Faith Finders Series:
When obedience means death, Puah's defiance may bring the hope of deliverance.
Pharaoh summons the midwives of Egypt and hands down a decree that turns Puah's calling into a weapon. Every newborn Hebrew boy must die.
Obedience will cost innocent lives. Defiance will cost her own. Puah chooses defiance, and for reasons she cannot understand, Pharaoh spares her and her guild.
The years pass and the slavery grows crueler. A Hebrew boy raised in the palace turns his back on his royal inheritance, kills a man, and disappears into the desert. When Moses returns decades later as Yahweh's chosen deliverer, plague after plague falls on the only land Puah has ever called home.
As the final and most terrible night draws near, will Puah stay in Egypt, or follow Yahweh into the wilderness and leave behind the women she has served for a lifetime?
She sang on the far shore of the sea. Now her people want to go back.
With Egypt behind them, Miriam and the Hebrews set out for a land flowing with milk and honey. She danced while Pharaoh's army sank beneath the water. She believed the hardest part was over.
The desert proves her wrong. Complaints move through the camp like wildfire, and Miriam finds the unrest taking root in her own heart. Aaron leads the priests. Moses speaks with Yahweh face to face. And though Yahweh gives Miriam dreams, songs, and prophecy, she still longs for something she cannot name.
When the people grow weary of the unknown, they choose a new leader to carry them back to Egypt. Yahweh will not force anyone into freedom. He allows them to walk back into their chains.
Will Miriam press on in faith, or wander in the wilderness within sight of the promise?
The whole city trusts its walls. Only the harlot believes they will fall.
Rahab's life did not turn out the way her family hoped. When their plans for her crumbled, she found her own way, and the path she took gave her comfort, security, and an empty soul.
Then the stories reach Jericho. A sea that parted. Kings who fell. A God who fights for slaves. The men of the city sharpen their swords and trust their walls. Rahab hears the same stories and feels something stir in her that she cannot explain.
When two Israelite spies come to her door, she makes a bargain that places every life she loves in the hands of a God she does not know. All she has is a crimson cord in her window and the promise of strangers.
The army is circling. Will her fragile faith be enough to save them?
History remembers a king's sin. This is the story of the woman it happened to.
Bathsheba wants nothing more than to give her husband the gift of fatherhood. Uriah is a good man and a faithful soldier, and when the army marches out in the spring, she does what a soldier's wife does. She waits, keeps their home, and counts the days until his return.
That spring, King David does not go to war.
What follows is not Bathsheba's choice. She is taken during a time of ceremonial purity and sent home carrying a secret that could destroy everyone she loves. The weeks pass, and the secret grows harder to hide.
What will happen when Uriah learns the truth? And what will the king do when Yahweh uncovers the sin he believes he has buried?
When an old friend claims to be Messiah, can Mary overcome her doubts and find redemption?
After her father's death, Mary of Bethany becomes responsible for a younger sister and an ailing brother, with too little food and no certainty of shelter. Survival asks more of her than she has, so she turns away from God and takes a darker path to keep her family alive.
Then a man she knew in childhood returns to Bethany, claiming to be the long-awaited Messiah. Mary opens her home to Him, but she cannot open her heart so easily. This is the man whose birth brought soldiers and swords into Bethlehem, the man whose arrival set her family's troubles in motion long before she was old enough to understand them.
Can Jesus truly heal a life as broken as hers? And can Mary forgive Him for the sorrow that came with His coming?
She can have the man she loves, or the calling that keeps taking him away.
Lea longs for the simple married life her older sisters enjoy. A husband at her table. A home that stays settled. Instead she has Timothy, her betrothed, who leaves again and again on missionary journeys with his mentor Paul.
Every departure stretches the waiting a little longer, and Lea no longer knows when, or whether, he will return to marry her. If he does come home, will she have the strength to support a calling that may keep them apart for the rest of their lives?
Roman persecution is spreading, believers are disappearing, and her own family presses her daily to abandon this new faith and return to the life they chose for her.
Will Lea stand firm in what she believes, or yield to the opposition closing in on every side?