Audiobooks narrated by Stu Gray

Word Nerds Unite!: The Fascinating Stories Behind 200 Words and Phrases

Why are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does 'putting your best foot forward' mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and what does it have to do with the rarity of horses? Word Nerds Unite! shares 200 fascinating word meanings for fans of Wordle, Scrabble, and other word games. You've probably used words or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But you'll be surprised and interested to discover the fascinating and sometimes curious origins to these fun sayings! In Word Nerds Unite! you'll find: - 200 quirky, interesting words, phrases, and colloquial terms - Backstory for these colorful sayings still used today - How some of our favorite expressions have evolved through the years You'll discover such fascinating word and phrase origins for: - handwriting on the wall - play for keeps - raining cats and dogs - break the ice - bull's eye - and many more! Word Nerds Unite! is perfect for word lovers, Wordle enthusiasts, homeschoolers, and anyone curious about the illuminating history of 200 words that pepper our everyday dialogue and how they gained contemporary use. Organized by subject, each chapter begins with a quote, an introductory paragraph, and a list of what you'll discover!

Webb Garrison (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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The Secret Place of Thunder: Trading Our Need to be Noticed for a Hidden Life with Christ

Why do we feel like we are always performing? Where does this impulse come from? As John Starke shows in The Secret Place of Thunder, our modern world has internalized the idea that the markers of having an admirable and successful life are primarily visible. It leads us to believe that a sense of self-worth and identity are metrics to be displayed. The performance of the self has become more important than the reality. We live as if the most important things about us are to be performed before others; that our deepest happiness will come from being who others think we ought to be. But when Jesus says, 'Do not practice your righteousness before others,' he is leading us to believe that the most important things about us are hidden. How does the Bible lead us to live primarily before God? How does Jesus lead us to wholeness? Jesus teaches us to live, not for the eyes of others or even for ourselves, but in the secret place where our Father in heaven sees and rewards.

John Starke (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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Devotions for the Man in the Mirror: 75 Readings to Cultivate a Deeper Walk with Christ

Patrick Morley, a leader in the Christian men's movement, offers motivation and inspiration to help men put Christ first in their lives. The 75 short two-or-three-page readings depict practical daily life challenges of men in their jobs, their finances, and their relationships. These thought-provoking devotions will help men * Rekindle their personal relationship with Jesus Christ and gain their identity in him * Cultivate a prayer life that will powerfully connect them to God

Patrick Morley (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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Marks of a Movement: What the Church Today Can Learn From the Wesleyan Revival

Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movement. With a love for history and a passion for today's church, Winfield helps us reimagine church multiplication in a way that focuses on making and multiplying disciples for the twenty-first century. Winfield Bevins reminds us of the vital multiplication lessons from the Wesleyan movement, one of the greatest missional movements the world has ever known. He highlights the necessity of discipleship as the starting point and the abiding strategic practice that is key to all lasting missional impact in and through movements. The Methodist movement is an example of the power of multiplying movements that utilize the strategy of discipleship. Within a generation, one in thirty people who were living in Britain had become Methodists, and the movement soon became a worldwide phenomenon. We in the Western Church need a movement of historic proportions once again. What would such a multiplication movement look like for us today? We must look to the past to gain wisdom for the future. And as we look at the pages of church history, there is no better example of a multiplication movement in the West than the Methodist movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Marks of a Movement highlights the lessons and key insights that enable us to learn from the past and reapply this timeless, biblical wisdom for today. The appendixes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Winfield Bevins (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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What You Do Best: Unleashing the Power of Your Spiritual Gifts, Relational Style, and Life Passion

Includes audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary from the author! Have you found fulfillment in life? When you look at a plate, cup, or fork, you realize each has been designed and created for a different purpose. What if you could look into the mind and heart of God and see just how you have been designed and created? If you truly knew you were a 'plate, cup, or fork,' you would be freed from trying to be someone you are not, and free to live your life with greater faithfulness, fruitfulness, and fulfillment...making God famous! God created you to be fruitful by discovering your God-given design and the role he created for you. What You Do Best equips you to identify and express your unique contribution to this world as an integral part of your relationships, life, and ministry. The biblical principles in these pages can free you to pursue your life's calling with enthusiasm and confidence as you gain a better understanding of who God made you to be. Bruce Bugbee provides proven tools and a conversational approach that will guide you with confidence and competence toward a greater fulfillment of God's will for your life. What You Do Best provides reflection questions for each chapter that help you journal or discuss what you are learning with others, as well as Scripture passages for further study. You'll learn about the importance and use of spiritual gifts and how to identify the gifts God has given to you. You'll discover your unique relational style and uncover your life passion. What You Do Best helps you to closely examine yourself, assess your relationship with God, and reflect on what you need in order to thrive as the person you were created to be. You'll emerge from the process with a greater understanding of God, his purposes, your calling, and your role in this world. Each copy of the book includes access to three online self-assessments that help you to identify your unique spiritual gifts, relational style, and life passion. Accompanying exercises and visuals are included in the accompanying PDF.

Bruce L. Bugbee (Author), Bruce Bugbee, Stu Gray (Narrator)

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7 Ways to Be Her Hero: The One Your Wife Has Been Waiting For

A book that talks to guys in the way guys talk! 'This book should storm into your living room, demand an audience, and become every husband's best friend!' -Rick Warren, pastor and New York Times best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life 'I love Doug Fields! I love how he lives, how he writes, how he makes me laugh, and how he challenges me to grow. You will too. Men, read this book and improve your marriage!' -Lee Strobel, New York Times best-selling author Having a pulse is all it really takes to fall in love. Staying in love is another matter; staying in love requires a plan and some learned skills. 'My primary audience for this book is guys (sorry, sneaky ladies),' says author Doug Fields. 'I am writing in a way that most men seem to talk and learn.' In 7 Ways to Be Her Hero Fields gives, quite candidly, seven very doable actions to transform any marital relationship, guaranteed. It also includes a bonus chapter for guys to read with their wives. So if you want to understand some simple ways to invest in your marriage and be your wife's hero (again), this is the plan!

Doug Fields (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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The Unbreakable Boy: A Father's Fear, a Son's Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love

The Unbreakable Boy is a raucously tender story of a teenage boy who joyfully embraces life's tragedies and triumphs--and an inspiring story of how his father was transformed through their journey together. Like any other teenage boy, Austin loves pizza, movies, dancing, and girls. But unlike most other eighteen-year-olds, he has a rare brittle bone disease, was locked in a mental ward as a child, and is autistic. Yet Austin doesn't let any of that stop him from embracing life. His is a world where suffering a broken back is a minor inconvenience and the quest for the ultimate strawberry shake just might be the best day of his life. Austin's journey dares us to believe that - miracles are possible; - hope does spring eternal; and - we can find joyous moments to celebrate every day. Written with remarkable candor by Austin's father, Scott, and New York Times bestselling author Susy Flory, The Unbreakable Boy weaves the beautiful and often humorous tale of how Austin teaches his father--and everyone else he encounters--to have faith in God and trust that one day life's messes will all make sense. Family photos and further resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download

Scott Michael Lerette (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You

Create your own schedule, maximize your leisure time, and work less while making more by following the revolutionary-yet realistic-four-day work week outlined in this groundbreaking book. In Thursday is the New Friday, author Joe Sanok offers the exercises, tools, and training that have helped thousands of professionals-from authors and scholars to business leaders and innovators-create the schedule they want, resulting in less work, greater income, and more time for what they most desire. Outlining the exact same strategies Joe used to go from working 60-hour weeks in the beginning of his career to now working 4 or less days a week, Thursday is the New Friday will help you: - Understand how you too can apply these principles and customize them for your own situation to be more productive at work while enjoying more leisure time. - Discard unnecessary tasks and learn efficiencies that would not have been discovered otherwise. - Find inspiration in the stories and testimonials from Joe's clients and colleagues who have implemented his methodology into their own work lives with incredible results. - Understand the psychological research behind the principles of the four-day workweek and why we are actually more productive with one less workday. Most importantly, Thursday is the New Friday empowers you with a practical, evidence-based methodology to create your own work schedule and dedicate more of your precious personal time to pursuing your hobbies and spending time with your family and friends.

Joe Sanok (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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Free to Thrive: How Your Hurt, Struggles, and Deepest Longings Can Lead to a Fulfilling Life

Overcome your struggles. Fulfill your deepest longings. Your whole life awaits you. Many people today are struggling with unprecedented levels of anxiety, hurt, doubt, guilt, and shame. Medical and mental health professionals confirm that much of the dysfunction and disconnectedness we experience in life stems from unresolved relational and emotional hurts. These hurts leave us with unfulfilled God-given longings that we seek to fulfill through unhealthy behaviors and relationships. Yet, our struggles aren't random; they're signals that when answered, can pave our way towards a thriving life. In Free to Thrive, Josh McDowell and Ben Bennett invite you on a journey of healing and will teach you how to overcome unwanted behaviors by engaging your unmet longings. With a blend of hard-won wisdom and youthful energy, they present: - Biblical teaching - Recent neuroscientific research - Time-tested principles - Personal stories of deliverance - Practical tools - Opportunities for reflection No matter what you are struggling with, it is possible to experience the spiritual, emotional, and relational wholeness that God wants you to have--and live the thriving life you were made for. Accompanying figures, tables, appendices, and resources are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Ben Bennett, Josh Mcdowell (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming

The CEO of Founders Space, one of the world's leading startup incubators and accelerators, prepares entrepreneurs to avoid disastrous mistakes, surmount sizable obstacles, and master the skills necessary to make the right choices along their path to success. The fact is, over 90 percent of all new startups fail. Every entrepreneur must face this harsh reality and learn to master it if they hope to survive and wind up on top. In Surviving a Startup, Steve Hoffman, the CEO of Founders Space, brings you on a wild ride, sharing the tumultuous journey of launching a venture-funded startup and revealing what it takes to make it. This one-of-a-kind guide: - Provides deep analysis and insights into the major challenges every entrepreneur faces when launching a business. - Prepares entrepreneurs to make the best possible decisions and deal with crisis situations. - Illuminates strategies for raising capital and growing a business, even when it seems impossible. - Divulges secrets on how to manage difficult employees, demonstrate leadership, and overcome disasters. - Describes the essential traits that enable startup founders to survive and succeed. - Reveals the best way to develop innovative products, conduct guerilla marketing campaigns, obtain PR, and outmaneuver competitors. - Shows how to recruit the best talent, even with no money, manage highly efficient teams, and motivate employees to go above and beyond their assigned responsibilities. - Lays out the steps necessary to take a fledgling idea and transform it into a robust, rapidly growing business that has the potential to become the next multimillion-dollar acquisition or IPO. As the captain of one of the world's leading startup incubators and accelerators, Steve knows what it's like to be on the front lines, how tough it can get when the battle turns against the entrepreneur, and what it takes to taste victory and overcome seemingly impossible odds.

Steven S. Hoffman (Author), Stu Gray (Narrator)

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The Next Jihad: Stop the Christian Genocide in Africa

Drawing from on-the-ground experience and personal testimonials, two of the world's leading advocates for religious freedom and human rights-one Jewish and one Christian-explain what's happening to Christians across Africa, why it matters, and what must be done now. Although news of Christians being killed overseas hits major media outlets from time to time, the news quickly fades away while our fellow believers continue to suffer. Johnnie Moore, as he has done before, wants to awaken the church and American politicians to the daily horrors happening to Christians, focusing this time on Africa. While the world has been fixated on jihadist threats in the Middle East, terrorists from Nigeria to Kenya have had free reign to massacre on a scale far beyond that of the terrorists in Iraq and Syria. Whole villages have been razed, mothers and children have been grotesquely killed, and an unabashed effort at ethnic cleansing has been embarked upon with unrelenting resolve. Their intention is to rid Africa of its Christians, either by forced conversion to Islam or by destruction and murder. Moore is writing this book with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an Orthodox Jew, who is a regular contributor to FOX News and is the associate dean and director of Global Social Action Agenda for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization with more than 400,000 family members. With their many connections in politics and media, as well as their respective faith communities, Moore and Rabbi Cooper will be able to reach a wide audience with this message.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Rev. Johnnie Moore (Author), Neil Hellegers, Stu Gray (Narrator)

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How to Be Rich: It's Not What You Have. It's What You Do With What You Have.

You probably don't feel rich. Rich is the other guy. Rich is having more than you currently have. But you can be rich and not feel it. And that's the problem. Andy Stanley is convinced that most of us are richer than we think. We just aren't very good at it. It's one thing to BE rich. Andy wants us to be GOOD at it! 'How to Be Rich lays out clear principles for carrying that load, making sure your wealth remains a blessing not just for you, but for your family and community for generations to come.' -DAVE RAMSEY, New York Times bestselling author and radio show host A study guide for this audiobook and the companion video series (sold separately) is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Andy Stanley (Author), Jon Gauger, Stu Gray (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Stu Gray