She was destined to play the most important role of all in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Faced with extraordinary challenges, Mary took great personal risk to fulfill her calling - watching her son, who she knew to be the Christ, grow up and be rejected by a world that was supposedly waiting for his arrival. Sometimes the most illogical person is the one most important to His plan. Unafraid: Mary All eternity had been waiting for the moment and Mary responded in simple obedience to God’s call. To many, her name means seduction and sin, yet God called Bathsheba his own and worthy of the legacy of his son. Bathsheba’s story is about her journey from innocence to despair – and of the God who restored her. Unspoken: Bathsheba The scandalous affair of David and Bathsheba did not end in one night. And Naomi said, All right, my daughter, go. One day Ruth said to Naomi, Let me go out into the fields to gather leftover grain behind anyone who will let me do it. Unshaken: Ruth A love story of epic proportions, Ruth gave up everything, expected nothing, and God honored her. Unshaken Francine Rivers Read the following passage: Now there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz, who was a relative of Naomi’s husband, Elimelech. No matter how dark the harlot’s sin, God could still do wonderful things in her life. Unashamed: Rahab Rahab was a woman with a past to whom God gave a future.

Unveiled: Tamar Betrayed by the men who controlled her future, Tamar fought for her right to believe in a loving God and to do right in His eyes. The stories of these five remarkable women still hold great meaning and inspiration for us today. And yet God, in His infinite mercy, used them to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world. Sometimes they made mistakes-big mistakes. Each faced extraordinary-even scandalous-challenges. This bestselling compilation contains five novellas about such people-women in the family tree of Jesus Christ. The Bible is filled with inspiring stories of unlikely candidates that God chose to change eternity. Five stories of unlikely women who changed eternity.

Unshaken by Francine Rivers