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Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians by Amy-Jill Levine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369344 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369344] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians Author: Amy-Jill Levine Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: Bibles & Biblical Studies Publisher's Summary: Why Jesus’s historic and cultural influence makes him fascinating, provocative, and relevant for everyone, not only Christians. Two thousand years after his birth and death, Jesus of Nazareth continues to be of vital interest. Yet much of the scholarship around Jesus focuses on his religious significance. Jesus for Everyone examines his most famous teachings from a fresh perspective, exploring how they have continued to shape ethics and civilization in the West for two millennia. Even for those who reject faith, Jesus’s life and his philosophy are important to study, writes renowned biblical scholar and author Amy-Jill Levine, because of the insights they hold for us today. Poring through scripture, analyzing what historical scholarship has revealed about Jesus’s views on a number of subjects—including women—reveals surprising messages sure to be fascinating to all readers. Placing Jesus of Nazareth within his historical context, Levine brings him vividly into focus and invites everyone from faithful Christians, agnostics, and the most committed nonbelievers to appreciate his lasting impact on the modern world.

Chasing Wisdom: The Lifelong Pursuit of Living Well by Daniel Grothe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386637 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386637] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Wisdom: The Lifelong Pursuit of Living Well Author: Daniel Grothe Narrator: Jakob Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 21, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Bibles & Biblical Studies Publisher's Summary: Teaching pastor at the influential New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Daniel Grothe explains the Bible's blueprint for becoming the kind of person who can deal with all of life's challenges. Some people have learned how to live. They can handle all that life brings. They are composed. They radiate strength. They are whole, with lives worth emulating, and when they speak people listen. They are, in a word, wise. How did these people get wisdom? And perhaps more importantly, how can we? In his long-awaited first audiobook, Daniel Grothe of New Life church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shows us how to get wisdom for ourselves by examining what the Bible has to say about it and by providing practical steps for acquiring it, among them: - learning to ask for help, - loving Scripture, - going to Church, - living quietly, - and, above all, seeking those who are themselves wise. Drawing on Scripture and his own experience learning from his friend and mentor Eugene Peterson, Grothe shows how our lives can be secured by the resource that will keep us from collapsing under the onslaught of the difficulties of life. Wisdom is available to us. It takes work to pursue it. Chasing Wisdom reveals how. 'In this new audiobook on Christian living, narrator Jakob Lewis brings a calming yet engaging voice to lessons on how to prepare for difficulties that can arise even in a meaningful life. Whether it's an unexpected scandal, illness, or (heaven forbid) even a church shooting, life on earth can be unpredictable. This audiobook posits that there are some things listeners can do to prepare for the spontaneous happenings that can occur while living a life in Christ. Lewis's voice guides listeners through familiar biblical lessons, accompanied by helpful advice and real-life examples of how to apply them. For listeners who regularly listen to Christian audio, many of the lessons will seem familiar. Nonetheless, Lewis's performance makes the experience an engaging meditation of the spirit.' - Audiofile Magazine

The New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures 2: A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Contexts by Gene L. Green, Gary M. Burge

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386663 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386663] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures 2: A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Contexts Series: Part of Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures Author: Gene L. Green, Gary M. Burge Narrator: Gene L. Green, Gary M. Burge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 14, 2020 Genres: Bibles & Biblical Studies Publisher's Summary: The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook’s direct narration of a book’s text, New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures skillfully develops how Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures formed the essential environment in which the New Testament authors wrote their books and letters. Listeners will learn how understanding the land, history, and culture of this world brings remarkable new insights into how we read the New Testament itself. Throughout the audio lectures, authors Gary Burge and Gene Green provide windows into the first-century world. They further discuss issues of interpretation derived from cultural observations.

Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life by W. David O. Taylor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386636 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386636] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life Author: W. David O. Taylor Narrator: Tim Lundeen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Bibles & Biblical Studies Publisher's Summary: 'A book you will want to read and read again.' -- Eugene Peterson Afterword by Bono. How can you find a more transparent, resilient, and fearless life of faith?  Open and Unafraid by David Taylor takes readers on a profound journey through the book of Psalms, which has been a central pillar for God's people for millennia, across all walks of life and cultural contexts. In reading it, we discover that we are never alone in our joys, sorrows, angers, doubts, praises, or thanksgivings. In it, we learn about prayer and poetry, honesty and community, justice and enemies, life and death, nations and creation.  As aprofessor, pastor, author, and producer of the short film Bono and Eugene Peterson: The Psalms, David Taylor has created an accessible guide to the psalms that resonates deeply with first-time and long-time Bible readers, poets and artists, devout believers and spiritual seekers alike. Open and Unafraid shows you how to read the psalms in a fresh, life-giving way, and so access the bottomless resources for life and experience the presence of God--in order to deepen discipleship and worship. Endorsements: 'David Taylor’s take is 'open and unafraid' alright. He really goes there, exposing himself before God in the most beautiful way. He might have called the book Naked, because if you don’t find your own self feeling a little exposed here, it might be time to take some armor off.'  -- Bono, from the Afterword 'A book that you will want to read and read again, and yet again, in order to discover the wisdom of the Psalms that shows us how to walk in the life-giving way of Jesus.' -- Eugene Peterson, from the Foreword 'A winsome, accessible entry into the Book of Psalms…Connects the poetry of the psalms to real-life wonders and struggles.' -- Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary 'Taylor reads these biblical prayers with Dr. Seuss, rappers, and other poets, along with theologians and the daily news....Guides readers in tracing out patterns of holy speech that have the potential for healing our hearts and our communities.' -- Ellen F. Davis, Duke Divinity School 'I have always loved the psalms--for their defiant devotion, their deep joy, and their brutal yet beautiful honesty. And after reading this fantastic book about them, I love them even more.' -- Matt Redman, worship leader and song writer 'In these fraught and fearsome days, we need the psalms more than ever. And we need more faithful artists and thinkers like David Taylor to mine the infinite gifts the psalms offer across the ages.' -- Karen Swallow Prior, author of Fierce Convictions

Better Together': How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future by Danielle Strickland

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386612 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/386612] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better Together': How Women and Men Can Heal the Divide and Work Together to Transform the Future Author: Danielle Strickland Narrator: Gabe Wicks, Danielle Strickland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: February 11, 2020 Genres: Bibles & Biblical Studies Publisher's Summary: An impassioned plea and workable solution for women and men to imagine a better world, embrace their differences, find ways to end oppression, and learn how to work better together. Is it possible after the #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements for men and women to actually find hope and healing and create a better world—together?  We are at a strategic cultural intersection with relationships between women and men eroding. While it is good for women to expose their pain, abuse, and experiences of gender inequity and oppression, what often follows is a never-ending cycle of blame, accusations, denial, avoidance, and, ultimately, devastation for everyone involved.  Better Together is a beacon of hope in this challenging storm. Author Danielle Strickland offers practical steps toward a real and workable solution that include two things needed for change: - a vision of a better world - an understanding of oppression Understanding how oppression works, whether it relates to gender, religion, socioeconomic status, or race, is an important part of undoing it. Let Danielle inspire you to believe that change is possible and equip you with ideas and strategies that will compel you to action.  Accompanying charts are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.