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I love my job. Really, I do. Sometimes I feel like a broken record or that people don't believe me when I talk about how much I love the work that occupies the most productive hours of my week. I would never say that every day is easy- not every day is enjoyable. Some days are stressful when I feel I have a million things to accomplish for a million different people. Some days are heartbreaking when a young woman shares some of her deepest hurt with me. Some days are exhausting as I jump between discipleships, meetings, and Bible studies. Some days are sweet and others are difficult, but I am thankful every day for the work I am blessed to do full time.
It has been one year since I stepped onto campus in a full-time ministry role. Over the past year, I have seen lives transformed by the truth of the Gospel and hearts opened as they grasped the love of Christ for the first time. It has been so life-giving! But I have also seen women struggle through the darkest times of their lives and a student in East Asia stare blankly at me when I asked if she have ever heard the name "Jesus." So when, in chapter one of Pierced & Embraced, author Kelli Worrall posed the question "Has your calling come with a piercing part? How have you seen God equip you and sustain you when you responded to His call?" I felt like she knew me personally as I analyzed God's call in my life in ministry, marriage, family, and so many other things! Pierced & Embraced is a beautifully written, highly practical, Christ-centered book about seven encounters in the Gospels where we see Jesus interacting with women, what those interactions reveal about who He is, and why that continues to matter in our daily lives so long after the Bible was written. Each chapter also contains study questions that are deep, thought-provoking, and God glorifying. I loved that the author includes the Bible passage to read, but doesn't type the Scripture out in the book...which means the reader is encouraged to actually pull out their own Bible and study the passage! And the Scripture readings for each chapter are entire stories or chapters, not just a verse here and there. I love this because it causes the reader to spend extended time in the Word while reading Pierced & Embraced.
My rating? 5/5 Pierced & Embraced caused me to look more closely at the way Jesus interacts with people in Scripture, and helped me to see what these often-read portions of the Gospels tell us about the person of Christ! I plan on reading this book again, and have already recommended it to several friends and students! *I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest, unbiased review! Links provided through Amazon Associates.* |
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