Recommended Books

[blackheart]

While I was listening to podcasts of the narrow path, you mentioned that you listen to books and lectures with an ipod. Could you direct me to some quality lectures - I commute ~ 3 hrs each day and use the time for learning - and have run through all of your lectures and most of your radio broadcasts

Thanks

[steve]

My ipod has the following books on it (all of which are worth multiple "readings")—

Of the Imitation of Christ — Thomas a Kempis
The Practice of the Presence of God — Brother Lawrence
Foxe's Book of Martyrs — John Foxe
Pilgrim's Progress — John Bunyan
Mere Christianity — C. S. Lewis
God in the Dock — C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis
The Great Divorce — C. S. Lewis
Miracles — C. S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain — C. S. Lewis
The Pursuit of God — A. W. Tozer
God's Pursuit of Man — A. W. Tozer
The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life — Hannah Whitall Smith
God's Smuggler — Brother Andrew
The Hiding Place — Corrie ten Boom
The Heavenly Man — Brother Yun
What's Wrong With the World? — G. K. Chesterton
The Secret Message of Jesus — Brian McLaren
A New Kind of Christian — Brian McLaren
The Story We Find Ourselves In — Brian McLaren
Finding and Following Jesus — N.T. Wright
The Challenge of Jesus —N.T. Wright
Paul in Fresh Perspective — N.T. Wright
Basic Christianity — John R.W. Stott
The Calvary Road — Roy Hession

Many of these are "classics" and can be found for free download on the internet—though the free ones are often not read with much pizazz. All of them can be downloaded for a price less than that of buying them on CD. I am always looking for more of my favorite titles in audiobook, so if others know of some good sources, please let me know. However, my present collection could keep me in good fellowship, with some of my favorite people, for many years, if I were isolated on a desert island (so long as I had a solar charger for my ipod).

[mattrose]

I thought Chesterton's response to that question was "I am"

Is this a REALLY short audio book? Or did he later enlongate his response?

[lee]

Is there a way to convert books to audiofiles?

[steve]

Do you mean having a computer read the written book out loud? This can be done, but the reading voice usually does not sound very "human."

[darinhouston]

Try podiobooks.com

Heretics
G.K. Chesterton "Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905. Read by David "Grizzly" Smith. Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense of drama, and had sense. He was a man of strong opinions, and quite willing to argue vehemently for his own opinions, even with his friends -- and they remained his friends -- like George Bernard Shaw and Rudyard Kipling. Seems to me that is hard to find anymore. He wrote prolifically. He wrote humor. He wrote mystery novels,...
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton "Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1908. Read by David "Grizzly" Smith. "The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel." This is how Chesterton explains "Orthodoxy," the sequel to Heretics. "I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe. I...

[roblaine]

All of these lists are excellent recommendations. I would add to the list George MacDonald's "Getting to Know Jesus". It's a collection of twelve sermons.

[SamIam]

If you are using iTunes software, you can go to the iTunes store and click iTunesU and Universities and Colleges.

You can find a number of seminaries and colleges that have course lectures available.