Jesus Through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord

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Rebecca McLaughlin (PhD, Cambridge University) is the cofounder of Vocable Communications, a communications consulting and training firm. And sadly, in some Christian circles, women have been disrespected by their brothers in the faith and treated inappropriately. If we cut the things (out of the Bible) that only women witnessed, we’d lose our first glimpse of Jesus as he took on human flesh and our first glimpse of his resurrected body. Renewal Ministries speaker, author, and host of Food for the Journey "Using icons and other sacred images has always been a viable way to enhance our contemplative prayer.

In a chapter on life, McLaughlin focuses on these women’s accounts to winsomely argue for, not against, biblical soundness at several points, anticipating opposing views. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.I wouldn’t say it’s light, but it’s fairly brief, and thus stimulates my interest for a more in-depth study such as Gospel Women by Richard Bauckham. I was amazed as McLaughlin showcased the many women who interacted with and were personally impacted by Jesus. Through this six-session study, you will discover who Jesus is through the unique perspective of women in the Bible. When the pandemic began in 2020, I was concerned about my grandchildren’s spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being because they were sequestered at home. The Bible’s boundaries surrounding sex and limiting it to a male and female within the covenant of marriage protects all parties and creates a safe and healthy environment for everyone to thrive.

Historical female perspectives on women whose lives were changed by Jesus This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels -- Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. We fail to recognize his rightful place of worship in our lives, and his rightful rule on the throne in our hearts. McLaughlin has spent plenty of time considering the cynic’s vantage point, with books that include Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion in 2020 and The Secular Creed: Engaging 5 Contemporary Claims in 2021. Kathleen Beckman , Catholic author, President and cofounder of Foundation of Prayer for Priests "This book offers fresh, insightful meditations on the earthly life of Mary that are at the same time delightful and instructive.

Rebecca McLaughlin’s new book, Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord (Crossway/TGC), illumines Christ’s character from the vantage point of his earliest female followers. As we look through the eyes and lives of women in the Gospels, we can more clearly see Jesus in all of his resolute truth and radiant beauty.

Rather than tearing this woman down along with his host, Jesus lifts her up “as a shining, tear-stained paragon of love to humble the self-righteous Pharisee. Author Rebecca McLaughlin gives full treatment to this sort of curiosity in her book Jesus Through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord (The Gospel Coalition, 2022) . Looking through their eyes, we see a man who valued women of all kinds— especially those vilified by others.Though she holds a PhD in Renaissance literature from Cambridge University, she is a veteran of writing accessibly at a popular level, with previous books including Confronting Christianity:10 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion (2020), The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims (2021), and Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels (2022). We deny that death and disease—effects of the Fall—can ultimately be eradicated apart from Jesus Christ. But “what we see through their eyes is not an alternative Jesus, but rather the authentic Jesus, who welcomes both men and women as his disciples, and who is best seen from below.