{"id":295,"date":"2007-12-08T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=295"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T18:59:01","slug":"free-audio-book-from-christianaudiocom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Free Audio Book from ChristianAudio.com!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/free_download.php\" target=\"_blank\">free audio book is available<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christianaudio.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/product_info.php?products_id=541\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Night of the Soul<\/a> and it was written by St. John of the Cross. Use the coupon code <strong>DEC2007<\/strong> to redeem this month&#8217;s free audiobook download from Christianaudio.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dark_night_large.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Night of the Soul\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is some more info about the book:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"black\"><em><strong>With His gentle hand He wounded my neck And caused all my senses to be  suspended.<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"black\">Part poetic masterpiece, part mystic treatise, The Dark Night of the Soul by  16th century Carmelite monk, St. John of the Cross, addresses the feeling of  being forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that every Christian desirous of  walking more closely with God must pass through in order to learn to walk by  faith and not by sight.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"black\"><em><strong>Spiritual persons suffer great trials&#8230;by reason&#8221;\u00a6of the fear which  they have of being lost on the road, thinking that all spiritual blessing is  over for them and that God has abandoned them since they find no help or  pleasure in good things. Then they grow weary, and endeavor to concentrate their  faculties with some degree of pleasure upon some object of meditation, thinking  that, when they are not doing this and yet are conscious of making an effort,  they are doing nothing.<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"black\">Perhaps one of the most widely recognized of the mystical writings, St.  John&#8217;s classic <em>Dark Night of the Soul<\/em> is not only practical theology but  a beautiful balm of healing to anyone whose heart has ever echoed the words of  Christ, &#8220;My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?&#8221;\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s free audio book is available from Christianaudio.com. It&#8217;s called Dark Night of the Soul and it was written by St. John of the Cross. Use the coupon code DEC2007 to redeem this month&#8217;s free audiobook download from Christianaudio.com. Here is some more info about the book: With His gentle hand He wounded my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Audio Book from ChristianAudio.com!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,27,25,8,33,26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-church-fathers","category-devotionals","category-mp3s","category-promotionals","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}