FBC Recommended Reading for Women
Biblical Womanhood
Disciplines of a Godly Woman by Barbara HughesLet’s face it – life isn’t easy for women today! While juggling the myriad responsibilities of being a wife, mother, friend, and servant in the church, we sometimes lose our focus on truly pursuing godliness. Through poignant stories as well as faithful reminders, Barbara Hughes helps us scrutinize every area of our lives, surrender it all to God, and rediscover the disciplines that build godly character. |
Biblical Womanhood in the Home by Nancy Leigh DeMossThere is now a new movement spreading its seeds; seeds of hope, humility, obedience, and prayer. It is a call to return to godly womanhood, and it is resonating in the hearts of women everywhere as we see that throughout the divine plan there runs a thread and it is a thread of joy and delight with the greatness of God’s created order and the part He wants you to play in His grand redemptive plan. This is a message of biblical womanhood that will stir your spirit. |
Five Aspects of Woman: A Biblical Theology of Femininity (Vol.1) by Barbara MouserThis is a systematic study of biblical femininity that defines the scriptural foundation for gender and explains from the Word of God that women are gifted to fulfill a five-fold role as the mistress of the domain, helper-completer, lifegiver, the lady of wisdom, and the glory of man. This study corrects unbiblical views of godly womanhood. |
Godly Marriage
Sacred Influence by Gary ThomasSince the silent treatment, nagging, one-way discussions, and pleading do not work, Thomas explains how women can inspire, influence, and help their husbands move toward a marital transformation where both partners are moving in sync, the way God intends. The author outlines practical applications and shows how marriages are transformed through applying these methods. |
For Women Only by Shaunti FeldhahnYour husband carries important feelings so deep inside he barely knows they’re there, much less how to talk about them. Yet your man genuinely wants you to “get” him, to understand his inner life, to know his fears and needs, to hear what he wishes he could tell you. Discover how to love your husband for who he truly is. |
Sheet Music by Kevin LemanWith his characteristic warmth and humor, Dr. Kevin Leman offers a practical guide to sex according to God’s plan. This frank and practical book is a perfect resource for married and engaged couples. Leman addresses a wide spectrum of people, from those with no sexual experiences to those with past sexual problems or even abuse. Using frank descriptions, this book has a warm and friendly tone that will help couples overcome their awkwardness in discussing an issue important to all married couples. |
Christian Parenting
The Ministry of Motherhood by Sally ClarksonThe spiritual nurturing of children can get lost in the many tasks mothers face. Using biblical wisdom and practical teachings, Clarkson shows how you can make a lasting difference in your child’s life by following the pattern Christ set with his own disciples; a model that will inspire and equip you to intentionally embrace the rewarding, desperately needed, and immeasurably valuable Ministry of Motherhood. |
Parenting by Paul David TrippWhat is your calling as a parent? In the midst of folding laundry, coordinating carpool schedules, and breaking up fights, many parents get lost. Feeling pressure to do everything “right” and raise up “good” children, it’s easy to lose sight of our ultimate purpose as parents in the quest for practical tips and guaranteed formulas. In this book, Paul Tripp offers parents much more than a to-do list. Instead, he presents us with a big-picture view of God’s plan for us as parents. Outlining fourteen foundational principles centered on the gospel, the author shows that we need more than the latest parenting strategy or list of techniques. Rather, we need the rescuing grace of God―grace that has the power to shape how we view everything we do as parents. Freed from the burden of trying to manufacture life-change in our children’s hearts, we can embrace a grand perspective of parenting overflowing with vision, purpose, and joy. |
The Life-Giving Parent by Clay & Sally ClarksonThis book provides eight key principles that explain what it means to create a home where your children experience the living God in your family. Learn how to shape your children’s hearts as you foster a deep, thoughtful, and God-infused relationship with each child. This book will equip you with the tools and wisdom you need to give your children much more than just a good Christian life. You will give them the life of Christ. |
For Busy Moms
More Hours in My Day by Emilie Barnes & Sheri TorelliThis is a must-read resource to help establish simple systems that save time and money and gain peace of mind. You will organize your home’s problem areas (kitchen cupboards, crowded closets, & home offices) and reclaim precious time for family and friends. This book is filled with inspiration, encouragement, and great tips, and offers real hope for every woman! |
The 15 Minute Organizer by Emilie BarnesThis book offers proven methods for taking the stress out of meal planning, housekeeping, finances, holiday shopping. In just 15 minutes a day you can organize your life with these seventy-five time-saving strategies on topics that include goal setting, involving children in chores, grocery shopping, and record keeping. Women will discover that they need not live in disarray and chaos. Women who discipline themselves can get ahead and stay ahead! |
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On Becoming Babywise continues to gain global recognition for its common-sense approach to parenting a newborn. The infant management plan offered by Pediatrician Robert Bucknam, M.D. and co-author Gary Ezzo in this book helps parents successfully and naturally synchronize their baby’s feeding time, waketime and nighttime cycles. The results? Happy, healthy and contented babies who sleep through the night on average between seven and nine weeks of age. The best evaluation of any parenting philosophy, including Babywise, is not found in the reasoning or the logic of the hypothesis. End results speak clearly. Let your eyes confirm what works and what doesn’t. You will be most confident in your parenting when you see the desired results lived out in other families. |
Classics
The Pursuit of God by A.W. TozerTo have found God and still to pursue Him is a paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religious person, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. |
The Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern English by John BunyanCarefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes John Bunyan’s original Scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an Index of words, meanings, titles, characters, and places. 50+ illustrations. |
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich BonhoefferThis book, written by a German pastor who refused to surrender the true church to the demands of the Nazi Reich, is a seminal reading of the dichotomy between “cheap grace” and “costly grace.” It is a compelling statement of the many demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian love and a sense of civic duty. |
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Eve in Exile sets aside all stereotypes of mid-century housewives, of China-doll femininity, of Victorians fainting, of women not allowed to think for themselves or talk to the men about anything interesting or important. It dismisses the pencil-skirted and stiletto-heeled executives of TV, the outspoken feminists freed from all that hinders them, the brave career women in charge of their own destinies. Once those fictionalized stereotypes are out of the way — whether they’re things that make you gag or things you think look pretty fun — Christians can focus on real women. What did God make real women for? |
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With this story of her conversion as a backdrop, Rosaria Butterfield invites us into her home to show us how God can use this same “radical, ordinary hospitality” to bring the gospel to our lost friends and neighbors. Such hospitality sees our homes as not our own, but as God’s tools for the furtherance of his kingdom as we welcome those who look, think, believe, and act differently from us into our everyday, sometimes messy lives―helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like. |
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In this powerful book, Rosaria Butterfield uses Scripture to confront 5 common lies about sexuality, faith, feminism, gender roles, and modesty often promoted in our secular culture today. Written in the style of a memoir, this book explores Butterfield’s personal battle with these lies—interwoven with cultural studies, literary criticism, and theology—to help readers see the beauty in biblical womanhood, marriage, and motherhood. |
Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies by Hillary Morgan FerrerMama Bear Apologetics® is the book you’ve been looking for. This mom-to-mom guide will equip you to teach your kids how to form their own biblical beliefs about what is true and what is false. Through transparent life stories and clear, practical applications—including prayer strategies—this band of Mama Bears offers you tools to train yourself, so you can turn around and train your kids. |
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In the footsteps of the bestselling Mama Bear Apologetics comes this invaluable guide to training your kids to know and respect God’s design in a world that has rejected it. This book will equip you to…understand God’s design for gender, sex, marriage, and family as a beautiful portrait that reveals the nature of God Himself, identify the tactics being used to trick children into adopting an unbiblical view of sexuality under the guise of Christian-sounding words like love, identity, tolerance, and justice. To teach your kids to treat those who hold different beliefs with gentle, Christlike compassion without compromising biblical values. As society continues to blur the lines of what is good, true, and acceptable, God’s standards remain clear and unchanging. This book will give you the wisdom to confidently raise your children to understand sex and gender through a biblical lens. |