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Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes by Nancy R. Pearcy
Is The Bible Good For Women? by Wendy Alsup
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(The following are authors in no particular order of importance)
Here are my top recommendations: Elisabeth Eliot, Gloria Furman, Sally Clarkson, Sarah Clarkson, Jasmine Bauchum, Elyse Fitzpatrick, Martha Peace, Susan Hunt, Nancy Guthrie, Blair Linne, Jessica Thielke. Below are some detailed recommendations of other authors…
Author: Michelle Lesley
Body of work (that I have personally read): https://michellelesley.com/
Why I like this author: Everything that I have seen Mrs. Lesley publish on her blog has been doctrinally sound. I appreciate her style of writing shows that she is firmly grounded in truth and is gifted in apologetics. Her wit and humor is also clear in her writing. In addition, she points to good resources for women wanting to expand their arsenal of biblical women authors to glean wisdom from. She is the co-host of A Word Fitly Spoken podcast that is geared towards edifying women unto The Lord.
Author: Amy Carmichael
Body of work (that I have personally read): I Come Quietly to Meet You An Intimate Journey in Gods Presence, Fragments That Remain, Whispers of His Power, Mountain Breezes
Why I like this author:
From Ligonier.org:
“It was March 1901. A seven-year-old Indian girl named Preena escaped a Hindu temple where she had been abandoned by her mother as a “devotion to the gods.” (She was to serve as a temple prostitute for life.) It wasn’t the first time she had fled the temple. The first time, Preena had hoped her mother would rescue her. Sadly, her mother renounced her again and the temple women punished Preena’s desertion with hot irons to the hands. Perhaps that would move her mother to see her desperation and keep her. Her second time on the run, Preena wandered across a large body of water and came in the dark upon a church in the village of Pannaivilai—hopefully this church was different than the “church” she had been living in. Was her mother close? Would her mother keep her this time? Providentially, yes. The next day, she embraced and kissed her “Amma” (“Mother” in Tamil). But it wasn’t her birth mother. It was a thirty-four-year-old Irish woman. Her name was Amy Carmichael (1867–1951).
By that time, Carmichael had been in India for six years. When she left Ireland for India in 1895, she would never see home again. She was determined to proclaim the gospel to unreached peoples. Having grown up in a godly Irish Presbyterian family, Carmichael loved Christ from an early age and had begun teaching the Bible to poor girls in Belfast. Her introduction to Hudson Taylor through her involvement with the Keswick Convention heightened her resolve for soul winning and compelled her to missionary work first in Japan and then in India. Her unexpected meeting with Preena years later, however, refashioned the way that she would go about her missionary labors, from itinerancy to sedentation.
Carmichael learned from Preena of the horrific underbelly of the Indian caste and Hindu cultic system, which in turn imposed an insurmountable burden on Carmichael to snatch as many children as possible from its snares. Carmichael’s love for God, which had always fueled her zealous evangelistic efforts, was now notably channeled into a singular, prayerful obsession with rescuing, preserving, educating, and discipling destitute children, especially temple children. Her brutally honest reports about the realities of life for children in such conditions weren’t always welcomed by Christians at home, but Carmichael was convinced that it was necessary. Slowly Carmichael and her comrades began the unpleasant process of discovering the evil realities of trafficking, such as the “secret sources of traffic in the bodies and souls of children [that] were uncovered as we penetrated deeper and deeper into the under life of the land, and came upon things that were hateful even to know.” How could she continue traveling to teach and evangelize when so many children were in danger? Her calling, as she saw it, had fallen into her lap. “The commitment to the children, which Amy came to by 1904, was not an alternative to her passion for all age groups to be brought to Christ. It was very much a part of it.” (https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/missionary-amy-carmichael)
By 1931 Carmichael suffered an accident that rendered her immobile for the remaining 20 years of her remarkable life. In that time she wrote many books. Her deep, soul-piercing way of writing is captivating. It strikes an excellent balance of intellectual and emotional that I find a compelling supplement to my Bible reading.
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