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Accidental Preacher
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Will Willimon
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Publisher's summary
The lively, inspiring memoir of an eminent Christian preacher and leader
In this book one of today’s best-known Christian leaders recounts - with his signature wit and humor - memorable moments from his rich and full preaching life. A personal and vocational memoir, Will Willimon’s Accidental Preacher portrays the adventure of a life caught up in the purposes of a God who calls unlikely people to engage in work greater than themselves.
Beginning with his childhood in a segregated South and moving through his student years, Willimon gives candid, inspiring, and humorous testimony to his experiences as a seminary professor, rural pastor, globe-trotting preacher, bishop, and popular theologian and writer. Above all, he shows how God has constantly had a call on his life.
By turns poignant, hilarious, and thought-provoking - but always irresistibly engaging - Accidental Preacher is sure to join the well-remembered, classic memoir of our time.
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Upside-Down Spirituality
- The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life
- By: Chad Bird
- Narrated by: Brandon Batchelar
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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In our age when the church can too often seem like a poor copy of the world, Chad Bird challenges us to reclaim the astounding originality of our ancient, backward faith. With compelling examples from the Bible and today, Bird paints an enticing picture of the counterintuitive, countercultural life that God wants for us. He helps listeners delight in all of the ways that Jesus turned the world upside down, allowing us to experience true freedom, not from our weaknesses but in the midst of them.
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Great messages for today
- By Fred M on 07-24-22
By: Chad Bird
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What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
- By: J.D. Greear
- Narrated by: J.D. Greear
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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J.D. Greear considers Jesus’ radical call to give your life away to the greatest cause of all. To view your life from the perspective of eternity. To start making decisions now that you’ll be glad you made. It’s time to put your “yes” on the table and let God put it on the map.
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A convicting read
- By Hartley on 12-24-20
By: J.D. Greear
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Unveiled
- The Bible, the Qur'an, and Women
- By: Esther Ahmad, J. Chester
- Narrated by: Saira Ayers
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Born the unwanted third daughter, Esther Ahmad grew up Muslim in Pakistan. Her faith and country drove every aspect of her first 18 years, from what she wore and what she ate to her prospects for work and marriage, even to the manner of her death. Unveiled chronicles Esther’s conversion to Christianity and her escape from radical Islam. Chapter by chapter, Esther lays out the lies of the Qur’an and holds them against the truths she found in the Bible.
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Fantastic Testimony
- By Paula on 04-28-22
By: Esther Ahmad, and others
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The Long Loneliness
- The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
- By: Dorothy Day
- Narrated by: Nancy Linari
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality...founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than 50 years in numerous battles of social justice.” Here, in her own words, this remarkable woman tells of her early life as a young journalist in the crucible of Greenwich Village political and literary thought in the 1920s, and of her momentous conversion to Catholicism that meant the end of a Bohemian lifestyle and common-law marriage.
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Required reading for any who work in poverty
- By marguerite allred-crawford on 11-16-20
By: Dorothy Day
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Love Kindness
- Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue
- By: Barry H. Corey
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Dr. Barry Corey, president of Biola University, believes we tend to devalue the importance of kindness, opting instead for caustic expressions of certainty that push people away. We forget that the essence of what God requires of us is to "love kindness". In this book, filled with stories from his travels around the globe, Barry shows us the forgotten way of kindness. It is a life that calls us to put ourselves at risk. A life that calls us to hope. A life of a firm center and soft edges. It is the life Christ invites us to follow, no matter what the cost.
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The book for our times
- By ThomasInSarasota on 08-28-16
By: Barry H. Corey
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My Life With the Saints
- By: James Martin SJ
- Narrated by: James Martin SJ
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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Be inspired by saints like never before in My Life with the Saints by James Martin, SJ. This best-selling memoir of spiritual self-discovery is an homage to the saints who have accompanied Fr. Martin throughout his life. From a lukewarm childhood Catholicism, to the Wharton School of Business, to the executive fast track at General Electric, to the Jesuits, to a media career in Manhattan, Martin has relied on the saints to intervene in and guide his life.
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The title describes the book
- By Richard K. on 12-09-10
By: James Martin SJ
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The Seven Storey Mountain
- By: Thomas Merton
- Narrated by: Sidney Lanier
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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The Seven Storey Mountain is the extraordinary spiritual testament of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. By the end of his life, he had become one of the 20th century's best-known and beloved Christian voices. This autobiography deals...not with what happens to a man, but what happens inside his soul.
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Letter to Audible
- By Victoria A. McCargar on 08-06-17
By: Thomas Merton
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Crazy for God
- By: Frank Schaeffer
- Narrated by: Frank Schaeffer
- Length: 10 hrs
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By the time he was 19, Frank Schaeffer’s parents had achieved global fame as best-selling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands and publish his own best seller. But while coming of age as a rising evangelical star, Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, and as a result, he experienced a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his journey out of the fold - even if it meant losing everything.
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Recommended!
- By Catherine Heard on 10-29-10
By: Frank Schaeffer
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Known
- Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World
- By: Dick Foth, Ruth Foth
- Narrated by: Dick Foth, Ruth Foth
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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In a shallow light-speed world, how can we really know and be known by another person? How do we make true friends? The Digital Age is all about change, but the need for true friendship never changes. We are designed for real engagement with others - for affirmation that goes beyond a simple "like" on social media, for connection over meals, for hope and excitement about the future. Above all, we need to be known and accepted for who we are.
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Love the Foths
- By Jenni B on 07-22-17
By: Dick Foth, and others
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- VaChikepe
- 08-24-24
The meaning of being called by God
Thank you so much God for Bishop Will Willimon and it is a Great Honor 🎖 of being in same proximity with him from 2021-2024 at Duke University. He is one of my Best Professors, he has and is shaping my calling and this is the second time I have read this book. I recommend this book to all who are being called by God, Preachers, Poets, Pastors, Philosophers and even Sociologists.
More Love and Blessings! in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ! Amen.
Tichingoti...To God Be The Glory! #zvachose
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- Sam Toliver
- 12-02-20
Great find!
Extremely Enjoyable book. Bought it on a whim, was not disappointed. Well narrated, with an immense amount of enthusiasm.
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- C. Stewart
- 06-11-20
This is my kind of book!
Hearing this book as a pastor refreshed my sense of call as well as my love of the church. Willimon is one of the best storytellers and I certainly found myself smiling more than frowning. No person alive will agree with everything he says. But I bet there will be a lot of church people who read this book and acknowledge its truth.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-05-21
Never heard of him before
Thank you, Jesus, for leading me to this book and this man. I was recently called to preaching, and I needed this inspiration. I am 53 years old and two months in to preaching every other Sunday at First United Methodist Church in Phoenix NY. I have no seminary training, but one lay leader course on the history of Methodism. Any and all learning I can get I appreciate.
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- Adam Shields
- 03-11-20
Lots of humor and heart
I do not really know Will Willimon except through his book with Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens, and I read that nearly 30 years ago as a freshman in college. I really did not know what I was getting into, but I needed a change in pace and I tend to appreciate memoirs or elder preachers.
Willimon is funny. He knows he is funny and he likes to use self-depreciation humor, not just for effect, but also theologically. At the start of the book he has these two quotes
"My story is a comedy, as opposed to a tragedy, not because my life is funny but because my life is having a happy ending due to God’s gracious choice to be God for us and choosing even the likes of me to be for God."
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"You can tell that Kathleen Norris is a Christian. As she wrote her memoir, she repeatedly reminded herself, “You’re not that big of a deal. The call is the big deal.” If my memoir makes me my life’s chief protagonist, me, the big deal, I’m the most miserable of writers. More interesting than my life are the hijinks of a vocative God who explains my life."
There is some real similarity between Hauerwas and Willimon in tone and history. Both seem to like to be cantankerous, getting riled up about things that both are really important and over things that seem odd to be riled up about to me. But because they are so serious about both their faith and their understanding of human and divine grace, there is a lot of inbuilt willingness on my part to allow for a bit of 'grumpy old man'-ing.
Willimon was a pastor, the chaplain at Duke for 20 years and then a United Methodist Bishop. He seems to live as he preaches. And hold himself to even higher standards than he holds others. Willimon does keep others the center of the story. He grew up with an absent father (often in jail) and was seeking father figures. When he was young and in a confirmation class at church, he was supposed to get a picture taken with the other kids and the pastor. A woman organizing the picture chastised him for not having a tie. But the pastor gave a sense of grace.
"“What a beautiful group!” exclaimed Dr. Herbert. “I have one request before we go out and take our place on the church steps. Boys, please, no ties on a Thursday. Only I can wear a tie in church on a weekday. Such are the rules of our Connection. You may wear them if you must on Sunday. Please remove your ties. Let’s take that picture.” God is like Dr. Herbert, without the Plymouth."
I look forward to reading memoirs of pastors from my generation. I have found great value in Eugene Peterson, Stanley Hauerwas, John Perkins, John Stott, and other memoirs. I would love to get a memoir from Flemming Rutledge, although on Twitter, she has said she will never write one. Calling and what they have seen as important is part of what I have valued. And I value appropriate self-disclosure and weakness. It feels to me that I need to see weakness and struggle even more than success. Success should be attributed to God. But how God uses weakness seems to be more encouraging than recounting how well things went. Willimon seems to have worked really hard, but at the same time appropriately gives credit to God.
This is an easy to read memoir. The humor makes the hard stuff go down well. (Like this)
"Jesus’s directives seem extreme for most church squabbles. I’ve found that when someone offends, if I count to ten and seethe for a year or two, I usually get over it. If, on the other hand, I offend them and they refuse to suppress their anger at me, I dismiss them as touchy, overly sensitive. I would like you to think that I’m such a nice person that I would never obey Jesus and confront you. Truth is, Jesus has a considerably higher view of friendship than that practiced in most churches, which amounts to: I promise never to hold you accountable if you’ll do the same for me. Church as a gentile conspiracy of niceness, as a civil compatibility club rather than a community of truth."
I mostly listened to the audiobook. It is Willimon reading and I think that matters, but the production was not as good as it could have been and the audio was at times muddy or airy, like the mics being used were not as good as they should have been. The audio is not awful, it just was not as good as I think it should have been.
The book ends with an afterword by Kate Bower. Kate knows Willimon well, he was both chaplain and colleague to her. She puts some context on his humility. And I think shows as well as anything that she believes in the faith and life of Willimon as someone to emulate. I want pastors that are not perfect, but ones that can be emulated. And that seems to be what I get from Willimon.
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- PrincetonWill
- 12-18-23
So good
No surprises here- Will Willimon delivers as he always does. An easy and enjoyable listen
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