Better Than Rubies

In More Precious Than Rubies prepare to have your life encouraged; mind stimulated, personal truths explored, pain of your past revealed, soul inspired and heart healed. In a clear voice resonate of the precepts of the Proverbs 31 Woman this teaching ministry will encourage you the saved, unsaved, Church and un-Churched mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, foster mother, or care-giver seeking to rear a Godly girl in ungodly times. More Precious Than Rubies will strengthen the broken places you are currently experiencing and have experienced while parenting an extroverted/introverted, vivacious/shy, compliant/willful, righteous or even conformed to this world daughter. Ultimately, More Precious Than Rubies will motivate you to commit to the ministry of Motherhood, and induce you to effectively rear your "daughter" in Godliness during the ungodly times we live.

Beauty is more than skin deep— it starts in the heart and works outward Exploring the timeless wisdom of Proverbs 31, Bible teacher Elizabeth George reveals how you can become a woman of true beauty—a woman who desires to honor God in all that she says and does. Beautiful in God's Eyes helps you make each day immensely meaningful as you delight in God and discover how to... experience instant progress toward personal goals manage daily life more effectively tap into unlimited energy apply biblical principles to enhance relationships move from the ordinary to the extraordinary You can experience a richer, more exciting spiritual walk as you embrace God's design for true beauty in your life.

Seven years after lies and manipuation have separated him from his beloved Rachel, Gabe Westbrook, MD, now a successful cardiologist is unmarried and lonely. Then he acquires a new patient, Rachel's gravely ill husband. With Rachel back in his wife and a new awareness of the deceit that drove them apart, Gabe is faced with a decision. Does he do everything in his power to help Rachel's husband live?

In "Worth More Than Rubies," author and Bible teacher Christina Patterson takes a deeper look into the life of the Proverbs 31 woman to discover the 7 virtues of a woman after God's own heart. Christina reminds you that your relationship with God is less about what you do and more about who you are. This is where your true value comes from and is what makes you "worth more than rubies."

Though girls received little intellectual training until comparatively recently, their education has been a cause of argument through the centuries. The advocates of education for girls have been few, the enemies many, and the arguments against have been variously women's immorality, women's virtue, women's fragile bodies, women's feeble minds. One age fears that if you teach a girl to read she will give herself to unbridled sexual license, another that if you let her go to college she will never be able to bear children. This book, the first history of women's education, charts its course in the Western world from the Renaissance to the present, examining the curricula and institutions (with their limitations and discriminations in favor of boys), the intellectual arguments, the social, religious, economic and political influences, the pioneers, the prodigies, the breakthroughs, the legislation--the long struggle to obtain an equal education for women. It begins with a survey of women's education from antiquity to the Middle Ages and continues with a detailed account from the Renaissance through the Reformation, Enlightenment, and Industrial Revolution to the 20th century. The major countries covered are France, Germany, Russia, England, Italy, and the United States. Dr. Stock does two things with this hitherto neglected subject: she disinters the historical facts and development country by country and century by century, and she looks for answers to certain fundamental questions. What types of education have been available to women in the past? Under what conditions are women likely to be offered education, and why? How is women's education related to the social structure and to women's relations with men? In conclusion, Dr. Stock sums up present conditions and points out the distance yet to go. It is her belief that women's education will come to full flower when it is realized that a society benefits from developing the abilities of all its members.--Adapted from book jacket.

Robin Bartlett said, "Yes!" Will she say, "I do," when the big day arrives? From his cultured handsome looks to his vast fortune, Antonio "Tony" Viscolli is every red-blooded American girl's dream match. It doesn't hurt that he completely loves and adores Robin with all his heart and soul from practically the moment they first meet. Robin comes from a blistering past, struggling and fighting for the survival of herself and her two younger half-sisters in a cold, cruel world. By the time Tony thaws her heart, she has known hunger, poverty, violence, and want. Robin never had a chance to dream of a white wedding gown or a prince charming. Instead, her dreams were nightmares dark and clouded with fear and desperation. For months, Tony courted the blond beauty with the sapphire eyes. He teased Robin and pursued her. He showered with attention, respect, and charm. He covered her in diamonds, sapphires, and rubies. Tony satisfied every heart's desire. Finally, Robin came to understand God's love for her as imitated by the unconditional love Tony freely offered. Then, on a sunny Florida beach, Tony proposed and Robin eagerly said "Yes!" Back in bitter cold Boston, doubts about becoming a billionaire's bride begin to crowd out her hopes for happiness. Robin worked for tips until just a few months before Tony proposed on that sunny stretch of sand. In fact, she waited his table less than half a year earlier. Having no experience facing these challenges, Robin struggles to cope feeling the pressures of relocating; of unreliable transportation; of the never-ending details of the shower, the ceremony, the reception, the honeymoon; of worries that her sisters will smoothly transition along with her; of changing her name; all while dealing with her father's very serious legal problems. As the date draws inexorably near and the pressure mounts, Robin begins to grasp the scale of her fiancé's vast material wealth and holdings, the responsibilities of the virtual empire he commands. She witnesses his generosity when he takes on a young protégé straight from the tough South Boston streets. Ultimately, Robin questions whether she is truly the girl of Tony's dreams. Is she the woman God has made for him? In taking her on as a wife, would she act as helpmeet or poison apple? In truly loving Tony, would it be better to bind herself to him for all eternity or return his freedom? When her nightmares return in full force, they remind Robin of an even deeper and more terrifying prospect. Will she give in to her insecurities and cancel Boston's "Royal Wedding" for good? Or, with God's guidance, will Tony sacrifice everything to prove to his beloved Robin her true worth?

With statistics showing that over 50% of women experience or are experiencing low-self esteem, low self-worth, or not being good enough More than Rubies is created to remind women of who they are in Christ. Women will feel empowered, confident, and reassured in who God created them to be after reading More than Rubies.