Examine the lives and experiences of seven women from ancient Israel; their flaws, faith, struggles and solutions.
Part of the Good Book Guides series.
Ask the average person about women from the Old Testament and they will probably imagine that these ancient documents have little to say. After all, doesn't the Bible come from an age in which women were totally repressed? In fact, until recently, hasn't the Bible itself been responsible for keeping women down?
If these are opinions that you share or have come across, then this Good Book Guide will give you a totally different view of the Bible. It examines the lives and experiences of seven women from ancient Israel, highlighting their flaws and their faith, their struggles and solutions. Women who were wives, mothers and worshippers of God — from a pagan prostitute to a prophetess waging war.
Through the lives of these women we learn about God, ourselves, the great problem with this world, and what God is doing about it. This is not just a history course — these stories could change your life!
Introduction
1. Eve: from doubt to disaster (Genesis 3)
2. Sarah: from unbelief to faith (Genesis (various passages))
3. Rahab: from fear to faith (Joshua 2 & 6)
4. Deborah: from oppression to praise (Judges 4)
5. Hannah: from grief to gratitude (1 Samuel 1)
6. Abigail: from folly to wisdom (1 Samuel 25)
7. The Shunammite: from death to life (2 Kings 4 v 8-37)
8. The godly wife: from wisdom to honour (Proverbs 31 v 10-31)
Leaders' Guide
| Contributors | Mary Davis |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781904889526 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Dimensions | 140mm x 210mm x 5.2mm |
| Weight | 0.12 kg |
| Print size | 9.0pt |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 88 |
| No. of studies | 7 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
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"The format is very user-friendly and the content is rich and accessible."
This study is very good. Perfect for someone new to leading Bible studies. The group have appreciated the detail and the challenging questions. I am a little disappointed with the copy I purchased as some of the printing is very pale but I know you can’t check every book.
Started a women’s Bible study. I am using this book as the basis of our studies. We don’t cover every question in the sessions as we wouldn’t have time but I look at them all so can draw on them and we have great discussions.
I’m part of a zoom Bible study group and ‘Women of Faith’ is proving suitable for a mix of Christian experience, although I feel it makes a difference that some of the group have in-depth Bible knowledge as this contributes immensely to the discussions in answer to the questions posed. Without this, some answers may just be ‘two dimensional. While there aren’t ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ answers, there are leaders notes tucked away at the book of the book to help the discussions along. This also means that in our group we can share the leading of different sessions. With our group, we’ve found allowing two evenings of study (each evening is 80 minutes maximum, ie two free zoom sessions!) has helped us not to rush things, allows us time to read out loud the Bible passages, while still leaving ‘homework’ to consider the more personal questions.
Of the studies themselves, focussing on women is both interesting and challenging, and offers different perspectives on passages we may already be familiar with.
This looks an excellent study book which we are planning to use with our ladies group in the New Year.I like the way the studies are set out, with questions which are relative to the passage. I also like the "explore more" questions which compare other scriptures with the same theme, because they add extra insight into the passage being studied. The leaders' notes at the end offer a good back up and clearly explain the point of each question. I shall look forward to starting it in January. Beryl.
God bless
Very good to help us study these ladies of faith. We are only on the third character. There is a wrong reference in study no 2, question 6 should read Genesis 18 v 1-15.
This book is easy to use and has something to say to all levels of spiritual maturity. It is especially relevant in these times of confusion and contradiction regarding gender rôles. Good for groups. I wish it included women of faith from the New Testament as well. The font size is uncomfortably small.
Used this book with a group of young mums, mostly young in faith. All found it a useful introduction to familiar and not so familiar Bible characters. Provoked good discussion. This is a series of books I had not seen before but would certainly use again.
We found this a deeper study than we expected. Our house group consists of 10people at the moment. Most of us have been in the same house group and church for many years and so are an experienced group.
It has been refreshing to look at these women of faith in a different way; the questions have truly been thought provoking. A study that is interesting for beginners and equally good for groups like us who have enjoyed going deeper.
Our entire Womens' group of 30+ has studied this as it is so good. Really penetrating questions, and lots of thought provoking material. There is also NT one I am told.
