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Biblical Womanhood: A Study Guide
This is a twelve-week course intended to teach young women what God wants them to be taught about biblical womanhood. The Church needs older women to step up to the plate and begin obeying God in this area. What if older women feel disqualified? If you are a godly, older woman, you ARE qualified according to God! Here are the qualifications for older “that they be in behavior, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things” (Titus 2:3) and the “good things” they are commanded to teach are listed in Titus 2:4, 5.“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husband, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
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100 pages, Paperback
Published May 27, 2019
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About the author
Lori Alexander
4 books24 followersHello! My name is Lori Alexander and I have been married to Ken since 1980. We have four grown children who all walk in truth and have strong marriages. We have been blessed with five grandchildren so far.
My ministry is based upon Titus 2:3-5 in which God commands that older women teach younger women to be sober, love and obey their husbands, love their children, be chaste, discreet, good, and keepers at home. If you would love to learn and grow in these areas and allow God's Word and His ways to transform your marriage and your life, please join me as I teach you what I have learned from His Word, my own experience and mentoring many women, and most importantly, allowing the Holy Spirit to convict and transform you into the image of Christ.
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My ministry is based upon Titus 2:3-5 in which God commands that older women teach younger women to be sober, love and obey their husbands, love their children, be chaste, discreet, good, and keepers at home. If you would love to learn and grow in these areas and allow God's Word and His ways to transform your marriage and your life, please join me as I teach you what I have learned from His Word, my own experience and mentoring many women, and most importantly, allowing the Holy Spirit to convict and transform you into the image of Christ.
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August 20, 2019
Fear-Based, Rules-Based-System Study Guide
I purchased the Kindle version of this book and found it to be not only troublesome, but biblically unsound as well.
The author's premise for the book is based on fear - the idea that since children are being sent to public schools for "strangers to raise" this causes "children's peers to influence them away from God" and teenagers to "walk away from their faith in high numbers."
Also, according to the author, "Most women don't know they are the ones who God has commanded to be keepers at home and raise their own children. Women need to be taught how to love their children and husbands." The author believes according to Scripture (Titus 2) God commands her as an older woman to teach the younger women what she calls "biblical womanhood" and uses Scripture verses often taken out of context to tell women she knows the will of God for their lives.
Throughout the book the author makes sweeping statements mostly against women without any citations to back up her claims. The lack of thorough research and citing any resources outside the KJV and dictionary to backup her claims is unprofessional and reinforces the sometimes unfair idea that self-published books are poor quality.
The author promotes what is known as "biblical womanhood." It's the belief that all women are called to be and do the exact same thing - wife, mother, keeper at/of home.
Each book chapter contains "do's" and "don'ts" which serve only to put heavy weights on women of rules to follow. Some of the rules included are:
1. Wives must always give their husbands sex & if they don't the husband will be tempted by satan (chapter 5).
2. Wives do all you can (obey your husband in all things) to win your disobedient husband to God (chapter 9).
3. Women must dress modestly so men won't stumble and lust (chapter 5).
Other rules include:
-Women stay home
-Cook/Cook from scratch
-Please husband in all things (we're instructed to please God, not people, Galatians 1:10)
-Know your role and stay in it
-Keep house clean, no clutter
-Punish children by spanking in order to train and teach them to obey
-Don't argue, don't send children to public school, don't draw attention to yourself by wearing fashionable clothing, don't have a career, don't preach or share God's truth with your husband since he is the spiritual leader, and many more rules throughout the book...
Another troubling idea the author presents in the book is her claim that "love doesn't involve feelings or emotions." Perhaps she's unaware of the various types of love? Agape love is unconditional love, the type we receive from God and can learn to give to others. Eros love is romantic love and Storge is familial love from parent to child and vice versa. There are other types as well. While part of loving someone is also committing to loving them even when we don't feel warm fuzzy feelings in the moment, but that doesn't mean love never involves feelings or emotions.
Twisted Scripture and Out-Of-Context concerns:
In Ch. 8 Obedient to Your Husband Ms. Alexander references Genesis 3:16 to promote the idea that God ordains and has designed women/wives to be ruled over by men/husbands. This is preposterous! Genesis 3:16 simply states the consequences for sin - that husbands would now rule over wives - this wasn't the way God intended relationships to function.
Ms. Alexander also claims "There isn't one verse that commands husbands to submit to their wives. There is no such thing as mutual submission in a marriage (ch. 8)."
Scripture says the opposite of what Ms. Alexander claims:
-Ephesians 5:21 (mutual submission)
-Ephesians 5:25, 28 (sacrifice/submission of husband to wife)
-Genesis 21:12 God instructed Abraham to listen to and obey his wife, Sarah
In Ch. 10 Silent in the Church Ms. Alexander cites 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 as a command from God telling women to be silent in the churches. Yet, she leaves out vs. 36 which is crucial to understanding the full context. Vs. 36 shows the apostle Paul basically calling vs. 34 & 35 a bunch of baloney. The church had adopted a Jewish Law which stated women were to keep silent and Paul was calling them out on this. Vs. 36 changes everything. Paul nor God endorse women being silenced.
There are many other twists and errors, too many to list out here.
The bottom line is this...the author is telling you how to live and if you follow all the rules it's implied that you'll have success - you'll have obedient children, a happy marriage in which your husband will be pleased with you, and if you're fortunate enough, God will be pleased with you. Ms. Alexander promotes a system, a legalistic rules-based system to follow.
Instead, being a Christian is about a living, breathing, personal relationship with Jesus. We're created for organic relationships and you can't manufacture an authentic relationship through a system of rules and hoops you have to jump through.
If we look at the Bible as a whole we see God loves variety and created each of us unique for a reason. God leads and calls us to different things. God never intended for women (or men) to all do the exact same thing. Ms. Alexander would do well to stop attempting to be the Holy Spirit by telling women how to live and allow God to lead each of us individually.
I purchased the Kindle version of this book and found it to be not only troublesome, but biblically unsound as well.
The author's premise for the book is based on fear - the idea that since children are being sent to public schools for "strangers to raise" this causes "children's peers to influence them away from God" and teenagers to "walk away from their faith in high numbers."
Also, according to the author, "Most women don't know they are the ones who God has commanded to be keepers at home and raise their own children. Women need to be taught how to love their children and husbands." The author believes according to Scripture (Titus 2) God commands her as an older woman to teach the younger women what she calls "biblical womanhood" and uses Scripture verses often taken out of context to tell women she knows the will of God for their lives.
Throughout the book the author makes sweeping statements mostly against women without any citations to back up her claims. The lack of thorough research and citing any resources outside the KJV and dictionary to backup her claims is unprofessional and reinforces the sometimes unfair idea that self-published books are poor quality.
The author promotes what is known as "biblical womanhood." It's the belief that all women are called to be and do the exact same thing - wife, mother, keeper at/of home.
Each book chapter contains "do's" and "don'ts" which serve only to put heavy weights on women of rules to follow. Some of the rules included are:
1. Wives must always give their husbands sex & if they don't the husband will be tempted by satan (chapter 5).
2. Wives do all you can (obey your husband in all things) to win your disobedient husband to God (chapter 9).
3. Women must dress modestly so men won't stumble and lust (chapter 5).
Other rules include:
-Women stay home
-Cook/Cook from scratch
-Please husband in all things (we're instructed to please God, not people, Galatians 1:10)
-Know your role and stay in it
-Keep house clean, no clutter
-Punish children by spanking in order to train and teach them to obey
-Don't argue, don't send children to public school, don't draw attention to yourself by wearing fashionable clothing, don't have a career, don't preach or share God's truth with your husband since he is the spiritual leader, and many more rules throughout the book...
Another troubling idea the author presents in the book is her claim that "love doesn't involve feelings or emotions." Perhaps she's unaware of the various types of love? Agape love is unconditional love, the type we receive from God and can learn to give to others. Eros love is romantic love and Storge is familial love from parent to child and vice versa. There are other types as well. While part of loving someone is also committing to loving them even when we don't feel warm fuzzy feelings in the moment, but that doesn't mean love never involves feelings or emotions.
Twisted Scripture and Out-Of-Context concerns:
In Ch. 8 Obedient to Your Husband Ms. Alexander references Genesis 3:16 to promote the idea that God ordains and has designed women/wives to be ruled over by men/husbands. This is preposterous! Genesis 3:16 simply states the consequences for sin - that husbands would now rule over wives - this wasn't the way God intended relationships to function.
Ms. Alexander also claims "There isn't one verse that commands husbands to submit to their wives. There is no such thing as mutual submission in a marriage (ch. 8)."
Scripture says the opposite of what Ms. Alexander claims:
-Ephesians 5:21 (mutual submission)
-Ephesians 5:25, 28 (sacrifice/submission of husband to wife)
-Genesis 21:12 God instructed Abraham to listen to and obey his wife, Sarah
In Ch. 10 Silent in the Church Ms. Alexander cites 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 as a command from God telling women to be silent in the churches. Yet, she leaves out vs. 36 which is crucial to understanding the full context. Vs. 36 shows the apostle Paul basically calling vs. 34 & 35 a bunch of baloney. The church had adopted a Jewish Law which stated women were to keep silent and Paul was calling them out on this. Vs. 36 changes everything. Paul nor God endorse women being silenced.
There are many other twists and errors, too many to list out here.
The bottom line is this...the author is telling you how to live and if you follow all the rules it's implied that you'll have success - you'll have obedient children, a happy marriage in which your husband will be pleased with you, and if you're fortunate enough, God will be pleased with you. Ms. Alexander promotes a system, a legalistic rules-based system to follow.
Instead, being a Christian is about a living, breathing, personal relationship with Jesus. We're created for organic relationships and you can't manufacture an authentic relationship through a system of rules and hoops you have to jump through.
If we look at the Bible as a whole we see God loves variety and created each of us unique for a reason. God leads and calls us to different things. God never intended for women (or men) to all do the exact same thing. Ms. Alexander would do well to stop attempting to be the Holy Spirit by telling women how to live and allow God to lead each of us individually.
December 8, 2019
Lori supports marital rape and child abuse amongst a plethora of other deplorable things. Hail Satan ✌️
February 5, 2021
Complete trash!!! Twists and cherry picks what parts of the Bible she wants to follow, then approves of rape in marriage and beating your kids. She's vile
March 15, 2023
Enjoyed how much the author had you looking up verses! A great shorter study.
June 29, 2021
4.5 stars.
This was such a great, small little women’s study that was very much rooted in the word & kept you in the word more so than the study. Definitely would recommend!! Would be a great, cheap, & small study for a group too! Loved this! If you wanna dive into what the Bible really says about womanhood, pick this up!
This was such a great, small little women’s study that was very much rooted in the word & kept you in the word more so than the study. Definitely would recommend!! Would be a great, cheap, & small study for a group too! Loved this! If you wanna dive into what the Bible really says about womanhood, pick this up!
March 18, 2020
If you really want to learn Biblical Womanhood, then this book is for you. The lessons can be challenging but self-reflective. I personally found this book informative and very helpful while being Bible based. It made a great woman's small study.
July 31, 2024
(3.5 rating if I could give it)
I quite like this book and there are so many wonderful chapters. I particularly love how the chapter on sober-mindedness also included screen time addiction, as that is especially relevant to my generation (gen z), it offers great advice when it comes to being a good, Godly wife and loving your husband and showing gratitude to your husband, as well as being a productive homemaker
The one thing I can't get behind, and why I didn't rate this higher is I firmly disagree with the parenting advice and Lori's advocacy of physical punishment. I don't believe it to be biblical, especially her endorsement of the Pearls who advocate for particularly cruel parenting methods. Lori also has a dispensational theology that strays from solid biblical teaching. However I believe that her views on both physical punishment and dispensationalism are both products of her time, and the Scofield annotated bible that got pushed on her generation and though I disagree I don't hold it against her character
So if you are looking for excellent marriage advice this is a great book
But when it comes to parenting advice not so much
The questions after each chapter are thought provoking and very useful and overall it was a good read despite the things I mentioned above.
I quite like this book and there are so many wonderful chapters. I particularly love how the chapter on sober-mindedness also included screen time addiction, as that is especially relevant to my generation (gen z), it offers great advice when it comes to being a good, Godly wife and loving your husband and showing gratitude to your husband, as well as being a productive homemaker
The one thing I can't get behind, and why I didn't rate this higher is I firmly disagree with the parenting advice and Lori's advocacy of physical punishment. I don't believe it to be biblical, especially her endorsement of the Pearls who advocate for particularly cruel parenting methods. Lori also has a dispensational theology that strays from solid biblical teaching. However I believe that her views on both physical punishment and dispensationalism are both products of her time, and the Scofield annotated bible that got pushed on her generation and though I disagree I don't hold it against her character
So if you are looking for excellent marriage advice this is a great book
But when it comes to parenting advice not so much
The questions after each chapter are thought provoking and very useful and overall it was a good read despite the things I mentioned above.
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July 14, 2025Great study. I know not everyone would like and enjoy this because it is confronting to the way we are called to live as Women of God, wives and mothers.
Taught me a lot about what the Bible commands of us, despite everything the world and even the church sometimes (incorrectly) says.
“He has not left us alone to walk on this narrow path that leads to life. He has given us His Holy Spirit that we are told works mightily within us (Colossians 1:29).”
Taught me a lot about what the Bible commands of us, despite everything the world and even the church sometimes (incorrectly) says.
“He has not left us alone to walk on this narrow path that leads to life. He has given us His Holy Spirit that we are told works mightily within us (Colossians 1:29).”
July 14, 2025
This was a lot of writing work. The information was beneficial, but a bit redundant. I think it is great for someone who can take the week and really dive deep into what the book is discussing and scripture along with it.
October 3, 2023
Wonderful book. Needed 8n today's society!
November 10, 2024
So good!
I love this book. All the lessons and how the author puts everything so simply. I recommend this book to any woman, married or not, to learn the roles God meant for us!
I love this book. All the lessons and how the author puts everything so simply. I recommend this book to any woman, married or not, to learn the roles God meant for us!
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