Religion audiobooks

The Gate of Angels

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. In lecture halls and laboratories, the model of a universe governed by the mind of God is at last giving way to something wholly rational, a universe governed by the laws of physics. To junior fellow Fred Fairly, this comes as a great comfort. Science, he is certain,... Read more

Know What You Believe

By: Paul E. Little

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Know What You Believe has helped countless new and longtime believers understand the basic truths of their Christian faith. The book clearly explains what the Bible teaches with regard to: the Holy Trinity, Christ’s death and resurrection, the angelic and demonic realms, sin and salvation, and coming events. Read more

The Sovereignty of God

By: Arthur W. Pink

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Who rules this world—God or the Devil?This theological classic, first published in 1919, was notorious for its independent take on the Bible. In it, Arthur Pink fiercely defends the sovereignty of God against the apparent threat of the Devil. His doctrinal belief is that God both elects and reprobates, as Romans 9:21–23 clearly teaches. "Fear... Read more

Once upon a Summer

By: Janette Oke

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sure, his family isn't typical—Josh knows that. He's a twelve-year-old orphan being raised by his eighteen-year-old aunt. When Grandpa and Uncle Charlie start making plans to find Auntie Lou a husband—and take away the only mother Josh has ever known—he knows something has to be done. His family has shaped the young man he has become. Now, as he... Read more

Mere Christianity

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis’s forceful and accessible doctrine on Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books—The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality—Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of his religion.Rejecting... Read more

Surprised by Joy

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the closest thing we have to an autobiography, C. S. Lewis, an unfailingly honest and perceptive observer of self, here shares the story of his personal spiritual journey. With characteristic candor and insight, he describes how his “search for joy” led him from the conventional Christianity of his childhood to a youthful atheism, and finally... Read more

The Problem of Pain

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, Christians have been tormented by one question above all: “If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?” Is there justice or wisdom to be won by suffering, or some reward beyond understanding? And what of the suffering of animals, which neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? Is the... Read more

The Abolition of Man and The Great Divorce

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two classics of moral philosophy from one of the most revered Christian voices of our time.In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis reflects on society and nature and the challenges of how best to educate our children. He describes what public education should be and how far from this standard modern education has fallen. Lewis eloquently... Read more

Miracles

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Do miracles really happen? Can we know if the supernatural world exists?“The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.” This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but... Read more

The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life

By: Hannah Whitall Smith

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Hannah Whitall Smith wrote The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life in 1875, originally as an article for her husband's magazine. The book subsequently became a worldwide bestseller that has influenced generations of readers.In the preface she explains, "This is not a theological book. I frankly confess that I have not been trained in theological... Read more

The Way to God

By: Dwight L. Moody

Narrated by: Dennis McKee

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

God did not mean for salvation to be a deep, complicated subject that man could not understand. But sometimes man’s words confuse God’s simple truths. D. L. Moody, one of the nineteenth century’s greatest evangelists, shows how simple salvation is. Avoiding heavy philosophy, he simply shows “the way to God.”The Way to God is filled with stories... Read more

Jesus

By: Joseph F. Girzone

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Girzone, the author who so powerfully captured the spirit of Jesus in his Joshua novels and in his bestselling A Portrait of Jesus, brings his work to culmination with a beautiful retelling of the life and work of Jesus based on the accounts in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.Girzone captures the greatest story ever told in... Read more

Compassionate Conservatism

By: Marvin Olasky

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author is more qualified to explain its power and... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite tremendous interest in Abraham Lincoln and his place in one of America's most tumultuous historical periods, little has been written about his religious life. This truly fresh look at the nation's sixteenth president relates the outward events of Lincoln's life to his inner spiritual struggles and sets them both against the intellectual... Read more

Pensées

By: Blaise Pascal

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Compiled after his death in 1662, Pascal's"pens├®es" (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who had resolved the conflict between his scientific mind and his heart-felt faith.The book begins with an analysis of the difference between mathematical... Read more

The Light and the Glory

By: Peter Marshall & David Manuel

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Did Columbus believe that God called him west to undiscovered lands? Does American democracy owe its inception to the handful of Pilgrims that settled at Plymouth? If, indeed, there was a specific, divine call upon this nation, is it still valid today? Was this continent the stage for a new act in the drama of redemption?The Light and the Glory... Read more

Joshua: The Homecoming

By: Joseph F. Girzone

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly two decades earlier, the tiny town of Auburn was transformed by the presence of a quiet, humble carpenter named Joshua. With gentle actions of love and words of peace, this mysterious man had a profound influence upon everyone he met. Since then, however, many of Joshua’s friends have passed away, and a generation has grown up not knowing... Read more

Living Biographies of Religious Leaders

By: Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This absorbing book presents the lives of twenty great founders and leading advocates of the world’s foremost religions. Here are the historical facts and legends associated with these forceful personalities who have inspired and influenced humankind through the centuries.In the telling of these vivid and fascinating life stories, the authors... Read more

The Story of Liberty

By: Charles C. Coffin

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Does America still have a rendezvous with destiny? Is there yet a generation to come forth from this nation which will turn the hearts of not only its countrymen back to the living God, but the heart of the world as well?Charles C. Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, reaches back into the records of history to observe... Read more

Elsie’s Girlhood

By: Martha Finley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As Elsie Dinsmore grows up, her family undergoes major changes. Her father, Horace Dinsmore, falls in love and marries sweet Rose Allison, whom Elsie has loved since childhood. Soon two new members, Horace Jr. and Rosebud, join the happy family.Elsie has grown into a graceful, accomplished, and beautiful young woman of fifteen who faces the... Read more

Martin Luther, the Lion-Hearted Reformer

By: J. A. Morrison

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"When a boy who has poverty for his companion is inclined to find fault with the company that he is forced to keep, he should comfort himself by reading about the boyhood days of Martin Luther—a son of poverty who by the strength of God and the grace of Christ stamped his name on every page of history written subsequently to his day."—from the... Read more

The Changed Life and The Greatest Thing in The World

By: Henry Drummond

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond was a professor of the natural sciences as well as a missionary and world-lecturer. His penetrating scientific mind enabled him to tackle with acuity topics as ambitious as the way to become like Christ. This is the topic of Drummond's seminal address, "The Changed Life," a staple of the legacy... Read more

The Cross and the Switchblade

By: David Wilkerson

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gangfighters, drug addicts, teenage runaways, and prostitutes—the toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. That is, until a country preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a streetcorner message of renewal, miracles, and God's love.David Wilkerson, a man on a mission, stepped... Read more

Mystical Paths

By: Susan Howatch

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 22 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Darrow, a strong-willed and independent young man, has grown up under the shadow of the Church of England and the loving but watchful eye of his father, an Anglican priest. Like his father, he has both a gift and a burden in the form of psychic abilities. Although his father warns him to nurture his special powers with care, Nicholas... Read more