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Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible: Flawed Women Loved by a Flawless God | 
| Author: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $9.95
Buy New: $7.96
You Save: $1.99 (20%)
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 14581
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 221.922082
ASIN: B0019O6IZW
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Product Description
Good Women Behaving Badly
A spiteful boss, a defiant employee, a manipulative mother, a desperate housewife, an envious sister…honey, we know these women. We’ve lived with them, worked with them, or caught a glimpse of them in our mirrors.
Now let’s take a look at their ancient counterparts in Scripture: Sarah mistreated her maidservant, Hagar despised her mistress, Rebekah manipulated her son, Leah claimed her sister’s husband, and Rachel envied her fertile sister.
They were far from evil, but hardly perfect. Mostly good, yet slightly bad. In other words, these matriarchal mamas look a lot like us.
“A Slightly Bad Girl is simply this: a woman unwilling to fully submit to God. We love him, serve him, and worship him, yet we find it difficult to trust him completely, to accept his plan for our lives, to rest in his sovereignty.” —from Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 so-so December 24, 2008
Kimberly M. Thornton (mesa, az)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
not so thrilled and felt the same emptiness for its sister book, bad girls of the bible. i felt they relished on nothing.
Great addition to Liz's Bad Girls series! August 8, 2008
libraryjunkie (Tennessee)
Liz Curtis Higgs' Bad Girls of the Bible series is second to none, and in my opinion the audio is even better than the book, because Liz is the reader. She's an accomplished speaker and the injections of humor are so well done. I also enjoyed the audio of "Bad Girls of the Bible" although it was abridged, and I hope Liz will eventually do an audiobook of "Really Bad Girls of the Bible."
Liz brings these women to life and shows that although they and we are separated by many centuries, we're quite a bit alike. There's much we modern-day women can learn from those ancient girls and their trials and tribulations, and in the process, we can strengthen our own relationship with God.
Slightly Bad Girls leaves you hungering to learn more August 8, 2008
Jane Squires (Gainesville, Mo)
This was my first Bad Girls of the Bible book to read. I must say it wasn't what I expected. I learned a lot more about the women of the Bible than I knew which means Liz does good research. I have taught for 40 plus years children and my teaching would have been different had I had all the background information and was able to compare it to today.
I especially loved the way she brought it to how modern women today would be like those of old. I loved the fact that God can love flawed women and men as far as that goes. Because you learn also of the flaws of the men of God too. You learn they weren't perfect but yet God loved them.
However Leah and Rachel left me wondering why God blessed Leah more than Rachel - an answer that still plagues me.
As a Bible teacher, Liz has left me hungering to research and learn more about these women. It seems most all Bible teaching at church is focused at men and on men in the Bible. The women are left unseen and even men could profit from understanding the women of the Bible. After all it might help them relate to their wives.
Another great Liz Curtis Higgs book June 5, 2008
J. J. Donze (Brookfield, WI USA)
This is my favorite Bad Girls book so far! It is more applicable to real life for me.
Excellent Book! Great for anyone to read. March 28, 2008
Quilts and More (Chaplin, CT)
Excellent book! It was very encouraging to see how even the "best girls" in the bible made mistakes, overcame them, and how God loved them and helped them through their mistakes. Loved it!
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