Dr. Larry Crabb has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 7 ratings. The most-rated is Marriage Builder.
Marriage Builder
Summary
Best-selling author Larry Crabb cuts to the heart of the biblical view of marriage: the "one-flesh" relationship. He argues convincingly that the deepest needs of human personality - security and significance - ultimately cannot be satisfied by a marriage partner. We need to turn to the Lord, rather than our spouse, to satisfy our needs. This frees both partners for "soul oneness", a commitment to minister to our spouse's needs rather than manipulating them to meet our own needs. With "soul oneness" comes renewed "body oneness", where couples enjoy sexual pleasure as an expression and outgrowth of a personal relationship. Marriage Builder also identifies three building blocks essential to constructing marriage: the grace of God, true marriage commitment, and acceptance of one's mate. Discussion questions are included to aid couples who want to dig into it and apply the principles to their own lives and marriages. Marriage Builder is for anyone who longs to transform marriage from trial to triumph.
©1992 Dr. Larry Crabb (P)2013 Zondervan
Encouragement
Summary
Encouragement is more than a compliment or a pat on the back. It’s a skill that can be mastered by anyone. What must we know in order to fulfill the biblical exhortation to "encourage one another"? Encouragement: The Key to Caring tells you. Part one deals with understanding encouragement, and part two explores the process of encouragement, including such practical how-tos as: Developing a careful selection of encouraging words Cultivating active listening skills Using biblical fellowship to move beyond superficial smiles and shallow greetings Recognizing subtle opportunities for encouragement Without the encouragement of a caring community, biblical truth taught in church tends to just thicken people's defense layers. But authenticity, freedom, and greater love for God and others are the fruit of encouragement, and evidence of the tremendous power God invests in individuals who practice it.
©1990 Dr. Larry Crabb (P)2013 Zondervan
When God's Ways Make No Sense
Summary
It doesn't take too much living before we realize that life never goes quite the way we want it to. But when things get hard and we don't understand what God is doing, what is our first impulse? Is it to resist him and run away like Jonah? Or is it to trust him even while trembling in fear of suffering like Habbakuk? In this powerful exploration of God's often mysterious and counterintuitive ways, Dr. Larry Crabb challenges listeners to seize the opportunities for growth and maturity that come our way when we experience troubles and failures. Rather than pushing back against adversity, he invites us to look closer at what God is doing in our lives when it feels like he is far from us. Unpacking the stories of two very different prophets, Crabb lights the way to a life of resting in the goodness of a God who is always working out his plan for our lives. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2018 Dr. Larry Crabb (P)2018 Oasis Audio
Waiting for Heaven
Summary
Are you tempted beyond your ability to resist? We come into the world relentlessly narcissistic, resisting the kind of rigorous self-examination that reveals what is ugly in us and what is our impact on others. Too often, we live with our felt well-being as our priority concern, and so we continue, incurably addicted to ourselves and powerless to resist whatever temptations promise the sense of instant happiness we seek. The result includes addictions to: Drugs, legal or illegal Food, its compulsive consumption Sex, both legitimate, illegitimate, and perverted expressions Money, to the pleasures and convenience and power money can buy Influence, self-satisfying, difference-making pleasure Recognition, respect that provides personal significance And dozens of addictions to other sources of satisfaction that desperate souls crave. Could heaven possibly matter to my life now? There is no question that addictions soil our souls, eventually taking control of our lives. The energy and motivation needed to serve the cause of Christ gets badly short-changed. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news. Biblical Christianity provides a way to rise up from this quicksand: waiting! Learning to eagerly wait for the Lord’s return is essential to overcoming the root demand beneath all addictions. But the choice to wait is easy to state but hard to make because arranging for a temporary and counterfeit experience quiets the demand of our tired and thirsty souls. While there is no path to walk that eliminates the struggle to resist temptation, we can be moving into greater freedom from it every day. As we learn to wait eagerly for heaven when all our longings will be fully and forever satisfied, we will be inclined to live for one central reason: to make this life work as we want it to. Two things will then happen: One, we will find ourselves driven by self-centeredness and by an addictive concern for our own felt well-being. Two, whatever either numbs our discontent with things as they are or provides a convincing sense of satisfaction for our deeply felt longings will lead us toward addictions of any available variety, all fueled by a core addiction to self. Waiting for heaven to provide everything our souls yearn for and demanding nothing now frees us to love well now, to delight God, and to be there for others, requiring nothing in return. The result? Joy! The satisfaction of living and loving like Jesus.
©2020 Larry Crabb (P)2021 Larry Crabb