story5 out of 5 stars 66
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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The Illumined Heart: Capture the Vibrant Faith of the Ancient Christians
- By: Frederica Mathewes-Green
- Narrated by: Frederica Mathewes-Green
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Why are modern Christians so indistinguishable from everyone else? How come Christians who lived in times of bloody persecution were so heroic, while we who live in safety are not? How could the first Christians fast valiantly, but we feel deprived without dessert? How did New Testament believers pray without ceasing? How could the early Christian martyrs actually forgive their torturers? What did the Christians of the first centuries know that we don't? This book explores these questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Illuminating wisdom! Thank you!
- By James A. Coles Jr. on 06-17-16
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You Were Made for This Moment
- Courage for Today and Hope for Tomorrow
- By: Max Lucado
- Narrated by: Ben Holland
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 499
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 448
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Story5 out of 5 stars 447
Are you weary? Worn out by the bills that keep stacking, a virus that keeps raging, or a heart that keeps aching? If so, the book of Esther brings welcome news: Relief will come! To be clear, you didn't ask for this struggle. You want to get past it. You don't know how much longer you can hold up. But what if God is with you in this difficult season? When life seems off the rails, remember this truth: the minute you bow your head to pray is the moment God lifts his hand to help.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Do you need hope?
- By Tammy Kfoury on 11-10-21
By: Max Lucado
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(A)Typical Woman
- Free, Whole, and Called in Christ
- By: Abigail Dodds
- Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
In a culture that can belittle womanhood on the one hand - making it irrelevant - and glorify it on the other - making it everything - it's hard to know what it really means to be a woman. But when we understand womanhood through the lens of scripture, we see that we need a bigger category for what God has called "woman". This book breathes fresh air into our womanhood, reminding us what life in Christ - as a woman - looks like.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will read this over and over
- By Maddie on 12-23-21
By: Abigail Dodds
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Church of Cowards
- A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians
- By: Matt Walsh
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 777
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 669
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Story5 out of 5 stars 675
The average Christian in America does not know what his own religion teaches, nor does he care. He may call himself “Christian”, but he lives his life exactly as he wishes, making no attempt to conform his conduct to the commands and tenets of his religion. Daily Wire writer Matt Walsh confronts his fellow Christians in this bold, clear-eyed book that serves as an urgent reminder of Matthew 7:13 - "For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."
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3 out of 5 stars
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A book on Roman Catholic doctrine
- By Kale Horvath on 03-31-20
By: Matt Walsh
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Prototype
- What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?
- By: Jonathan Martin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Martin
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
In Prototype, Jonathan Martin creates a vivid understanding of what it means to be God's beloved. To completely trust, as Jesus did, that God loves us. To live without fear, confident in our identity and purpose. To handle life's wounds as Jesus did, and to wake every day with a deep awareness of God's presence. Martin reveals a startling truth at the heart of the gospel: Jesus is our prototype. And as we discover how the knowledge of being God's beloved changed everything for Jesus - how it set Him free to live out His purpose and love God, others, and the world - it will begin to do the same for us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Game Changer
- By Atalie on 08-09-13
By: Jonathan Martin
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No Greater Love
- By: Mother Teresa
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Dan Woren
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 112
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