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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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Recupere A Su Esponso Antes Qu – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartThe author helps wives understand how to work toward a succesful reconciliation.This book was written especially for the woman who wants her husband back in spite of his choice to separate.
El autor guia a las esposas a entender los pasos hacia una exitosa reconciliacion. Este libro esta escrito especialmente para la esposa que desea recuperar a su esposo a pesar de la decision de el de separarse.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Mothers Heart : A Look At Values Vision And Character For The Christian Mot
$16.99Add to cartBeing a mother is the most rewarding job in the world—and one of the toughest! In this newly revised and updated bestseller, Flemming offers encouragement to mothers of all ages and backgrounds. You’ll discover how to pray for your child’s needs, how to be thankful for your child’s strengths and weaknesses, and, with God’s help, how to become the mother you’ve always wanted to be.
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You Have Stept Out Of Your Place
$58.00Add to cartThis book fills an important gap in American women’s history. The author manages to discuss four centuries of women’s experience in the United States clearly, inclusively, and with both a sensitivity to feminist issues and a faithfullness to women’s own experience that ensures this book will have a wide readership. This book spans a broad range of geographic, ethnic, racial and denominational range of American women’s religious experiences and contributions and attempts to preverse the intregrity and diversity of their voices. In the absense of strong counterevidence, the author has assumed that American women were basically telling the truth about who they were, what they did, and why they did it.
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Leading Women
$29.99Add to cartThis helpful volume shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in the male-dominated world of church leadership. Becker names gender traps, examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church, and explores communication strategies for both women and men. This book is part of a new series by Norman Shawchuck, developer of the Marketing/Leading/Managing trilogy. New paradigms for communication and leadership will be presented in order to further the advancement of vocation for women in ministry.
Key Features: * examines the unique perspective that women bring to leadership in the church * names the gender traps * explores communication strategies for women and men
Key Benefits: * helps pastors address issues concerning the rapidly growing number of women in positions of church leadership * show how to avoid traps that are set up to limit women in their ministries * shows women how to communicate and influence decisions in a male-dominated world.
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Lydias Impatient Sisters
$57.00Add to cartLydia’s Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff’s work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.
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Designing A Womans Life
$15.99Add to cartThere is no one else in the world exactly–or even remotely–like you.
You may already believe God made you as a singular design. What you may overlook is that he has a unique purpose for your life.
We all dsire to live purposefully. This commonality binds women together.
-We want to know our lives have meaning, that what we do matters.
-We desire to develop and nurture our God-given talents and abilities.
-We search to discover what it means to be ourselves.
-We long to discover our purpose, our reason for being.In Designing a Woman’s Life, Judith Couchman sensitively explores these timeless longings, reflecting upon the critical issue of personal significance. Discover how you can move beyond mere existence to a life you truly love–one that’s overflowing with meaning and purpose–with Designing a Woman’s Life.
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Stained Glass Ceiling
$24.00Add to cartAs record numbers of women graduate from seminaries,they are increasingly filling positions once held exclusivelyby men. Purvis documents what happened in the lives of two congregations that appointed women senior pastors and the impact these appointments had on all concerned. She carefully assesses the changes and discerns the significance of female leadership as opposed to male leadership in these two settings.
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Designing Effective Womens Ministries
$24.99Add to cart5 Parts
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Do you have a vision for women’s ministry? Here’s how to make it a reality.For nearly 25 years, Elmbrook Church in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has supported a variety of ministries by and for women. Today their program stands as a model. Yet, as the authors of Designing Effective Women’s Ministries will tell you, it did not happen overnight, but through trial and error.
In this book, the authors share what worked for them and what didn’t. They explain how to start where you are, with what you have, and how to do what God wants you to do.
This book includes tips and techniques for establishing groups and programs that meet the needs of today’s women. The book shows how to develop programs that are specifically tailored to your church and your community.
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Out Of The Garden
$19.00Add to cartAs the one work that has held moral and religious sway over the Judeo-Christian tradition for thousands of years, the Bible is unsurpassed in world literature. For women, its meaning is particularly complex; traditionally, the Bible has been used to keep women in their place, but it has also been a book of enduring inspiration. Out of the Garden marks a new stage in women’s relations to the Bible: this is the first collection of essays in which women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity–free to explore what is really relevant to women’s lives.
Drawing on their own experiences and interests, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, Fay Weldon, Phyllis Trible, Rebecca Goldstein, June Jordan, Ursula K. Le Guin, and twenty-one other writers boldly, imaginatively–and sometimes reproachfully–address the Old Testament stories, characters, and poetry that mean the most to them. Thoughtful, challenging, and playful, these beautifully written essays explore the Bible in fresh new ways. Out of the Garden reclaims the Bible for women and shows readers that the Bible is a source we can return to again and again.
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Living The Intersection
$21.00Add to cartWomanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. They both heighten black cultural self-awareness, even as they deepen knowledge of its historical sources. As womanism mines the ways and wisdom of African American women for Christian theology, so Afrocentricity excavates an African past to liberate the oppressed from Eurocentric worldviews. Yet are the two compatible? What does the mostly male Afrocentric scholarship contribute to the survival, wholeness, and liberation of black women? In this volume social ethicist Cheryl Sanders and other leading womanist thinkers take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and explore the intricate relationship between Afrocentric and womanist perspectives in their lives and commitments. Their strong, frank assessments form a creative engagement of these two momentous streams.
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God Beyond Gender
$24.00Add to cart144 Pages
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God Beyond Gender is a feminist critique of the traditional language used for God and in the church. Can masculine pronouns for God be retained on the basis of bibical usage? Can Trinitarian language be gender inclusive? What should be the Christain understanding of the devine name of God (YHWH) in the Old Testament? What are the possibilities and what are the hazards of using human images (“judge,” “shepherd,” “father,” “mother,” “Sophia”) for God? Is all human language and possibly all human thought necessarily metaphorical? -
Clothed With The Sun
$45.00Add to cartThe Bible holds a great treasure of amazing women. They are judges and prophets, caregivers and teachers, prominent matriarchs of large clans or quiet disciples, women who suffered alone or sang joyous praises to God amid the crowds. Their stories come alive in these pages as they are interwoven with the lives of modern women, bound together by common threads of strength and courage in the face of vulnerability and violation. From Eve to Revelation’s woman clothed with the sun–from the first creative impulse to the close of time–female energy has been and will continue to be a river of life and wisdom, of dignity and hope.
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Mary Magdalene And Many Others
$39.00Add to cartThis extensive study of Mary Magdalene and the “many other women” mentioned in the Gospels sheds light on how Jesus treated women. Ricci is surprised that so much that is known about these women is ignored by scholars who choose to turn the focus away from these loyal followers of Jesus.
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Mama Get The Hammer Theres A Fly On Papas Head
$18.99Add to cart8 Chapters With 172 Pages
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Laughter lace, reality based, and just a little bit off the wall, this book is vintage Barbara Johnson – a gift of hilarity and hope from America’s queen of encouragement.Barbara Johnson has staked her life and her ministry on the healing power of a positive outlook. But here she zeros directly in on the therapeutic benefit of a smile, a giggle, and a good old-fashioned belly laugh. She insists that laughing in the face of adversity is not a form of denial, but a proven tool for managing stress, coping with pain, and maintaining hope. And to prove her point, she presents this funnybone tickling, heart touching laugh manual – packed with hard-earned wisdom.. and custom designed to nudge you (giggle) down the road to positive living.
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From Eve To Esther
$44.00Add to cartThis is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources employed by the author bring new life and insight into the stories of Eve, Deborah, Hannah, Serah bat Asher, and others. As women and men today attempt to reevaluate past historical models, it serves us well to understand the values and inner workings of rabbinic thinking. The examination of what the sources actually say, and not what others would like them to have said, enable reinterpretation of women’s role to proceed on an honest and authentic basis. Biblical women, reclaimed with contemporary midrash, can become paradigms for our modern lives.
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In Her Words
$35.99Add to cartIn Her Words illustrates the contributions made to contemporary Christian theology by the increasing number of female theologians. Oden compiles selections from the writings of major female theologians from the early church through the present. The older selections have been translated into modern English. Each selection is accompanied by a brief introduction outlining its historical and theological context. Selections from the early church include Perpetua, The Martyrdom of Crispina, The Martyrdom of Agape, Irene, and Chione; from the monastic and middle period are Clare of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Leoba, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena; and post-1500 C.E. include Teresa of Avila, Jane de Chantal, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Georgia Harkness.
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Proverbs 31 Woman
$7.00Add to cartThe Woman described in Proverbs 31 is strong and productive, independent and efficient-yet kind and comforting, a safe harbor to her husband. She has the incredible ability to mix relationship and achievement. In this revealing study of the “Virtuous Woman”, Dr. Murdock unlocks her secrets and, from a man’s view point, examines the qualities that make her so remarkable. This book will challenge you to discover your own ULTIMATE POTENTIAL as a woman and a wife!!
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Passion And Reason
$30.00Add to cartGrace Cumming Long provides us with a Christian ethics from the perspective of women’s experience, rooted in passion and reason, emotion and research. Through a collage of autobiographical narratives and feminist theologies Cumming Long constructs an unconventional approach to moral questioning, using the arts of cooking, painting, quilting, and weaving to illuminate how Christians must be creative in finding faithful ways to respond to God and to the social crises of our day. She examines welfare, reproductive choice, addiction, handicapping conditions, and AIDS within her ethical framework, and maintains that cooperation, dependence, creativity, and the compassionate use of power are the theological values Christians bring to an ethics that move us beyond patriarchy.
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1 Minute Businesswomans Devotional
$12.00Add to cartA Woman’s Devotional Filled With Success Principles From The Scriptures And Practical Methods For Achieving And Maintaining Your Goals. Gain the edge you need to succeed in today’s competitive business society through topics such as…5 Steps For Setting Goals / 12 Things You Can Expect From God / 6 Things You Must Eliminate From Your Life. This Book Could Be The Turning Point of Your Life.
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Paul Women And Wives
$37.00Add to cartPaul’s letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far. Acknowledging that we must take the biblical text seriously, and recognizing that Paul’s letters arose in a specific time and place for a specific purpose, Keener mines the historical, lexical, cultural, and exegetical details behind Paul’s words about women in the home and ministry to give us one of the most insightful expositions of the key Pauline passages in years.
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No Longer Be Silent
$45.00Add to cartCheryl Brown studies the portrayal of women in Biblical Antiquities, attributed to Philo, and in the Jewish Antiquities of Josephus, two documents that characterize women differently than their biblical prototypes. Her insightful investigation will bring new perspectives on the subject of women in Judaeo-Christian tradition during the Greco-Roman period.
The Gender and the Biblical Tradition series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning women and the Bible, ancient Israel, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of sexuality within the biblical tradition and document the continuing influence of biblical treatments of gender on subsequent life and thought.
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Great Women Of The Bible
$15.99Add to cart1. The Woman Who Got Her Man (Ruth 1:16)
2. The Woman Whose Beauty Saved A Race (Esther 4:16)
3. The Woman Who Was Better Than Her Job (Joshua 2:21)
4. The Woman To Remember (Genesis 19:26)
5. Two Women Of Bethany (Luke 10:39; John 12:2)
6. The Woman Who Sheared Him (Judges 16:19)
7. The Woman Who Married The Wrong Man (1 Samuel 25:3)
8. The Woman Who Deceived Her Husband (Genesis 27:15)
9. The Woman Who Married The Right Man (Genesis 29:20)
10. The Woman Who Had Five Husbands – And One Who Was Not (John 4:18)
11. The Woman Who Lost And Found Life’s Greatest Treasure (2 Kings 4:16,20,36)
12. The Woman Who Touched Him (Luke 8:45)
13. The Ideal Woman (Proverbs 31:29) P. 143Additional Info
A series of insightful and Bible-centered sermons on great (and not so great) women of the Bible from the mind and pen of one of America’s great preachers. Of this series Macartney wrote: “Among the subjects of the sermons in this volume is one of the bad women of the Bible, for no series on women of the Bible would be complete without a sermon on such a character as Delilah, the temptress of Samson.“To preach on these biblical women is to illustrate life in its deepest reality – sometimes base, ignoble, comtemptible and wicked, but often lofty, noble, godlike, and glorious. Like the great men of the Bible, too, the great women of the Bible afford the preacher an unsurpassed opportunity to press home upon the people the claims of Christ as Friend and Redeemer.”
In this series of thirteen sermons, Macartney uses his “sanctified imagination” and bibilcal knowledge to glean lessons from the lives of Ruth, Esther, Rahab, Lot’s Wife, Martha and Mary, Delilah, Abigail, Rachel, Rebekah, The Samaritan Woman, The Shunammite, The Woman with the Issue of Blood, and The Faithful Woman of Proverbs 31.
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Readings In Her Story
$22.00Add to cartREADINGS IN HER STORY is a unique anthology. Barbara MacHaffie has collected into one volume 74 of the most important Christian documents and passages by and about women. Ranging from Genesis to now, these primary sources put the reader directly in touch with the most significant and influential events, personalities, and issues of women’s religious history. Often lamentably and sometimes glorious, these voices–ancient and modern, female and male, Roman Catholic and Protestant, feminist and patriarchal–bear decisively on women’s identities today.
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Leadership For Women In The Church
$16.99Add to cartThis book is about how Christian women can identify and focus their leadership skills on tasks that need to be undertaken in the church. It is about how Christian men can recognize and use the leadership talents of the women in the church. Finally, it is about how local churches, those with denominational affiliation and those without, can integrate the full range of women’s abilities with the tremendous needs in the kingdom of God.
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5 Minute Devotional
$16.99Add to cartLet’s face it. More often than not, in today’s hurried-up society, many of us have devotions quickly or not at all. Jan Silvious has written The 5-Minute Devotional for all of us busy women. This five-minute-a-day devotional will inspire and encourage all of us who struggle with too many commitments and too little quiet time.
For each workday of the week, all 52 weeks of the year, you will find spiritual and emotional refreshment in these beautifully written meditations. Marriage, forgiveness, trust, communication, love, and relationships are only a sampling of the themes featured in the devotions and listed in the topical index.
You will carry the truths you gain from each devotion through your day. So take five minutes to focus on the Lord – and see what a difference it can make in your workday.
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Far More Precious Than Jewels
$36.00Add to cartOne of the best ways to grasp the contours of an idea is to look at it from a perspective not your own. Darr concisely introduces interpretive models from three ”different” traditions—rabbinical, critical, and feminist—to give Christians new ways of understanding Old Testament women. She focuses particularly on Ruth, Sarah, Hagar, and Esther. This is the first volume in Westminster’s new series, Gender and the Biblical Tradition
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Reformed And Feminist
$30.00Add to cartCan one be a feminist and still remain true to the Reformer’s cry of “sola Scriptura” and Calvin’s Institutes? Part autobiography, part exposition, part theology, this title challenges the church to be more inclusive of women and find roles and functions to take advantage of their newly won equality.
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Women And The Genesis Of Christianity
$49.99Add to cartThis study explores the role of women in New Testament times. Beginning with the woman’s place in Judaism, in the Hellenistic world, and in the Roman Empire, Witherington demonstrates how Jesus broke significantly with convention in how he viewed women, offering as he did a wholly new conception of the legitimate rights of women in society.
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Women Of Genesis
$24.00Add to cartTHE WOMEN OF GENESIS 12-50 describes the significant roles of the many women mentioned in the biblical book of Genesis. Through close attention to the literary features of the text, the author depicts Sarah, the daughter of Lot, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah, Dinah, Tamar, and Potiphar’s wife as integral persons who shaped Israel’s destiny, revealed perspectives on God’s involvement in the course of history, and portrayed human failure, freedom and strength.
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All The Women Of The Bible
$18.99Add to cart1. The Life And Lot Of Bible Women
2. Alphabetical Exposition Of Named Bible Women
3. Nameless Bible Women
4. Symbolic And Representative Women
5. The Ideal Woman Among Bible Women
6. Aids For Women’s Groups And Meetings
7. Biographical Study Of A Bible Woman
8. Messages For Mother’s Day
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Dr. Herbet Lockyer provides a convenient commentary on all the named and unnamed women of the Bible from Abi to Zipporah. He reveals how the life roand character of women of Bible times mirrors the situation among women today. The more than 400 entries are concise and fact-filled, providing ample resource materials for all who are called upon to speak in public or conduct Bible study groups. -
Daughters Of The Church
$39.99Add to cartRich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very fact that readers may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been guilty of. This is a book about women. It is a setting straight off the record — a restoring of balance to history that has repeatedly played down the significance of the contributions of women to the theology, the witness, the movements, and the growth of the church. An exegetical study of relevant Scripture passages offers stimulating thought for discussion and for serious reevaluation of historical givens. This volume is enriched by pictures, appendixes, bibliography, and indexes. Like many of the women whose stories it tells, this book has a subdued strength that should not be underestimated.
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Women Freedom And Calvin
$29.00Add to cartFreedom, as understood by John Calvin, and as applied to the role of women in church and society, is the subject of this provocative book. Putting into perspective discussions about women in the church, particularly their ordination, Jane Dempsey Douglass looks not only at Calvin’s Institutes but also at the work of humanists who were contemporaries of the Reformer, along with writings by and about women that could have influenced him.
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Disciplines Of A Beautiful Woman
$14.99Add to cart1. Your First Decision, And What Follows
2. Reshaping Your Life To Three Priorities
3. Your Attitude Towards Work
4. Your Looks
5. Your Goals
6. Your Daily Scheduling
7. Your Growing Life
8. Your Life Behind The Scenes
9. Your Closest Relationships
10. Your Public Life
11. Your Desk
12. Your Notebook
13. Your Reaction To What You’ve Read
14. What Is A Beautiful Woman?
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For every woman who wants to be truly beautiful … from the inside out, Anne Ortlund gives practical, specific suggestions-hints for managing a schedule, maintaining a wardrobe, organizing a personal notebook. Sections on prayer, meditation, and discipling combine practical “hows” with thoughtful and considered “whys.” Anne Ortlund is concerned with the beauty of the whole woman. Young and old, homemakers and career women can all profit from this sound advice on how to live beautifully.
