Counseling & Inspirational Audiobooks | Religion & Spirituality

Now and Not Yet: Audio Bible Studies: Pressing In When You're Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for Mor

If you've ever waited on the Lord for something-direction, answers, resolution, strength-you know how challenging it can be. Even when we fully believe that God sees and hears our requests, if we're honest, we sometimes view waiting as wasted time. But, what if it's not? What if waiting is the means God uses to make us more like Christ? What if there are some pieces of God's character that we'll only learn while we wait? If that's true… how do we lean in? What lessons do these seasons hold? How do we keep hoping and believing what we know to be true? In this six-week study, you'll explore five biblical narratives that put God's faithfulness to waiting people on display and help you direct your gaze from the answers you're seeking to the God who meets you while you wait. 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.

Ruth Chou Simons (Author), Ruth Simons (Narrator)

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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence

Love, Freedom, and Aloneness is a classic Osho text that is newly fresh and pertinent to today's complex world where freedom and connecting are more important and more fraught than ever before. We are striving for both freedom and connection. However, until we learn to live with that freedom, and learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, we are denying ourselves the possibility of finding love and happiness with someone else. Osho shows us that love can only happen through freedom and in conjunction with a deep respect for ourselves and the other. Is it possible to be alone and not lonely? Where are the boundaries that define “lust” versus “love”...and can lust ever grow into love? In Love, Freedom, and Aloneness you will find unique, radical, and intelligent perspectives on these and other essential questions. In our quickly-changing world, free of out-of-date morality, we have a golden opportunity to redefine and revitalize the very foundations of our lives. We have the chance to start afresh with ourselves, our relationships to others, and to find fulfillment and success for the individual and for society as a whole.

Osho (Author), Natalie Naudus (Narrator)

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Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself: A Guide to Closing the Space Between Us

An inspiring and actionable guide to moving toward racial healing by seeing your Black Neighbor through "Love Lenses" that flow from God's deep devotion. Jesus calls you to love your neighbor, and in the fight against racial injustice, that call includes your Black Neighbor: your Black colleagues, the Black congregants at church, the Black family in your neighborhood. Yet maybe you're unsure of how best to show your love, or maybe you fear either saying or doing the wrong thing. In Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself, Chanté Griffin equips you to see and love your Black Neighbor with God's deep, holistic love. Using Black Love Lenses birthed from African American cultural values, you'll learn meaningful ways through which you can see and care for your Black Neighbor: - Intimacy: cultivate intentional closeness and community - Honor: show overflowing respect and love - Stand Up: use your voice and influence to stand up - God's-Gifts: allow God's resources to flow through you to your Black Neighbor - The Spirit of Love: love lavishly through intercessory prayers Through guided readings, prayers, and heart checks, you'll undergo a spiritual and relational transformation that grows a deeper love for your Black Neighbor and yourself. Are you ready to answer Jesus's call?

Chanté Griffin (Author), Chanté Griffin, TBD (Narrator)

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Neighbor, Love Yourself: Discover Your Value, Live Your Worth

God loves us, but do we love ourselves? Having listened to hundreds of life stories, Bryan realized too many people carry regret. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Bob Goff, Neighbor, Love Yourself reminds us all that we are worthy. God created us with divinely sophisticated tools and features, but most of us aren't using them. The result is an inner worth we aren't aware of, and a life unknowingly lived at half capacity. By examining powerful life stories, Neighbor, Love Yourself launches an internal expedition to uncover hidden features installed long ago. Our inner worth isn't rusty, just dusty. As we locate and reconnect vital principles and truths, we will unearth a value inside ourselves that most of us have never come anywhere close to experiencing. Through his work as a hospice chaplain, Bryan Crum learned too many people feel like they've never reached their full potential. Understanding how valuable we are on the inside will change how we live on the outside. Discovering our inner worth will unlock confidence and self-esteem most of us haven't accessed yet. Neighbor, Love Yourself is packed with nineteen entertaining and enriching chapters filled with wisdom, humor, and moving moments of self-discovery. Pairing memorable stories and timeless takeaways, Neighbor, Love Yourself will inspire the reader to new levels of empowered living.

Bryan Crum (Author), Bob Goff, Bryan Crum, TBD (Narrator)

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Don't Sink Your Own Ship: 20 Spiritual Lessons You Don’t Have to Learn the Hard Way

Don't Sink Your Own Ship equips believers with simple truths for living fulfilling lives, because sometimes it's all too easy to sail into trouble unnecessarily. In this lighthearted guide, bestselling author and Bible teacher, Max Anders, gives powerfully practical insights that, if heeded, can keep you afloat in even the most treacherous of seas. Generously punctuated by interesting and sometimes outrageous stories, Max walks readers through 20 spiritual lessons, providing biblical clarity on problems we all face. Each lesson includes application questions, scripture references, and recommended reading. The book's format and the teaching guideline included at the end make this an ideal small group resource. Whether you read this book individually or as a group, you'll get a fresh grip on transforming truths, like: - The small stuff in life will build up to become big stuff, if you let it. - We become what we think about. - We are created for love. It's the principle of existence and its only end. - Success is being faithful to what God asks of us and leaving the results to Him - Unless we are willing to forgive, our wounds will never heal. Truth seekers, new Christians, and established Christians alike will benefit from the simple reminders that this book provides. You don't have to learn your lessons the hard way.

Max Anders (Author), Kevin Charles (Narrator)

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The Sex Talk You Never Got: Reclaiming the Heart of Masculine Sexuality

Men today are starved for sexual formation. They've been failed by parents, churches, and culture alike, leading to widespread shame, confusion, and brokenness in the area of sexuality. In The Sex Talk You Never Got, therapist Sam Jolman helps men reconnect their God-given sexuality with innocence, awe, and joy, and shows readers how to celebrate--instead of struggle against--the gift of sexual desire. In our sex-saturated world, it might seem surprising that men need more talk about sex. But the reality is that sexuality is one of the most neglected aspects of men's lives. From the woefully inadequate sex talks many young men receive from parents (little more than an anatomy lesson or a purity lecture, if anything at all) to cultural messages that unhelpfully weave both shame and permissiveness into men's understanding of their own sexuality and masculinity, too many boys and men experience sexual desire as an area of struggle, confusion, and brokenness. But it doesn't need to be this way. God made men to be moved, to live with wonder and awe--and sexual desire must be formed within the context of that design. Sam Jolman, a professional therapist who specializes in men's issues and sexual trauma recovery, shows men the way out of the wilds of sexual struggle. This timely and incisive book will help readers - learn about the vital link between sexual desire and their identity as worshipers; - regain a wild and vigorous sexuality within the context of God's design; - understand how purity culture has needlessly put men in a conflict-ridden relationship with their sexuality; - see sexual purity not as the goal but as the preparation for becoming fully alive to beauty, awe, and worship; and - discover how to trade shame and confusion for a sexuality that's filled with innocence and wonder. In the Bible, Jesus' greatest kindness was often offered to those suffering sexual harm and brokenness. He offers this same kindness today. He does not want men to repent of their sexual desire. Rather, through reconnecting sexuality with innocence and awe, God opens the door for men to experience the wild joy of desire, rightly ordered toward worship and God's good purposes for their life.

Ma Lpc Sam Jolman, Sam Jolman (Author), John Eldredge, Sam Jolman (Narrator)

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You Can Be Free: Overcoming Temptation and Habitual Sin by the Power and Promises of the Gospel

Beat the cycle of habitual sin as Kirby Kelly guides you through how God's strength can win back your freedom and bring you everyday peace. Find rescue and relief through a practical battle plan to defeat that sin that feels stuck on repeat and win back your life. Tired of the same cycle over and over again? Of the endless spirals of self-destructive sin? In You Can Be Free, discover a real-life battle plan to break the spiritual bondage of habitual sin. You're not alone. So many Christians are desperate to find a way to overcome recurring sin in their lives, a dominating factor when it comes to coping mechanisms in today's society. Kirby Kelly has been there, and she's created a battle plan to help others break free from unhealthy thoughts, behaviors, and cycles to find God's actual peace in their lives. Leading from the front, Kelly offers her own story first and shares biblical strategies to: - Connect and confess - Stay in bounds - Know your enemy - Know your God - Know yourself - Set your green and red light zones - Turn around and come home - Makeover your mind Kirby Kelly offers practical, tactical advice to the questions: How does one break, and stay, free? And how does one truly overcome what they thought they broke free from, only to see its disappointing return in their life? Through theology, hope, and God's guidance, there is a way to become vulnerable with your community, grow spiritually and personally, and welcome God's promise of freedom.

Kirby Kelly (Author), Hosanna Wong, Kirby Kelly (Narrator)

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The Way of Belonging: Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate

No one is a stranger to loneliness. Despite how social we are via text, chat, and notifications, we are far from being truly connected. We all want someone else to really see us and choose us for who we are. We want a place to finally fit in. But what if finding the right people or the right place is not the answer? From her community-building background, Sarah E. Westfall takes our longing to belong as an invitation to embrace and extend the deep love of God. After years contemplating how she fit in and trying to earn acceptance, she realized 'belonging is not something to attain, but someone to become.' Through narrative, research, Scripture, and spiritual practice, she teaches how belonging is a way of being-a posture of welcome in the spirit of the Father who extends his arms to those returning and those who don't yet know they've resisted his love. Whether you understand the perspective of the outsider in need of acceptance well or you're eager to include, the barriers to belonging can come down as Sarah gently guides us toward deep connection-a connection where our humanity draws us closer to people and envelops us in the heart of God. Embark with Sarah on this challenge that will awaken your empathy and affirm you with the truth of these words: 'You are welcome.'

Sarah E. Westfall (Author), Sarah E. Westfall (Narrator)

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Worth Seeing: Viewing Others Through God's Eyes

'We are in the business of seeing others, seeing them the way God sees them, and letting them know they have value.' Amy L. Williams has spent three decades doing ministry with youth in gangs and prisons. While most of society sees high-risk youth through lenses of fear or disregard, she has come to see them through God's eyes as having tremendous value and potential. Worth Seeing provides an up-close look at her work-successes, losses, lessons, and embarrassing mistakes. Through personal narrative, Amy reveals the lives of youth who are often pushed to the margins of society. Her storytelling both challenges perceptions and increases compassion and understanding, not just with youth, but all people. Practical tips equip you to take action to see others the way God sees them.

Amy L. Williams (Author), Amy L. Williams (Narrator)

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The Sacred Feminine Through the Ages: Voices of Visionary Women on Power and Belief

A fascinating history of women's belief, faith, and spirituality, as told through the art and writing of thirty-three women of wisdom. This is an exploration of feminine spirituality from the beginning of time to the present day. These extraordinary women have expressed their experiences of the agony and ecstasy of pursuing spiritual enlightenment through their poetry and prose, which is beautiful, inspirational, and very moving. Paula Marvelly has selected powerful and evocative words of wisdom from women of widely differing ages and faiths, including but not limited to Jewish, Christian, Sufi, Hindu, Buddhist, or Taoist. The author reveals the common and overriding theme between them, which can be expressed as 'non-duality'-not two but one. This is the experience of losing one's individuality and of becoming one with the universe. Whether you are interested in reviving lost and misunderstood women of history, or you are looking to find new ways to understand the many ancient questions that generations before us have been asking, you will discover a wealth of wisdom and inspiration from these women of wisdom.

Paula Marvelly (Author), Polly Lee (Narrator)

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Grieve, Breathe, Receive: Finding a Faith Strong Enough to Hold Us

What do you do when your world seems to be falling down all around you? When loss is too much to bear? When disappointment becomes your new reality? Pastor Steve Carter is certain you'll find hope and life through these three simple yet profound steps: Grieve. Breathe. Receive. In 2018, in light of further misconduct allegations against Willow Creek Community Church founder and senior pastor Bill Hybels, Steve Carter announced publicly that he was resigning from his dream job as a lead pastor at that church. After posting his resignation online, he turned off all of his devices and began to weep on his wife's shoulder. The next morning as he was taking a walk to process all the thoughts and feelings tumbling around in his mind, he cried out to Jesus in desperation, begging for an answer. 'What am I supposed to do now?' He expected nothing but the silence that had overwhelmed him since hitting send on his message to the world, but before he could take two steps, a gentle whisper impressed three words upon his heart: Those three words would become a profound mantra for Steve in the season he would soon begin-a season focused on healing. Deep healing. The kind that comes after painful trauma. In this book, Steve is more personal and vulnerable than he's ever been, and by doing so he encourages all of us to: - Allow ourselves the necessary time and space to properly GRIEVE what is, what you thought it was going to be and how key people let you down rather than fill our days with activities and commitments that distract us. - Slow down to BREATHE in God's grace, His peace, and His love . . . and to learn how to exhale all the negativity, pain, resentment, and bitterness we carry within us. - Be open to RECEIVE all the lessons, surprises, and healing God knows we need for every part of us to be made whole. This process of grieving, breathing, and receiving was a life-restoring gift from God for Steve and his family, and he is certain that it will bless anyone who prayerfully follows it.

Steve Carter (Author), Steve Carter (Narrator)

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It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers-from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children-a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America's own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past. Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family's and a nation's pain. Decades later, old wounds reopened when she found herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then did Baker realize that to go forward-to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers-we must first go back. With a story that stretches from South Africa's outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping is a courageous look at inherited hurts and prejudices, and a hope-filled example for all who feel lost in life or worried that they're too off course to make the necessary corrections. Baker's story shows that it's never too late to be free.

Lisa-Jo Baker (Author), Lisa-Jo Baker, TBD (Narrator)

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