This book pointed out scriptures I can go to and provided very deep discussion questions at the end of each chapter. In the 21st century it is easy to forget how differently women were valued and treated in the 1st century when in fact, Jesus' interactions with women were revolutionary!

Clinical lactation training guide for health care professionals and students studying for lactation certification exams. I appreciated how the author sections the book and then has study or reflection questions after each chapter. In her book, "Jesus Through The Eyes of Women," Rebecca McLaughlin presents an excellent treatment of numerous women who were associated with Jesus throughout his life and ministry. They stir up affection for familiar truths while McLaughlin helps make connections that are novel for readers who are older in the faith.

With insight and inspiration on every page, Rebecca McLaughlin shows us the real Jesus in all his tenderness, majesty, compassion, and defiance. Her approach is fairly simple, namely, she notices women in the Gospels and draws her readers into their shoes. And sadly, in some Christian circles, women have been disrespected by their brothers in the faith and treated inappropriately. And with the woman caught in adultery, McLaughlin makes an incredible statement that many Asian Americans can relate to: “In the 21st-century West, we tend to see guilt as an unhealthy feeling ot be shed, and forgiving ourselves as more important than seeking forgiveness from others.

Gaze Upon Jesus will appeal to women who want to deepen their relationship with Jesus during Advent. Jesus is no more put off by our inevitable uncleanness than a mother who has just given birth would be put off from holding her blood-smeared newborn. McLaughlin focuses on these eyewitnesses and shows why Jesus’s message was (and still should be) so appealing to women. If you’ve been told the Bible is anti-women, or you’ve experienced inferiority as a woman from a Christian or church, this book is for you.So often in our modern life, we see service and freedom as opposites… We humans thrive when serving with a grateful heart, while endlessly self-realizing ‘freedom’ makes us miserable. So what did women see in this first-century Jewish rabbi and what can we learn as we look through their eyes today?

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Rebecca is the author of Confronting Christianity; 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion and 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity. Indeed, the way that Jesus treated women tore up the belief that women are innately inferior to men: a belief that was pervasive in the ancient world. Matt Smethurst is lead pastor of River City Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia; editor at The Gospel Coalition; and author of Before You Share Your Faith: Five Ways to Be Evangelism Ready(2022), Deacons: How They Serve and Strengthen the Church(2021), Before You Open Your Bible: Nine Heart Postures for Approaching God’s Word (2019), and 1–2 Thessalonians: A 12-Week Study(2017). She makes you feel like you too are a present witness, understanding cultural meaning and hidden emphasis that are generally missed by modern readers of the gospel.While AI excels in data-based computation, technology is incapable of possessing the capacity for moral agency or responsibility. Through the eyes of the sinful woman who crashes Simon the Pharisee’s dinner party (Luke 7:36-49), at last we see Jesus as “the one who defends” the woman wetting his feet with her tears and wiping them with her hair. Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. An absorbing treatment of Mark's Gospel that invites readers to respond with mature faith and renewed commitment. When these systems are deployed, human agents bear full moral responsibility for any actions taken by the system.