Out of the Shadows

Revd Dr Kate Bruce is an Anglican priest, working as an RAF Chaplain, with a PhD in homiletics. She is a published author with a love of written language and the spoken word, especially preaching. Liz Shercliff is on the academic staff of the Luther King Centre, Manchester and has completed a doctorate on women's preaching.

Introduction

1 One who sees and lives: Hagar
2God of the Traumatised: Lot’s wife and daughters
3God in the Muddle: Rebekah
4 Sisters, wives and servants: Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah
5A daughter defiled: Dinah (Gen 34)
6Sex-trading for Justice: Tamar, daughter-in-law of Judah
7Vilified and Vindicated: Potiphar’s Wife
8Acting Above her Station: Zipporah
9A dancing rebel: Miriam
10Inheritance matters: Zelophehad’s daughters
11An ambiguous figure: Rahab
12Women warriors: Deborah and Jael
13A misunderstood migrant: Naomi
14Raped, dismembered, remembered: the Levite’s Concubine
15A woman who challenges God: Hannah
16A player or a pawn? Bathsheba
17A desolate woman: Tamar, sister of Amnon and Absalom
18Eloquence in word and action: the wise woman of Tekoa, the wise woman of Abel, Merab and Rizpah
19A woman of substance: The Queen of Sheba
20Wicked Women and an Unexpected Saviour: The Medium of Endor, Jezebel, Athaliah, Jehosheba
21Nameless Presences: The wife of a prophet and the Shunamite woman
22A slave in Syria, but a servant of God: Na’man’s wife’s maid
23Caught up in power politics: Samson’s wife, Delilah, Ahinoaam, Michal, Jeroboam’s wife and Abishag
24Prophetic Pictures in Partnerships: Gomer, Ezekiel’s wife, mother of Isaiah’s son, Shallum’s daughters
25Interrupting Power: Pilate’s Wife
26Daughters of Dysfunction: Herodias and Salome
27She answered back: The Syrophoenician woman
28Seen by Jesus: The widow with the two coins
29A faithful prophet: Anna
30Touched by Christ’s compassion: Widow of Na’in
31A daughter of Abraham: Women bent over for eighteen years
32‘Rejoice with me’: The parable of the woman and the lost coin
33The power of her testimony: The Woman at the well
34‘Some women’ encounter God: Peter’s mother in law , Women of Jerusalem, Sapphira Drusilla, and Bernice

Appendix – Sermon Series Suggestions

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