“The Healthy Brain Book will be the gold standard for holistic doctors and the public for preventing and treating common brain ailments.” —Mark Stengler, NMD, coauthor of Prescription for Natural Cures
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- The Healthy Brain Book
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By William Sears, MD, and Vincent M. Fortanasce, MD, with Hayden Sears, MA
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 4/21/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Internationally renowned family doctor William Sears and noted neurologist Vincent M. Fortanasce present an accessible, all-ages guide to optimum brain health, from treating depression, anxiety, and ADHD to preventing Alzheimer’s and dementia, with or without medication.
The brain is a complex organ, responsible for our thoughts, our feelings, our hopes and dreams. It’s also vulnerable to a host of ailments that negatively impact quality of life, from disorders such as depression, anxiety, and ADHD that can strike at any time to illnesses of aging like Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The good news is, this diverse set of mental and emotional challenges all stem from the same cause: imbalance in the brain. And getting your brain back in balance—without medication, or in partnership with it—is easier than you think.
Whether you’re experiencing “normal” mental and emotional burnout or wrestling with diagnosed illness, The Healthy Brain Book can help you thrive. It explains:
- How what we think can change how well we think
- The role of inflammation in the brain, and how food and activity can reverse it
- What drugs enhance and suppress the brain’s ability to heal itself
- Actionable advice to improve your memory, promote learning, and prevent common brain ailments
- How to personalize the book’s tools for your unique brain
For more than 20 years, The Baby Book author William Sears’ advice has been trusted by millions across the country, and around the world. Now, he and The Anti-Alzheimer’s Prescription author Vincent M. Fortanasce have put together the essential guide to a clearer, calmer, and happier brain. Laced with relatable personal stories from family members and patients as well as detailed illustrations, The Healthy Brain Book weds Fortanasce’s deep neurological and psychiatric expertise with Sears’ sympathetic bedside manner and reader-friendly writing.
Let The Healthy Brain Book help you, safely and effectively, “think-change” your brain for a happier and healthier life.
- The Healthy Brain Book
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By William Sears, MD, and Vincent M. Fortanasce, MD, with Hayden Sears, MA
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 4/21/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Memoirs of St. Peter
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
The Gospel as you have never heard it before
At a distance of twenty centuries, the figure of Jesus of Nazareth can seem impossibly obscure—indeed, some skeptics even question whether he existed. And yet we have an eyewitness account of his life, death, and resurrection from one of his closest companions, the sherman Simon Bar-Jonah, better known as the Apostle Peter.
Writers from the earliest days of the Church tell us that Peter’s disciple Mark wrote down the apostle’s account of the life of Jesus as he told it to the first Christians in Rome. The vivid, detailed, unadorned prose of the Gospel of Mark conveys the unmistakable immediacy of a first-hand account.
For most readers, however, this immediacy is hidden behind a veil of Greek, the language of the New Testament writers. Four centuries of English translations have achieved nobility of cadence or, more recently, idiomatic accessibility, but the voice of Peter himself has never fully emerged. Until now.
In this strikingly original translation, attentive to Peter’s concern to show what it was like to be there, Michael Pakaluk captures the tone and texture of the sherman’s evocative account, leading the listener to a bracing new encounter with Jesus.
The accompanying verse-by-verse commentary—less theological than historical—will equip you to experience Mark’s Gospel as the narrative of an eyewitness, drawing you into its scenes, where you will come to know Jesus of Nazareth with new intimacy.
A stunning work of scholarship readily accessible to the layman, The Memoirs of St. Peter belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Christian.
- The Memoirs of St. Peter
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 6/18/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Discipline Book
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By William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 4/02/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Everything you need to know about discipline to raise a happy, well-adjusted, well-behaved child-from America’s foremost baby and childcare experts
Disciplining children means equipping them with the tools to succeed in life. In this unique guide, Dr. Bill and Martha Sears, the pediatric specialists whose books on birth, babies, and parenting have become widely praised bestsellers, explain what you can do to shape your child’s behavior so that good conduct comes naturally.
With a focus not just on managing behavior problems but also on preventing them, the Searses offer clear, practical advice on a broad range of disciplinary issues, including the following:
- The mother’s role vs. the father’s role
- Developing the connection with your baby that will make discipline easier in years to come
- Saying no
- Taming temper tantrums
- Self-esteem as the foundation of good behavior
- Helping a child to express feelings
- The constructive use of anger
- Good nutrition for good behavior
- Sleep and nighttime discipline
- Sibling rivalry
- Spanking and alternatives to spanking
- How to eliminate bothersome behaviors such as whining and talking back
- How to respond when your child lies, cheats, or steals
- Discipline after divorce and in the single-parent household
Drawing on nearly thirty years of the Searses’ experience as childcare professionals and as the parents of eight children, The Discipline Book will make you confident in your ability to correct undesirable behavior, to promote good behavior, and to instill the values that will help your child become morally literate.
- The Discipline Book
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By William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 4/02/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Attachment Parenting Book
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By William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/29/19
Formats: Digital Audy
America’s foremost baby and childcare experts, William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN, explain the benefits—to both you and your child—of connecting with your baby early.
Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father’s role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child’s eventual independence? Dr. Bill and Martha Sears—the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and-wife team who coined the term “attachment parenting”—answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide. Attachment parenting is a style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment and advocates parental responsiveness to babies’ dependency needs.
The Attachment Parenting Book clearly explains the seven “Baby Bs” that form the basis of this popular parenting style:
- Bonding
- Breastfeeding
- Babywearing
- Belief in the language value of baby’s cry
- Bedding close to baby
- Balance
- Beware of baby trainers.
Here’s all the information you need to achieve your most important goals as a new parent: to know your child, to help your child feel right, and to enjoy parenting.
- The Attachment Parenting Book
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By William Sears, MD, and Martha Sears, RN
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/29/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- King Solomon
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/15/19
Formats: Digital Audy
King Solomon had all the fame and fortune that any man could want. He was the world’s wisest and wealthiest king. And yet, tragically, he threw it all away for the love of money, the pleasures of sex, and the powers of an earthly kingdom.
In studying the life of Solomon, we see both the true greatness and the tragic failure of our own humanity―from godly devotion to self-serving excess. Even in the midst of our best intentions, we are all prone to succumb to the same temptations of money, sex, and power. And if Solomon’s incredible wisdom could not prevent him from such tragic mistakes, then how are we to triumph over the same temptations?
Philip Graham Ryken shows us how, by the grace of God, to prevent those downfalls and to seek God’s glory amid earthly temptations through this rich, Christ-centered study of the life of Solomon.
- King Solomon
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/15/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Unselling
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 12/25/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Are you an independent consultant? Contractor? Business owner? Real estate agent? Financial advisor? Or maybe you wish you could take the leap to independence but worry about quitting your job, losing money, failing, or worse … selling?!
Fears can keep us from reaching for our dreams and desires. But, we have a God much bigger than our fears—one who promises us a more abundant life. We just need to trust. Wholeheartedly.
The key to indie business success is in your faith, His promises, and who God made you to be. Mix in a few unique business development success principles, and you have all you need for finding more business, more faith, and more of the life you desire.
Unselling isn’t just about “not selling”; it’s about so much more. Here, you’ll learn what an unselling life looks like and how to achieve it for yourself.
Whether you’ve already taken the leap or want to take it, this book can be a guide to new strategies and greater success—saving you time, money, and frustration along the way.
- Unselling
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 12/25/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- How Long, O Lord? Second Edition
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By D. A. Carson
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Release Date: 11/13/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Primarily, How Long, O Lord? is a book of preventative medicine. One of the major causes of devastating grief and confusion among Christians is that our expectations are false. We do not give the subject of evil and suffering the thought it deserves until we ourselves are confronted with tragedy. If by that point our beliefs—not well thought out but deeply ingrained—are largely out of step with the God who has disclosed himself in the Bible and supremely in Jesus, then the pain from the personal tragedy may be multiplied many times over as we begin to question the very foundations of our faith.
This clear and accessible treatment of key biblical themes related to human suffering and evil is written by one of the most respected evangelical biblical scholars alive today. Carson brings together a close, careful exposition of key biblical passages with helpful pastoral applications.
- How Long, O Lord? Second Edition
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By D. A. Carson
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 11/13/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Jesus Is Risen
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 10/02/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Originally confined to a small circle of believers centered in Jerusalem, Christianity’s stunning transformation into the world’s most popular faith is one of history’s greatest, most miraculous stories.
In Jesus Is Risen, #1 nationally bestselling author David Limbaugh provides a riveting account of the birth of Christianity. Using the Book of Acts and six New Testament epistles as his guide, Limbaugh takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the sorrow and suffering, as well as the joys and triumphs, of the apostles and other key figures as Christianity bursts through the borders of Judea following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.
Limbaugh particularly focuses on the crucial role that the Apostle Paul played in these historic events. Facing incredible adversities, from arrests to shipwrecks to violent mobs and murder plots, Paul overcomes countless obstacles as he travels far and wide to spread the Gospel. In Jesus Is Risen you will discover
- how the apostles themselves disproved modern arguments that early Christians did not believe in Jesus’ divinity,
- the true story behind the first conversion to Christianity by a Gentile,
- the many underhanded ways Christianity’s opponents tried in vain to stifle the Church in its infancy, and
- Paul’s most effective techniques and arguments for bringing converts to Christ.
Throughout these pages, Limbaugh’s passion for the Bible is unmistakable and infectious. Replete with deep insights into the actions, arguments, and challenges of the world’s first Christian communities, Jesus Is Risen is a faith-affirming book for Christians at all stages of their faith walk.
- Jesus Is Risen
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 10/02/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Climate Church, Climate World
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By Jim Antal
Foreword by Bill McKibben
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Release Date: 9/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war—climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it’s time for the church to meet this moral challenge, just as the church addressed previous moral challenges. Antal calls for the church to embrace a new vocation so that future generations might live in harmony with God’s creation. After describing how we have created the dangers our planet now faces, Antal urges the church to embrace a new vocation, one focused on collective salvation and an expanded understanding of the Golden Rule (Golden Rule 2.0). He suggests ways people of faith can reorient what they prize through new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate hope.
- Climate Church, Climate World
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By Jim Antal
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 9/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Jonathan Edwards
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 6/12/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Jonathan Edwards is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century.
In this definitive and long-awaited biography, Jonathan Edwards emerges as both a great American and a brilliant Christian. George Marsden evokes the world of colonial New England in which Edwards was reared―a frontier civilization at the center of a conflict between Native Americans, French Catholics, and English Protestants. Drawing on newly available sources, Marsden demonstrates how these cultural and religious battles shaped Edwards’ life and thought. Marsden reveals Edwards as a complex thinker and human being who struggled to reconcile his Puritan heritage with the secular, modern world emerging out of the Enlightenment. In this, Edwards’ life anticipated the deep contradictions of our American culture.
Meticulously researched and beautifully composed, this biography offers a compelling portrait of an eminent American.
- Jonathan Edwards
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 6/12/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Called to Create
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
We were created by an infinitely creative God to reflect his love and character to the world. One way we do that is by continuing his creative work. In this energizing book, serial entrepreneur and bestselling author Jordan Raynor helps artists, entrepreneurs, writers, and other creatives re-imagine our work as service to God and others, addressing such penetrating questions as:
- Is my work as a creative really as God-honoring as that of a pastor or missionary?
- What does it look like to create a name for myself but to glorify God and serve others?
- How can I use my work to fulfill Jesus’ command to create disciples?
- Will what I make today matter in eternity?
To answer these questions, Raynor shares compelling stories from an eclectic group of more than forty Christian entrepreneurs, including the founders of TOMS Shoes, Charity: Water, Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger, Guinness, HTC, and Sevenly, as well as nontraditional entrepreneurs such as C. S. Lewis, Johann Sebastian Bach, and J. R. R. Tolkien. Raynor’s “show” rather than “tell,” story-driven style makes you feel as if you are sitting at the feet of some of the godliest and most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
Perfectly poised to reach today’s growing creative class, this unique work restores God’s position as the first entrepreneur, helping listeners see the eternal value in the work they do today.
- Called to Create
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 11/14/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Reformation 500 Years Later
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 8/28/17
Formats: Digital Audy
The year 2017 is the five-hundredth-year anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany—the event that marked the beginning of the Reformation and the end of unified Christianity. For Catholics it was an unjustified rebellion by the heterodox; for Protestants, the release of true and purified Christianity from centuries-old enslavement to corruption, idolatry, and error.
So what is the truth about the Reformation? To mark the five-hundredth anniversary, historian Benjamin Wiker gives us The Reformation 500 Years Later, a straightforward account that rejects the common distortions of Catholic, Protestant, Marxist, Freudian, or secularist retellings of this world-changing event.
- The Reformation 500 Years Later
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 8/28/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- How to Know God Exists
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By Ray Comfort
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Release Date: 8/08/17
Formats: Digital Audy
With the recent wave of books on atheism becoming New York Times bestsellers, the God debate is heating up. Because of the implications, it’s the most significant question of all time: Is there a God, or isn’t there? In this compelling book, Ray Comfort argues the case with simple logic and common sense. If there is a God, surely he has made his presence known so that anyone, young or old, scholar or school child, can find him.
By applying basic logic to three clear evidences for the existence of God, Comfort will help you to
- examine the case for evolution and see what top scientists are really saying about the theory,
- explore the facts that led the world’s most notorious atheist to acknowledge a creator, and
- investigate the evidence to discover who God is, through 100 percent scientific proof.
You can know God exists.
- How to Know God Exists
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By Ray Comfort
Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 8/08/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Reasonable Faith, Third Edition
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 7/04/17
Formats: Digital Audy
J. Gresham Machen once said, “False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel”—which makes apologetics that much more important. Wanting to engage not just academics and pastors but Christian laypeople and seekers, William Lane Craig has revised and updated key sections in this third edition of his classic text to reflect the latest work in astrophysics, philosophy, probability calculus, arguments for the existence of God, and Reformed epistemology.
His approach—that of positive apologetics—gives careful attention to crucial questions and concerns, including the relationship of faith and reason, the existence of God, the problems of historical knowledge and miracles, the personal claims of Christ, and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. He shows that there is good reason to think Christianity is true. As Craig says, “If you have a sound and persuasive case for Christianity, you don’t have to become an expert in comparative religions and Christian cults. A positive justification of the Christian faith automatically overwhelms all competing world views lacking an equally strong case.”
- Reasonable Faith, Third Edition
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 7/04/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Foundations of the Christian Faith, Revised in One Volume
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/17/17
Formats: Digital Audy
In this revised edition of a formerly four-volume work, James Boice provides a readable overview of all the major doctrines of Christian theology in one volume.
Boice carefully opens the topics like the nature of God, the character of his natural and special revelation, the fall, and the person and work of Christ with scholarly rigor and a pastor’s heart.
The text then covers the work of the holy spirit in justification and sanctification, and closes with careful discussion of ecclesiology and eschatology.
Throughout the book, Boice maintains a remarkable practicality and thoroughness that will benefit both students and pastors alike, and will make Foundations of the Christian Faith a standard reference and text for years to come.
- Foundations of the Christian Faith, Revised in One Volume
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/17/17
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Open
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 10/01/16
Formats: Digital Audy
You’ve accepted the invitation. Are you ready to take the next step?
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, Open will forever change the way you think about faith.
It wasn’t the end of the world. It was just the end of Emma Jameson’s world. Fresh off the heels of a devastating breakup and floundering in her career, Emma is struggling to come to grips with why God allows so much pain in our lives, why he seems so absent when she needs him most, and why the Gospel accounts—our supposed guide for how to lead a contented Christian life—feel so completely irrelevant.
Then one day a mysterious envelope arrives in Emma’s mailbox with the word open written on the outside. Inside the envelope is a card bearing the following message: “For a real adventure with Jesus, go through the nearest open door.”
Skeptical, but having absolutely nothing to lose, Emma steps through the pantry door, only to find herself instantly transported back to the first century, where she is taken on a personal tour of various Gospel accounts by none other than Jesus himself—an experience that radically challenges Emma’s perception of the Gospels and what it really means to be a Christian.
- Open
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 10/01/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Searching the Scriptures
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 9/13/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Are you getting the spiritual nourishment you need?
We have all experienced times when we have not eaten a balanced diet or have eaten too many sweets. We feel sick, light-headed, and occasionally depressed, or we become irritable and edgy. It’s the body’s way of letting us know that it’s lacking sufficient nourishment. Optimal health requires optimal nutrition. The same is true spiritually speaking. Without sufficient and regular biblical nutrition, our inner life begins to suffer the consequences. We become shallow and selfish, more demanding and less gentle, and quick to react impatiently, rashly, and angrily. These are telltale signs of inner malnutrition.
In Searching the Scriptures, respected Bible teacher Charles Swindoll shows us how to dig deep into scripture and uncover its profound truths for our lives. He outlines the principles of Bible study that will help you understand God’s Word, apply it, and communicate it clearly to those around you.
Too many people try to go it alone, without a guide for this life and the next. Swindoll explains how we can fix our own spiritual meals and then invites us to feast on nourishing truths we can discover in God’s Word.
- Searching the Scriptures
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 9/13/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Bruised Reed
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 5/01/16
Formats: Digital Audy
Richard Sibbes is widely considered to be one of the fathers of Puritanism in the seventeenth century. His passionate sermons and devotional works have persisted throughout the centuries and continue to influence modern-day scholars and people all over the world.
Taken from Matthew 12:20, Sibbes explains what it means to be a “bruised reed.” It is a metaphor which exemplifies the way in which God humbles sinners by allowing them to see sin in the way that he sees it—the lesson being that God sometimes wounds before healing, but with the ultimate goal of deepening our love for Christ.
Sibbes believed very strongly that “God’s love rests on Christ,” and often spoke of the comfort to be gained by acknowledging this. He preached that the same can be had for those who live in Christ and seek redemption for their sins.
- The Bruised Reed
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 5/01/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Mystery of Providence
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By John Flavel
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Release Date: 2/23/16
Formats: Digital Audy
This Puritan classic, first published in the late seventeenth century, sets forth the biblical teaching of God and his interaction in our lives.
No detail is too small or insignificant for God; he is there, working out “all things for good.” And in that promise, every believer can take comfort that God truly has a purpose for every single person and will unfold his plan, which includes every detail in our daily lives.
Chapter topics include
- proofs of a special providence;
- the operations of providence;
- the duty of reflecting on the operations of providence;
- directions for reflecting on the dispensations of providence;
- motives to a due observance of providence; and
- the practicality of providence.
- The Mystery of Providence
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By John Flavel
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Release Date: 2/23/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- All Things for Good
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Release Date: 1/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy
All Things for Good by Thomas Watson provides the biblical answer to the contemporary question: Why do bad things happen to good people?
Thomas Watson, the seventeenth-century minister of St. Stephen’s Walbrook, believed he faced two great difficulties in his pastoral ministry. The first was making the unbeliever sad, in the recognition of his need of God’s grace. The second was making the believer joyful in response to God’s grace. He believed the answer to the second difficulty could be found in Paul’s teaching in Romans 8:28—God works all things together for good for his people.
First published in 1663 (under the title A Divine Cordial), the year after Watson and some two thousand other ministers were ejected from the Church of England and exposed to hardship and suffering, All Things for Good contains the rich exposition of a man who lived when only faith in God’s word could lead him to such confidence.
Thomas Watson’s exposition is always simple, illuminating, and rich in practical application. He explains that both the best and the worst experiences work for the good of God’s people. He carefully analyzes what it means to be someone who “loves God” and is “called according to his purpose.”
- All Things for Good
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Read by Jim Denison
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Release Date: 1/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy