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How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do with You by John MacArthur

First he wrote Twelve Ordinary Men, a book that contained character studies of the twelve disciples. Based on the success of that book, John MacArthur has given us another book written in the same format, only this time, the twelve people whose lives we read about are all women—women chosen for the important place each has in the story of redemption. The twelve women included are

Eve
Sarah
Rahab
Ruth
Hannah
Mary (the mother of Jesus)
Anna
The Samaritan Woman
Martha and Mary
Mary Magdalene
Lydia

Twelve Extraordinary Women is a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading and I learned much more than I expected about the lives and characters of these women. They are all women “who were unremarkable in and of themselves.” Rahab was a harlot, Ruth was a very poor widow, Anna was a very old widow, and a list of the descriptions of all of them would go on in a similar vein. What made these women extraordinary, as the subtitle suggests, was God’s work in their lives, shaping them into faithful women—women who loved God.

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