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Title: Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age
Author: Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
Narrator: Kellie Jones
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Release date: September 24, 2024
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
How can Christians engage meaningfully with history? In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little to teach us. We live in what this book terms the 'Ahistoric Age,' in which we are profoundly disconnected from history. In the attempt to appear relevant, the church often embraces this ahistoric worldview by jettisoning the historic ideas and practices of Christian formation. But this has unintended consequences, leaving Christians unmoored from history and losing the ability to grapple with its ethical complexities. In Priests of History, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker draws upon her expertise, and her experience as an atheist who has become a Christian, to examine what history is and why it matters. If Christians can learn how to be 'priests of history,' tending and keeping our past, history can help us strengthen and revive our spiritual and intellectual formation and equip us to communicate the gospel in a confused and rootless world.

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Title: Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
Author: Diarmaid Macculloch
Narrator: Diarmaid Macculloch
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 25 hours 37 minutes
Release date: September 19, 2024
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. A major new assessment of one of the most controversial topics in history Few matters produce more public interest and public anxiety than sex and religion. Much of the political contention and division in societies across the world centres on sexual topics, and one-third of the global population is Christian in background or outlook. The issue goes to the heart of present-day religion. The Bible observes that God made humanity ‘for a little while lower than the angels’. If humans are that close to angels, where lies the difference? Is it human sexuality and what we do with it? In a single lifetime, Christianity or historically Christian societies have witnessed one of the most extraordinary about-turns in attitudes to sex and gender in human history. There have followed revolutions in the place of women in society, a new place for same-sex love amid the spectrum of human emotions, and a public exploration of gender and trans identity. For many the new situation has brought exciting liberation – for others, fury and fear. This book seeks to calm fears and encourage understanding through telling a three-thousand-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender and the family, with noises off from their sacred texts. The message of Lower Than The Angels is simple, necessary and timely: to pay attention to the sheer glorious complexity and contradictions in the history of Christianity. The reader can decide from the story told here whether there is a single Christian theology of sex, or many contending voices in a symphony that is not at all complete. Oxford’s Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church introduces an epic of ordinary and extraordinary Christians trying to make sense of themselves and of humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes. ©2024 Diarmaid MacCulloch (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: Sideshow: Living with Loss and Moving Forward with Faith
Author: Rickey Smiley
Narrator: Rickey Smiley
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Release date: September 17, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
How do you live with the pain of watching someone you love suffer from addiction? How do you cope with the grief of losing them especially when your job is to make people laugh every day? Comedian Rickey Smiley has dealt with these immensely difficult questions for years—first with his father, then with his son. Both battled drug addictions. Both died from overdoses. Both left Rickey weary and wounded. Far from healed, Rickey has learned how to find moments of peace. He's practicing how to hold the good with the grief, the past gifts with the present heartache, the hope with the hurt. It's the 'sideshow' he's living. It's anything but a smooth path, but he's on it, and he's moving forward. And he invites you to come with him. Join a fellow hurting soul as he sits with his trauma, leans into therapy, and relies heavily on his faith and Scripture, which give him solace and strength. Rickey and his story will help you: - Feel seen and know you are not alone - Process your pain and manage weariness and grief - Invite God's strength into your weakness - Find a way forward and move toward peace     Our pain may take hold of us in ways that are crippling, out of nowhere, and impossible to control. But there is One who can hold us tighter and keep us grounded, who gives the gift of peace that goes beyond understanding and guides us through each day.

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Title: Revering God: How to Marvel at Your Maker
Author: Thaddeus J. Williams
Narrator: Mark Smeby
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Release date: September 10, 2024
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Discover profound insight into God's attributes and learn practical ways to live a God-centered life that bridges the gap between abstract theology and awe-inspiring devotion. The chief reason we exist is to glorify and enjoy God. But for many, God remains a vague cloud of cosmic kindness, a super-sized projection of ourselves into the sky, or an impossible-to-please killjoy. Who is God, really? Who is this being we should thank for our next breath? Written in the great tradition of classic discipleship works like A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God, J.I. Packer's Knowing God, and R.C. Sproul's The Holiness of God, this discipleship guide stands out as our generation's invitation to good theology that yields profound, reverent, God-centered living. Bestselling author of Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth invites you to live a more theologically robust and biblical life as you learn how art, cinema, music, philosophy, psychology, apologetics, church history, and most importantly Scripture, can deepen your understanding and enjoyment of God. This book is perfect for those who: - Are looking to deepen their faith and understanding of theology. - Feel that their grasp of theology has weakened their pure enjoyment of God. - Want to rise to the call of selfless discipleship amid the moral chaos of our world. Throughout the book, you'll find stories from brilliant living theologians and leaders, including Joni Eareckson-Tada, Michael Horton, John Perkins, Fred Sanders, each sharing how a particular divine attribute has impacted their personal lives.

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Title: Come Home for Christmas: Jesus Is Calling You Back to the Greatest Story Ever Told
Author: Matthew West
Narrator: Matthew West
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Release date: September 10, 2024
Genres: Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Read by Matthew West, including bonus audio reading of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. Enter the Christmas season with the intention of returning your heart to God. Matthew West, in his trademark creative and engaging style, leads readers through the eyes of a child at Christmastime to come home to greater joy, hope, peace, and belonging found only in Jesus. Take time during Advent to immerse yourself in God's goodness and the true meaning of Christmas. In the midst of what can be the busiest and most stressful holiday season, each chapter of Come Home for Christmas points the reader to the kingdom realities that God invites each of us to participate in through the birth of Jesus. Matthew West's humor, Bible-teaching, and storytelling challenge us to embrace this season of Christmas as the homecoming that God intends for it to be. Through the pages of this winsome and inspiring book, you will: - Feel the wonder of Christmas as you did when you were a child - Move beyond the baby in the manger to the Savior of the world - Return your heart to the joy, peace, love, and hope found in Jesus - Restore neglected or broken relationships with family and friends - Come home to the life God intended you to experience throughout the year   This special book, which springs out of Matthew's love for Christmas, reminds us that the story of Christmas calls readers back to the heart (or the home) of what it means to be loved by God. Each chapter will include a specific Bible reading about the Christmas story, and the book will include small group discussion questions and an Advent challenge. Reflection questions and recipes can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.