Just like us, the women of New Testament times were ambitious, worried, broken, lonely, insecure, and unfulfilled. Discover the powerful stories of their encounters with the perfect, unconditional love of the Savior. Rather than trivializing their problems or ignoring women, Jesus responded to their deepest needs with compassion, reminding them of their value and transforming their past, present, … present, and future. Let this engaging book introduce you to the man who loves women like no other.
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This is an easy book to read but be prepared to devote a lot of time to it because you will often feel the urge to return to a previous chapter. There is so much wonderful information in The Women Who Met Jesus and there are so many sections that deserve a second reading. You may also find youself highlighting paragraphs and even full pages and the margins will probably also be filled with thoughts that you don’t want to forget!
Author Dorothy Valcarcel devotes twenty chapters to eighteen women of the New Testament who experienced life changes because they met Jesus and she shares how today’s women can experience the same transformation. Those women experienced feelings just like ours: feelings of being broken, flawed, empty, rejected, unfulfilled, insecure, isolated, hungry, worried, ignored, labeled, hopeless, guilty, stressed, misunderstood, ambitious, worthless, compromised, lonely, and hopefully, transformed! I like that she opens each of these chapters with Bible scripture and she then compares present-day accounts with stories taken from the New Testament. Each chapter also has A Time for Reflection, Exploration, Inspiration, and Affirmation. So much food for thought in these 269 pages!
The Women Who Met Jesus is a wonderful resource for personal devotion time but I can also see it being used in a women’s Bible Study at church. I highly recommend this book.
I received a copy as part of the Revell Reads blog tour but I was not required to write a positive review. These are my honest thoughts.
The Women Who Met Jesus: New Testament Stories of Lives Transformed by the Savior is a wonderful read. I was inspired by all of the chapters that spotlight different women, such as, the broken, the flawed and the empty. Each chapter includes: scripture, a story, A Time for Reflections, Exploration, Inspiration, and Affirmations.
The Women Who Met Jesus would make a fabulous gift for any woman, especially for those who are seeking inspiration and faith. I am giving it five plus stars.
I received this book from the publisher, but was not required to write a review. This review is 100% my own honest opinion.
A Review of The Women Who Met Jesus
New Testament Stories of LIVE TRANSFORMED by the Savior
By Dorothy Valcarcel
Jesus, the Word of God, manifested in the flesh here on earth, walked, talked and interacted with many people and the New Testament gives us many accounts of those happenings.
This book introduces us to twenty women who actually met Jesus in the flesh during those New Testament times and tells us how their lives were transformed because of their meeting Jesus.
Many of us who are believers can testify how our lives changes when we spiritually met Jesus, but what would it have been like to actually meet Him in the flesh? To look in His eyes, listen to Him speak, watch Him perform miracles or eat with Him. It must have been amazing and surely the women who met Him were never the same.
In this book we read about Broken Women, Flawed Women, Empty and Rejected Women all whose lives were changed for the better after meeting Jesus. Women not that different from ourselves, even though they lived long ago, who still had hopes and dreams as we do. Women who worried, were insecure and unfulfilled. Women who were isolated, hungry, ignored, hopeless and stressed. Lonely Women, Misunderstood Women, Women who needed a Savior.
These New Testament women were transformed from their lives that they deemed worthless, all because they met Jesus and His power of Unconditional Love.
In a time when women were looked down upon and not regarded as important, Jesus took the time to meet with them to bring them healing, help and hope.
I would recommend his book to any woman, believer or non-believer. It is a wonderful testament to the wonderful love of Christ to all those He meets, and as He did back then in the New Testament times, He still does today.
No matter what you or the world has labeled you as, when you meet Jesus you will be changed. Your life will be transformed. The old you will be gone and the new you will come when you encounter the Word of Life, Jesus Christ.
This is a book that can be read over again and again as the need arises. It can also be used as a book study alone or in a group as at the end of each chapter there is a time for reflection, questions, affirmations and inspiration.
I was given a copy of this book to read in exchange for writing an honest review. All comments are mine.
–Leona J. Atkinson