By His Wounds You Are Healed

Bible studies for women have long been stereotyped as overly emotional and theologically shallow, following the assumption that women don’t flock to rigorous theological study and few women would be equipped to teach even if they did. Thankfully, this assumption is dying in certain women’s ministry circles. With the advent of the True Woman movement, and now The Gospel Coalition’s 2012 National Women’s Conference in Orlando, more resources by and for women are helping them study of the Bible.

Enter Wendy Horger Alsup, author of By His Wounds You Are Healed: How the Message of Ephesians Transforms a Woman’s Identity. She is also the author ofPractical Theology for Women, which was birthed out of a class she taught at Mars Hill Church in Seattled.

Alsup wrote By His Wounds You are Healed to show Christian women their spiritual inheritance in Christ and the wealth of transformative grace available to them because Christ paid their debt on the cross (9). But this book is not for the faint of heart. She does not write to cater to emotions or the latest fad. She writes to help women see the wealth of truth written in God’s Word. While there are countless excellent commentaries and studies out there on the book of Ephesians, the benefit of this study is that it was written by a solid, Christ-saturated woman with the hearts of women in mind. Women need theology and in-depth Bible study just as much as men do. Alsup understands that and answers the call. Keep Reading...