Free Download Thank God for Depression: Make Depression the Best Thing to Ever Happen to You (Audiobook)
English | February 02, 2023 | ASIN: B0BTMXQ83W | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 47m | 199 MB
Author and Narrator: Kyle Nicolaides
What if everything you think or know about your own depression is entirely wrong? What if your depression isn't a bad or evil thing? What if your depression has intelligence and consciousness? What if your depression is trying to teach you something and lead you somewhere? What if there is a big beautiful reason and meaning for your depression that you have no idea about yet? What if your depression is the best thing to ever happen to you? What if one day you will wake up and say, "Thank God for depression"?
Thank God for Depression presents a roadmap for all of these questions. Telling stories from his decade in a professional rock band and misadventures on psychedelics, author Kyle Nicolaides delivers one of the funniest, most deeply spiritual, and profound books about depression you will ever listen to. Change your relationship with depression, change your life. It's time to alchemize your depression into your greatest gift.

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Free Download Candida Moss, Gabra Zackman (Narrator), "God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible"
English | ASIN (UK): B0CRBL4RLB | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:09:00 | 224 MB
From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the message of the New Testament, shaping the very foundations of Christianity in ways both subtle and profound.
For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. But hidden behind these named and sainted individuals are a cluster of enslaved coauthors and collaborators. Although they almost all go unnamed and uncredited, these essential workers were responsible for producing the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament: making the parchment and papyri on which Christian texts were written, taking dictation, and polishing and refining the words of the apostles. When the Christian message began to move independently from the first apostles, it was enslaved missionaries who undertook the dangerous and arduous journeys across the Mediterranean and along dusty Roman roads to move Christianity from Jerusalem and the Levant to Rome, Spain, North Africa, and Egypt-and into the pages of history. The influence of these enslaved contributors on the spread of Christianity, the development of foundational Christian concepts, and the making of the Bible was enormous, yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now.
Filled with profound revelations both for what it means to be a Christian and for how we read individual texts themselves, God's Ghostwriters is a groundbreaking and rigorously researched book about how enslaved people shaped the Bible, and with it all of Christianity.

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Free Download When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption By Wesley Adamczyk, Norman Davies
2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0226004449 | EPUB | 3 MB
Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, When God Looked the Other Way, now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet barbarism. Adamczyk was a young Polish boy when he was deported with his mother and siblings from their comfortable home in Luck to Soviet Siberia in May of 1940. His father, a Polish Army officer, was taken prisoner by the Red Army and eventually became one of the victims of the Katyn massacre, in which tens of thousands of Polish officers were slain at the hands of the Soviet secret police. The family's separation and deportation in 1940 marked the beginning of a ten-year odyssey in which the family endured fierce living conditions, meager food rations, chronic displacement, and rampant disease, first in the Soviet Union and then in Iran, where Adamczyk's mother succumbed to exhaustion after mounting a harrowing escape from the Soviets. Wandering from country to country and living in refugee camps and the homes of strangers, Adamczyk struggled to survive and maintain his dignity amid the horrors of war.

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Free Download Nate Pickowicz, "The Kindness of God: Beholding His Goodness in a Cruel World"
English | ISBN: 0802431801 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB | 916 KB
Kindness has fallen on hard times. Almost daily, we witness or experience cynicism, impatience, or incivility. And it begins to wear on a soul. Overall, we're not doing well. We need hope. We need truth. We need God.

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Free Download David Reid, "Sex, Death and God in L.A."
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0520086406, 0394573218 | EPUB | pages: 404 | 2.9 mb
David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best address the myths, define the truths, and interpret the media images of the second largest city in the U.S. They report on the new Latino and Asian populations of South Central and the East Side and the old establishment of the West side; Downtown with its heavily mortgaged office towers held by Canadian and Japanese landlords; shuttered factories and thriving sweatshops; architecture from Irving Gill to Frank O. Gehry; messiahs from Krishnamurti to L. Ron Hubbard; rituals of power in Movieland and yoga and seduction in Beverly Hills. Ranging from acute political commentary to evocative literary impressions, this is a collection that will engage not only those who live in southern California but all those curious about this megalopolis in the desert.

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Free Download Kenneth C. Ulmer, "Passionate God"
English | 2014 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 1459674138 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Many people envision God as a strict father figure - stern, detached, exacting and vengeful - lacking feelings and emotions. Yet, once we come to understand that God actually expresses a wide range of passion, we will relate to Him on a much more chuman level and start seeing Him for who He really is. In Passionate God, Kenneth Ulmer helps us understand and appreciate the chumanity of God as expressed through His emotions: joy, sympathy, grief, care, laughter, jealousy, humor, anger and, of course, love. This book will change the way people view and relate to God because it reveals a Creator intimately involved with His beloved creation and is more like us than we ever imagined.

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Free Download Ron Highfield, "God, Freedom and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0830827110 | EPUB | pages: 229 | 0.4 mb
Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat to our freedom and dignity goes far back in Western thought. Such suspicion remains with us today in our so-called secular society. In such a context any talk of God tends to provoke responses that range from defiance to subservience to indifference. How did Western culture come to this place? What impact does this social and intellectual environment have on those who claim to believe in God or more specifically in the Christian God of the Bible? Professor of religion Ron Highfield traces out the development of Western thought that has led us our current frame of mind from Plato, Augustine and Descartes through Locke, Kant, Blake Bentham, Hegel, Nietzsche-all the way down to Charles Taylor's landmark work Sources of the Self. At the heart of the issue is the modern notion of the autonomous self and the inevitable crisis it provokes for a view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in God. Can the modern self really secure its own freedom, dignity and happiness? What alternative do we have? Highfield makes pertinent use of trinitarian theology to show how genuine Christian faith responds to this challenge by directing us to a God who is not in competition with his human creations, but rather who provides us with what we seek but could never give ourselves. God, Freedom and Human Dignity is essential reading for Christian students who are interested in the debates around secularism, modernity and identity formation.

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Free Download Gene Robinson, "God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage"
English | 2013 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0307948099, 0307957888 | EPUB | 1,7 mb
From the IX Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected to the episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage-a groundbreaking book that persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage using a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument.

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Free Download Andy Stanley, "Five Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith Bible Study Participant's Guide"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0310324238 | EPUB | pages: 96 | 0.9 mb
Imagine what life would be like if you had PERFECT faith.

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Free Download Difference Between God And Larry Ellison By Mike Wilson
1998 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 068816353X | EPUB | 1 MB
A recent "Forbes" listed Ellison as the fifth richest man in the world, and the second richest active player (behind Gates) in the technology world. Oracle Corporation, of which he is founder and CEO, is the fastest-growing software database company in the world, and the darling of technology investors. If you withdraw cash from an ATM, make an airline reservation, hook up your TV to the Internet, then you're using Oracle. All of this makes Ellison the man investors, techies, and people-in-the-know want to know more about. The ultimate self-made man, Ellison began Oracle with a $1,200 investment and doubled its sales in eleven of its first twelve years. But he's a ruthless businessman who has used misdirection and half-truths to create one of the great high-tech success stories. He is also a daredevil sportsman with a 78-foot yacht, a number of fast jets, and beautiful women on his arm. If Gates is the nerd-King of the Valley, Ellison is its Warren Beatty. Mike Wilson has interviewed more than a hundred of Ellison's friends and enemies as well as Ellison himself to create an entertaining and provocative portrait of this enigmatic and visionary businessman.

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