There is much about this book that I
really like. Author Jennifer White rightly recognizes the priority of bible reading
and study in preparing to fight the spiritual battles that come with being a
Christian and particularly those related to Satan’s design to disrupt marriages.
Each chapter rightly has plenty of theology in it and frequent reference to relevant
scripture, some printed out and some referenced for reader lookup. The chapters are logically arranged, starting
with God’s design for marriage, and then weapons given us by God to use to rout
out our own sin and resist the attacks of the evil one. Each chapter has a short topic discussion, a prayer
prompt section that has a sample prayer relevant to the subject at hand and “A
Wife’s Call to Action” with a short passage to read and a sample prayer related
to helping the new bride apply the principle of the chapter.
What I did not like about the book is her strange
mixture of the doctrines of grace and her imprecise use of theological terms
characteristic of contemporary evangelical errors. An example would be her
statement considering Eve in the Garden of Eden on page 142 “Let’s acknowledge
that her choice to lead was outside the will of God.” Well that is both true and not true. It is
true in the sense that her actions were disobedient to God’s clear command, but
it is not true because in God’s sovereignty and omniscience, nothing is really
outside the will of God. It would have been more biblical to say that her
actions were disobedience. That would avoid the implication that God was
powerless to prevent Eve from straying from obedience.
I received this book
from New Leaf Press in exchange for an honest review.
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