Audio only
The Only Way Forward Is Back
A Story of War, Adoption, and Finding Your Purpose in God's PlanBy Jackson TerKeurstNarrated by Jackson TerKeurst, Lisa WrightLength9h 1m
About this audiobook
War orphan Jackson TerKeurst's remarkable story of adoption and faith teaches us to notice God's presence in our lives so we can look toward the future with hope.
The son of a town chief. The grandson of a witch doctor. An orphan, a war statistic, a nameless boy trying to survive gunfire and starvation during the Liberian Civil War. Jackson TerKeurst used to find his identity in scarcity and trauma. Today he finds it in knowing he is a child of God.
Jackson came to America as a teenager with little education, was adopted by a Christian family, and then graduated college and started his own business. His incredible story has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network and the
Today Show. Now, for the first time, Jackson shares his spiritual journey against the backdrop of his biography as he calls us to see how God can redeem the pain in our own lives.
The Only Way Forward Is
Back is a riveting account of perseverance, sacrificial love, and transformative grace. It invites us to view our personal stories through the lens of a literal and spiritual orphan who learned to hold fast to his identity as God's beloved child—and inspires each one of us to do the same.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 4.6 (17)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length9 hrs 1 min
Narrated byJackson TerKeurst, Lisa Wright
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Prayers from the Throne RoomBrian Simmons8h 55m4.9 (256)$10 · $0.00
31 Decrees of Blessing for Your LifePatricia King2h 38m4.8 (1.4K)$10 · $0.00
Running to the FireKen Isaacs9h 47m4.9 (252)$20 · $0.00
Loved BabySarah Philpott4h 51m4.8 (1.4K)$10 · $0.00
The QuranAllah23h 7m4.7 (136.1K)$1 · $0.00
The Secret of the RosaryLouis de Montfort6h 1m4.7 (16K)$2 · $0.00
The Holy Qur-an: Text, Translation and CommentaryAbdullah Yusuf Ali22h 16m4.7 (133K)$1 · $0.00
All of Grace (Annotated)Charles Spurgeon5h 1m4.7 (1.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Steps to ChristEllen G. White3h 12m4.7 (13.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Doctrine and Selected CovenantsJoseph Smith13h 53m4.7 (10.4K)$0.99 · $0.00
BelovedFrancis Chan4h 59m4.7 (2K)$17 · $0.00
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God & Other Sermons (Annotated)Jonathan Edwards7h 51m4.7 (1.5K)$2 · $0.00
Swayam Ki AwaazPrem Rawat8h 34m4.7 (1.1K)$26 · $0.00
Behind the BadgeAdam Davis10h 18m4.7 (2.7K)$10 · $0.00
The New Human Revolution, vol. 1Daisaku Ikeda7h 46m4.7 (669)$12 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
Praying GraceDavid A. Holland3h 2m4.7 (658)$10 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
The Christ KeyChad Bird, Chad Bird7h 33m4.7 (592)$17.40 · $0.00
He and IGabrielle Bossis10h 12m4.7 (554)$17 · $0.00
Send MeMarty Skovlund, Joe Kent8h 10m4.7 (1.6K)$26 · $0.00
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Annotated)John Muir10h 13m4.7 (1.1K)$1.99 · $0.00
Invisible StormJason Kander6h 48m4.7 (3.2K)$24 · $0.00
Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m4.7 (5K)$29 · $0.00
You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m4.7 (4.8K)$29 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Evidence Not SeenDarlene Deibler Rose11h 11m4.6 (11.9K)$29 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
Will You Love Me?Cathy Glass9h 5m4.6 (9.3K)$29 · $0.00
Designing Terry Pratchett’s DiscworldPaul Kidby3h 52m4.7 (343)$20 · $0.00
HostageEli Sharabi5h 25m4.6 (10.8K)$24 · $0.00
Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m4.6 (256.4K)$29 · $0.00
The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m4.7 (385)$20 · $0.00
Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m4.6 (6.5K)$26 · $0.00
The Lives of BrianBrian Johnson9h 45m4.6 (3.5K)$29 · $0.00
I Am The StormJanice Dean9h4.6 (1.5K)$8 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$15 · $0.00
Just as I AmCicely Tyson16h 8m4.6 (99K)$33 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
You may also like
Erik Vs. EverythingChristina Uss5h 31m4.2 (265)$24 · $0.00
Hospital SketchesLouisa May Alcott3h 5m3.7 (4K)$1 · $0.00
God, Family, CountryCraig Morgan, Jim DeFelice9h4.5 (789)$20 · $0.00
At Gettysburg - What a Girl Saw and Heard of the BattleTillie Pierce Alleman1h 53m4.3 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Guns of Shilo A Story of the Great Western CampaignJoseph A. Altsheler9h 29m4.1 (461)$2.30
Go FindSusan Purvis13h 6m4.3 (1K)$23 · $0.00
The Way of RoninTu Lam12h 9m4.9 (1.3K)$29 · $0.00
In Desert & WildernessHenryk Sienkiewicz13h 10m3.6 (13.3K)$23
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil WarLeander Stillwell10h 53m4.3 (1.3K)$0.99 · $0.00
Flight of the SparrowAmy Belding Brown10h 59m4.1 (20.3K)$23
SEAL Team SixHoward E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin9h 36m4.1 (23.9K)$20
All for the UnionElisha Rhodes9h 38m4.3 (1.9K)$2.99 · $0.00
The Yearling (Annotated)Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings15h 12m4.2 (118.9K)$2 · $0.00
My Early Life: The AutobiographyWinston Churchill13h 49m4.3 (27.9K)$0.99 · $0.00
Touch the Top of the WorldErik Weihenmayer11h 18m4.3 (2.9K)$20 · $0.00
The Long Roll (Summarized Edition)Mary Johnston6h 24m3.9 (101)$2
Life in Southern PrisonsCharles Smedley1h 33m$2 · $0.00
Waters of the SanjanDavid Read9h 31m$21 · $0.00
Ravished Armenia (Autobiography)Aurora Mardiganian6h 56m4.1 (234)$0.99 · $0.00
The Blue and The Gray Or The Civil War as Seen by a BoyA. R. White9h 37m$2.30