Audiobooks narrated by John Mark Comer

How to Fast: Rediscover the Ancient Practice for Unlocking Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Renewa

Discover the holistic and revelatory experience of fasting in this seminal guide on the practice, science, and ancient context of the biblical tradition. Fasting has been an age-old, biblical discipline embraced by Christians worldwide. But the connection between fasting and prayer is far more vibrant, life-giving, and transformative than we commonly experience. Pastor Reward Sibanda draws from his own profound 21-day fast experiences and unique insights from his Zimbabwean heritage in this enlightening resource. Fasting isn't just a spiritual journey; it's a holistic experience encompassing your body, mind, and soul. Combining engaging stories with practical tips for starting a fasting practice, this go-to guide will show you how prayerful fasting can: - Enrich your spirit and faith by shifting your mindset from a transactional relationship with God to genuine, sacred communion. - Guide you into a truer integration of your whole being (body, mind, and soul) and reveal your intrinsic reliance on Christ. - Increase your physical well-being-even to the cellular level with captivating medical details and stories on fasting's effect on your body. How To Fast is your comprehensive, modern guide to a deeper, more dynamic spiritual life. Whether you're new to fasting or a seasoned practitioner, this book gives valuable insights that will transform your relationship with God and yourself.

Reward Sibanda (Author), John Mark Comer, Reward Sibanda, TBD (Narrator)

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God Has a Name: What You Believe About God Will Shape Who You Become

New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer invites readers to rethink many prevalent myths and misconceptions about God and weigh them against what God actually tells us about himself. After all, what we believe about God will ultimately shape the type of person we will become. We all live at the mercy of our ideas, and nowhere is this more true than our ideas about God. The problem is, many of our ideas about God are wrong. Not all wrong, but wrong enough to form our souls in detrimental and disheartening ways. Now, for the first time ever, in an aesthetically engaging, freshly designed hardcover edition that features a brand-new teaching on contemplative prayer and practices for the digital age, God Has a Name is a simple yet profound guide to communing with God in light of what he says and reveals about himself. This one shift 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. Comer takes the reader line by line through Exodus 34:6-8--God's self-revelation of his inner nature on Mount Sinai--one of the most quoted passages in the Bible. Along the way, he addresses some of the most profound questions we face today, including: - Why do we feel this gap between us and God? - Could it be that a lot of what we think about God is wrong? Not all wrong, but wrong enough to mess up how we relate to him? - What if our 'God' is really a projection of our own identity, ideas, and desires? - What if the real God is different, but far better than we could ever imagine? No matter where you are in your spiritual journey, this vision of God has the potential to alter your life with God and shape who you become.

John Mark Comer (Author), John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Beholding: Deepening Our Experience In God

Move from a transactional experience with God to a transformational friendship with Him through prayer. How can time with God be a source of peace in a loud and distracting world? In Beholding, spiritual director and poet Strahan Coleman invites readers to discover the joy of being with God, not just working for Him. As they inhabit the art of resting in God's presence, prayer becomes not only a place of seeking, but becoming. Beholding calls Christians to understand how: - Prayer is so much more than spoken conversation between us and God; it's a way of existing together. - Beholding God in prayer is profoundly connected to beholding and dignifying others. - Embracing prayer practices from different Christian traditions digs a deep well of peace in the soul. - Our everyday ordinary lives can become the meeting place for God through silence, solitude, community, creation, and hospitality.

Strahan Coleman (Author), John Mark Comer, Strahan Coleman (Narrator)

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Loveology: Audio Bible Studies: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Fem

In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we've been picking up the pieces. Loveology is a theology of love from God's point of view. The five sessions start with God's design for marriage and works backward, dealing with sexuality, romance, singleness, and what it means to be male and female. Pastor and writer John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female relationships-what God intended in the Garden. And about what is wrong-the fallout in a post-Eden world. The Loveology audio Bible study is for anyone who wants to learn what the Scriptures have to say about sexuality and relationships and for people who want to ask the why questions and get intelligent, grace-and-truth answers. As you walk through this five-week study, you will come to better understand what God fully intended back in the garden. By comprehending the brilliance behind God's original plan for love and marriage and sex and romance-if we can redefine that fuzzy, amorphous, confusing word "love" and look at it through the lens of Jesus-your relationships will be radically altered as a result. Sessions include: - Love (13:00) - Marriage (22:00) - Sex (12:00) - Romance (16:00) - Singleness (18:00) Coordinating study guide available separately. The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

John Mark Comer (Author), John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Live No Lies: Audio Bible Studies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace

Unmask our common enemy and develop a strategy to fight back against deception by standing firmly on the truth we believe. In this audio study guide, John Mark Comer reveals how deceptive ideas are at work on our souls, and provides practical tools to help you recognize these enemies, resist the lies they try to make you believe, and experience the peace that God intends you to have. The late 1930s were a tumultuous time in America. Fear and anxiety were rampant. Enter Orson Welles, director of a new radio program, who had just bought the rights to H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds and updated the setting from Victorian England to current-day New Jersey... Most Americans weren't listening to Welles's show when it started. They were listening to a more popular program which ended at 8:15 pm. Around 8:16, thousands of people turned the dial and were shocked by a realistic-sounding news reports of aliens invading the Eastern Seaboard, complete with an emergency broadcast from an actor whose voice mimicked President Roosevelt's. The result was pandemonium. Urbanites fled in terror. People committed suicide. Looting broke out. It being America, men got out their guns and made ready to make a final stand... The story shows us how powerful ideas can be. This is something our enemy understands all too well. Satan, 'the father of lies,' wields the weapons of deception, striking when we are most vulnerable. As followers of Jesus, we are called to fight back against deceptive ideas (the devil) that play to disordered desires (the flesh) that are normalized in a sinful society (the world). This is the purpose of this study-to unmask our enemy and to develop a strategy to fight back by living out the truth we believe. The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Live No Lies includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

John Mark Comer (Author), John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

Read by the author. A purposeful guide for twenty- and thirty-somethings to understand and embrace their calling as well as immediate next steps for their lives. You've heard people say, 'Who you are matters more than what you do.' But does the Bible really teach that? In Garden City, popular pastor and speaker John Mark Comer gives a surprisingly counter-cultural take on the typical 'spiritual' answer of the church. Comer explores Scripture to discover God's original intent for how we are meant to spend our time, reshaping how you view and do your work, rest, and life. Here, you'll find answers to questions like: - Does God care where I work? - Does he have a clear direction for me? - What about what I do with my free time or how much rest I get? In this book, you'll learn that it's ultimately about the reality that what we do matters, just as much as who we are.

John Mark Comer (Author), John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith

A unique and validating look at the tension you feel between disillusionment and a desire for truth, Searching for Enough helps you see your doubt not as an emotion to fear but as an invitation to be followed. Do you ever find yourself thinking, 'I'm not enough, and I'm never going to be. And I know I'm not supposed to say this, but God's not enough for me either.' Whether or not we attend church, deep down we wonder if the biblical story of faith is really enough for the complexity of the world in which we live. We fill our lives with other things, hoping that maybe the next experience or accomplishment will complete us. Yet with every goal we reach, we still feel discouraged and anxious. In Searching for Enough, Pastor Tyler Staton draws on ancient and modern insights to introduce us, as if for the first time, to Jesus' disciple Thomas: history's most notorious skeptic. Like Thomas, we are caught between two unsatisfying stories: We want to believe in God but can't reconcile his presence with our circumstances and internal struggles. But what if there's a better story than shame? What if there's redemption so complete that there's nothing left to hide? What if there is a God who can heal your resentments, fears, and loneliness in such a profound way that you feel whole? From a place of spiritual companionship and deep authenticity, Tyler shows us that it is not an empty tomb that will change our lives, but the presence of the living God. Whether you are a distant skeptic, an involved doubter, or a busy but bored Christian, Searching for Enough invites you to find enough in a God who offers the only promises that never disappoint.

Tyler Staton (Author), John Comer, John Mark Comer, Tyler Staton (Narrator)

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God Has a Name

John Comer, John Mark Comer (Author), John Comer, John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

What does it mean to be human? We’ve all heard it said: It’s who you are that matters, not what you do. Really? Where do the Scriptures teach that? After all, from the first page of the Bible forward, human beings were made to rule over the earth, to gather up the raw materials of planet earth, and to carve out a world. Theologically rich, yet down-to-earth and practical, Garden City speaks to all of us who are searching for our calling in life or just trying to find meaning in the everyday. In the end, this audio book is an invitation to ask the ancient, primal, human question: Why am I here and what should I do about it? ***Please contact member services for additional documents***

John Mark Comer (Author), John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.

In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we've been picking up the pieces. Loveology is just that---a theology of love. With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right in male/female relationships---what God intended in the Garden. And about what is wrong---the fallout in a post-Eden world. Loveology starts with marriage and works backward. Comer deals with sexuality, romance, singleness, and what it means to be male and female; ending with a raw, uncut, anything goes Q and A dealing with the most asked questions about sexuality and relationships. This is a book for singles, engaged couples, and the newly married---both inside and outside the church---who want to learn what the Scriptures have to say about sexuality and relationships. For those who are tired of Hollywood's propaganda, and the church's silence. And for people who want to ask the why questions and get intelligent, nuanced, grace-and-truth answers, rooted in the Scriptures.

John Comer, John Mark Comer (Author), John Comer, John Mark Comer (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by John Mark Comer