Thursday, December 19, 2019

About the Book

Book: Crown

Author: Nancy Kaser

Genre: Christian Non-Fiction, Biblical Marriage

Release Date: August 20, 2019

Whether you’re in the honeymoon stage or celebrating your fiftieth anniversary, you have never before been in this season of your marriage. Your family dynamics, finances, health, emotional state, location, ministry, employment status—all the factors of your life—are in a perpetual state of transition. As a married woman, you are continually wife-changing. The Scriptures never change, but they can always be freshly applied to every season of marriage.

Crown is a resource that combines solid Bible teaching, humorous and humbling tales from the author’s own marriage journey, and dozens of compelling stories from real women just like you. Based on Proverbs 12:4, “An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,” Crownincludes concrete Scriptural truths and real-life examples that will equip you to be the excellent wife God created you to be. Complex issues such as biblical roles within marriage, physical intimacy, communication, forgiveness, and home management are all addressed with candid honesty, encouragement, and biblical substance. In thirty wife-changing lessons, you will be instructed, challenged, and motivated to walk in obedience to God’s beautiful design for marriage.

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About the Author

Nancy Kaser is a passionate pastor’s wife and veteran missionary. For over twenty-five years, she has taught women’s Bible studies, provided biblical counseling, and been a dynamic women’s conference speaker. Based in Southern California, Nancy teaches literature and history classes at The Writtenburg Door. She and her visionary husband also lead short-term mission trips with the Calvary Chapel movement and run a child-sponsorship organization.

More from Nancy

Closing the church door after my seventh counseling appointment that week, I was overcome with the realization that every appointment had been relatively indistinguishable. The women I counseled from our congregation were generally unsatisfied, disappointed, and disillusioned with their marriages, and some were downright rebellious in their role as wives. The same anxieties, the same troubles, (and the same sins creating the anxieties and troubles) came up in almost every meeting. Though these church ladies may have been well-versed in the scriptures, no one had taught them how to live out biblical principals in their everyday lives.

As a pastor’s wife, I wished I could meet with every married lady in my church and offer practical discipleship with this hope: that a glorious, fulfilling, and God-honoring marriage—to the same guy she is married to right now! —is absolutely possible through obedience to God’s word.

Crown – 30 Wife-Changing Lessons is a resource that combines solid Bible teaching, humorous and humbling tales from my own marriage journey, and dozens of compelling stories from real women just like you. Based on Proverbs 12:4, “An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,” Crown includes concrete, scriptural truths and real-life examples that will equip you to be the excellent wife God created you to be. Complex issues such as biblical roles within marriage, physical intimacy, communication, forgiveness, and home management are all addressed with candid honesty, encouragement and biblical substance.

Whether you’re in the honeymoon stage or celebrating your fiftieth anniversary, you have never before been in this season of your marriage. Your family dynamics, finances, health, emotional state, location, ministry, employment status— all the factors of your life—are in a perpetual state of transition. As a married woman, you are continually wife-changing. The scriptures never change, but they can always be freshly applied to every season of marriage. In thirty wife-changing lessons, you will be instructed, challenged, and motivated to walk in obedience to God’s beautiful design for marriage.

The beginning of the book drew me in right away. The author talks about salvation in a way that is very clear and concise. I also believe that just because you said the sinners prayers once, doesn't mean you automatically will go to heaven. I loved the acronym she uses for GOSPEL. I encourage you to write it down somewhere so you can always see it. It is nice to see at the end of each chapter questions that are very useful in the study and helps you dig deeper into the Word.

The author is very upfront about what a Godly marriage is. She lays out exactly two reasons the Bible gives where divorce can be considered-sexual immorality and abandonment. The key here is that the Bible would consider those reasons, not that it is a get out of marriage free card. Many marriages have been through a spouse cheating found their way back and forgiven.

Do you remember saying your vows? I do and know how serious God takes those as well. We make a covenant with each other and God. We don't get to walk away when the going gets tough. We are to stick by each each in good and bad times. Believe me the enemy will throw temptation at us and if we are not working as one, he will find a way into your marriage.

There is no such thing as a perfect marriage. We don't live like Mrs. Cleaver with pearls on each day, the house in perfect order and home cooked meals everyday. We have busy lives and sometimes are distracted from the importance of spending time with our spouse. The key to any great marriage is communication. If we can't share our burdens with each other, we need to find out what is stopping us from doing that.

The book is very well written and each chapter is filled with examples, wisdom and encouragement. "The one thing you have to" do is to determine your husband is first in your heart and be intentional about staying connected to him." I do have to disagree a little with this statement. God should be first in our heart, then our husband. I do agree that our children need to see us honor their father to set a good example for them. They will learn to respect and honor their spouse when they grow up because they saw the example of that in their home growing up.

I want to mention the part in the book about guarding your tongue. So many women love to say bad things about their husbands. They complain they are lazy, never talk etc. Don't be part of that conversation. I have been know to shut down that type of conversation by these words;" I love my husband and would never say anything negative about him to others. I'm sure you would hope that he is doing the same by saying kind things about you to others." Remember we are to honor our husband and not be part of the "husband bashing" going on in conversations with other people. If someone is saying hurtful things about their spouse pray for them and suggest they speak to their spouse about how they are feeling. Remember communication, trust and respect is everything.

"As you guard your heart above all else, the rest of your life will be guarded as well."

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.