{"id":1210,"date":"2017-04-28T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:33:08","slug":"audiobook-review-i-am-n-by-the-voice-of-the-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: &#8220;I Am N&#8221; by The Voice of the Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1212\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=268%2C268\" alt=\"9781633897052.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=750%2C750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=430%2C430&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nickduffel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9781633897052.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/>As a Christian living in America, stories of Christians being violently persecuted always seem to have an other-worldly quality.\u00a0 These things don\u2019t happen now, do they?\u00a0 These stories seem to belong to another time, and another place, with Colosseums or Nazis.\u00a0 And that is why the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs is so important, and why we who live in the West cannot let our brothers and sisters suffer alone and in silence.\u00a0 I Am N, a collection of true stories of Christians facing persecution Islamic Extremists, is just the wake-up call we need.\n<p>This book is all about finding love, grace, courage, and hope in the most unlikely of places.\u00a0 I found myself examining my own level of faith in Christ and commitment to Christ as I heard these stories.\u00a0 I was driven to prayer for the persecuted church, and compelled to worship of God for his incredible faithfulness.\u00a0 The most impacting stories were those of believers who were tempted to retaliate because of the violence against them, and yet they chose instead to respond with grace and love.\u00a0 How often do I retaliate for offenses that are so much smaller than these?<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend this book for all believers.\u00a0 We need to hear these stories, and we need to stand in solidarity with the persecuted church.\u00a0 Our understanding of the world is often painfully small, and this book is designed to shatter our safe perceptions of faith while propelling us into deeper levels of devotion.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Prentice and Amara Delaney do an outstanding job on the narration of the audiobook version.\u00a0 I recommend experiencing this book in audiobook form because the narration is so well done.<\/p>\n<p>Please Note: This audiobook was gifted as a part of the Christianaudio Reviewers Program in exchange for my unbiased review of this work. This has in no way influenced my opinion or review of this work.\u00a0 More information can be found about this and other Christian audiobooks at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/\">christianaudio.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Christian living in America, stories of Christians being violently persecuted always seem to have an other-worldly quality.\u00a0 These things don\u2019t happen now, do they?\u00a0 These stories seem to belong to another time, and another place, with Colosseums or Nazis.\u00a0 And that is why the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs is so&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/?p=1210\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: &#8220;I Am N&#8221; by The Voice of the Martyrs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5,12],"tags":[15,48,84,85,86,109,111,134],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-christianaudio-com","category-reviews","tag-52-books","tag-courage","tag-god","tag-gospel","tag-grace","tag-islam","tag-jesus","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EHHr-jw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nickduffel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}