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Who Prays for the Pastor? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 218min

We often hear stories of fallen pastors, in cases of fraudulence, adultery, fornication, child abuse, or divorce. Suicide also seems to be prevalent among pastors. Isolation, division, sickness, inability to provide for their families, unfruitful ministry, lack of souls won to the cross, and lack of spiritual fathering and mentoring can eventually lead to pastors walking away from their pulpits. Perhaps walking away defeated. Where will they go? What will they do? Will they recover? Will congregants care? Who prays for the pastor? The purpose of this book is to bring awareness of many things pastors experience on their journeys to answering the call of God to shepherd his people. To encourage pastors to connect with like-minded leaders for fellowship, accountability, and spiritual development. The author hopes that pastors will listen to the final words of this book and feel refreshed in knowing that God is the God of mercy and grace. This book will encourage you to pray that your pastor remains holy in the course of their assignment, fully understanding that God who gives vision also makes the provision. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Edgar Myers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/111053/bk_acx0_111053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 443min

In his hugely popular series, best-selling author Harry Kemelman creates well-crafted mysteries, filled with slice-of-life characters and fascinating Hebrew rituals. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry pulls you into the Jewish community at Barnard’s Crossing, which has just been thrown into disarray over the unexplained death of one of its members. As Rabbi Small and his temple congregation solemnly prepare for Yom Kippur, a non-practicing member is found dead behind the wheel of his car - in his own garage. The police call the death an accident, and the insurance company insists that it’s suicide. But Miriam, Rabbi Small’s wife, believes the mishap could only be cold-blooded murder. With his congregants splitting over the possible cause, the young rabbi must discover the truth, or forfeit all hope for peace in the temple. Turning to the Talmud for divine logic, Rabbi Small discovers order in the midst of the most muddled events. Veteran narrator George Guidall, personally approved for this unabridged recording by the author’s estate, provides the perfect voice for the determined rabbi as he faces the divided Jewish community. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/006305/bk_reco_006305_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Rabbi , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 858min

A father; a husband; a lover; a friend; a rabbi. This is the story about the making of a modern rabbi, his coming of age, and how he finds his place in in a confused and confusing world. Michael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of metropolitan life. Turning to the ancient set of ethics of his Orthodox grandfather, with a modern twist, he becomes a Reform rabbi. As insecure and sexually needy as any other young male, he serves as a circuit-rider rabbi in the Ozarks, and then as a temple rabbi in the racially ugly South, in a San Francisco suburb, in a Pennsylvania college town, and, finally, in a New England community west of Boston. Along the way, he falls deeply in love with and marries the daughter of a Congregational minister; she converts to Judaism and they have two complex, interesting children. Noah Gordon's picture of a brilliant and talented religious counselor - who at times is as bereft and uncertain as any of his congregants - is a deeply moving and very satisfying novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Techosky. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031085/bk_adbl_031085_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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'Til Murder Do Us Part, Hörbuch, Digital, 138min

Now a milestone of unsolved true crime, the Hall-Mills case began in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1922 and lasted for over a decade. The killer has never been found, and the case continues to fascinate true-crime aficionados. A bon vivant Episcopal minister, a not-so-virginal soprano in his choir. The wealthy wife. Her oddball brother. Their furtive maid. The snooping congregants. The bumbling detectives. And in the denouement, a trial, one of the more notable of America’s Jazz Age, covered by the likes of Damon Runyon, Dorothy Dix, and James Thurber. All of it hanging on the dramatic testimony of a single, strange witness of questionable veracity, a farmer the tabloids came to call "The Pig Woman." Almost everyone in this labyrinthine mystery had at least one secret, sometimes more, and the biggest one remains almost a hundred years later.At Audible’s request, business and true crime journalist Bryan Burrough reopened the case, digging deep into records of the time. His narration in a warm Texas accent lends immediacy and intimacy to a classic New Jersey true crime, as listeners follow his reconstruction of the fateful double-murder…and the botched prosecution that became a national media circus in its day. Language: English. Narrator: Bryan Burrough. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/000455/or_orig_000455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Hunchback Missionary , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min

At a prayer meeting on a cold Rotterdam night, the young clerk Aart Anthonij van der Lingen - a pale, sickly, hunchbacked 'fish from the North' - is held in the charismatic Reverend Johannes Kicherer's thrall. Lured by Kicherer's passion, he leaves his grey and loveless life to land at the Cape of Good Hope as a lay missionary in 1800. But when the Missionary Society draws lots to determine where to send the new arrivals, Van der Lingen is sent east and Kicherer north. The hunchback missionary must make his own way in a place that, on the surface, God has forsaken - until, as the pitiless landscape and the blank faces of his would-be congregants strip Van der Lingen incrementally of his pride, he learns that he has nothing to give to the Africa that is ultimately his salvation. Based on historical figures drawn from the Cape Town Church Archives, The Hunchback Missionary by Elsa Joubert, world-renowned author of The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena, is a sweeping narrative of vanity and humility, of the sacred and the profane, of how Europe's rampant strides across newly colonised Africa led to the abyss from which a continent still struggles, today, to retreat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Meadows, Emma Surgin Hussey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052402/bk_adbl_052402_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Power of Submission: A Biblical Exposition of Godly Authority in the Trinity, the World, the Family, and the Church , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min

Longtime Pastor John Tebay has been aware, in more than a half century of ministry, that churches can become mired in disputes ranging from petty to major. Many times, these controversies have erupted into pastoral dismissals or resignations, the frequent exodus of congregants, and bitter church splits.Pastor Tebay contends that the vast majority of these quarrels are a result of a lack of clarity concerning godly authority. Is the pastor in charge? Is the congregation in charge? Are the elders in charge? Is a combination of all these factions leading the church?In his timely audiobook, The Power of Submission, John Tebay contends that our permissive culture’s resistance to authority has permeated the Church and that God’s clear principle of authority has become muddled, murky, or ignored. When spiritual authority is unclear, the potential for division, strife, confusion, and darkness among God’s people and the world is highly intensified, always lurking and waiting to erupt.But when God is the source of authority and is applied to the Church, the family, and individuals as laid out in the Bible, you will discover how the “power of submission” can change lives and change the hearts and minds of those in the Church and in church leadership. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Tebay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136055/bk_acx0_136055_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 282min

It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing justice. Isn't it full of regressive views? Didn't it condone slavery? Why look to the Bible for guidance on how to have a more just society? But Timothy Keller, pastor of New York City's Redeemer Presbyterian Church, sees it another way. In Generous Justice, Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace: a generous, gracious justice. Here is an audiobook for believers who find the Bible a trustworthy guide, as well as those who suspect that Christianity is a regressive influence in the world. Keller's church, founded in the 80s with fewer than 100 congregants, is now exponentially larger. Over 5,000 people regularly attend Sunday services, and another 25,000 download Keller's sermons each week. A recent profile in New York Magazine described his typical sermon as 'a mix of biblical scholarship, pop culture, and whatever might have caught his eye in The New York Review of Books or on Salon.com that week.' In short, Timothy Keller speaks a language that many thousands of people understand. In Generous Justice, he offers them a new understanding of modern justice and human rights. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Parks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001023/bk_hodd_001023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Discerning Welcome

Welcoming the undocumented resident refugee into the life of the polis is a challenge for some communities and a moral imperative for others. This books provides a Christian ethic for church leaders, congregants, and their churches to discern a way of welcoming their neighbors who are refugees residing in the US without authorization. Grounded in political theology and the Presbyterian-Reformed faith tradition, the ethical debates presented here and the legal overview of US immigration and alienage laws applicable to the undocumented resident lead to practices of worship, witness, and welcome for churches that can be tailored to different contexts. When Jesus challenged the sharp lawyer to love his neighbor as himself, the lawyer asked Jesus: ""who is my neighbor?"" Jesus responded by telling him the parable of the Good Samaritan. Then Jesus asked the lawyer: ""who was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"" And the crestfallen lawyer answered: ""the one who showed him mercy."" Jesus told him ""to go and do likewise."" This book assists faith communities to find mercy for those undocumented refugee neighbors who many would condemn. It points a path towards doing the ""likewise"" of mercy in ethically defensible ways.

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Discerning Welcome (eBook, ePUB)

Welcoming the undocumented resident refugee into the life of the polis is a challenge for some communities and a moral imperative for others. This books provides a Christian ethic for church leaders, congregants, and their churches to discern a way of welcoming their neighbors who are refugees residing in the US without authorization. Grounded in political theology and the Presbyterian-Reformed faith tradition, the ethical debates presented here and the legal overview of US immigration and alienage laws applicable to the undocumented resident lead to practices of worship, witness, and welcome for churches that can be tailored to different contexts. When Jesus challenged the sharp lawyer to love his neighbor as himself, the lawyer asked Jesus: "who is my neighbor?" Jesus responded by telling him the parable of the Good Samaritan. Then Jesus asked the lawyer: "who was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" And the crestfallen lawyer answered: "the one who showed him mercy." Jesus told him "to go and do likewise." This book assists faith communities to find mercy for those undocumented refugee neighbors who many would condemn. It points a path towards doing the "likewise" of mercy in ethically defensible ways.

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Operation Save Our Pastors: A Guide to Overcoming Pastoral Burnout , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 125min

How would you respond if you discovered your pastor was burnt out in ministry and on the verge of giving up? Being a pastor is a high calling - and a lonely one. Focused on their own needs, frustrations, or disappointments, many congregants fail to realize they may be ignoring or even adding to their pastor’s hidden load of stress and discouragement. Dr. LeJoia VanHook, a Nashville-based educator on a mission to build stronger communities and healthier churches, has a heart of compassion for the overwhelmed and unappreciated pastor. Drawing from extensive research, she provides laity with understanding of how they can make their church a place that’s a joy to pastor. This practical audiobook includes: Anonymous interviews with seasoned pastors about their real-life challenges and experiences Honest examination of disturbing trends of pastoral burnout Insights into key expectations pastors have of themselves and their associates Understanding of the special stresses a pastor and his family face Practical ways you can change the environment and expectations of your church Plus, workbook questions and action steps will help you begin to reflect on your personal role in the effort to save your pastor from burnout!It’s time for the body of Christ to truly commit to supporting one of its key resources - its pastors. Whether you stand behind a pulpit or sit in the pews, let Operation Save Our Pastors provide you and your church with tools to build a healthy, sustainable pastor-congregation relationship based on understanding, empathy, and encouragement. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nancy D Stamp. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131599/bk_acx0_131599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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