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THE END OF ME WICKED WOMEN OF OUT OF DARKNESS THE ENTITLEMENT CURE
Kyle Idleman Stormie Omartian Dr John Townsend
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Are you sometimes perplexed with Stormie tells her compelling story Finding Success In Doing Hard
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author Kyle Idleman reveals that What can Jezebel, the Bible’s ally led her into the occult, drugs, Today we live and work in a cul-
the key to the abundant life Jesus most devious queen, reveal and tragic relationships. ture that says, “My life should
promised lies in embracing His about God’s holiness and be easy and work well for me.”
inside-out way of life. power and even about his Finding herself overwhelmed by This attitude of entitlement in-
sense of humor? What about fear and on the verge of suicide, fluences our most important
As he examines Jesus’s Sermon on the woman at the Well—the she shares the turning point that institutions: family, business,
the Mount, Kyle unpacks the many one with five husbands and a changed her life and reveals the church, and government.
counter-intuitive truths, including: live-in lover? And what of the healing process that brought
brokenness is the way to whole- prostitute whose tears bathe freedom and wholeness beyond It comes down to this: People
ness, mourning is the path to the feet of Jesus in front of what she ever imagined. are not getting to where they
blessing, and emptiness is required people who despise her? want to go, because they don’t
in order to know true fullness. Ulti- In this poignant drama, there is know how to do life the Hard
mately you will discover how Jesus There are also “wicked good” help and hope for anyone who Way. Their entitlement keeps
transforms you as you begin to live women like Deborah, Ruth, has been scarred by the past or them from tackling challenges
out these paradoxical principles. Hannah, Abigail, Esther, Mary, feels imprisoned by deep emo- and finding success.
Because only when you come to and more. What do their lives tional needs. It is a glorious story
the end of yourself can you begin tell us about God’s invincible of how God can bring life out of This book provides principles
to experience the full, blessed, and love and his determined plan death, life out of darkness. and tools for change. It teaches
whole life Jesus offers. to save us? people the skills of learning to
In Wicked Women of the Bible Stormie wrote about some of the tackle and resolve matters that
Ann Spangler tells the stories things that happened during the are difficult, rather than avoid-
of twenty wicked and “wicked first thirty-five years of her life ing them, giving up too quickly,
good” women in greater detail. in a book called STORMIE that or hoping someone else will do
At the end of each story, Ann was published in 1986. The fol- it for them. The habits gleaned
provides a brief section includ- lowing thirty-seven years after from this book will lead to suc-
ing additional historical and that point to the present day, is all cess in the reader’s relation-
cultural background as well as new, much of which she has not ships, finances, self-care, and
a brief Bible study in order to spoken about publicly before. She work.
enhance the book’s appeal to feels the entire story should be
both individuals and groups. told in order to prove that once
you recognize the darkness for
The stories of these women of what it is, it is possible to walk out
the Bible reveal a God who is of it and in to the light for the rest
not above it all but who stoops of your life.
down to meet us where we are
in order to extend his love and
mercy.
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