Faithful Women and their Extraordinary God
Well, i'm currently reading A.W Tozer's Knowledge of the Holy, but i'm not quite done. Y'all can expect some blogging about that book later. Its a doozy, filled with little drops of heaven in the form of a brilliant string of words. Anyways. More on that when i'm done.
I recently finished the book Faithful Women and their Extraordinary God by Noel Piper. The tendency is for most missionary biographies to be written about solid men of the faith--men such as Jim Elliot, David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards etc. i, by far, am not a raging feminist. However, i did find it highly encouraging to read about people of my own gender being used by God to do amazing things. It would be well worth it for not only females to read this book, but males as well. Break out of the normal paradigms, all you guys out there and read this book :)
The book highlights the lives of 5 women--Sarah Edwards (wife of Jonathan Edwards), Lilias Trotter, Gladys Aylward, Esther Ahn Kim, and Helen Roseveare--who were used by God to expand His kingdom. Ahh. Such great stuff.
i'll highlight 2 of the lives Noel Piper details:
I recently finished the book Faithful Women and their Extraordinary God by Noel Piper. The tendency is for most missionary biographies to be written about solid men of the faith--men such as Jim Elliot, David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards etc. i, by far, am not a raging feminist. However, i did find it highly encouraging to read about people of my own gender being used by God to do amazing things. It would be well worth it for not only females to read this book, but males as well. Break out of the normal paradigms, all you guys out there and read this book :)
The book highlights the lives of 5 women--Sarah Edwards (wife of Jonathan Edwards), Lilias Trotter, Gladys Aylward, Esther Ahn Kim, and Helen Roseveare--who were used by God to expand His kingdom. Ahh. Such great stuff.
i'll highlight 2 of the lives Noel Piper details:
- The portrait of Sarah Edwards is simply stunning--who says motherhood is for pansies? By 1900, the marriage of Sarah Edwards and Jonathan Edwards had produced:
- 13 college presidents
- 65 professors
- 100 lawyers and a dean of a law school
- 30 judges
- 66 physicians and a dean of a medical school
- 80 holders of public office, including: 3 US senators, mayors of 3 large cities, governors of 3 states, a vice president of the US and a controller of US treasury.
She must've been a pretty amazing mother to have set a foundation like that!!!
2. Esther Ahn Kim
What can be better than words from her own mouth?
" i began to think that life might be worth living in this time of persecution. It might even be a truer picture of the believer to agonize, to suffer, to be hated, and tortured, and even to be killed in obeying God's words rather than to live an ordinary, uneventful life."
Wow.
Amazing women of faith. Oh, that i too would be used to glorify my Saviour.
posted by lowonthego at 12:05 AM
3 Comments:
This sounds awesome! Ann Judson has a great story too...I should get my mom to post something on the book she read about Ann. This is going to be cool!
I think I'll have to ditch what I am reading to move into something non-Piper...Just for variety's sake. lets see....
Spurgeon! YES. Spurgeon via Ray Comfort...you'll see.
ok at first i thought sarah edwards gave birth to all those people....but then the list kept going. so are those spiritual children or grandchildren and the like?
i still don't get you people and your fascination with piper. i just cannot read him. it's akin to eating sand. not to say his theology isn't sound, but just his writing style is so DRY.
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