In Pursuit of the Virtuous Woman

By Toni Whitacre-Kratochvil

By Toni Whitacre Kratochvil

2009

This book will provide some guidance as to what a virtuous woman is. Toni Whitacre-Kratochvil has brought the understanding of what it is to be a virtuous woman by using examples of women in the Bible both good and bad along side of the verses in Proverbs 31.

In this way, you will have a gauge to measure where you are on that scale. Most women are not wholly good or wholly bad, but somewhere in the middle. Come take a seat in this class to learn more about what a virtuous woman is, and how you can become a more virtuous woman yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490851747

Toni Whitacre-Kratochvil

Chaplain Toni Whitacre-Kratochvil is a member of The National Association of Christian Ministers and serves on their prayer team. She is the writer of Christian ACTS and Toni’s Bible Hour blogs. She is also founder of Expression In Worship, a sign language group, and a co- founder of The Vannie Project outreach ministry.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-5174-7 (e)

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/6/2014

Contents

Dedications

Thanks to

Forward

Preface

Abbreviations Of The Books Of The Bible Used In This Book

Outline

In Pursuit Of The Virtuous Woman

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Lesson 10

Lesson 11

Lesson 12

Lesson 13

Lesson 14

Lesson 15

Bibliography

Research Information

About the Author

Dedications

I want to thank the Holy Spirit for guiding me as I wrote this book. I would also like to thank all those who prayed, encouraged, and allowed me to bounce questions and ideas off of them during the planning, writing, editing of this book.

I’d like to thank my husband, David for believing in my calling enough to give me time to unload the files in the filing cabinet in my head, & all of my family, a Very Special thanks to Poke, The Diamonds, Charlotte Frye, Susan Lindsey, Suzi Morgan, The Life shared group, Christian A.C.T.S. writing group, Myra, Rev. Bill and Brenda McGill, Pastor Brady, Catherene Jacob, Alister M., Misty H., Janis, Kathy Nash, all those at N.A.C. M., Rushing Wind Biker Church, and the many Pastors and Rabbi’s, and their places of worship who helped me with this book one way or another.

Thanks to

Westbow Press for helping me walk through my adventure into becoming a published Author of my first book.

Jo Anne Fisher for believing in me enough to give me gentle pushes to put my writings out there as well writing the forward for this book.

Brandi Whitacre, Jo Anne and Jon Fisher for helping me to get this book ready to send in. To my son, Johnathan, thank you for believing that is would happen. (Here’s to you son,Whitacre).

Lastly, to Haley & Gabriel for your love.

I love you all!

Forward

In her book, Sister Toni showed the contrast between a virtuous woman and a non-virtuous woman. She did this by giving great examples of good and evil women from the Bible. She captured what a virtuous woman should look like when she showed us the heart of women such as Ruth, who was kind, caring, and a God-fearing woman. Then she gave examples of evil women in the Bible, who were evil, selfish, and self-serving like Jezebel.

This book made me stop and look at myself long and hard.

In Sister Toni, I see all the wonderful qualities of a virtuous woman who