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

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Throughout the author employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead us into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus, lifting away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting.

Popular Catholic media personality Teresa Tomeo, also a member of WINE, wrote the foreword for the book.Because you were interested in this event we have pulled together the following resources that we believe will be of interest to you.

Rebecca is the author of Confronting Christianity; 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion and 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Looking through their eyes, we see a man who valued women of all kinds— especially those vilified by others. We see that Jesus is the one who truly satisfies, and he is the only one who can make us whole again. In Jesus through the Eyes of Women, Rebecca McLaughlin explores the life-changing accounts of women who met the Lord.

The commentary captures the rough and tumble as well as the glory of God's Kingdom, bringing to life that sense of immediacy and wonder which Mark's Gospel intends to convey. Perhaps one weakness should be noted and that is that McLaughlin adds one point that shows she confuses Israel and the church. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you.

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. Auch schienen mir die Kapitelzusammenfassungen, in denen McLaughlin schreibt, wie wir Jesus denn nun durch die Augen von Frauen sehen, oberflächlich und theologisch platt.AI should not intrude upon or substitute for the biblical expression of sexuality between a husband and wife according to God’s design for human marriage. Because human brains are made up of gray and white matter, the gray matter is believed to represent processing centers for information, and the white matter is the networking part of these processing centers. 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. Through these healed women’s eyes, we see Jesus as the one who can make us whole if we just touch the hem of his garment, but whose garments were divided up by lot and given to the soldiers who crucified him (Luke 23:34; Matt. The book includes many discussion prompts at the end of every chapter, as well as Bible study questions to help you go deeper in the text.

Winding along the road to Emmaus, Join two friends on the road as the joy of the first Easter dawns. 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. Renewal Ministries speaker, author, and host of Food for the Journey "Using icons and other sacred images has always been a viable way to enhance our contemplative prayer.

It’s obvious why such a change would be good news for women who would previously have been the victims of coercive sex. When Jesus tells Martha, who is “distracted with much serving,” that her sister Mary “has chosen the good portion” by sitting at his feet, McLaughlin doesn’t see it as an indictment of the domestic anxieties that can plague women (how often have you heard a woman confess to “being a Martha”?