Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

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Thomas Nelson, Apr 17, 2011 - Religion - 256 pages

What Wild at Heart does for men, Captivating does for women: Setting their hearts free. This groundbreaking book helps readers by:

  • Providing a look into the glorious design of women.
  • Describing how the feminine heart can be restored.
  • Casting a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be.
  • Healing the trauma of the past.

The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman are telling you of the life God created you to live. He offers to come now as the Hero of your story, to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman. A woman who is truly captivating.

 

Contents

Chapter One The Heart of a Woman
1
Chapter Two What Eve Alone Can Tell
20
Chapter Three Haunted by a Question
43
Chapter Four Wounded
60
Chapter Five A Special Hatred
76
Chapter Six Healing the Wound
92
Chapter Seven Romanced
111
Chapter Eight Beauty to Unveil
128
Chapter Ten Mothers Daughters Sisters
168
Chapter Eleven Warrior Princesses
186
Chapter Twelve An Irreplaceable Role
202
About the Authors
220
A Daily Prayer for Freedom
221
Acknowledgments
225
Excerpt from Wild at Heart
227
Other Books from John Eldredge
237

Chapter Nine Arousing Adam
148

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About the author (2011)

John Eldredge is a bestselling author, a counselor, and a teacher. He is also president of Ransomed Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God’s love, and learn to live in God’s kingdom. John and his wife, Stasi, live near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Stasi Eldredge is a New York Times bestselling author, and her books have sold nearly 3 million copies and changed women's lives all over the world. A teacher and conference speaker, Stasi is the director of the women's ministry at Ransomed Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God's love, and learn to live in God's kingdom. Her passion is to see lives transformed by the beauty of the gospel. She and her husband, John, make their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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