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When her husband, Samuel, abandoned her and their kids she was left with absolutely nothing. Susanna was a woman of great faith and patience.

Is there a connection between her purity and how God used her? How do you want to be more like Joan? She chose to be celibate, she was supernaturally protected from the men in her army, and deliberately sealed her fate by wearing men’sĬlothing to prevent the guards from raping her.

Joan of Arc represents a symbol of purity.

On page 5, Joan is told she will save France and “she did not doubt.” Where do you think her faith came from at such a young age? Does God still use people this way?.

Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how the other extraordinary women in this book achieved their greatness, inspiring listeners to live lives shaped by the truth of the Gospel.7 Women and The Secret of Their GreatnessĮric Metaxas chose these women because “their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women.” What does that mean?

And Rosa Parks' deep sense of justice and unshakeable dignity and faith helped launch the 20th-century's greatest social movement. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. Susanna Wesley had 19 children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn writer, her sons John and Charles.

The teenaged Joan of Arc followed God's call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr's death. In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history's greatest women, all of whom changed the course of history by following God's call upon their lives - as women.Įach of these world-changing figures - Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks - is an exemplary model of true womanhood.