John A. Basanese
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Warrior
- Rendezvous with God Volume Six
- By: Bill Myers
- Narrated by: Bill Myers
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Finally equipped for battle, our reluctant hero begins the fight … while learning where the real battlefield lies … who his real enemies are … when to strike with God’s truth or reach out with His grace … and when to quietly pray or boldly take a stand regardless the cost. Now that Will has received the tools of spiritual warfare, he must learn how to use them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where the rubber meets the road…
- By John A. Basanese on 03-03-25
- Warrior
- Rendezvous with God Volume Six
- By: Bill Myers
- Narrated by: Bill Myers
Where the rubber meets the road…
Reviewed: 03-03-25
Rendezvous with God by Bill Myers is a book series that will surprise you, challenge you, make you laugh and cringe and sometimes make you mad. If you have grown up in the church this series will reawaken feelings of your first love as described in Revelation 2 (the church of Ephesus). If you are honest you will have to admit that you have had many of the same questions. If you are a new believer it will point the way to a great adventure that only comes from a living daily truthful relationship with Christ. I highly recommend the adventure of reading or listening to this series. It really helps put our beliefs into our messy worlds. As J. Vernon McGee used to say “Where the rubber meets the road.”
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Seer
- Rendezvous with God, Volume Five
- By: Bill Myers
- Narrated by: Bill Myers
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
After his death, including a tour of heaven, Will realizes Earth’s great need and agrees to return to help. With Jesus’ instruction and their occasional visits to Old Testament times and prophets, our hero learns through failure and mishaps (always with a touch of Myers’s humor), how to prepare for the battles God has called him to fight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always surprises me
- By John A. Basanese on 01-27-25
- Seer
- Rendezvous with God, Volume Five
- By: Bill Myers
- Narrated by: Bill Myers
Always surprises me
Reviewed: 01-27-25
Have really enjoyed going through this thought provoking series, full of real life and humor! Very different! A blessing!
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Commune
- Rendezvous with God Volume Three
- By: Bill Myers
- Narrated by: Bill Myers
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
With the life of his niece's newborn baby hanging in the balance, our hero continues his off-the-record conversations with Yeshua—sometimes visiting him in Bible times, sometimes amidst the baffling events of his own world. Join Will Thomas as he continues stumbling his way toward holiness and, through no fault of his own, an ever-deepening friendship with God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- By Cynthia J. Hauser on 03-23-25
- Commune
- Rendezvous with God Volume Three
- By: Bill Myers
- Narrated by: Bill Myers
Living through The Lord’s Prayer
Reviewed: 08-10-24
Following this story as Will painfully learns God’s ways is very life challenging! I’ve been a Christian for most of my life. These stories give me a fresh perspective on living everyday in His Presence. Looking forward to the next one!
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Piercing the Darkness
- By: Frank E. Peretti
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,062
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 975
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Story5 out of 5 stars 973
In the small town of Bacon's Corner, powerful demons are working to ensnare the souls of the townspeople. A woman has been murdered, the Christian school is under attack, and the town is divided by a legal struggle. As heavenly beings rally to aid the faithful, gigantic evil ones are on the alert, looking for any sign of weakness. Each fast-paced chapter of this novel is filled with vivid descriptions of angels and demons. And the trials of the believers are no less absorbing. Richard Ferrone's dramatic narration highlights each test of faith and truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prayer works!
- By Malia Jarrett on 10-11-20
- Piercing the Darkness
- By: Frank E. Peretti
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
A cautionary tale!
Reviewed: 12-14-23
I have reread this book several times and each time I am amazed that how perceptive Frank Peretti is in seeing a complete world, where the visible and invisible intercept. As Christians, we don’t always see a balance between these two aspects of our lives. Emphasis on prayer and action in our lives, and seeing the powerful move of God through us, affecting lives is very inspirational. These days we don’t hear much openly about the New Age movement, but it is still active and a powerful undercurrent in the world today. This great story will have a big impact in our day to day lives. It will lead us to turn to God in everything! 
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The Apostle
- A Life of Paul
- By: John Pollock
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 521
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 520
The acclaimed biography of the early church's greatest evangelist, the Apostle Paul. Master storyteller John Pollock makes Paul and his amazing story freshly alive, so that you can know the greatest apostle much as Luke and Timothy did as they traveled with him. As you listen, you'll sense Paul's motives, his aims and priorities; what mattered to him; and what he was willing to die for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Account of Paul's journeys
- By Steve Morningstar on 01-02-15
- The Apostle
- A Life of Paul
- By: John Pollock
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Context
Reviewed: 07-03-23
Very helpful to blend the life of Paul with his amazing Letters! I will listen to this again.
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Strange New World
- How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
- By: Carl R. Trueman, Ryan T. Anderson - foreword
- Narrated by: Carl R. Trueman
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 622
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 542
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Story5 out of 5 stars 537
How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how should the church respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman discusses how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of "expressive individualism." Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde, Freud, and the New Left, he outlines the history of Western thought to the distinctly sexual direction of present-day identity politics and explains the modern implications of these ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read and reread
- By Daniel on 04-04-22
- Strange New World
- How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
- By: Carl R. Trueman, Ryan T. Anderson - foreword
- Narrated by: Carl R. Trueman
Important to know
Reviewed: 06-02-23
I agree with the author, that it is important to see the roots of our current culture. Lots to think about and I will probably listen to it one more time at least. I really appreciate the last chapter because that’s always the big question, where do we go from here?
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The Last Jihad
- The Last Jihad, Book 1
- By: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,064
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,605
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601
Jon Bennett is a top Wall Street strategist turned senior White House advisor. But nothing has prepared him for the terror that he will face. Saddam Hussein dispatches his top hit men to assassinate the President of the United States. Iraqi terrorists spread carnage throughout London, Paris, and Riyadh...and the Butcher of Baghdad has a nuclear ace in his hand that he has not yet played.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book ... worth the listening to
- By JZ on 07-27-08
- The Last Jihad
- The Last Jihad, Book 1
- By: Joel C. Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
First of a great series
Reviewed: 10-21-22
Listening to this series a second time. At the time it was written Tyndale said, “Released in the stunning days just after 9/11, this eerily prophetic novel predicted an attack on the U.S. and the war in Iraq . . . but was written before any of it happened.”I really like the thread of the Gospel and the End Times scenario woven through each book.
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The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition
- Text and Documents
- By: F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,682
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,451
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,434
An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and the public for half a century. Originally published in 1944 - when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program - The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hayek's case for individualism over collectivism
- By Wayne on 10-27-18
- The Road to Serfdom, the Definitive Edition
- Text and Documents
- By: F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: William Hughes
Good follow up on Thomas Sowell’s books.
Reviewed: 08-22-22
Having read Vision of the Anointed and A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell this book was very enlightening! Sowell refers to it many times in his books. It is a good warning again about collectivism and Socialism as they may lead to a ruling elite. and eventually totalitarianism. He wrote at the time of the rise of Hitler and draws upon that in many of his illustrations. If you read this book listen to the intro and all of the appendix.
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A Conflict of Visions
- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,611
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,338
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322
In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of 30 years of work in the history of ideas", Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Critical read for 2008 change election
- By Elaine C Grimes on 06-05-08
- A Conflict of Visions
- Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Michael Edwards
I new understanding for me
Reviewed: 07-27-22
This is the second time that I have listened to this book. Mainly because frankly, it is way over my head and even the second time I couldn’t follow everything. But what I did get was very important in helping understand the basis for differing views today. Though the author is speaking only from the point of view of economics, a subject I know almost nothing about, as a biblical Christian I can also see the basis of many views! The Bible teaches that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. Jeremiah the prophet said “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it?” This I believe is the constrained view. Of course in this view we look to God for direction. We allow God to set our boundaries and give us our vision.
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The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, and others
- Length: 33 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16,994
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14,619
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14,569
For over 60 years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles between good and evil, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia. This box set includes all seven titles in The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; and The Last Battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comes without book subdivisions - chapter key below
- By Daniel on 01-07-20
Amazing!
Reviewed: 12-30-21
This series of CS Lewis books all in one purchase is simply amazing! So well done and dramatic, so great to listen to! I am going to recommend this to all my grandchildren and I know they will love it!
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