Higgs - Flawed Women Loved by a Flawless God

Praise for the

Bad Girls of the Bible series

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.

Publishers Weekly

Bad Girls of the Bible is not only a hoot to read; it is full of serious warnings about shaky choices and serious encouragement to take Gods way for our own good.

G LORIA G AITHER

author, speaker, and lyricist

Liz Curtis Higgs has broken new ground in a refreshing and exciting approach to the study of women in the Bible. The good, bad, and sort-of-bad women become transparent as we, perhaps for the first time, really begin to know and understand them. Bravo!

J ERE C ARLSON

College Avenue Baptist Church, San Diego, California

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

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

I love Lizs work! She entertains while teaching and leaves me with points to ponder long after. Her insights are fresh and exciting and will draw readers back into the Word.

F RANCINE R IVERS

best-selling author of Redeeming Love

Over the years we have wearied of the stories of the women of the Bible. Here we find them presented in a fresh, vibrant style. They leap to life not as the sinless saints of the past but as real women.

S IMONE M ONROE

First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas

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.

Church & Synagogue Libraries

Liz has done it again! She captures the heart and circumstances of a woman of Magdala and brings her into the twenty-first century. What hope and promise this will bring to many women who cannot comprehend how very precious they are to God.

K AY A RTHUR

best-selling author of Lord, I Want to Know You

I loved the down-to-earth realism. Instead of an airbrushed, plastic feel, Bad Girls of the Bible jumps off the pages with fresh, relevant, and engaging applications.

B ECKY M OLTUMYR

Brookside Church, Omaha, Nebraska

Liz Curtis Higgss unique use of fiction combined with Scripture and modern application helped me see myself, my past, and my future in a whole new light.

R OBIN L EE H ATCHER

author of Whispers from Yesterday

The entertainment value of the book is obvious, but the take-home extra is the Bible study. Who but Liz Curtis Higgs could so creatively reveal Gods compassion, unconditional love, and mercy through such Bad Girls in Scripture?

C AROL K ENT

author of When I Lay My Isaac Down

O THER B OOKS BY L IZ C URTIS H IGGS

N ONFICTION

Bad Girls of the Bible

Really Bad Girls of the Bible

Unveiling Mary Magdalene

Rise and Shine

Embrace Grace

My Hearts in the Lowlands

The Girls Still Got It

Its Good to Be Queen

The Women of Christmas

The Women of Easter

31 Verses to Write on Your Heart

31 Proverbs to Light Your Path

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

A Wreath of Snow

C ONTEMPORARY F ICTION

Mixed Signals

Bookends

Mercy Like Sunlight

C HILDREN S B OOKS

The Pumpkin Patch Parable

The Parable of the Lily

The Sunflower Parable

The Pine Tree Parable

Parable Treasury

S LIGHTLY B AD G IRLS OF THE B IBLE

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scripture quotations marked ( AMP ) are taken from the Amplified Bible. Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( CEV ) are taken from the Contemporary English Version. Copyright 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked (Gods Word) are taken from Gods Word, a copyrighted work of Gods Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by Gods Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( ICB ) are taken from the International Childrens Bible. Copyright 1986, 1988, 1999 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( KJV ) are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked ( MSG ) are taken from The Message. Copyright by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers Inc. Scripture quotations marked ( NASB ) are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( NCV ) are taken from the New Century Version. Copyright 2005 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NEB ) are taken from the New English Bible, copyright Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press 1961, 1970. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NKJV ) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NLT ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NRSV ) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( RSV ) are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952, [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The contemporary story in each chapter is fiction. The characters and events are fictional and are not intended to parallel exactly the biblical story.

Trade Paperback ISBN9780735291706

Ebook ISBN9780307446183

Text copyright 2007 by Liz Curtis Higgs

Discussion Questions and Study Guide copyright 2018 by Liz Curtis Higgs

Cover design by Kelly L. Howard

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published in the United States by WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in slightly different form in the United States by WaterBrook, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2007.