Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

This study should be done by every group of church ladies.... But make sure you're not limiting your group to a 'clicky' group. Your group should be as intergenerational as you can get it.This study is an eye opening, wisdom filled push most of us ladies need to fulfill a calling we have to teach the younger generation.

One of the best books I've read on Christian womanhood. Very practical and encouraging!

ordered a new one, got used and not in good condition

Reading this book is a beautiful experience. I was tearful by the first chapter from its pure sweetness. But it is not a fake, trying-too-hard variety of beautiful. It leaves you craving more and inspiring you to follow every word she says. It is both encouraging to young and old women, faithfully addressing all ages in her chapters (Page 61) Her call to discipleship is compelling throughout the text, encouraging older women with the fact that “they (younger women) need older women to lovingly teach them what is true and good” (Page 76). There are particular messages such as her sections on modesty, drinking, submission, and slander that bring a refreshingly biblical and gentle tone to the conversation (Pages 101, 131, 264, 120). She also does well in addressing a wide variety of women, such as singles and working mothers (Pages 233, 218).This resource has a strong biblical basis, uses Scripture accurately, and is biblical in its thesis and application. Everything about this book gives “adornment” to the beauty of the gospel. “Beautiful” is the best description for this book. The entire book makes much of God and his gospel, encouraging women to reflect it and to live lives that are “noticeably different” (37). The whole book walks through, word by word, a lovely exegesis of Titus chapter two, providing a robust, biblically sound interpretation of what it looks like to live for Christ and be an example to those who know you. For example, while looking at what it means to be self-controlled, “sophron”, she writes, “But the woman with Spirit-produced, grace-enabled self-control is anything but boring. Unlike other women around her, she is not a slave to her passions and impulses. She is free to love and serve God and others, free to enjoy His greatest gifts. Her life is a winsome, compelling reflection of the goodness and loveliness of Christ.” (169). Everything about this book is rinsed in Scripture.This resource is also highly practical and easy to apply to one’s life. She includes a call to action at the end of each chapter with her specified questions addressed to younger and older women accordingly.I have already given Adorned as a gift to my mom and friends. It is one of the best books I’ve read, and I’ve read some.

So many times we ask God about His will for our lives. Or we seek the Lord about having some type of ministry. He does have a plan and a ministry for us as women. It is found in Titus 2:1-5, 10 which is the passage that Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, founder of Revive Our Hearts, expounds upon in her book “Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together.” God’s plan for us has no age limits. It is for the older woman and the younger. Every stage of life has a plan and a ministry.Nancy begins her book with thoughts on the ending verse about adorning the doctrine of God our Savior. Doctrine simply means teaching. The biblical doctrine (teaching) that we know gets lived out daily in our lives. Nancy continues through the bible passage, giving each characteristic a chapter. She encourages the older women to step up and the younger women to grow up by impacting each other through the ministry of mentoring.This is Nancy’s first book after her marriage. I have read many of her books through the years and it was neat to see how she can now relate happenings within her marriage relationship to the word of God. While it is a longer book, Nancy writes in a clear, conversational style that makes it easy to read. Each chapter ends with questions for older women followed by questions for younger women. Through these questions, the older reader is asked to pray about opportunities to minister to a younger woman and the younger to pray about seeking out an older woman that she can learn from.The Titus 2 Model is God’s will for our lives and a ministry He has given us to do. Nancy’s book is a tool we as women can use to carry it out.

This book is an in depth look at the second chapter of the book of Titus regarding older women mentoring younger women. As an older woman presently mentoring a younger woman, I was eager to read this book and I was not disappointed. The major thrust of the book is to address specifically how the beauty of the gospel is demonstrated in the lives of both older and younger women and how they live that out together.The author encourages women to live out the Word of God, to live out our Christian faith so that others will not be able to accuse us of something we are not and to live in such a way that our lives reflect the inherent beauty of the message of the gospel.The book is divided into three sections: A Woman under God; A Woman under Control and a Woman under Her Roof. At the end of each of the 14 chapters there are some questions for older women and some for younger women. This makes it a wonderful resource to use as a group study or to use in a one on one mentoring situation.I received this book for free from Moody Publishers for this review but also purchased another one to pass along to a friend who is mentoring younger women.

I highly recommend to all women.Nancy uses THE FIRST FEW verses of Titus 2 and explains each word or phrase from a Biblical perspective.A "Titus 2 Woman" almost replaces the common phrase, "a Proverbs 31 woman" and through this book makes a "Titus with woman" much more attainable.Each chapter has specific reflection for younger women and different reflection questions for older women.

What an encouraging read! Nancy Leigh does it again.I love Adorned! I listened daily to the teachings on Titus 2 when they aired and reading the book along with it just made it sink in deeper.I love how practical and helpful it is.

An amazing, must-read for any Christian woman seeking to glorify God. I found it very challenging, actually more than that it is life changing, life enhancing, life enriching. Full of practical wisdom, based on Scripture and relevant for ladies of all ages and marital status.

encouraging to self reflectvery scripture and gospel focused