Audiobooks narrated by Rick Jones

Morning and Evening Prayerbook Audiobook

A collection of quick morning and evening prayers that will enrich your commitment to God and personal connection to the Christian tradition and the entire church. A Morning and Evening Prayerbook provides a framework for prayerful devotions with two prayers for each day of the year. The morning prayers are ideal for encouraging your heart for the approaching day's activities and challenges while the evening prayers will help you close each day with reverence, gratitude, and reflection. Selected to mirror the seasons and the liturgical calendar, the prayers are intended not to replace your personal, spontaneous prayers but to serve as a springboard for them. Editors Jeanie and David Gushee have collected inspiring contributions from Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sources; from all continents; from the Old Testament; and from each century of Christian history. A Morning and Evening Prayerbook will enrich your commitment to God and personal connection to the Christian tradition and the entire church.

David Gushee, Jeanie Gushee (Author), Carrie Brewer, John Behrens, Molly Secours, Rick Jones, Rick N. Jones, Samm Musick (Narrator)

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The Pastor's Ministry: Biblical Priorities for Faithful Shepherds

Every pastor struggles with demands for his time, and how to determine priorities in ministry. Some choose to respond to the most urgent needs, while others seek a more balanced and intentional approach. But what determines these priorities? Where should a busy pastor look for wisdom in making decisions? In the Pastor’s Ministry, pastor and author Brian Croft looks to the Scriptures to determine the top ten priorities for a faithful pastoral ministry. These biblically rooted responsibilities help pastors determine how to spend their time and with greater discernment respond to the demands of the church. Each of these priorities is rooted in a direct command of God’s Word, including: - Guarding the Truth - Preaching and Teaching the Word - Praying for the Flock - Setting an Example - Visiting the Sick - Comforting the Grieving - Caring for Widows - Confronting Sin - Encouraging the Faint-Hearted - Identifying and Training Other Leaders To be successful and faithful in pastoral ministry, every pastor needs to understand these core callings and make them part of his regular practice. These ten responsibilities guide how a pastor schedules his time, helping him to lay the foundation for a biblically faithful ministry in his church.

Brian Croft (Author), Jeff Durham, Rick Jones, Rick N. Jones (Narrator)

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Talking about Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations

Conversations about racism are as important as they are hard for American Christians. Yet the conversation often gets so ugly, even among the faithful who claim unity in Jesus. Why is that the case? Why does it matter? Can things get better, or are we permanently divided? In this honest and hopeful book, pastor Isaac Adams doesn't just show you how to have the race conversation, he begins it for you. By offering a fictional, racially charged tragedy in order to understand varying perspectives and responses, he examines what is at stake if we ignore this conversation, and why there's just as much at stake in how we have that discussion, especially across color lines--that is, with people of another ethnicity. This unique approach offers insight into how to listen to one another well and seek unity in Christ. Looking to God's Word, Christians can find wisdom to speak gracefully and truthfully about racism for the glory of God, the good of their neighbors, and the building up of the church. Some feel that the time for talking is over, and that we've heard all this before. But given how polarized American society is becoming--its churches not exempt--fresh attention on the dysfunctional communication between ethnicities is more than warranted. Adams offers an invitation to faithfully combat the racism so many of us say we hate and maintain the unity so many of us say we want. Together we can learn to speak in such a way that we show a divided world a different world. Talking About Race points to the starting line, not the finish line, when it comes to following Jesus amid race relations. It's high time to begin running. Discussion questions and a glossary are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Isaac Adams (Author), Rick Jones, Rick N. Jones (Narrator)

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What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing

Some Stories Just Can't Be Stopped ... What Difference Do It Make? continues the hard-to-believe story of hope and reconciliation that began with the New York Times bestseller, Same Kind of Different as Me. Ron Hall and Denver Moore, unlikely friends and even unlikelier coauthors share the hard-to-stop story of how a remarkable woman's love brought them together. Now, in What Difference Do It Make? Ron and Denver along with Lynn Vincent offer: - more of the story-with untold anecdotes, especially Ron's struggle with his difficult father and Denver's dramatic stint in Angola prison - the rest of the story-how Same Kind of Different as Me came to be written and changed the lives of its authors - the ongoing story-true tales of hope from people whose lives have been changed by Ron and Denver's story and how they make a difference in their worlds - your part in the story-wise, practical, and hard-lived guidance for how you can make a difference to those in need Deeply moving but never sappy or sentimental, What Difference Do It Make? answers its own question with a simple and emphatic answer. What difference can one person (or two) make in the world? A lot!

Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Ron Hall (Author), Jon Watson, Rick Jones, Rick N. Jones (Narrator)

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The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a 'human lighthouse' for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need 'human lighthouses' to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a 'human lighthouse,' inspiring those around you. The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. You will reflect on the lighthouses in your own life and be reminded that the greatest heroes are alongside us--and within us.

Steve Pemberton (Author), Rick Jones (Narrator)

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The June Boys

This audiobook edition includes: - The full-length, stand-alone Young Adult suspense novel - A bonus scene with one of the Gemini Thief survivors - A Q&A between Court Stevens and Ruta Sepetys, New York Times bestselling author of Fountains of Silence The Gemini Thief could be anyone. Your father, your mother, your best friend's crazy uncle. Some country music star's deranged sister. Anyone. Someone is stealing Tennessee's boys. REPORT SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR. The Gemini Thief is a serial kidnapper, who takes three boys and holds them captive from June 1st to June 30th of the following year. The June Boys endure thirteen months of being stolen, hidden, observed, and fed before they are released, unharmed, by their masked captor. The Thief is a pro, having eluded authorities for nearly a decade and taken at least twelve boys. Now Thea Delacroix has reason to believe the Gemini Thief has taken a thirteenth victim: her cousin, Aulus McClaghen. But the game changes when one of the kidnapped boys turns up dead. Together with her boyfriend Nick and her best friends, Thea is determined to find the Gemini Thief and the remaining boys before it's too late. Only she's beginning to wonder something sinister, something repulsive, something unbelievable, and yet, not impossible: What if her father is the Gemini Thief? Praise for The June Boys: "Not only a terrifying story of the missing, but a heartbreaking, hopeful journey through the darkness." -MEGAN MIRANDA, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest "Stunning twists and turns. Hang on tight." -RUTA SEPETYS, international bestselling author "A gripping suspense that hooked me from the first sentence." -COLLEEN COBLE, USA TODAY bestselling author of One Little Lie and the Lavender Tides series "I was hooked and couldn't stop reading." -CATHERINE BOCK, book buyer for Parnassus Books

Court Stevens (Author), Court Stevens, Gabe Wicks, Mckenzie Fetters, Rick Jones, Ruta Sepetys (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Rick Jones