Adriaan Hellenberg has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 3 ratings. The most-rated is Refuting Rabbinic Objections to Christianity and Messianic Prophecies.
Refuting Rabbinic Objections to Christianity and Messianic Prophecies
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For us Jews who grew up in Israel, Jesus and his word were never part of the conversation. Not in our school system, not in our synagogues, and not in our media. Nor do we have easy access to the New Testament. Jesus has been studiously avoided, and hidden from our people. Today in Israel, 99.7 percent of the Jewish population reject Jesus as the Messiah. How did our country, where the Gospel first took place, come to be so adamantly against it? Within Judaism over the last two millennia, any kind of spiritual message had to go through the “gatekeepers”, the Orthodox Jewish Rabbis. The Rabbinic Judaism of the Orthodox comes directly from the sect of the “Pharisees”, whom Jesus rebuked: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.” (Matthew 23:13) After almost 2,000 years, Jesus, or as we call him in Hebrew, Yeshua, can no longer be hidden from the people! Today, our ministry, One for Israel, reaches Jewish and Arab Israelis exactly where they are - online. In the past, the message of the Gospel came from people who didn’t understand our language, our culture, our heritage, or our way of thinking. Now, we can explain the Gospel to our people in a way that makes sense to them, in our own native tongues of Hebrew and Arabic, as only Israelis can, and help our people understand who Yeshua really is. The Orthodox rabbis in Israel operate an “antimissionary” organization called Yad L'Achim. This organization works very closely with the Minister of Interior in the Israeli government. They seek to prevent Jewish people from leaving the confines of Rabbinic Judaism by any means necessary (not always legally) and relentlessly persecute us. With over 90 percent of the names, photos, and addresses of all the Messianic Jews in Israel on file, Yad L’Achim began sending a magazine called Searching to the homes of believers in Israel back in 2014. The magazine contains objections and refutations from Orthodox rabbis about the messiahship of Jesus, the credibility of the New Testament, and trying to ridicule and destroy the belief in Jesus. This caused several Jewish believers, even including some who had been missionaries, to deny their faith in Jesus and revert to rabbinic Judaism. Over the past five years, I decided to go over all of their magazines, books, and videos in order to answer their arguments and prove their objections false. Since 2015 we have released about 150 short videos where we share the Gospel and directly refute these rabbinic objections to Jesus, the New Testament, and Christianity. This audiobook is a compilation of transcripts from these videos. While the content is based on five years of academic research, I did my best to write it in a simplistic, easy-to-listen-to way.
©2019 Eitan Bar (P)2019 Eitan Bar
25 Years of Solitude
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A love story that survived time. Would you risk everything for the woman you loved? This audiobook is intended for mature audiences. We all have someone in our lives we never truly forget. Someone who has marked our hearts so deeply, it’s as if the flesh had been branded with their name. And no matter how much time passes, it’s impossible to shake the person from our minds. Always so alive, always so close, but at the same time, completely unreachable. 25 Years of Solitude tells the story of Harry Goulart, a man who in his youth fell head over heels in love with his childhood sweetheart. Having loved and lost her, he spent his life convinced he would one day reconquer the heart of Bella Meirelles and in the process ended up thrown on a journey that could cost him his life. More than fiction, 25 Years of Solitude is a tale based on true events, lived by two people in love, wrapped up in twists and turns that are even stranger than fiction. Events that made all involved question what morality means and what can be forgiven. 25 Years of Solitude is a modern love story that celebrates the love that once freed the bonds that chained two separated lovers and helps us to believe love can travel beyond the restrictions of time, distance, jealousy, and greed. Will these two lovers be able to overcome the pain and suffering that threatens to keep them apart? Particularly the ruthlessness of one man who wants to make sure they have no happy ending? Can Bella and Harry overcome the barriers of evil and envy that lie in wait for them?
©2018 Manoel Penha dos Santos Junior (P)2018 Manoel Penha dos Santos Junior
Summary of The Road to Character: by David Brooks | Includes Analysis
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The Road to Character: by David Brooks | Summary & Analysis Please note: This is a detailed summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. A Smarter You In 15 Minutes… What is your time worth? The Road to Character by David Brooks explores and identifies the most important qualities that move a human being’s life from being one that is all consuming and self-centred to serving something more than itself. The author draws on a wide range of important historical figures to show his listeners exactly how they demonstrated each quality. The book discusses in detail how life experiences, both negative ones and positive ones, shape who we are as people. David Brooks explores how a sense of humility and passion is absolutely fundamental for success and to make a meaningful life for ourselves. After all, at our funerals, would we want our eulogies to be about how driven and work focused we are, or would we want people to remember us in a different way, perhaps for our kindness, bravery, and faithfulness? He suggests in his book that for forging a strong and good character, love, humility, suffering, obedience, and vocation are needed and writes that “character is a set of disposition, desires, and habits that are slowly engraved during the struggle against your own weakness”. He completely disregards any notions that economics and an absence of money or status have any impact on how a person’s character is shaped. Detailed overview of the book Most valuable lessons and information Key Takeaways and Analysis
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Trump 2020
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As the time for another election approaches, it is high time for the American people to make yet another decision. Did Trump keep his promises? Is he the right person to keep America great? This book answers some critical questions on the eve of the 2020 election. First, before moving further, you need to know why Americans chose Trump to run the country. The reason Trump got elected is that he gave people a vision. He gave the people of America hope. And his optimistic view and hope of making America great again put him into the oval office. Donald J. Trump, like or hate him, is the president of the United States. There is no other political figure in recent memory that has been so polarizing. Despite this, he has accomplished so much in so short a time for America. Trump is already a consequential president in American history. He is the first US president to meet with a North Korean dictator. He is the first president to attend the March for Life. Under his administration, we have experienced the lowest Black and Latino unemployment. Women have experienced the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years during his first term in office. In this well-researched book, Josh takes you on a journey and shows you why Donald Trump became president of the United States in 2016 and why he is likely to be reelected in 2020.
©2020 Vision for Maximum Impact, LLC. (P)2020 Vision for Maximum Impact, LLC.
Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow: by Daniel Kahneman
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A smarter you In 15 minutes.... What is your time worth? Daniel Kahneman, psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, is the author of the fascinating book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. In general, when we make decisions, be it personally or professionally, all of us utilize two basic thinking systems for problem solving and stress the importance of utilizing the right system. This book is all about two basic thinking systems. The first system is Fast Thinking, and the second system is Slow Thinking. In short, Fast Thinking is what our “gut” tells us what we should do. It is intuitive, emotional, and done with little thought or effort. Slow thinking is slow, deliberate, and logical. It usually takes more time, often includes numerical or factual information that our brain needs to process, and is void of emotion. Kahneman expresses the importance of making it a habit to train our brains into using the right way of “thinking” as we make decisions, as utilizing the wrong thinking system can lead to poor or even disastrous consequences. Kahneman, through intensive behavioral study, has determined that people are more successful if they can lean on the Slow Thinking method. Kahneman teaches his proven theory simply and includes a plan of action for learning to train the brain to use the correct “thinking” system. This novel takes a fascinating look at behaviors that can change our lives - personally, professionally, and financially. It is a book you should read to improve and utilize your thinking system the right way. This summary includes: Detailed overview of the book Most valuable lessons and information Key takeaways and analysis Please note: This is a detailed summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.
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