En Doce mujeres extraordinarias, encontrará lecciones espirituales extraídas directamente de las pruebas y triunfos de las antepasadas de Jesús y de sus primeras seguidoras. Mucha de estas seguidoras fueron comunes y corrientes, en algunos casos, de muy modesta o cuestionable extracción social. Sin embargo, llegaron a ser extraordinarias por los cambios operados en sus vidas luego del encuentro con Dios. Celebradas por su valor, vision, hospitalidad y dones espirituales, no es extraño que fueran tan importantes para el Plan de Dios revelado en el Antiguo y Nuevo Testamentos.

Well-known author and pastor John MacArthur guides readers in a study of twelve Biblical women. He shows how God uses each. He shows how their attitudes led them to Biblical greatness. The women included are Eve, Sarah, Rahab, Ruth, and Hannah from the Old Testament, and Mary (mother of Jesus), Anna, the Samaritan woman, Martha, Mary (of Bethany), Mary Magdalene, and Lydia from the New Testament. He often included pieces of cultural context in his biographical narratives for each women. He corrects some often-held views which do not fit with Biblical tradition. I enjoyed this study and the things we can learn and apply to our own lives from these women. ( )

Four and a half years after receiving this book for my confirmation, I finally managed to scrape through. I suppose the message is good, but the writing style manages to be both pretentious and condescending, trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator and gorging itself on unnecessary adverbs and adjectives. Thank heavens we're done with it. ( )

Twelve Extraordinary Women offers a poignant and personal look into the lives of some of the Bible's most faithful women. Their struggles and temptations are the same trials faced by all believers at all ages. Inside this book, bestselling author and Bible teacher John MacArthur shows that the God to whom they were so committed is the same God who continues to mold and use ordinary people today.

Chronicles the lives and faith of twelve women from the pages of both the Old and New Testaments. The author focuses on Eve, Sarah, Rahab, Ruth, Hannah, Mary, Anna, The Samaritan Woman, Martha and Mary, Mary Magdalene and Lydia.