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Having the opportunity to work with college women full-time is such a sweet blessing. I love being able to watch their eyes light up when they fully grasp the Gospel for the first time or see Jesus in a way they never have before. Meeting with freshmen their first week of school and watching them grow and mature in their faith during their time in college is amazing. There truly is no other way I would rather spend the most productive hours of my week than winning women for Christ, building them up in their faith, and sending them out into the world fully equipped to share their faith with others and walk with Jesus for a lifetime!
For most of these women, the idea of Biblical womanhood is pretty foreign. How, as women, are we supposed to live for Jesus in this time of cultural craziness? How are we supposed to interact with God, men, friends, family, and other women when it seems like the advice our world gives for these relationships so often leads to conflict, upheaval, and dissatisfaction? I'm certainly no expert in the subject, but thankfully we have been given a Word filled with stories from the lives of women across centuries. When we take the time to learn about them, we can start to learn from their successes and mistakes to navigate this tumultuous world around us. The Most Important Women of the Bible is a great resource for briefly surveying the lives of 31 women in Scripture. From women we're more familiar with such as Eve, Mary, and Bathsheba to ones rarely mentioned in books and sermons today like Zipporah, Gomer, and Phoebe, this short book offers a brief look into the lives of women in the Bible and how their triumphs and failures point to the love and redemption of Christ. Each chapter gives insight into a Biblical woman's story through Scripture references, a short biography with cultural context, and the role her story plays in God's overall plan of redemption. The authors are humble in sharing questions and things about the women's stories they don't know but wish they did ("How could Hannah leave Samuel with Eli when his two sons were known for being corrupt and evil?" pg. 71). I found each chapter to be brief and to-the-point, yet thorough and thought-provoking regardless of the reader's amount of Biblical knowledge. There were some stories I was already fairly familiar with (Mary, Esther, Ruth), but I loved learning about women I had never noticed before in the Word as well (Anna, Tabitha, Lois)! My rating? 5/5
This book gives a great survey of some of the most important women of the Bible, with a great variety of familiar stories and unfamiliar ones as well! Reading about these different remarkable ladies helped give me a better Biblical perspective on womanhood, and it was encouraging to see the way God has used women from the beginning of time to help accomplish His plan for love and redemption! *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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