Liz Curtis Higgs - The Girls Still Got It: Take a Walk with Ruth and the God Who Rocked Her World

This is by far the most interesting, encouraging, and applicable book on Ruth Ive ever read. Liz is brilliantly profound as she makes the Bible come alive in a fresh, enlightening way. I kept finding myself saying, I didnt know that! Plus, Lizs trademark wit makes this book so much fun to read. I give this book my highest recommendation.

L YSA T ER K EURST , New York Times best-selling author of Made to Crave and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries

Liz Curtis Higgs is one of the most amazing teachers of Gods Word that I have ever experienced. Her in-depth knowledge of the Scriptures, gifting as a communicator, and personal relationship with the Lord make her unmatched in the ability to take biblical truth and make it applicable to anybody.

P RISCILLA S HIRER , New York Times best-selling author of The Resolution for Women

Liz has a profound gift. She can pull back the curtain of history, and suddenly we are weeping with Naomi, kneeling beside Ruth, and celebrating a God who redeems our stories in outrageously beautiful ways. You will love this book!

S HEILA W ALSH , author of God Loves Broken People (and those who pretend theyre not)

Liz is authentic, hilarious, and theologically substantive. Every time I have the privilege of hearing her teach or reading something shes written, I come away with a bigger, clearer picture of Jesus. Her new book about an Old Testament girl named Ruthwhich is ultimately about Gods redemptive affection for all of usis a must read!

L ISA H ARPER , author of Stumbling into Grace

Liz Curtis Higgs has done it again! With her thorough research, spontaneous wit, and extraordinary attention to every detail of Ruths life, Liz will have you laughing and crying at the same time while being challenged with poignant choices that apply to your own life. This book sings of hope, redemption, and lasting joy. I highly recommend it for personal and small-group study.

C AROL K ENT , author of Between a Rock and a Grace Place

Lizs genius, sensitivity, and humor are reflected on every page. Ive taught the book of Ruth many times, but, oh, did Liz introduce me to insightful, ancient cues that deepened what I thought I knew. Youre going to fall in love with The Girls Still Got Itand with Liz!

J AN S ILVIOUS , author of Same Life, New Story

I love Liz. I love Ruth. Put them under the same roof, and you have my full attention. Liz is the consummate storyteller, and Ruth is a woman with a story worth knowing. It worked for me. Big time!

P ATSY C LAIRMONT , author of Stained Glass Hearts

Liz has certainly still got it! Youll laugh, learn, and love Lizs contemporary parallels to Ruth and Naomi. She brings them alive, vividly helping us identify with their hopes and hurts. Like us, they faced enormous storms, but alsoand Liz makes this so clearthey learned to trust the Lord of the Storm. Lizs astounding research will teach you valuable historyyet all the while youll feel like you are curled up with a novel.

D EE B RESTIN , author of The Friendships of Women

Liz Curtis Higgs has taken this remarkable story and made it come alive! With delightful humor and well-researched insight, Liz presents Ruths story as it truly isthe story of you and me. For we, too, have been chosen and deeply loved by a Kinsman-Redeemer who went to such extravagant lengths that he left heaven and interrupted eternity just to make us his own.

J OANNA W EAVER , author of Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

The first time I heard Liz Curtis Higgs speak, I fell in love with her wisdom, her grace, and especially her infectious laughter. It has been the very same for me with this book. She had me at the first sentence, bent over the pages, underlining like a crazy woman, writing notes in the margins, and laughing out loud along with her. Liz writes with the mind of a scholar, the heart of a novelist, and a beautiful wit. I cannot wait to huddle my girlfriends around our kitchen table and study The Girls Still Got It.

A NGELA T HOMAS , author of Do You Think Im Beautiful?

Popular storyteller Higgs takes a look at the vamps and tramps of the Bible, searching for the lessons these wicked women have to teach. Higgs retells these biblical stories with rollicking humor and deep insight as she teaches about the nature of sin and goodness.

P UBLISHERS W EEKLY

Liz takeswith humility and humorthe evangelical message and puts it in a lens that anybody can look through. A truly remarkable accomplishment.

R ELIGION & E THICS N EWS W EEKLY

Everything touched by Liz Curtis Higgs turns to humor and encouragement. Higgs connects each of her Bad Girls with her readers. A refreshing look at Bible characters we dont hear much about.

C HURCH & S YNAGOGUE L IBRARIES

Higgs is such a fine writer. She invites us to see badness not as something out there but as something within. The key, needless to say, lies in pulling the right lesson from each bad example. And Higgs is superb at it.

D ESERET N EWS

N ONFICTION
Bad Girls of the Bible
Really Bad Girls of the Bible
Unveiling Mary Magdalene
Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible
Rise and Shine
Embrace Grace
My Hearts in the Lowlands

C ONTEMPORARY F ICTION
Mixed Signals
Bookends

H ISTORICAL F ICTION
Thorn in My Heart
Fair Is the Rose
Whence Came a Prince
Grace in Thine Eyes
Here Burns My Candle
Mine Is the Night

C HILDRENS
The Parable of the Lily
The Sunflower Parable
The Pumpkin Patch Parable
The Pine Tree Parable
Go Away, Dark Night

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