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From Mary To Lydia
$15.99Add to cartIn this book, Nell Mohney presents eight New Testament women and the lessons they have for women today. From familiar women such as Mary, the mother of Jesus, to lesser known women such as the wife of Peter, the author explores the unique circumstances of each woman and the practical and spiritual insights we can glean from her story.
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Beauty By The Book
$17.00Add to cartFrom celebrated Hollywood starlets to the covers of Cosmo, our society seems obsessed with beauty. Actress and Main Floor host Nancy Stafford (best known for her starring role as Michelle Thomas digs below our culture’s fixation on outward appearance to show you that true beauty is more than skin-deep. “Every woman has beauty,” says Stafford, “but not everyone sees it. I want you to see it.” In Beauty by the Book she bares her heart to readers, laying out the Scriptures, promises, and truths women need to know to find their true value. Her liberating reflections will help you see yourself as God sees you – worthy, lovable, and beautiful.
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Zippered Heart : Bringing Light To The Dark Things We Hide Inside
$18.99Add to cartWhat do you do with all the ugly, embarrassing things in your life? We all have them whether or not we can admit it. In The Zippered Heart, popular author and Women of Faith speaker Marilyn Meberg explains that spiritual and emotional well-being require us to acknowledge the less-than-attractive, often shameful aspects of our character that we often try to hide. Meberg believes to admit our weakness is to invite the divine power of God to conquer them. With hope and humor, this book is an important reminder that there is nothing God can’t heal.
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No Shame : A Study Of Six New Testament Women (Student/Study Guide)
$7.95Add to cartCindy Bailey believes that many women allow shame and embarrassment to cripple their walk with Christ. She has witnessed women who seem to feel that they aren’t qualified or “good enough” to use their God-given talents. No Shame refutes that premise and spotlights women in the New Testament who served the Lord boldly and effectively, confident of God’s will. Despite the odds against them and their humble backgrounds, these women were not ashamed to repeat an unanswered prayer or rise to God’s call. A great study with excellent documentation, this book is perfect for women’s groups and adult Sunday school classes, as well as for personal reading and devotion.
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All About Eve (Student/Study Guide)
$12.95Add to cartThe stories of women throughout the Bible are among the most remarkable in all of literature. Many of these women have inspired faith and been shining examples of God’s place in our lives. In a set of captivating and thought-provoking sermons, Robert Allen takes a closer look at ten of these women, both the well-known and the overlooked, and reveals how they share a common humanity with modern Christians.
Chapters include:
All About Eve — Genesis 2:21-25; 3:1-7
Don’t Look Back! — Genesis 19:26; 10:24-26
Letters In The Sand — John 8:1-11
The Touch Of Faith — Mark 5:25-34
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Dissident Daughters
$40.00Add to cartWith its focus on narratives, its attention to contextual and material realities, and its collection of women-identified liturgies in global context, Dissident Daughters claims prominence within the growing literature on women’s ways of worship. This book not only introduces liturgical texts, but also focuses on the communities that create and celebrate these liturgies. Dissident Daughters gives voice to women activitsts who show how their communities came into being; how social, cultural, and political realities shaped them and their liturgies; and how they envision their lives in and as communities of faith. In drawing the different narratives together, Dissident Daughters displays the expanse fo the worldwide expression of women’s rites and the formation of each by distinctly different contexts of struggle and hope.
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Honey For A Womans Heart
$16.99Add to cartEvery year thousands of new books flood the shelves of local bookstores, retail outlets, and libraries. Nobody is busier than today’s woman, who often must shoulder enormous responsibilities both at work and at home. Faced with so many choices, how’s a woman to choose what to read? How is she to nurture her love for reading when it is sometimes so difficult to know what book to read next? Women need considerable encouragement to enhance their personal growth through reading.
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Sharing His Secrets
$17.99Add to cartPopular author, Bible study leader, and women’s speaker Vickey Banks leads readers on a search for secrets to experiencing life-changing intimacy with God. This thought-provoking, scripturally sound read takes a fresh look at Jesus’ face-to-face encounters with women when He walked this earth, asking, “What can their experiences tell us today about walking and talking with God? Do they know secrets to getting more up close and personal with Him?” In an accurate, yet warm and relational style, Banks reveals what still causes tears to trickle down God’s cheeks, moves His heart to compassion, prompts Him to defend and forgive, and makes Him feel loved and enjoyed-inspiring deeper intimacy with God today.
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Falling In Love With Jesus
$18.99Add to cartAuthors Dee Brestin and Kathy Troccoli introduce readers to the ultimate love relationship of all time: a relationship with Jesus Christ. Using humor, contemporary love songs, real-life stories, and solid Biblical teaching, Dee and Kathy help women discover a life-changing intimacy with Jesus. No matter your age or marital status, you are His bride, the object of His affection. The secret to an abundant life lies not in ten steps, but in developing a deep love relationship with Jesus, abandoning yourself to the greatest romance of your life!
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Magdalene Gospel : Meeting The Women Who Followed Jesus
$19.00Add to cartMary Ellen Ashcroft paints a portrait of the Saturday after the crucifixion and before the resurrection of Jesus. Mary Magdalene and the other women followers of Jesus have gathered together to comfort one another in this time of unspeakable loss and sadness. As each woman shares her story, it becomes clear that her experience as a follower of Jesus has changed her life forever.
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When Mothers Pray
$18.00Add to cartWhen Mothers Pray is a book of hope, inspiration, and stories that will revitalize the prayer life of readers. Many women experience hopelessness when they pray for their children and see no discernible results-yet praying is one of the most vital things we can do for our kids. Now with a lovely new contemporary cover, this bestselling book offers encouragement and a larger perspective as moms from around the world share their own personal stories, struggles, and ultimate victories. Women will find new motivation to refresh their prayer lives-and to make a difference in the lives of their children as they intercede for them.
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Seeing For Ourselves
$17.95Add to cartKaterina Whitley’s first book of biblical monologues, Speaking for Ourselves, was received with enthusiastic praise. Now she is back with another provocative collection of stories. In Seeing for Ourselves: Biblical Women Who Met Jesus, Whitley gives powerful voice to the New Testament women who met Jesus both before and after the Resurrection.
The women who speak in this collection include some we meet only in passing in the Bible. Among the women who tell their stories:
The woman at the well; The adulterous woman who was nearly stoned to death; Cleopas’ wife whom Jesus may have met on the road to Emmaus; The woman who touched Jesus’ cloak in order to be healed; Mary and Martha; Phoebe; Prisca; Pilate’s wife; The bride at the wedding of Cana.
As in her first volume, the book includes references to the biblical passages along with study questions, making this an excellent book for group study.
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Womans Place : Leadership In The Church
$17.99Add to cart“Women have achieved relative parity with men in virtually every area of society–except the church,” writes C.S. Cowles, challenging the long-held practice and belief that a Christian woman’s place is in the pew but not in the pulpit, lectern, boardroom, or other places of leadership. Through a careful study of key biblical texts, Cowles refutes what he terms the church’s “institutional discrimination against women” and calls for it to open leadership positions to “whomever the Holy Spirit should call and whomever evidences gifts for public ministry, without regard to race, social class, or gender.” “It is time for the church to discover the richness, beauty, and spiritual power that can be released only through the full expression of women’s unique gifts and special sensitivities.”
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Rediscovering Friendship : Awakening To The Power And Promise Of Womens
$16.00Add to cartIn our often lonely society, a new generation of women is redefining friendship. Feminist scholar Moltmann-Wendel examines this cultural phenomenon through a theological lens. Focusing on Jesus’ friendship with Mary Magdalene and his disciples, she reveals tenderness and healing in women’s relationships and shows how they enrich our connection with God.
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Best Devotions Of Barbara Johnson
$16.99Add to cartPatsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, and Thelma Wells comprise the Women of Faith who have delighted thousands of women with conferences that have touched funny bones and strengthened and lifted hearts. Now you can get the best devotions of your favorite Women of Faith speaker in one inexpensive book to add to your collection or to give as a gift to your sister, mother, aunt, grandmother, or friend. Culled from their best-selling devotionals, these “best of” devotions are now available in the following individual books:
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Humor For A Womans Heart
$16.99Add to cartThere’s something about humor that refreshes and relaxes the soul.
Humor has the unique power to lift a heart to new heights, to heal the hurts of a bad day, and to infuse the soul with inspiration.
Samplings from some of your favorite authors and comedians including Patsy Clairmont, Martha Bolton, Mark Lowry, Carolyn Arends, and many more, will delight your feminine funny bone and tickle your female fancy.
Take a deep breath, inhale the joy, soak up the merriment, and you’ll surely find that your heart is lighter, your day brighter, and your soul hilariously refreshed.
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Woman Of God
$12.99Add to cartHow can we become women of God? These studies from Old and New Testament passages show us how to develop the traits of a godly woman: how to be strong, trustworthy, wise, resourceful, forgiving, beautiful, content, confident–and how to claim God’s grace when we fall short. This study guide in the new revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a “Now or Later” section in each study. 10 studies for individuals or groups.
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Avoiding Mr Wrong
$18.99Add to cartYou know the man. He’s the one who looks good at a glance — but not so good once you get to know him. What kind of women fall for him, and why? What are the chances he will change? And what if you’ve already married him?More than just a checklist of men to steer clear of, Avoiding Mr. Wrong is a powerful tool to help women learn more about themselves and the Mr. Wrongs to whom they often feel drawn. Those men include: The Control Freak, The Mama’s Boy, The Cowardly Lion, The Ungodly Man, and Mr. Wonderful.Complete with a diagnostic quiz and quick reference lists, Avoiding Mr. Wrong is ideal for women whose hopes have been dashed again and again by a seemingly promising relationship. The book helps them to see more clearly, think more rationally, and act more wisely in the pursuit of Mr. Right.
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Seasons Under Heaven
$15.99Add to cartTory Sullivan struggles with the demands of motherhood and her desire for a career. An aspiring writer, she wonders whether she’ll ever be able to develop her talent while raising two young children. But perhaps the problem isn’t a matter of time, but of Tory. Cathy Flaherty is rediscovering the grins and groans of the dating game. The spunky single mother of three teenagers, she’s also learning the urgency of instilling sound values in her children as they attend public school. Sylvia Bryan is an empty-nester. Now that her children are gone, she struggles with a gnawing lack of meaning. Her husband, Harry, wants to become a medical missionary. But for Sylvia, the best part of life seems like nothing but a memory. Brenda Dodd faces an uncertain future. Her nine-year-old son is getting sicker, and there seems to be nothing they can do. It is every mother’s nightmare — a child who will die unless he receives a heart transplant. As the women of Cedar Circle band together to save a dying child, they learn that each moment is precious in every season under the heaven. Taking the best and worst of human circumstances — the tender moments, the laughter, the tragedies, and the triumphs — Beverly LaHaye and Terri Blackstock weave from them a poignant, warmly human novel. Gently uncovering the inner struggles, stresses, and joys that surface among neighbors living in a quiet cul-de-sac, the authors show us the power of ordinary lives being knit into a strong, many-textured fabric of family and friendships. Seasons Under Heaven depicts the deepest emotions of a woman’s heart, and those circumstances, both thrilling and tragic, that test and strengthen Christian faith.
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Finding A Mentor Being A Mentor
$15.99Add to cartHarvest House Print on Demand Title
Experience the joy of sharing life experiences with your sister in Christ! Whether you’d like to pass on God-given lessons to a younger woman or learn from an older friend, these selections from Otto’s Between Women of God and The Gentle Art of Mentoring will help you nourish relationships that produce abundant spiritual fruit.
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Becoming Women Of Purpose (Student/Study Guide)
$10.00Add to cartAlthough women have unprecedented opportunities and options today, their lives are still often filled with the mundane, the difficult, the downright tragic. And the challenges of life become even more difficult when there doesn’t seem to be any purpose for them. These studies will help you discover God’s purposes in your life-in your creation, your salvation, and your giftedness–and will give you a framework for making wise choices.
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Women Like Us (Student/Study Guide)
$11.00Add to cartHere is a studyguide that deals head-on with contemporary issues women face-singleness, sanctity of life, infertility, caring for aging parents, materialism, and the role of women in marriage and ministry. All of these issues were faced by women in the Bible–women like us. Like Hannah, Deborah, and Esther, you can make a difference in your family, your church, and your community. As you study, be prepared to respond to God with courage and obedience.
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Women At Midlife (Student/Study Guide)
$9.99Add to cartMidlife is a time of transitions, some welcome and others not so welcome. Thankfully, the Bible provides principles and guidance for dealing with difficult times–midlife included. In these studies, you’ll tap into that wisdom and learn how you can experience God’s grace today and move forward with confidence.
Whether you’re struggling with the challenges of the present, mired down by mistakes in your past, or excited about the prospects of the future, you’ll benefit from these important questions and life-enhancing answers for “Women at Midlife.
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Falling In Love With Jesus Workbook (Workbook)
$17.99Add to cartAbandon yourself to the greatest romance of your life.
This in-depth Bible Study gives women the inspiration to rethink their relationships with Christ, and to understand and surrender to Him in a fresh new way. Especially geared toward small group study, the Falling in Love with Jesus workbook and multi-media study offer humor, wisdom, and stories of women who’ve experienced a deeper, more passionate relationship with Christ. Ten lessons are divided into 50 days, five days per week, of Scriptures that focus on our love relationship with Jesus, deepening our confidence that we are the object of Christ’s affection.
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Women Who Achieved For God (Student/Study Guide)
$10.00Add to cartThese studies give insight into the lives of women of faith whose willingness to act upon God’s leading made them achievers for him. Some of them are little-known women, such as Dorcas and Phoebe. Some, such as Deborah and Esther, are well-known role models. Follow the example of these great women of history, and learn to be a person who achieves for God today!
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Only A Woman
$15.99Add to cartGod is calling you to radical action in the advancement of his kingdom. Using biblical examples, minister and former Motown songwriter McFaddin pens a battle hymn for spiritual revolution! You’ll be inspired to raise your standard of commitment, bringing power, healing, and deliverance to your life—-and the lives of those around you.
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Birthing The Sermon
$29.99Add to cart“For these women, preaching is not one of the tasks of ministry-preach, teach, pastor, govern. Preaching is who they are. Whatever process they follow-which include admitting to writing ‘Saturday night specials’ and grabbing a children’s book to read from the pulpit-preaching is about connecting their lives to the pulse of the congregations, and to the heartbeat of God.”
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Counseling Women : A Narrative Pastoral Approach
$34.00Add to cartIn this signal volume, Christie Neuger offers a new feminist paradigm for radical, effective, empowering counseling for women. She contends that pastors must take up the challenge of pastoral counseling, especially in lgith of the revolutionary pastoral implications of gender studies and feminist theology, as well as the continuing personal and social effects of sexism. Neuger’s work promises to aid counselors “to help women resist and transform the negative effects of a woman-unfriendly culture” and so to reclaim their stories, their strength, and their lives.
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Joy Of A Promise Kept
$14.99Add to cartWives—discover your role in your husband’s promise-keeping success! This profound collection features articles from wives of prominent Christian leaders, including Denalyn Lucado, Vonette Bright, Norma Smalley, Cindy Trent, and others, providing a clear vision for godly women today. Learn how to help your spouse keep his promises to God, family, church, and community.
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Soul Weavings : A Gathering Of Womens Prayers
$15.00Add to cartContents
Preface
My Whole Being Shouts For JOY
We Are Not Alone
May We Always Be Seekers
On The Way To Goodness
Go Out With Good Courage
And I Will Give You Rest
Acknowledgments P. 149Additional Info
SOUL WEAVINGS: A Gathering of Women’s PrayersAs Christians, we are part of a vast community of believers, most of whom we will never meet. Yet, through their writings, women of other times, places, and cultures can become our companions, encouraging us to take risks, helping us to go on when the way is difficult, teaching us how to pray. Through these companions of the soul God “comes to meet us in the hardest hours,” “challenges us to change the world,” and helps us “to behold God in everything.”
Why use written prayer? A well-written prayer is like a picture, capturing a view of one person’s spiritual landscape. As with pictures, we will be drawn more to some than others. Some prayers will help us to identify how God is already present in us and in the world. Others will become a real encounter with God, transforming us and calling us to respond with our lives. Still others may reveal our longing for the relationships we would like to have with God, and with those around us. Certain prayers become favorite resting places for times when our resources are low; it is easier to accept our own struggles when we find that we are not alone.
Prayer books become like good friends, who sometimes comfort and sometimes challenge us. They connect us with “thoughts higher than our thoughts, prayers better than our prayers, and powers beyond our powers, that we may spend and be spent in the ways of love and goodness.”
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Gods Most Precious Jewels Are Crystallized Tears
$14.99Add to cartStories of turning hardship into gems of inspiration and joy from America’s favorite author of inspirational humor, Barbara Johnson – The Geranium Lady.
God’s Precious Jewels Are Crystallized Tears contains the stories of 14 extraordinary women as they journeyed through incredible hardship to become sparkling jewels of joy and encouragement to others. Best-selling author Barbara Johnson includes her own story of grief turned to blessing, with her signature touch of hope and humor. Woven throughout these inspiring stories are the stories of real gemstones – their creation and their traditional meanings.
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I Can See Myself In His Eyeballs
$12.99Add to cartWhat would it be like to get so close to God that we could see ourselves in his eyeballs? Not because we want to look at ourselves, but because we want to be that close to him–to the mysterious, wonderful, invisible God who reveals himself even in temptations, trials, and dangers.
Can you see God when your husband gets a speeding ticket? What about when your daughter wrecks her grandfather’s truck? Is he watching while you drive down the road in a Chevette held together by wire coat hangers?
With her usual sense of southern humor, Chonda Pierce invites us to open our eyes and our sense of humor as she teaches us how to catch God at work, especially in the most unlikely places. Like the time she got her ears pierced–contrary to the advice of her mother. She walked out of the jewelry store, saw two nuns, took them as a sign from God, and never wore pierced earrings again.
Chonda the comedian has touched thousands of women around the country, from stage or on video. “To see or hear her is to love her,” is the unanimous response. But in her writing, Chonda brings a whole new depth of insight into her humor–humor that enables readers to dispel all gloom and experience the joy of the closeness of God in their everyday lives.
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PrayerWalk : Becoming A Woman Of Prayer Strength And Discipline
$17.00Add to cartChallenge your body. Feed your spirit. Change the world.
Ask any Christian woman about her most recent New Year’s resolutions, and you’ll likely find that “exercise regularly” and “pray more” were at the top of her list. We all long to look and feel our best, to live actively and healthfully. More than that, we desire to connect intimately with our God. Yet physical health and spiritual growth often take a backseat to the urgent demands of grocery shopping and bill paying, time with family and friends, and long hours at the office.It’s Time to Exercise Your Prayer Life.
Three years ago, author Janet Holm McHenry suffered from depression, weight gain, and exhaustion. Then she began a prayerwalk routine that not only transformed her life but also profoundly impacted the lives of those around her.Learn how you, too, can set out on a journey to increased energy, better health, and greater joy-and experience a rich, full prayer ministry that will have a lasting impact on your loved ones and community-in PrayerWalk.
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Season To Heal
$12.95Add to cartThis is a book for women who struggle to come to grips with the lingering emotional pain of an abortion. It assures readers that their pain is a valid, natural response to abortion, that they can find relief from it, and that healing is a realistic hope.
Publisher Marketing: This is a book for women who struggle to come to grips with the lingering emotional pain of an abortion. It assures readers that their pain is a valid, natural response to abortion, that they can find relief from it, and that healing is a realistic hope. -
Web Of Womens Leadership
$20.99Add to cartThis book calls for women in church leadership to recognize the potential of female styles of authority and ministry, and to lay claim to them as a way to move beyond the hierarchical models that have so long dominated our understanding of how the church practices its mission and organizes its life. It offers detailed, practical steps for how to work with laity, other clergy, and congregational leadership groups to achieve this transformation in the way the church organizes itself for ministry.
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Excellent Wife : A Biblical Perspective (Expanded)
$16.95Add to cartThe Excellent Wife was proven seaworthy on its maiden voyage and now the Revised Edition is impacting lives and marriages in an even greater way. Here is a scripturally based blueprint for the woman who really wants to be the wife God intended her to be. This book is based on Proverbs 31:10, “An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth is far above jewels.” Thousands of women have already discovered the worth of this volume and testify to lives and marriages changed because of a commitement to the principles presented here. If this is a commitment you have made, or want to make, The Excellent Wife answers the difficult questions facing you today.
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Beyond Nice : The Spiritual Wisdom Of Adolescent Girls
$16.00Add to cart1. Listening To Ourselves / Listening To Girls
2. Girls Talk About God
3. Girls Talk About Their Churches
4. Girls Talk About Sexuality And Their Bodies
5. Girls Talk About ViolenceAdditional Info
Adolescent girls are at particular risk in today’s society. They struggle to establish a mature identity after childhood and are barraged with conflicting messages about what it means to be female. In an often hostile and sometimes lethal culture, they also are subject to being exploited, harassed, manipulated, or even abused physically and sexually. But where do religion and spirituality fit? Davis sees spirituality as the realm where girls’ ultimate concerns intersect with their daily ones especially with relationships, lifestyle, and religious conviction. Here, based on more than 100 in-depth interviews with girls from a variety of religious, ethnic, and regional backgrounds, Davis shows how religion actually functions both to help and to hurt in girls’ search for authenticity. Davis’ interviews convey articulately and deeply how spirituality concerns girls’ surmounting hurdles to ground and affirm what they become. -
Woman You Are Called And Anointed
$15.99Add to cartListen. Do you hear it? It’s the voice of God calling you. After years of bringing her life-changing message to enthusiastic audiences, Malmin now leads you to a deeper understanding of your personal call to serve the Lord. Learn how to achieve your full potential for establishing God’s kingdom through your service and relationships.
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Exquisite Desire : Religion The Erotic And The Song Of Songs
$32.00Add to cart1. A Question Of Desire
2. Erotics In The Bible
3. Biblical Flirting
4. A Ravished Heart
5. “Drunk With Love”
6. Woman’s Voice In The Canon
7. Passion Fierce As The Grave: Death And Desire
8. Spiritual YearningAdditional Info
An examination of the erotic ideal in ancient Israel
This provocative work investigates the character of the erotic in witings from ancient Israel and how the erotic is connected to the experience of the divine.Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for better is your love than wine, your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is better than perfume poured out. Therefore women love you! Draw me after you, let us run! Let the king bring me into his chambers.
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God Dont Like Ugly
$24.99Add to cartThe crux of this book is the author’s analysis of intergener- ational transmission of spiritual values as depicted in selected African-American women’s literature written since 1960 (gospel music, poems, novels, short stories, and auto- biography). An interpretive framework is grounded in three ethical presuppositions based on traditional African-American spiritual values, African-American Theology and Ethics, Womanist Christology and Ethics, and values called from the author’s own life experience and religious beliefs.
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Humor For The Heart
$15.99Add to cartEvery heart needs to laugh. Every face needs to smile. Everybody needs a little lift. Humor has the power to transform a down day into a wonderful adventure or a good day into an even brighter one. That’s why you and those you care for are sure to enjoy the humorous messages and light-hearted stories in this delightful book.
Whether you need relief from stress or some cheerful inspiration, the unique perspectives and fun stories of best-selling authors such a Barbara Johnson, Max Lucado, Marilyn Meberg, Chonda Pierce, Bob Phillips, Dennis Swanberg, Charles Swindoll, and more will give you a welcome refreshment in your busy day.
As you read, laugh, and relax, this book will lift you above your daily struggles and give your heart a healthy dose of optimism and hope.
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Move Over Victoria I Know The Real Secret
$15.99Add to cartWe all hold on to things that we think will bring us comfort, affirmation, self-worth, and love. But God is the only one who can give us what we need. With wit and humor, the author teaches how God can set women free from the things that hold them, so that they can embrace his grace–and freely worship him.
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In Our Own Voices
$60.00Add to cart1. Catholic Women
2. Protestant Laywomen In Institutional Churches
3. Jewish Women
4. Black Women
5. Evangelical Women
6. Protestant Women And Social Reform
7. Women And Ordination
8. Utopian And Communal Societies
9. American Indian Women
10. Growing Pluralism New DialogueAdditional Info
In 1637 Anne Hutchinson spoke in her own voice declaring that she had received a revelation directly from God. This action led to her excommunication from the Massachesetts Bay Colony because the ordained clergy saw themselves as designated meditators of God’s word to laypeople. But Anne became her own person and a model of womanhood for us over four and one-half centuries later.
Sister Blandina Segale found her own voice when she stopped a lynch mob and kept the Billy the Kid gang from scalping doctors in Colorado in the 1870s.
At the turn of the century, Ida B Wells-Barnett claimed her own voice to expose the evil of lynching propagated against her African American brothers by white persons. Her forthrightness led to the burning of her office and to threats against her life, but she never allowed her voice to be silenced.
Sally Priesand gained her voice to preach and officiate at Jewish religious services when she became the first woman rabbi ordained in the Reform Movement of Judaism in 1972.
Pilulaw Khus, Native American elder of the Chumash tribe, found oil companies to prevent them from desecrating Chumash ceremonial areas in California in the 1980s.These are only a few of the stories told by women in their own voices in this book. Gender and multiculturalism intersect in every chapter as we share accounts of women trying to gain their full and equal stature as persons before God and their sisters and brothers. In Our Own Voices becomes a metaphor of women’s efforts to speak and act as persons with authority in their own right.
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Boomerang Joy : Joy That Goes Around Comes Around
$16.99Add to cartBest-selling author and speaker Barbara Johnson is famous for seeing and celebrating the bright side of life’s ups-and-downs. Now, in her first-ever devotional, she dares you to lighten up and enjoy life to the hilt. As Barbara says, “You’ve got to hone your ability to fling a smile a mile. Sure as anything, it’ll boomerang right back to you, more accurately each time you toss it out.” Barbara knows life is far too serious not to laugh. In 60 wise, witty devotions — salted with humor and peppered with a madcap illustrations of syndicated cartoonist John McPherson–she helps you perfect the art of the well-aimed chuckle. Boomerang Joy is the perfect tonic for when you feel tired or worn out — or when you just want a good laugh and some heartfelt encouragement. Barbara Johnson’s fulfilled insights will help you revel in your relationship with God and spread the joy of knowing His love. Just like a boomerang, joy that’s flung out far and wide will smack right back to you!
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Finding Peace For Your Heart
$18.99Add to cartThe purpose of this book is to bring hope, healing, and growth to anyone who is emotionally hurting or unfulfilled and to show practical steps to take a way out of pain and frustration. This is not a book to define problems but to show the solution to any problem.
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Acting Scenes And Monologs For Young Women
$18.95Add to cartNot just another book of scenes but a wide variety of topics by Maya Levy. Situations have been fine-tuned to recreate the day-to-day experiences of young women. This wonderfully diversified collection of monologs, dialogs, trios and quartets deals with subjects of self-discovery, survival in the real world, and daunting decisions both tragic and trivial. These sixty characterizations will make both performers and audience laugh, cry and know themselves better.
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Fruit Of Her Hands
$12.00Add to cart1. A Woman’s Orientation To Marriage
2. Walking With God
3. Respect
4. Principles And Methods
5. Contentment
6. Duties If Homemaking
7. Lovemaking
8. LeftoversAdditional Info
Imagine where the Church would be today if the men in it were respected as they ought to be by their wives. What power would God unleash through godly men who were respected in their homes?Wives, instead of focus on your husband’s problems and shortcomings, look at what you are supposed to be doing yourself.
In the Song of Solomon we read, “Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons.” So what is your perspective when you look at your husband? Is it biblical or does it stem from all those modern lies which surround us?
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Promise Of The Father
$38.00Add to cart1. Joachim Jeremias And The Debate About Abba
2. God As Father In The Old Testament And Second Temple Judaism
3. Jesus And The Father
4. Jesus And The Father In The Synoptic Gospels
5. “Heirs Of God, Heirs With Christ”
6. “The Living Father”Additional Info
What does it mean to confess that God is “The Father of our Lord Jesus Chrst”? The Promise of the Father begins by showing that Judaism’s claim of God as “Father” never attached an ontological gender or “masculine” essence to God. Instead of setting the standard for the conduct for human personal fathers or men in general as some argue, God’s identity as “Father” served as an example for the entire community of faith as one who promotes mercy, justice, and humility. Jesus’ address to God as “Father” thus did not introduce a new private experience of intimacy with the divine, rather, it evoked Israel’s ancient and corporate hope of God’s saving power and covenant faithfulness. Above all then, to speak of God as “Father” signifies the redemptive and life-giving work of God and then only subsequently to human experience of that work. Christians can confess God as “Father of Jesus Christ” because God was first “Father” to the people of Israel and to Israel’s Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth and to the followers of Jesus. -
Ordinary Ministry Extraordinary Challenge
$25.99Add to cartIn Ordinary Calling Extraordinary Challenge, Norma Cook Everist brings together several women clergy to demonstrate what parish ministry is like in women’s experience. Drawing on years of parish experience, they examine such a wide range of topics as the ministry of preaching, the ministry of stewardship, the ministry of justice, the ministry of outreach, and many more. Written for women and men, this volume will provide support, encouragement, and guidence for performing the many tasks and assuming the many roles of parish minister.
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Fearlessly Feminine : Boldly Living Gods Plan For Womanhood
$14.99Add to cartHas anybody ever asked you, “What does it mean to be a truly Christian woman?” Have you asked that yourself? Tackling sensitive topics like submission and materialism, feminism and beauty, motherhood and marriage, Ortlund helps women carefully define and confidently become who they are in Christ. Includes study questions for individual and group use.
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New Faith : A Black Christian Womans Guide To Reformation ReCreation Redisc
$15.00Add to cartIssuing a passionate call to African American Christian women, Patterson challenges her sisters in Christ to rise above “unnecessary suffering” and embrace “new faith”! Exposing the religious and social negatives that have impeded Black women until now, she shows how “corrective love” can pave the way for a better existence.
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Mother Daughter Connection
$18.99Add to cartThe Mother Daughter Connection is a book designed to help mothers form intimate, working relationships with their daughters by giving mothers an insider’s view of their daughters’ thoughts and feelings. The editor of Brio magazine for girls and a veteran youth expert, Susie Shellenberger helps mothers understand the angst and confusion teen girls feel when coping with such issues as body image, fashion envy, dating, fear of failure, and sharing one’s faith. With creative questions, conversation starters, and diary entries, mothers are given the tools to not only help their daughters, but also to learn the “stuff they gotta know” to help their daughters survive the teenage years.
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In Her Own Time
$29.00Add to cartA woman’s life is filled with possibilities and challenges at every age and stage. In this illuminating collection, leading women theologians explore themes, passages, and issues women face as they journey from pre-adolescence to the end of life. Their fresh analysis provides a much needed framework for the pastoral care of women.
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Balancing Your Emotions
$11.99Add to cartEMOTIONS are a gift from God, created to give our lives richness and meaning. But, on the other hand, they can warp us and confuse us–and make us forever fourteen.
Whether stemming from a crippled self-image, hormonal ups and downs, disappointments in life, or harmful patterns of living, much of a woman’s energy on an average day must be directed toward handling how she feels and how she acts of reacts to those feelings.
Gayle Roper is a wife, mother, and writer who has had her share of significant ups and downs. In Balancing Your Emotions, she breaks emotional problems into manageable pieces and gives strong biblical, hard-won advice to women who want consistency in the midst of their chaos. Establishing Christian values, setting reasonable goals, distinguishing between real and assumed guilt, and developing healthy daily patterns are just a few areas explored in this practical upbeat book
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Having A Mary Heart In A Martha World
$17.00Add to cartEver feel that no matter how hard you try, it’s never enough? Maybe it’s time to follow Mary’s example: leave the dishes in the sink and sit at Jesus’ feet! Through practical strategies and devotional illustrations, Weaver explains how “living room intimacy” with Christ is the key to successful “kitchen service” in the world.
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More Than Rubies
$13.99Add to cartWomen have an essential impact on the atmosphere of the home. They influence the degree of their husband’s success, the level of happiness in the family, and even the spiritual condition of the family.
More than Rubies will help women insure that their impact in their home is a good one. Debra White Smith provides principles for being a woman of godly influence and raising a family in the way of the Lord.144 pages.
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Here I Am Again Lord
$13.99Add to cartHave you ever asked yourself, “Will I ever feel in my heart what I know in my head? Am I keeping the main thing, the main thing?” Warm hearted and vulnerable, Carole Mayhall talks about the truths God has to remind her of over and over again. Here I Am Again, Lord reminds readers that growing in God’s character and stature is a lifelong task.
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Feminist Ethic Of Risk (Revised)
$29.00Add to cartRich and suggestive, distinctive and influential, A Feminist Ethic of Risk proposes a new model for ethics and new life-orientation for social justice. Directly addressing American and European “middle-class despair” over issues and challenges seemingly too large to tackle.
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Well Tended Soul
$19.99Add to cart1. How Did Mother Get Into My Mirror?
2. Soul Mirrors: Having Your True Colors Done By Trevor The Terrible
3. Soul Goals
4. Faux Soul
5. Color Me Patient, Color Me Kind
6. It’s Not Easy Being Green
7. Red-Hot Mamas I’ve Known And Been
8. Club Snob
9. A Tree Grows In Wheaton
10. “Younging”
11. Changes And Becomings
12. Transcendence192 Pages
Additional Info
1. How Did Mother Get Into My Mirror?
2. Soul Mirrors: Having Your True Colors Done By Trevor The Terrible
3. Soul Goals
4. Faux Soul
5. Color Me Patient, Color Me Kind
6. It’s Not Easy Being Green
7. Red-Hot Mamas I’ve Known And Been
8. Club Snob
9. A Tree Grows In Wheaton
10. “Younging”
11. Changes And Becomings
12. Transcendence192 Pages
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Women In The Church
$35.99Add to cartThis painstaking work will enlighten people on all sides of the issue, though Stanley Grenz makes no secret of his bold conclusion. Historical, bibical, and theoological considerations, he writes, converge not only in allowing, but also in insisting, that women serve as full partners with men in the work of the church.
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Gender And Grace
$32.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
What does it mean to be a ”normal” woman or man? What are appropriate sex roles in marriage? In parenthood? In the workplace? Those questions have become harder and harder to answer. Van Leeuwen provides a sane, thought-provoking guide out of our confusion. After gauging the influence of biology and culture, she demonstrates that there yet remains room for a good deal of personal freedom and Christian responsibility.
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Women Authority And The Bible
$35.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Evangelical advocates of traditional roles for women say the heart of the matter is biblical authority. Supporters of more open roles say the crux is biblical interpretation and application. The 26 evangelical leaders represented here ask the hard questions about women’s roles and refuse to shirk the hard exegesis needed to get answers. Essential reading for all concerned with women’s roles in the church.
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Women In Ministry
$28.99Add to cartMay women teach or exercise authority over men? Should they be ordained? Questions like these rage in the debate over women in ministry. Four committed evangelicals, Robert Culver, Susan Foh, Alvera Mickelsen, and Walter Liefeld, explain their positions and respond to the others, making for a lively exchange of ideas.
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Holy Habits : A Womans Guide To Intentional Living
$15.99Add to cartIn this book, you’ll examine the character of God to understand how to live each day intentionally and see your life the same way God does. Includes a ten week Bible study for busy women.
“TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS ARIGHT, THAT WE MAY GAIN A HEART OF WISDOM.” (Ps. 90:12)
WHAT WILL YOUR LIFE MEAN TOMORROW?
On the morning of her thirtieth birthday, Mimi Wilson woke up wondering where the years had gone. Time was passing more quickly than she’d imagined-but what had she accomplished? She lived a good, busy life. Yet even her active spiritual life seemed void of lasting meaning. The future hung directionless before her.The resulting unique, life-changing search for purpose and direction led Mimi to discover that an intimate understanding of God laid the foundation for the changes she desired. Uncover this story in the pages of Holy Habits as Mimi and her friend, Shelly Cook Volkhardt reveal how their examination of the names of God enabled them to begin living intentionally. Encounter God for yourself as they guide you to meet Him face-to-face and give you ways to make His characteristics a part of your daily patterns. Let Mimi and Shelly’s personal experience and in-depth study lead you to an intimate, lasting relationship with God which will give you a life full of purpose and direction.
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Grace Sufficient : A History Of Women In American Methodism 1760-1968
$38.99Add to cartHistories of women and American religion have tended to focus on women’s religious activities rather than on women’s religious lives. Studies of early American religion and spirituality have usually depended on the journals and sermons of male preachers. In order to understand the religious lives of ordinary Methodist women, Jean Miller Schmidt has looked at their diaries, letters, spiritual autobiographies, and the accounts of their pious lives and holy deaths that appeared as obituaries in publications like the Methodist Magazine. These powerful stories of faith are part of the shared history of Methodist people.
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Duh Votions : Words Of Wisdom For The Spiritually Challenged
$14.99Add to cartYou Don’t Have to Be Deep to Hear God’s Voice!
It’s so simple! So simple a shallow person can understand it. What I’ve found out about God is that he is totally trustworthy, and I can relax in his plans. And besides that, all he wants is – are you ready for this? – for me to be his person. Just be his person, for heaven’s sake! All I can say to that is, Duh! Who knows? Next I may be writing a six-volume Bible commentary! – Sue Buchanan in Duh-VotionsMeet Sue Buchanan. She says to audiences, “I may as well tell you because you’ll figure it out anyway: I’m not that deep. I’m shallow. But I’m deep for a shallow person.”
Sue offers a merry and witty look at life from the “shallow” end of the gene pool in sixty fun devotions. From entertaining angels with chicken andaluza to listing her not-so-favorite blond jokes, from a debate on Spam vs. baloney to dramas between mothers and daughters, she’ll make you laugh . . . and think about some important lessons in life.
This very funny lady shows us all that we don’t have to be “deep” to hear God’s voice. All we have to do is listen and we’ll find his message about love and redemption in even the smallest details of everyday life.
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Feminist And Womanist Pastoral Theology
$29.99Add to cartIn the last decade, the focus of pastoral theology has shifted dramatically from care defined as counseling to care understood within a wider social, political, and religious context. Feminist and womanist theory as well as feminist and womanist faith convictions have played a key role in this development. This collection of essays identifies the many changes occurring in definitions of pastoral theology, care, and counseling; defines and develops new methods and approaches; and attends to the implications of these changes for congregational care and theological education
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Longing For Running Water
$29.00Add to cartThis short reflection documents Gebara’s dawning awarness, as a lifelong city dweller, of how interwined are the tarnished enviroment around her and the poverty taht afflicts her nrighbors. From these experiances she creates a gritty urban ecofeminism and in this book articulates a whole worldview. Here she proposes “a new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos.”
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Womens War In The South
$22.95Add to cartThe Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts the manner in which Southern women experienced the war and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts from the letters, books, diaries, and postwar writings the women left behind, it reveals the other side of the war — the women’s war — through first-person accounts of women running farms, buying and selling goods, working outside the home, serving as spies, and even participating in combat in disguise.
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Living A Purpose Full Life (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartGod’s calling in a woman’s life isn’t meant to remain a mystery. More than a role, a spiritual gift, or a job you love, finding your God-given purpose is about knowing who you are. Jan Johnson explains what a “life purpose” is, why you need it, and how you can find it. Discover the joy of Living a Purpose-Full Life! Includes a Bible study and questions for reflection.
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Speaking For Ourselves
$19.95Add to cartThere are many powerful women in the Bible, but their descriptions are almost always tantalizingly brief. If they had a chance to tell their own stories in their own voices, what would they have said? Basing her interpretation of these women on extensive research, Katerina Whitley puts herself in their shoes, giving today’s listeners a fuller understanding of each of their stories. The women explored include: the Virgin Mary, Miriam, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth, and more. Study questions follow each woman’s story.
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Pentateuch : A Liberation Critical Reading
$21.00Add to cartProviding new insights into the major themes of the Pentateuch, Laffey challenges contemporary readers with her probing questions about power, liberation, justice, and connectedness. Her interpretation provides a unique feminist-critical perspective of these biblical texts as she emphasizes respectful interdependence and concern for all humans, animals, plants, and elements.
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Its Always Darkest Before The Fun Comes Up
$12.99Add to cartThere are two kinds of laughter. One is a hollow hilarity that masks pain too deep for words. The other is a full, joyous laugh that sounds triumphantly on the far side of life’s dark passages.
Comedian Chonda Pierce knows about both kinds. In It’s Always Darkest Before the Fun Comes Up, this spunky preacher’s daughter will do more than tickle your ribs. She’ll touch the place in you where laughter and tears dwell side by side. She’ll show you the deep wisdom of a merry heart. And with humor and honesty, she’ll reveal the God who knows how to turn life’s worst punches into its most glorious punch lines – in his perfect time.
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Feminist Interpretation : The Bible In Womens Perspective
$23.00Add to cartIn the hundred years since The Woman’s Bible, giant strides have been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors systematically recount efforts to describe the story of women in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women, and to describe biblical traditions that empower women.
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Counseling Depressed Women
$29.95Add to cartEach volume in this series focuses on practical ways to respond to a serious and difficult pastoral concern within clinical and congregational settings. Offering fresh insights from pastoral theology, each volume integrates the most up to date information in psychology and the human sciences. All the authors write out of firsthand counseling experiences as well as the most recent research on their topics. The result is an invaluable series for counselors and pastors who regularly face tough issues as they offer care to clients and congregants.
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Strange Woman : Power And Sex In The Bible
$42.00Add to cartFrom the Publisher: Adultery, harlotry, independence, and power. Few today would say that these are equal. But to the male-dominated, male-documented world of ancient Israel and early Christianity, a woman who asserted herself was the equivalent of a prostitute. In a world where religious law severely limited women’s opportunities, those who did use prostitution and adultery to find a form of freedom not readily available to most women were castigated for their actions. This new book from Gail Corrington examines the treatment some of these women recieved and illustrates how biblical texts often apply the term “adultery” to any independant female behavior….sexual or not.
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By Design : Gods Distinctive Calling For Women
$22.50Add to cartGod did not make a mistake when He made men and women different. He had a distinctive plan and a distinctive purpose for each, stamping the helper design upon women at creation. This book is a joyous celebration of that profound fact. But it is more. It is a reliving cry to the church to retain one of its most valuable-and nearly forgotten-resources: its women.
By Design is not about answering feminist arguments or exegeting biblical passages on traditional roles, submission, or headship. Instead, it is an uplifting and practical introduction to God’s wonderful design for women. It is also a challenge to women everywhere to explore the significance of your distinctives and return to your biblical calling. And it is a plea for the church to equip and mobilize you to help a hurting world and capture a culture for Christ through ministries of mercy and compassion.
Like Susan Hunt’s previous works, Spiritual Mothering and The True Woman, this book is a strong affirmation of your value as a woman and a great resource for anyone involved in women’s ministries.
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Faith Of Our Foremothers
$38.00Add to cartHere are the stories of twelve women, all religious educators, all of whom transformed the field of religious education, some long before the contemporary feminist movement. Though the women represent different times, interests, and approaches to the discipline, they all shared a commitment to creative and enthusiastic religious education.
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Caretakers Of Our Common House
$30.99Add to cartNorth American culture bombards girls and women with negative and demeaning images of their gender. It trains girls and women to “give themselves away” by overemphasizing their caring for others and underdeveloping their sense of voice and personal authority. Carol Lakey Hess asks in this book whether caring families and the church can make a difference in the outcome of our daughters’ development. Weaving together theological, psychological, and biblical sources, Hess examines how theologians of self-sacrifice thwart both the spiritual and the psychological development of women by subverting their necessary self-assertion. The importance of self-differentiation and cognitive autonomy and of caring and connection are discussed, using as illustrations biblical stories, excerpts from novels, and an in-depth look at eating disorders.
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Concept Of Woman Volume 1
$53.99Add to cartA careful and well-written historical study of the thinking about women in the Western world. It provides a sympathetic justification for some feminist intuitions that, at this point, are not well grounded philosophically. It will be well received by those who respect the difficulties feminism points to but see the exaggerastion and false directions it is going in.
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Living Somewhere Between Estrogen And Death
$18.99Add to cartFor women only, this is one of Barbara Johnson’s most unique books. With her zany collection of observations about “life between the Blue Lagoon and Golden Pond,” Barbara jumps right in, showing women how to survive growing older with courage and joy.
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Women And Religion
$22.00Add to cartA thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most outstanding volume on women in Christianity
A classic in the field of religious studies since its original publication in 1977, Women and Religion has remained the definitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership. This new edition-completely revised by the original editors, renowned historian Elizabeth A. Clark and theologian Herbert Richardson, with the assistance of Gary Brower and Randall Styers-includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis. An invaluable resource for exploring the progressive history of women and Christian thought.
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Fellowship Of Love
$30.99Add to cartDocuments the contributions of white Methodist women to the civil rights struggle from 1920 to 1968.
With a historian’s precision and a passion for social justice, Alice Knotts shows in this book how the activities of the Methodist women’s movement for civil rights developed decade by decade. Their activities were rarely in the public eye, yet they were shaping and being shaped by events and public opinion.
An astute and insightful history, Fellowship of Love documents the contributions of white Methodist women in the American civil rights struggle. The research for this volume has won the Jessie Lee Prize from the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. It documents in one volume otherwise disparate information important to understanding the contributions of women in the Methodist Church to race struggles in 20th-century America. -
Wrestling With The Patriarchs
$21.99Add to cartThe voices of women in religious history are examined. Practical exercises and strategies, along with a six-session educational program, are offered for women clergy in general, for women preachers in particular, and for congregations as a whole. All of these focus on reclaiming women’s voices in the church and infusing the proclamation of God’s word with their individual, unique styles.
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Through The Eyes Of Women
$39.00Add to cartThis insightful sourcebook covers a range of pastoral care topics including the role of women in pastoral theology and pastoral care, care of African American women and women entering ministry, as well as issues from a range of women’s experiences such as anger, aggression, loss of mothers, eating disorders, hysterectomy, mastectomy, rape, and older women’s issues. Transformative essays on women’s spiritual care, community, self-sacrifice, and self-denial conclude this collaborative work.
