Crux Matters (Unabridged‪)‬

In this audiobook, we will assemble a framework you can use to address life’s biggest questions, including:

Who is God and what does He have to do with you and me?
Why does the world look and act the way it does?
What are we supposed to be doing with our lives?


You might be wondering how on Earth an audiobook like this will be able to provide thoughtful answers to those questions and others. The reason is that it is based very carefully on a much bigger book - the Bible. However, we are not going to look at a bunch of Bible verses and try to come up with nice ways of applying those verses to our lives. Call me skeptical, but I do not expect a thinking person to bend his or her worldview only because I can present a relevant quote followed by a verse reference. If it were that easy, we could just as well be seeing major religions based on Shakespeare.

So here is what I propose: let’s look at the Bible as a whole. I do not mean we are going to take an academic look at Biblical history or tattered remnants of manuscript. There are plenty of books on those subjects - some better than others. What I mean is we are going to look at the whole message of the Bible. We are going to examine the assumptions the Bible presents and test those assumptions to see if they hold together. If God has indeed inspired the Bible, and if He has intended to communicate with us through it, then there is great value to be had in not only listening to the words but also in learning to adopt the perspective from which those words were inspired.

Whether you are a long-time student of the Bible or you are merely curious to see what all of the fuss is about, it is well worth making the effort to understand the “big picture” from God’s perspective as communicated in the Bible. For the devout Christian, this audiobook will give you much to consider in your daily devotions. For the wisdom-seeker, it details a worldview so potent that it has not only had a drastic shift on the course of human history, but also a profoundly personal impact on how millions of individuals relate to the God of the universe.