Book: Pierced & Embraced

About the book:

Throughout the Gospel accounts, Jesus engaged women differently than He did men. Sometimes the difference is subtle. Sometimes it is stark. Always it is profound.

Sometimes the love He offers them is gentle. Sometimes it is fierce. Always it is powerful.

Sometimes that love feels like a warm embrace. Sometimes it’s more like a piercing jab. Always, it changes everything.

Women today long to experience the same sort of life-changing love that Jesus lavished on His followers 2000 years ago. We still want to be completely seen and known and valued and set free—as painful as that process might sometimes be.

Pierced and Embraced digs deeply into seven encounters that Jesus had with a wide variety of women in the Gospels to show how His love can be equally transformative in our lives today. It mixes attentive Scriptural engagement with personal narrative and relevant application, making the content fresh, accessible, engaging, and practical.

You will:

• Understand the unique and powerful and complex ways in which Jesus loves the women of the gospels.
• Recognize your own longings for love and the (often inadequate) ways we seek to satisfy them.
• Discover how to live in the fullness of Jesus’ love for you.

My thoughts:
I received this book in the mail to review as a surprise, it was not one I requested.  I did enjoy it and feel like I learned a lot from the book.  As you can see in the book description, in this book each chapter focuses on the encounter Jesus had with a different woman of the Bible.  The author relates these encounters to our present lives and how Jesus comes to meet our needs too.  It opened my eyes to the ways Jesus interacted with the women, these are stories I have been familiar with my whole life but this book offered a new approach to them.  One thing I particularly liked was that the author added her own stories to connect with the Bible stories.

You can read more about this book here.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher for my review. Thank you.

Have a day of blessings!
Bethany