The Two Sides of Love: The Secret to Valuing Differences by John Trent Phd, Dr. Gary Smalley

The Two Sides of Love: The Secret to Valuing Differences by John Trent Phd, Dr. Gary Smalley

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350480 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/350480] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Two Sides of Love: The Secret to Valuing Differences Author: John Trent Phd, Dr. Gary Smalley Narrator: John Trent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: Find the balance between tough love and tender love. In The Two Sides of Love, bestselling authors John Trent and Gary Smalley explain how to find a healthy balance between the protective, consistent, 'hard side' of love and the tender, understanding, 'soft side' of love. This is the groundbreaking book that introduced the four 'animal' personality types (Lion, Otter, Golden Retriever, and Beaver) and it will show you how to best demonstrate both sides of love in all your relationships—with your spouse, children, and friends. Included in this thoroughly updated edition is a free assessment of your core personality type. This updated edition is a helpful tool for personal growth, small group studies, and couples' classes.

Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul-A Christian Guide to Fasting by Jay W. Richards

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348133 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/348133] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul-A Christian Guide to Fasting Author: Jay W. Richards Narrator: Derek Shetterly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 14, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute blends science and religion in this thoughtful guide that teaches modern believes how to use the leading wellness trend today—intermittent fasting—as a means of spiritual awakening, adopting the traditions our Christians ancestors practiced for centuries into daily life. Wellness minded people today are increasingly turning to intermittent fasting to bolster their health. But we aren’t the first people to abstain from eating for a purpose. This routine was a common part of our spiritual ancestors’ lives for 1,500 years. Jay Richards argues that Christians should recover the fasting lifestyle, not only to improve our bodies, but to bolster our spiritual health as well. In Eat, Fast, Feast, he combines forgotten spiritual wisdom on fasting and feasting with the burgeoning literature on ketogenic diets and fasting for improved physical and mental health. Based on his popular series ''Fasting, Body and Soul'' in The Stream, Eat, Fast, Feast explores what it means to substitute our hunger for God for our hunger for food, and what both modern science and the ancient monastics can teach us about this practice. Richards argues that our modern diet—heavy in sugar and refined carbohydrates—locks us into a metabolic trap that makes fasting unfruitful and our feasts devoid of meaning. The good news, he reveals, is that we are beginning to resist the tyranny of processed foods, with millions of people pursuing low carb, ketogenic, paleo, and primal diets. This growing body of experts argue that eating natural fat and fasting is not only safe, but far better than how we eat today. Richards provides a 40-day plan which combines a long-term ''nutritional ketosis'' with spiritual disciplines. The plan can be used any time of the year or be adapted to a penitential season on the Christian calendar, such as Advent or Lent. Synthesizing recent science with ancient wisdom, Eat, Fast, Feast brings together the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of intermittent fasting to help Christians improve their lives and their health, and bring them closer to God. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends by Flannery O’Connor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343589 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343589] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends Author: Flannery O’Connor Narrator: Dorothy Dillingham Blue, John H. Mayer, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 15, 2019 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: A literary treasure of over one hundred unpublished letters from National Book Award-winning author Flannery O'Connor and her circle of extraordinary friends. Flannery O’Connor is a master of twentieth-century American fiction, joining, since her untimely death in 1964, the likes of Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Those familiar with her work know that her powerful ethical vision was rooted in a quiet, devout faith and informed all she wrote and did. Good Things Out of Nazareth, a much-anticipated collection of many of O’Connor’s previously unpublished letters—along with those of literary luminaries such as Walker Percy (The Moviegoer), Caroline Gordon (None Shall Look Back), Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools), Robert Giroux and movie critic Stanley Kauffmann. The letters explore such themes as creativity, faith, suffering, and writing. Brought together, they form a riveting literary portrait of these friends, artists, and thinkers. Here we find their joys and loves, as well as their trials and tribulations as they struggle with doubt and illness while championing their beliefs and often confronting racism in American society during the civil rights era. Praise for Good Things Out of Nazareth “An epistolary group portrait that will appeal to readers interested in the Catholic underpinnings of O'Connor's life and work . . . These letters by the National Book Award–winning short story writer and her friends alternately fit and break the mold. Anyone looking for Southern literary gossip will find plenty of barbs. . . . But there’s also higher-toned talk on topics such as the symbolism in O’Connor’s work and the nature of free will.”—Kirkus Reviews   “A fascinating set of Flannery O’Connor’s correspondence . . . The compilation is highlighted by gems from O’Connor’s writing mentor, Caroline Gordon. . . . While O’Connor’s milieu can seem intimidatingly insular, the volume allows readers to feel closer to the writer, by glimpsing O’Connor’s struggles with lupus, which sometimes leaves her bedridden or walking on crutches, and by hearing her famously strong Georgian accent in the colloquialisms she sprinkles throughout the letters. . . . This is an important addition to the knowledge of O’Connor, her world, and her writing.”—Publishers Weekly

Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343520 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/343520] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 17, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: “Timeless wisdom for life from one of the great spiritual masters of our age.”—James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage   The beloved author of The Return of the Prodigal Son offers an inspirational and compelling case for why Christianity is still relevant, beautiful, intelligent, and necessary in our modern world.   At one of the lowest points in Henri Nouwen’s life, he gave a series of lectures on the importance of following Jesus in an age of anxiety. Drawn from those talks, Following Jesus reveals the deep turmoil and sometimes turbulent inner life of a man who has become an icon of compassion and vulnerability for Christians and non-Christians alike. He writes eloquently about calling and purpose, fear and hope, and he explains why, with so many choices available to the twenty-first-century seeker, including atheism and secularism, the greatest reward for those looking for fulfillment is to choose belief in God. Along the way he offers warm, insightful, and practical spiritual habits to help readers navigate the narrow, sometimes arduous, but ultimately gratifying road of conviction and faith. Praise for Following Jesus “Few writers have influenced me more than Henri Nouwen. These newly published lectures offer fresh and timely insights amid the familiar cadences of Nouwen’s prose, written from a place of deep anxiety but even deeper hope.”—John Inazu, professor of political science, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Confident Pluralism “In Following Jesus, beloved pastor and spiritual mentor Henri Nouwen guides the reader on the journey he has traveled as a follower of Jesus. Without minimizing the anxieties, fears, and brokenness that touch down in every reader’s story, Nouwen gently leads the way into a life that centers on Jesus and engulfs the follower with God’s love, a sense of belonging, and a purpose that endures. Truly a wise and welcome word for anyone in this age of anxiety.”—Carolyn Custis James, author of Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women and Finding God in the Margins

Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do by Christine Caine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344068 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344068] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Undaunted: Daring to do what God calls you to do Author: Christine Caine Narrator: Christine Caine, Ben Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 28, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Counseling & Inspirational Publisher's Summary: Embrace your identity as God's beloved, step out of your own brokenness, and bring hope to a darkened world. You have a calling to fulfill. Are you ready to take the risk of moving past your past to fulfill it? Christine Caine faced hurdles that seemed insurmountable--abuse, abandonment, and the loss of a child. Yet she decided to answer God's call on her life no matter where it would lead her. Many times, the only thing that kept her going was knowing that she was God's beloved. She was God's chosen. Secure in those truths, she moved beyond her pain so she could live the adventure of bringing God's light and love to others around the world. In this updated and expanded edition of her bestselling book, Undaunted, Christine challenges you to embrace the reality of God's love so you can speak it to others as you live out your own unique calling. As Christine writes, 'Love like Christ's can lift you out of betrayal and hurt. It can deliver you from any mess. Love like that can release you from every prison of fear and confusion. And love like God's can fill you up till it spills out of you, and you have to speak about it, share it, spread it around.' You already have all you need to bring hope to others. With additional biblical teaching, new stories, and a new epilogue, this updated and expanded edition of Undaunted will awaken you to how God wants to work through you and in you as you dare to become who God created you to be. Also available: Undaunted student edition, video curriculum, and study guide.