This is an amazing book! Written by Shannon Ethridge, the full title is Every Woman's Battle: Discovering God's Plan for Sexual and Emotional Fullfillment. It is targeted at married women but also for single women who intend to get married someday and also for single women who have married friends that may need the occasional piece of "wise counsel", as Stephen Arterburn says in his forward. (Stephen is the author of the best sellng Every Man's Battle book series among other works)
I just finished it and plan on reading again this month dong the workbook this time. I have to say if you are a woman who follows Christ this is a must read. The battle for sexual purity, not just physical but emotional, mental and spiritual is a very under-talked subject for women. That very much needs to change if we are going to be fully mature women of God.
There were so many "wow" moments for me, when I just had to sit a moment and think about it. Or rereathe paragraph that just blew my mind. Ethridge's writing is very effective at relating to the reader but not to the point of coddling. She writes from a perspective of experience which not only gives her credibilty but authentic insight into the battle for sexual purity. Ethridge backs up her point with the ulimate source of Truth, the Bible. The passion she has developed for God and his word is inspiring and infectious. I hope to find similar passion for Christ as I begin to pursue him as my first love.
I will probably be blogging more about her book as I reread it and continue to draw from it. I have already recognized and changed some things in my life. And I can't wait for my personal retreat in late Oct for some intense, relatively isolated, time with Jesus.
I just finished it and plan on reading again this month dong the workbook this time. I have to say if you are a woman who follows Christ this is a must read. The battle for sexual purity, not just physical but emotional, mental and spiritual is a very under-talked subject for women. That very much needs to change if we are going to be fully mature women of God.
There were so many "wow" moments for me, when I just had to sit a moment and think about it. Or rereathe paragraph that just blew my mind. Ethridge's writing is very effective at relating to the reader but not to the point of coddling. She writes from a perspective of experience which not only gives her credibilty but authentic insight into the battle for sexual purity. Ethridge backs up her point with the ulimate source of Truth, the Bible. The passion she has developed for God and his word is inspiring and infectious. I hope to find similar passion for Christ as I begin to pursue him as my first love.
I will probably be blogging more about her book as I reread it and continue to draw from it. I have already recognized and changed some things in my life. And I can't wait for my personal retreat in late Oct for some intense, relatively isolated, time with Jesus.
"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:15-16
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