Nurturing A Faithful Heart in your Daughters

I know you will be so blessed by Sarah's newest book--she was my mom's favorite author--even above me! :)

Here is a blog by Sarah about her newest book! and be sure to look at the bottom for how to enter a giveaway for this book and for a 40 minute phone  mentoring session with me!

On a cool autumn night last fall, I settled on the bed in a little cabin room deep in the Colorado mountains and thought hard about what I was about to say to seven curious girls. I was there as a mentor at a semester-long program. That night was my one great chance to capture my girls hearts with a vision for developing a deeper walk with God during their time away. Out of the thousand things I could say, what, I asked myself, was the one message burning in my heart about God and what it means to follow hard after him?

I thought back to that night as I began this post because the message of my new book, Journeys of Faithfulness, a devotional for young women, is the answer to the question I asked last year. This message is the outpouring of my years of following hard after God, loving him, learning to be faithful through difficulty, to bring beauty amidst pain, and this is the one thing I want every woman I meet to understand. The God who flung stars into the sky, tumbled mountains across the earth, and formed every soul alive is ready to meet us, to encourage us, to use us to shape the world every minute of every day. God desires our friendship, our daily relationship. He searches throughout the earth to find the people whose hearts are completely his, and the great heroes of the faith were simply those who turned their hearts to God with zealous love. That choice is available to every single woman alive every day.

That is really the message at the heart of my book. I first wrote this devotional when I was just out of high school, hungry for spiritual input, and frustrated that there were so few Bible studies of depth offered to girls of high school/college age. I determined to write a book that would encourage girls like me to be serious in their pursuit of God. I chose to focus on the lives of young, single women in Scripture, because through their stories, I understood that God can reach right down into the very normal life of any girl who loves him, bringing his beauty and grace to bear in the world through her obedience. This was the idea I wanted to present by creatively telling the stories of Bibical young women, examining the habits of character and response that made them the spiritual heroines they are.

Ten years later, my goal is the same. But I have had a good amount of time to deepen my convictions, to understand the struggle that comes with following God, and the challenges of loneliness, frustrated ideals, and seeming isolation that beset many girls today. I have greatly rewritten the stories and and written entirely new Bible studies, focusing on the inward journeys and hard choices that were required in the lives of the young women in my book. Choices of beauty, sacrifice, celebration, and courage made these women the heroines they are, and I hope that this book will challenge contemporary young women to be the same. 
Sarah
Here is the synopsis of my newest book. I hope you and your daughters will enjoy reading this together!
Ruth. Esther. May and Martha. Mary, mother of Jesus. Their stories in the Bible reveal how God can reach into the life of an ordinary girl and, through her love and obedience, reveal glimpses of His beauty and grace in this broken world. In this unique collection of inspirational stories and devotions, you will celebrate the sacrifice and courage that made each these young single women biblical heroines and models for all times. InJourneys of Faithfulness, Sarah creatively and respectfully retells their stories and explores each of their journeys along God's path of life. In a personal devotional after each chapter, she opens her own heart and shares stories from her own journey of faith. She writes in order to challenge today's young woman to reach higher and go deeper in her relationship with Jesus Christ by choosing well and walking faithfully with God. The book includes a Bible study with each chapter to dig deeper into the lessons of that chapter, as well as "Journey Journal" pages for recording personal thoughts and insights.
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