Jesus Through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord

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She is the author of Confronting Christianity, named Christianity Today’s 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year, and of multiple other books including The Secular Creed (2021) and Confronting Jesus (2022). Contributors to this inspiring scripture study include: Alyssa Bormes, Sarah Christmyer, Mary Healy, Maria Morera Johnson, Stephanie Landsem, Elizabeth Lev, Joan Lewis, Deborah Savage, Kelly Wahlquist, Katie Warner, and Carol Younger.

After seeing Jesus through the eyes of women, I am left with a bigger and clearer picture of my King. With teaching videos featuring Jennie Allen, Jada Edwards, Sadie Robertson Huff, and Bianca Olthoff, you will journey back to the roads Jesus walked to discover that women play a huge part in the kingdom of God, and we have all been given a job to do: spread the gospel.

Sie arbeitet heraus, dass das alles so Andersartig und Sonderbar für diese Zeit ist, aber dabei bleibt es. But even if we limited our scope still further and only kept the parts of Jesus’s life that were witnessed by women named Mary, we’d lose very little! Not much is known about the childhood of Jesus, but the Gospels highlight six key moments in his early life: the angel Gabriel proclaiming Jesus' birth to Mary at the Annunciation a pregnant Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem the presentation of Jesus in the temple the flight of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus to Egypt discovering the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple Week by week, you will dig deep into each of the scriptural vignettes of Jesus' early life and grow in your faith as you learn about virtues such as humility, patience, charity, reverence, prudence, and courage. WINE: Women In the New Evangelization offers its second, six-week scripture study, this time following the infancy and early years of Christ as seen through the eyes of Mary and other familiar and imagined women in the gospels. We see that Jesus is the one who truly satisfies, and he is the only one who can make us whole again.

This book pointed out scriptures I can go to and provided very deep discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Fur- 3 thermore, we reject the materialist and consequentialist worldview that understands medical applications of AI as a means of improving, changing, or completing human beings. Each of them provides a glimpse of our Lord, showing how Jesus Himself cared deeply for these women and, not only honored them, but elevated the dignity and integrity of women in a culture where women were often abused and sadly, often treated as little more than property.With insight and inspiration on every page, Rebecca McLaughlin shows us the real Jesus in all his tenderness, majesty, compassion, and defiance.

We see him as the one who does not count their history against them, but who knows each detail of their past and welcomes them into his stunning future. Chapter two notes the female itinerant disciples of Jesus and focuses on Mary and Martha of Bethany. We further deny the goodness and benefit of any application of AI that devalues or degrades the dignity and worth of another human being. Through the eyes of the sinful woman who crashes Simon the Pharisee’s dinner party (Luke 7:36-49), at last we see Jesus as “the one who defends” the woman wetting his feet with her tears and wiping them with her hair.

To look at Jesus through the eyes of women may seem at first like an innately modern project,” McLaughlin admits in the book’s conclusion. As we look through the eyes and lives of women in the Gospels, we can more clearly see Jesus in all of his resolute truth and radiant beauty. Herein is instruction and encouragement for women and men alike seeking to live as brothers and sisters in God's family. From the foreword by Teresa Tomeo , Syndicated radio host and author of Intimate Graces "Beautifully written, rooted in the infancy narratives, and ingeniously imagined and structured, Gaze Upon Jesus is a marvelous encounter with the Child Jesus through feminine eyes--and the six key virtues we all can learn from it.

If you want further reading on biblical womanhood as it relates to feminism, I would check out Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley or Eve in Exile by Rebekah Merkle.At the end of each chapter there are discussion questions and questions where you could go even deeper. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.