A Woman God Can Use/A Woman Jesus Can Teach
by Alice Mathews
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Book 1. Eve: How to see long-term consequences in little decisions -- Leah: How to live with a man who doesn't love you -- Rahab: How to choose God in your culture -- Deborah: How to lead when call by God to do so -- Ruth: How to see God in the dailiness of life -- Hannah: How to deal with depression -- Abigail: How to live with a difficult husband -- The widow of Zarephath: How to cope when times are tough -- Huldah and Miriam: How to use your spiritual gifts wisely -- Esther: How to use show more power to benefit others -- The Proverbs 31 woman: How to keep your priorities straight -- Mary: How to bring Christ to your world. In A Woman God Can Use, the author examines the lives of 12 women from the Old Testament to teach us how women today can overcome obstacles that hinder them from becoming all they can be in God. In A Women God Can Teach, Mathews turns her attention from the lives and choices of the Old Testament women to the discipleship of the women of the New Testament gospels. show lessTags
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Alice Mathews is Lois W. Bennett Distinguished Professor Emerita in Women's Ministries and Educational Ministries at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She has traveled the world as a Bible teacher and cohosted the Our Daily Bread Ministries Bible-teaching radio program Discover the Word for twenty-three years. Now retired, she continues to work show more with doctoral students and continues to write, especially about the intersection of women and the church. Alice resides in Lake Zurich, Illinois. show less
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- Canonical title
- A Woman God Can Use/A Woman Jesus Can Teach
- Original publication date
- 1990
- Dedication
- To Randall with whom I have walked hand in hand and side by side in ministry and in love.
- First words
- [Introduction] The 1990s are not easy years in which to be a Christian woman.
What are the toughest decisions you have to make? - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)What goals would you like to set for your discipleship as a Christian woman in the last decade of the twentieth century?
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 248.843
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 248.843 — Religion Christian practice & observance Christian experience, practice, life Christian Living for specific groups Christian Living for Adults Christian Living for Women
- LCC
- BS575 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion The Bible The Bible Works about the Bible Men, women, and children of the Bible
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