Religious & Inspirational Audiobooks | Romance

27 Summers: My Journey to Freedom, Forgiveness, and Redemption During My Time in Angola Prison

In one of America's most notorious prisons, a young man sentenced to life without parole miraculously found faith, forgiveness, redemption, and restoration. In 27 Summers Ronald Olivier shares his dramatic and powerful story and offers proof that God can bring healing and hope to even the darkest circumstances. As a teenager Ronald Olivier ran wild in the streets of New Orleans, selling drugs, stealing cars, and finally killing someone on what was supposed to be the happiest day of the year--Christmas Day. Facing the consequences of his crime, he remembered what his mother once said. 'Baby, if you ever have real trouble, the kind that I can't get you out of, you can always call on Jesus.' So he did. Ron was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Through the agony of solitary confinement and multiple transfers into increasingly dangerous prison environments, Ron kept seeking God for healing and hope. Finally, after being locked up for twenty-seven summers at the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary--known as Angola--Ron was miraculously released. Remarkably, he became the director of chaplains at Mississippi State Penitentiary. Today, Ron loves to combat hopelessness, wherever he finds it, by saying, 'Don't tell me what God can't do!" Readers will - learn new insights about faith and patience from a man who spent almost three decades in a cruel and violent environment; - be encouraged, like Ron, to find grace and forgiveness to overcome the pain of their past; and - find hope that God can redeem and restore anyone. Ron's fascinating story brilliantly displays God's power to transform individuals, families, and communities, reminding us that there truly is nothing God can't do.

Ronald Olivier (Author), Guy Branche (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Biografías breves - Rasputín

Grigori Rasputín tomó por sorpresa a sus contemporáneos. Más de un siglo después de su violenta muerte, su biografía sigue espantando y fascinando. Nacido en un pequeño pueblo de Siberia Occidental, empezó a tener visiones místicas y borracheras en la adolescencia. Luego de un paso por la secta de los flagelantes, desarrolló el carisma que le hizo ganarse la confianza de la zarina Alejandra, encargándose de las 'curaciones' de su hijo hemofílico y poco a poco ascendiendo en influencia sobre la Dinastía Románov. A medio camino entre versiones verídicas y ficción, la vida de Rasputín transcurría entre arrebatos religiosos, sospechas de espionaje, orgías y conspiraciones palaciegas. Hasta que llegó la Primera Guerra Mundial. La monarquía empezaba a derrumbarse y soplaban vientos de revolución. Ya no había lugar para su personalidad hipnótica. Este audiolibro está narrado en español latino - -

Luis Machado (Author), Varios Narradores (Narrator)

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God's Autobiography

God’s Autobiography will tell you God’s story from creation to the end time as though it is Him telling it, based on insights that I believe that God has given me. These insights include new interpretations of the Bible that will strengthen your belief and amazingly come together to provide beautiful answers to many of the great questions that mankind has struggled with: why He created the universe and mankind, why bad things happen to good people, where cognition, depression and dementia come from, what the Bible is, how God speaks to you, how to become a child of God no matter what religion you practice, and how to interpret “The Book of Revelation”. “I am writing this book to you my children so that you will know me before the final tribulations of the last days. You can’t imagine what it is like to be all powerful and always exist. I can do anything I want, but life seemed meaningless. I was lonely and unloved. Love is only real if it is freely given by a cognitive being like me that has a choice to love me or not. Then it came to me that what I was missing was a family. I need a family that I can love, nourish and grow. Not a created family, but a family that is comprised of independent spiritual beings that can love me or not. A loving family will be my objective! “

Charles H Huettner Scribe (Author), Brian Anderson (Narrator)

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The Confessions of Saint Augustine

'The Confessions of Saint Augustine' is an autobiographical work by St. Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written between AD 397 and 400. This seminal work outlines his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and it provides deep philosophical and theological insights into faith and morality. Augustine explores the nature of time, memory, and the inner self, and the narrative is as much a chronicle of his spiritual journey as it is a theological treatise.

Saint Augustine (Author), Jason Smith, Jason Smith (male Synthesized Voice) (Narrator)

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Handprints

Did you ever have someone leave their handprint on your soul? Did you ever have a friend that changed your life forever? This is a story about a friendship that changed my life forever. If you have or had a dear friend in your life that you cherished, I hope you can share my need to share what this dear friend did for me. I am not the same person since I met her. She took a frightened woman lacking self-confidence and transformed me into a self-confident, daring woman. I want this book to be a thank you to a strong, enduring woman who faced so many challenges and trails in her life but still found time to be a devoted friend. She always had time to listen, laugh, cry, and shout when I needed her to. I would like this book to encourage those who have a dear friend to always make sure you take time to spend with your dear one. Time is precious, and before we know it, we are longing for moments that we so casually took advantage of. If you are one of the lucky ones who have someone who has left their handprint on your soul, I hope you feel this book in the depths of your soul. If not, I pray that the future may lead this special friend to you. I have been blessed to have this friend's handprint on my soul. Every, day she continues to press her hand on my soul.

Marie Phero (Author), Marie Phero (Narrator)

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Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo

Of all the autobiographies ever written by mere mortals, Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo is the greatest. In this masterpiece, you will find a doctor of the Church longing for the true Doctor of the soul, Christ. Taking us from Augustine’s roots in Africa to his encounters with his spiritual father Saint Ambrose in Milan, from his battle against his concupiscence to his famed conversion, Confessions is itself a veritable pilgrimage to the threshold of the new Jerusalem. Indeed, its end is not biography but a breathtaking meditation on time and memory, on the human soul and the material world, and on the creative and redemptive power of God himself. In Dr. Anthony Esolen’s new translation, the esteemed translator and author seeks to retain and reveal the figurative by hewing as closely as possible to the literal, both in the significance of individual words and in the manner of the author’s expression. Confessions is a work of literary art, “one of the most stupendous ever wrought,” he says, immensely rich in insights, and intricate in its returning, again and again, to the questions of a soul in search of truth and of answers ready to be found, if we will only seek, and ask, and knock. Confessions is like no other book you will ever read. According to Dr. Esolen, “The Confessions is one continued and coherent prayer, a profound profession of faith, and a plea for more, ever more wisdom, ever more love. It is artistic in its whole conception, in its parts and their arrangement down to the merest sentence. It is closer to the Gothic cathedrals that would grace Europe eight hundred years later than to anything that you or I might write about ourselves and our lives.”

Saint Augustine Of Hippo (Author), Kennedy Hall (Narrator)

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Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

As a special operations army commander, Jeff Tiegs anchored his life in the battlefield—and the Bible. He joined the 1st Ranger Battalion at age eighteen and retired as a Delta Force lieutenant colonel. Often separated from his wife and kids, Tiegs lost friends in combat but never stopped pursuing his enemies wherever they tried to hide. What has kept him going, what guides him still, are stories — of David, the slingshot sniper who downed a giant, of a pregnant virgin bride, a rogue prophet, a betrayed liberator. To Tiegs, these ancient tales echo within every human story. He has followed them through holy lands and combat zones where he collected a few stories of his own. In Where Have All the Heroes Gone?, Tiegs retells familiar Bible stories through the lens of a trained warrior. He weaves personal experiences and military exploits among the threads, inviting readers to take their own pilgrimage through the front lines of faith.

Jeff Tiegs (Author), Jeff Tiegs (Narrator)

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A Widower's Walk

On December 14, 1997, Marine Corps Captain Danny White thought he had it all. He had married his high school sweetheart and they had three children and another on the way, when an accident on an Arizona highway shattered his life and left him and two of his children stranded in a desert of the soul. Through his faith in God, Danny eventually found his life and a new love to lead him to his destiny.

Danny White (Author), Danny White (Narrator)

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The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

As a twenty-three-year-old singer and the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, nothing in Shannon Harris's secular upbringing prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. Soon Joshua's bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye helped inspire a national purity movement, and Shannon's identity became 'pastor's wife.' The Woman They Wanted recounts Shannon's remarkable experience inside Big Church-where she was asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades-and her subsequent journey out of that world and into a more authentic version of herself. Entering conservative American Christianity was like being drawn out to sea, she writes, inexorable and all consuming. Slowly, her worldview was narrowed, her motivations questioned, her behavior examined, until she had been whittled down to an idealized version of femininity envisioned as an extension of her husband and the church. However, when Sovereign Grace Ministries fell apart due to leadership conflicts and Shannon found herself outside church circles for the first time in years, she heard her intuition calling to her again. As she began to shake off the fog of depression and confusion, that voice grew louder. In honoring it, she awakened to the realities in which she had been trapped and found her truest self.

Shannon Harris (Author), Shannon Harris (Narrator)

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How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘I adored this book … Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK ‘A breathless, scorching memoir of a girlhood’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW An extraordinary and inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience, from award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair. There was more than one way to be lost, more than one way to be saved. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything: nowhere but home and school, no friends but this family and no future but this path. Her mother did what she could to bring joy to her children with books and poetry. But as Safiya’s imagination reached beyond its restrictive borders, her burgeoning independence brought with it ever greater clashes with her father. Soon she realised that if she was to live at all, she had to find some way to leave home. But how? In seeking to understand the past of her family, Safiya Sinclair takes readers inside a world that is little understood by those outside it and offers an astonishing personal reckoning. How to Say Babylon is an unforgettable story of a young woman’s determination to live life on her own terms. ‘Electrifying’ Observer ‘An essential memoir’ Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing ‘Heart-warming, tender and fierce’ Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father ‘One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I've ever read’ Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun ‘Full of courage and poetry … Has the power of truth telling’ Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch ‘Atmospheric and completely absorbing, this is a fascinating story lushly told’ Diana Evans, author of A House for Alice ‘Sinclair possesses a rare gift … Every sentence sings’ Imani Perry, author of South to America

Safiya Sinclair (Author), Safiya Sinclair (Narrator)

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The Evangelist

How much can one man do to influence the world for Christ? How do we begin to measure the worth of his work? In this documentary, evangelism scholar Lewis Drummond examines the Billy Graham ministry phenomenon of the last half of the 20th Century-spiritually, culturally, and historically. As a personal friend and student of the Graham family, Drummond has compiled a book that is a great resource for any student, pastor, or layperson seeking a better understanding of the Graham ministry. Appendixes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Lewis Drummond (Author), Maurice England (Narrator)

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A Longing to Belong: Reflections on Faith, Identity, and Race

Growing up in the only Korean family in a Minnesota town, Michelle Lee-Barnewall has felt the pain of racial discrimination and the resulting identity confusion that follows. Through the telling of her personal story, she seeks to transcend the current divide between those who emphasize social justice concerns and those who believe these concerns compromise the core of the gospel. A Longing to Belong integrates a biblical worldview and personal experience on the topic of race and race relations. Lee-Barnewall writes as both a New Testament scholar and an Asian American who has personally experienced what it means to be racially marginalized, seeking to filter those experiences through the lens of the New Testament and what it has to say to us today about our Christian calling and our identity in Christ as a member of his body. A Longing to Belong spurs readers to consider what it means to live as racially distinctive people in a fallen world that abounds in misunderstanding and pain and is in desperate need of the gospel of grace, especially as manifested in the redeemed Christian community. This memoir extends the discussion beyond academic discussion of race relations and personal narratives by demonstrating how theology and experience are necessarily intertwined and mutually contribute to our understanding of race and our relationships with each other. Rather than arguing for one 'side,' Lee-Barnewall shares examples rooted in her own experience in light of an overarching kingdom theology.

Michelle Lee-Barnewall (Author), Caroline Mclaughlin (Narrator)

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