Fearless Daughters of the Bible: What You Can Learn from 22 Women Who Challenged Tradition, Fought Injustice and Dared to Lead

Fearless Daughters of the Bible: What You Can Learn from 22 Women Who Challenged Tradition, Fought Injustice and Dared to Lead

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Become one of the gifted, empowered women God is raising up.

Christian women are often led to believe they were created inferior to men, destined to play a secondary role. Proverbs 31 gets morphed into a judgment, the sole standard against which many feel like frauds or failures. But the Bible has much more to say about women!

Looking into the lives of 22 mold-breaking women...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published October 2012 by Chosen Books
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Bethany
Fearless Daughters of the Bible is a book that goes into detail with studying certain important women figures in the Bible, and shares what we can learn from those women. He mainly focused on one woman per chapter, except the last chapter where we study more than one woman. However, I realized that their were also a lot of examples of women who weren't in the Bible, who live in this present day and age. I was a bit surprised by this since their was also more examples of women in the current day,...more
Iola
This study takes us through twenty-two Biblical women, from well-known figures such as Mary and Ruth, to lesser-known figures such as the five daughters of Zelophehad. He relates each of these Biblical women (or groups of women) to a specific issue, then compares them with Christian women today—and the results are not always in our favour:

"But the message in both Victorian England and suburban America was that women should not attempt anything brave. They should stay indoors, out of the heat of...more
Linda Walters
I've read a book or two about Women in the Bible and while they have been good; oh my, this one includes a few that I've never really looked at that close. Most of them have Hannah and Esther and Ruth but this one includes The 5 daughters Zelophehad (which years ago I just happened to run across). The first one that made me run to my Bible to look it up was Achsah, the daughter of Caleb. Please don't get the wrong idea; I really do read my Bible. How many of us have thought that the story of Est...more
Sunflower
"Fearless Daughters of the Bible: What You Can Learn from 22 Women Who Challenged Tradition, Fought Injustice and Dared to Lead" " was one of those books that started off with a good premise, but as the reader goes through the book, itself, finds themselves lost more in a book that is bluntly argumentative and more social agenda filled, rather than presenting what appeared to be a look at 22 women from the Bible.

It was disappointing and difficult to go through, ""Fearless Daughters of the Bible:...more
Sarah
I was excited to get this book, very excited – I love reading about the women in the Bible who have lived out their faith in God and set the stage for all the women to come. Then my balloon popped and I became very disenchanted with what the author started saying – it seems that those of us who are “evangelical” are twisting Scripture. Women should be ministers of churches, we aren’t supposed to be meek, or quiet tempered because if we are then “a woman who is mousy or timid does not reflect the...more
Jamie
(I received a free copy from Chosen, a Division of Baker Publishing to review)

God values women and has used them throughout history to do amazing, incredible things and change the world. Fearless Daughters of the Bible by J. Lee Grady is a fantastic study and read about some of these amazing women. Looking at 22 different women in the bible, Lee Grady provides insight into gifts God has given women throughout history. Not only did Lee Grady use biblical women of faith, but also stories of amazin...more
Faye
To be perfectly honest, not a book I would recommend.


Fearless Daughters of the Bible is a book that had a good writing style, but was very much against my personal beliefs. This book talks alot about raising up women to be leaders in churches as pastors and in other prominent positions. The Bible firmly teaches that while women are equal and important parts of the church and family, He has specifically called men to lead in these areas.


And while Mr. Grady had some interesting examples, I believ...more
Ann Saylor
Women, be ready to be inspired and challenged with J. Lee Grady’s new book, Fearless Daughters of the Bible. The subtitle describes the book well: “What you can learn from 22 women who challenged tradition, fought injustice and dared to lead.”
It’s packed with stories of women overcoming personal challenges and defying cultural norms to do God’s work. There are stories of women in the Bible, ranging from common names like Ruth, Esther and Mary Magdalene, to less told stories of the daughters of C...more
Eustacia Tan
I love this book! Love it so much after reading Women, Slaves and the Gender Debate. It's not a theological book (it's more like an encouraging one), but it makes so much more sense than Women, Slaves and the Gender Debate (henceforth, "the other book")

From the very start, the importance of women is affirmed. The book says "when you read the Bible, it is obvious that God often anoints women to be initiators." The book goes one to take about a varied bunch of women, including The Five Daughters o...more
Jennifer Jensen
I am not a feminist. I’ve been unconventional for most of my married life, but in retrospect, that was primarily because God was making sure my family was taken care of when difficulty arose later. It hasn’t always been easy for either my husband or me. He was a stay-at-home dad before such a thing was hip, and we faced some challenges because of it. However, in the last few years he wouldn’t have been able to work outside the home because of significant health problems, while I have been compar...more
Faith Farrell
I began this book with the knowledge that it had been promoted and praised by several people who believe in egalitarian feminism.

I loved a great deal of Mr. Grady's statements in the first few chapters of this book. He began by praising the women who had helped him in his work as being,"models of sacrifice,character, humility and radical devotion to Christ" everything a Christian strives to be, and he continuously spoke of how much God loves women, and how "Your Heavenly Father wants to heal...more
W
Sep 15, 2012 W rated it 1 of 5 stars
Shelves: arc, 2012-read
Mary was not power-hungry, ambitious, or seeking a place of fame or fortune. She was poor in spirit. She had an innocent willingness to please God. When the angel announced the divine plan in generalities, she did not ask, "What's in this for me?"

This book takes the stories of twenty-two women of the Bible (13 individuals and two groups) and uses these women to illustrate how women's various gifts -- determination, persistence, courage, etc -- helped them serve God. The author then goes one ste...more
Holly
Lee Grady is sort of controversial. Mainly because of his progressive views on women that are a breath of fresh air after cultural reasoning for women's roles have somehow been branded on women without reasoning, and have made many women feel inadequate in who they are. While Grady does provide refreshing views he also doesn't take time to recognize what makes being a woman unique either that much, and much of the book feels like a Pentecostal sell.

Grady explores the lives of 22 women from the B...more
Soaring Eagle
Fearless Daughters of the Bible: What You Can Learn from 22 Women Who Challenged Tradition, Fought Injustice and Dared to Lead by J. Lee Grady is a book that I found hard to put down.

This book grabbed my attention right from the beginning. In the introduction, Mr. Grady speaks about fathers. What kind of father did you have? He lists a few types such as the absent, distant, or critical father. Even if you have grown up with not a good father-figure, God can heal those hurts and God also loves yo...more
IrenesChristianReviews
This book will not go down as one of my favorites. I thought it was just going to be about women in the Bible. There are different women mentioned in this book, some you may have never heard of. I liked the idea the author was presenting that women can make a difference and take a stand. I gave this book 4/5 stars for a couple reasons. I thought the authors tone was too condescending. It felt like he was saying if you are not out doing this and that you are not serving the Lord enough. I think i...more
Melvina Davis
For me this was a disappointing read!!! Mr. Grady is using the Bible in a way that goes beyond what is plainly written. It did however have some nice insight into some of history's strongest and brave women.

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