Review of Faithful Women & Their Extraordinary God by Noel Piper
Oren Martin and Barak Tjader
This book review appears in the Annotated Bibliography for Gender-Related Books in 2005, JBMW Volume 11 No. 2.
Category: Complementarian - The author recognizes the full personal equality of the sexes, coupled with an acknowledgment of role distinctions in the home and church.
In this hope-inspiring and challenging book, Noël Piper recounts the lives of five ordinary women with an extraordinary God who enabled and used them to do extraordinary things. She demonstrates how Sarah Edwards, Lilias Trotter, Gladys Aylward, Esther Ahn Kim, and Helen Roseveare—whether as sisters, daughters, wives, mothers, missionaries, or friends—challenge women today to be faithful in their calling as they fulfill their God-given roles for his glory.
