Audiobooks narrated by Lisa Larsen

You Gotta Get Up: Grab Hold of Your Life After Being Knocked Down, Held Back, and Left Out

Read by the author. You're only stuck if you stop moving. Pain and regret can hold us captive. Our past mistakes and trauma tell us to blame others, feel ashamed, or turn to a temporary fix that often becomes a permanent escape. By the time Satan whispers we need to dress it up and call it home, pain is our new normal. Pastor and motivational speaker Real Talk Kim has a message for us: the pain might not be our fault, but the healing is our responsibility. In You Gotta Get Up, Pastor Kim reminds us as only she can that staying stuck requires as much energy as moving forward. She explains how to get up and - figure out what needs to change in your life. - unpack the messed-up thinking that holds you back. - replace destructive thoughts with God's truth. - stop bleeding on people who didn't cut you. - stand up just one more time than you fall down. What will you choose today? The effort to get moving or the effort to stay stuck? A powerful blend of biblical wisdom and a loving kick in the pants, You Gotta Get Up calls you to heal, let go, and get moving . . . because hope is never too far away.

Kimberly Jones (Author), Lisa Larsen, Real Talk Kim Real Talk Kim (Narrator)

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Women, Rise Up!: A Fierce Generation Taking Its Place in the World

God has gifted women with beautiful and unique calls on their lives. Unfortunately, many never step into their roles because of doubt, discrimination, fear, and insecurity. But in a world fraught with gender and relationship issues, the gifts and voices of women are needed more than ever. In this fully revised and updated edition of her breakthrough book, Women of Destiny, bestselling author and speaker Cindy Jacobs reveals the biblical foundation for women in ministry and leadership. Through sharing her own story, successes, and failures, she speaks to the doubts, fears, and insecurities women have about stepping up and speaking out. She shows how to navigate discrimination with grace, strength, and confidence, and she empowers women everywhere to press into God to discover their unique purpose. Whether you step across the street or into a new role altogether, you can serve God faithfully, love others boldly, and change the world around you.

Cindy Jacobs, Lisa Larsen (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Wisdom-Based Business: Applying Biblical Principles and Evidence-Based Research for a Purposeful and

Make Your Business Purposeful and Profitable At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices. In Wisdom-Based Business, marketing and supply-chain professor Hannah J. Stolze draws principles from the Bible's wisdom literature and from evidence-based research to create a framework for business that is oriented toward excellence and sustainability. This book addresses import issues such as: - The virtue of profit - Servant leadership - Wisdom-based values, such as long-term over short-term, stakeholders, and quality - Beneficial outcomes of wisdom-based business, including reputation and comparative advantage - The ultimate outcome of eternal impact Intended for business students and working professionals alike, Wisdom-Based Business demonstrates how to pursue profitability to the honor and glory of God. Unique among Christian books on business, it helps listeners make the right decisions in business by presenting: - Biblical Principles. Drawing upon the Bible's wisdom literature, each topic addressed is undergirded by insights from Scripture. - Evidence-Based Research. Recommendations are thoroughly grounded in the best and latest research in the field. - Case Studies: Each chapter demonstrates how the principles can be lived out in the real world, amid the inevitable challenges and competition all business confronts. Any Christian who works in the marketplace or is training to work in the marketplace will benefit from Wisdom-Based Business' practical guidance on how to reflect Christian values in their corporate tasks and strategies--and on how those values can be not hindrances but keys to success. Accompanying figures, tables, and bibliography are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Hannah J. Stolze (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Where's My Crown for Acting Like Everything Is Fine?: Royally Surviving Life's Waiting Periods

Making it through the tough waiting periods that string together can leave us feeling anything but fabulous. But oh queen, you are! Four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and TV host Kerstin Lindquist helps us break out of our most painful waiting rooms by delivering raw truth (When did making women friends become so hard?), attainable faith (For two excruciating, sweat-inducing minutes, I publicly prayed a prayer so disjointed I can't even recreate the sounds, it was that bad), and real-life humor (My text read: 'Just realized I'm naked in my kitchen making myself a martini'). In this book Kerstin shares her own stories with the honesty of your best friend. She explains what has worked for real, overwhelmed, under-supported women who are living through unbearable waits: unemployment, illness, infertility, death, even seasons of joylessness that seem to never end. You will learn how to manage all the little waits that come daily, the ones that make you feel like you're missing out on your life. Where's My Crown offers tangible advice and actionable steps for coping through each season, including how to improve your prayer life; how to break free from lack of sleep; what foods can help you get and stay fit; how to find the elusive 'tribe' we're supposed to have but can't seem to locate; how to pick the right therapist; and more.

Kerstin Lindquist (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Where is the Bermuda Triangle?

Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle. Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic reputation. The Bermuda Triangle became famous for making boats and ships vanish, and for snatching planes right out of the sky. But are these stories true? And if they are true, is there a more sensible reason that refutes the bad karma of the region? With so many mystifying events to learn about, readers will love disappearing into this story.

, Megan Stine (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey into the Realities of Gun Vio

Taylor Schumann never thought she'd be a victim of gun violence. But one spring day a man with a shotgun walked into her workplace and opened fire on her. While she survived, she was left with permanent wounds, both visible and invisible. In When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough, Taylor invites us to see what it means to be a survivor after the news vehicles drive away and the media moves on. Healing is slow and complicated. As she suffered through surgeries, grueling rehabilitation, and counseling to repair the physical injuries and emotional trauma, she came face to face with the deep and lasting impact of gun violence. As she began grappling with the realities, Taylor experienced another painful truth: Christians have largely been absent from this issue. Gun violence undercuts God's vision of abundant life and community-and the silence of the church rings loudly in the ears of survivors and families of victims. Taylor weaves her own incredible story of survival and recovery into a larger conversation about gun violence in our country. With compassion and honesty, she encourages listeners to reconsider their own engagement with the issue and to join her in envisioning a more hopeful, safer future for our nation. Move beyond thoughts and prayers and enter into grace-filled dialogue and action.

Taylor Schumann (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman’s latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling “Edge Question Series” asks more than 175 leading scientists, philosophers, and artists: What do you think about machines that think? The development of artificial intelligence has been a source of fascination and anxiety ever since Alan Turing formalized the concept in 1950. Today, Stephen Hawking believes that AI “could spell the end of the human race.” At the very least, its development raises complicated moral issues with powerful real-world implications—for us and for our machines. In this volume, recording artist Brian Eno proposes that we’re already part of an AI: global civilization, or what TED curator Chris Anderson elsewhere calls the hive mind. And author Pamela McCorduck considers what drives us to pursue AI in the first place. On the existential threat posed by superintelligent machines, Steven Pinker questions the likelihood of a robot uprising. Douglas Coupland traces discomfort with human-programmed AI to deeper fears about what constitutes “humanness.” Martin Rees predicts the end of organic thinking, while Daniel C. Dennett explains why he believes the Singularity might be an urban legend. Provocative, enriching, and accessible, What Do You Think About Machines That Think? may just be a practical guide to the not-so-distant future.

John Brockman (Author), Brett Barry, Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Walking in Your Prophetic Destiny: How to Work with The Holy Spirit to Fulfill Your Calling

God's will. God's way. God's timing. Do you have a deep longing in your heart to do something great for God, but you don't know how? In Walking in Your Prophetic Destiny, internationally recognized author and speaker Jennifer LeClaire helps you discover the seed of your destiny and how to grow it into something larger than yourself. She offers specific ways to discover your spiritual gifts,discern God's timing,defeat the Enemy, andfulfill your calling.Life offers more when you travel on the road of your prophetic destiny. Your divine purpose maneuvers you to fulfillment-past challenges, pain, and failures. Jennifer presents an opportunity to blend the practical with the spiritual that will satisfy a deep hunger for significance that comes in walking with God. You can discover and live God's unique call on your life.

Jennifer Leclaire (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Walk, Run, Soar: A 52-Week Running Devotional

As a runner, you want to accomplish your physical goals. But deep down, you long for your training to be a more meaningful experience, engaging your body, mind, soul, and spirit. Walk, Run, Soar is a fifty-two-week devotional and training journal designed for runners who hope to experience God's presence, purpose, and glory in a deeper way as they run. Dorina Gilmore Young, and her triathlete husband, Shawn, will get you moving with a new motivation: improving your spiritual health. Along with weekly devotions to inspire you, Walk, Run, Soar includes - practical running/training tips - training schedules from a running and triathlon coach - advice on how to fuel your body well - reflection questions and action steps Whether you are new to running or a longtime runner, Walk, Run, Soar will motivate you to hit your fitness goals while strengthening your faith.

Dorina Gilmore Young, Shawn Young (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters through the Centuries

Hundreds of women studied and interpreted the Bible between the years 100-2000 CE, but their stories have remained largely untold. In this book, Schroeder and Taylor introduce listeners to the notable contributions of female commentators through the centuries. They unearth fascinating accounts of Jewish and Christian women from diverse communities-rabbinic experts, nuns, mothers, mystics, preachers, teachers, suffragists, and household managers-who interpreted Scripture through their writings. This book recounts the struggles and achievements of women who gained access to education and biblical texts. It tells the story of how their interpretive writings were preserved or, all too often, lost. It also explores how, in many cases, women interpreted Scripture differently from the men of their times. Consequently, Voices Long Silenced makes an important, new contribution to biblical reception history. This book focuses on women's written words and briefly comments on women's interpretation in media, such as music, visual arts, and textile arts. It includes short, representative excerpts from diverse women's own writings that demonstrate noteworthy engagement with Scripture. Voices Long Silenced calls on scholars and religious communities to recognize the contributions of women, past and present, who interpreted Scripture, preached, taught, and exercised a wide variety of ministries in churches and synagogues.

Joy A. Schroeder, Marion Ann Taylor (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Unshakable Kids: Three Keys to Raising Spiritually Strong and Emotionally Healthy Children

You may feel anxious about sending your child out into a world that too often feels dark and scary. But you can prepare your kids to live in the real world by equipping them with a sound mind and strategies for establishing a foundation of faith. Adversity is a normal part of life, and when we keep our children too protected, we rob them of the opportunity to learn and practice essential life skills like discernment, understanding, boldness, and resilience. Using Scripture and principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, Unshakable Kids gives you the tools to equip your children to withstand the negative pressures of society and walk bravely into the world with wisdom. This book will show you how to model the qualities you want to build in your kids, control anxious thoughts, and help your kids rest in their identities as children of God. With God's Word and these brain-based tools, you can raise emotionally healthy and spiritually strong children who not only remain unshaken by the world, but can actually make a positive impact on it.

Lauren Gaines (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media

Unfiltered: How to Be as Happy as You Look on Social Media is for anyone who needs to be reminded that we're all a work in progress, no matter what judgments we make when measuring our lives against what others share online. In her debut book, award-winning journalist and sought-after speaker Jessica Abo addresses the relationship between our psychology and technology and how we can take back our happiness IRL (in real life) without falling into the compare and despair trap. Jessica helps you push the reset button with bite-sized chapters full of practical insights from experts and psychologists, as well as funny anecdotes and inspiring stories from celebrities like Alysia Reiner of Orange is the New Black and Baked by Melissa CEO Melissa Ben-Ishay. You'll learn how to: identify what's really at the root of your unhappiness; stay positive when you're feeling lost and rejected; build a life that makes you happiest; navigate toxic relationships and inevitable friendshifts; master the art of letting go; and turn setbacks into stepping stones.

Jessica Abo (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Lisa Larsen