Women of Grace 2024: Resources
The Women’s Ministry organised a Women of Grace event on 16 November 2024. Ladies of GBC gathered around God’s Word, and heard from various ladies about how they have continued to trust God through difficult times.
During this event, books and resources were also made available to the ladies. Here are the resources that were shared and we hope they encourage you too!
Books
Knowing the God We Trust
God's Attributes: Rest for Life's Struggles (Brad Hambrick)
“Our battle from and against sin and suffering is first and foremost a battle toward and for God.”
Gentle and Lowly (Dane Ortlund)
“Our tendency is to feel intuitively that the more difficult life gets, the more alone we are. As we sink further into pain, we sink further into felt isolation. The Bible corrects us. Our pain never outstrips what he himself shares in. We are never alone. That sorrow that feels so isolating, so unique, was endured by him in the past and is now shouldered by him in the present.”
Trusting God to Change Us
God (Rebecca Stark)
“The study of God keeps us from idolatry, shows us our sinfulness, and provides the knowledge of God necessary for our sanctification. But the best reason to study Him is to grow our love for Him.”
Trusting God to Help Others
You Can Change (Tim Chester)
“All too often we think of holiness as giving up the pleasures of sin for some worthy but drab life. But holiness means recognizing that the pleasures of sin are empty and temporary, while God is inviting us to magnificent, true, full, and rich pleasures that last forever.”
Together Through the Storm (Sally Sims)
“Although life doesn’t always work out the way we expect, and we sometimes wonder why God allows certain things in our lives, the Bible tells us that we need God’s presence more than the answers we seek. ... God is always with us, and only he can give us the assurance of a secure future regardless of our circumstances.”
Side by Side (Ed Welch)
“If God used only experts and people of renown, some could boast in their own wisdom, but God’s way of doing things is not the same as our way. We ordinary people have been given power and wisdom through the Holy Spirit and are called to love others (John 13:34).”
Instruments In the Redeemer's Hand (Paul Tripp)
“We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”
Trusting God in Suffering
God’s Grace in Your Suffering (David Powlinson)
“How will God actually engage your sufferings with his grace? You may know the right answer in theory. You may have known it firsthand in some difficult situations. And yet you’ll find that you don’t know God well enough or in the exact ways you need to for the next thing that comes your way.”
Suffering (Paul Tripp)
“Scripture never looks down on the sufferer, it never mocks his pain, it never turns a deaf ear to his cries, and it never condemns him for his struggle. It presents to the sufferer a God who understands, who cares, who invites us to come to him for help, and who promises one day to end all suffering of any kind once and forever.”
Depression (Margaret Ashmore)
“When we choose to focus on the Saviour, we can walk astride the very thing that would drown us. Our wills, motivated by the knowledge of God’s unconditional love and in his enabling power, can decide to stand against that which threatens to undo us.”
Devotionals to Help Us Trust God
Hope When It Hurts (Kristen Wetherell and Sarah Walton)
“Circumstances that perplex us need not drive us to despair. Instead, they can take us to new depths of faith. They challenge us to trust solely on the promises of God.”
40 Days of Hope (Paul Tripp)
“Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.”