Come Meet Jeannette and Win Feminine Threads!

Friends, this book really is a treasure that every home library should have…especially if you are blessed have young maidens living in your quarters! You will want them to read this book as part of an excellent education in history.

It is a well written, well documented feast for the mind, spirit and soul…and one of you will win a free copy of this amazing, historical overview of the critical contributions that God has sovereignly enabled Christian women to make throughout the course of time.

Starting with women in the New Testament era and working her way through late antiquity, the middle ages, the reformation, and the Victorian age all the way up to the present, Diana Lynn Severance takes the reader on an adventurous panorama of feminine exploits. You will read about the debates throughout history over the proper roles of women, female heroes of the faith who struggled against kings and religious rulers and won, women who lived intentionally in their varied spheres of influence, and the sorrows and sufferings that women have walked through while remaining faithful to the King of Kings.

Severance beautifully takes the major themes of female history and skillfully weaves in many memorable stories of individual women who served God and fellow man with feminine strength and grace. She uses source documents throughout the entire book, and the quotes she selects are truly timeless and enriching.

This book is not a shallow and brief treatise for the faint of heart. It is full and deep. But it is guaranteed not to disappoint those who take the time and effort to plunge into its depths. You will walk away amazed at our Living God who created women, adores women, and uses women mightily to build His everlasting Kingdom.

Would you like a quote or two?

There is a lot to get used to in the first year of marriage. You wake up in the morning and find a pair of pigtails on the pillow which were not there before. ~Martin Luther

Martin Luther went against the church in many ways…one of which was to get married! In writing about Luther’s wife, Katie, a former nun, Severance gives the reader a glimpse of her full orbed and very busy life as a wife, mother, and homemaker:

The Black Cloister was a large establishment which not only was the Luthers’ home, but also became a kind of hotel and boarding house for students and visiting scholars. Though she did have help, Katie oversaw the whole and was a gardener, fisher, breeder, cook, bee-keeper, and vintner–besides caring for Luther’s health and depressions and being a mother to their six children and the four orphans they took in.

You will walk away from this book with a better understanding of the major themes in history and how God used women throughout the ages to change the world and bring Him glory!

And now I am so delighted to introduce you to one of the wisest and most precious of friends, Jeannette Paulson. Oh my…are you in for a TREAT with this lady! She is not only an extremely gifted writer, but she is well read, a very deep reservoir of wisdom and knowledge on a wide range of subjects, and best of all, one of the most humble, unassuming women of God I have ever known. Really, there is nobody quite like her. I’m jumping out of my skin just thinking of how BLESSED we are to have her writing here. She will be starting an incredibly rich series this week on the life of Lady Janet Colquhoun, a Scottish noblewoman. You will be able to glean some of the “truffles” of wisdom that Jeannette picked up by reading her biography this past month. Yes, they are better than chocolate. So COME BACK to get them!

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