Author: Paige Coleman
Located in: Canada
Submitted: September 30, 2013
Tell us a little about yourself. Paige Coleman was knee-deep in Anthropological field work when a Toronto Police Officer walked into her life and taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite her efforts to prove his religion wrong, his knowledge and higher understanding on the subject prevailed, and she became a believer.
Abandoning her Anthropology career despite being a PhD shoe-in, she chose instead to earn a Bachelor of Christian Education from Redeemer University College and became a schoolteacher in North York, Ontario. She married the man who brought her to Christ and soon left her job to become a full-time homeschooling mother to their two sons.
Paige and her husband believe that the devices of feminism and modern secular humanism have robbed Christian women of the joy and glory that is the promised inheritance of Biblical living. Various Christian authors, whose buy-in to feminism has nullified their good work in Christ, have left many bereft of the true happiness and fulfillment that can only come from obedience to Gods Word.
With this in mind, it is Paiges most sincere desire to see women take back the freedom that is theirs in Christ, to defy the seducing spirits of this world, and to embrace the soul prosperity that God provides to those who love Him enough to deny their own will and choose to do His will.
Paige and her husband raise their boys in the beautiful, rolling Caledon hills of Southern Ontario. They hunt, they fish, they hike, and they ride. They praise the Lord daily for saving their souls from death, their eyes from tears, and their feet from falling.
What was your motivation behind this project? The torrents of ungodliness in the women around me who claimed to be Christian but didn't follow Christ troubled me exceedingly (Ps. 18:4). Christian marriages were in shambles, joyless, or falling apart. Christian women complained about their husbands, bashed their husbands, or ordered them around. They dictated in the home, often using their strong emotions to do so. They dressed like men, talked like men, and aspired to hold positions of authority like men. Their children were being left to themselves as their mothers pursued careers outside the home not out of necessity, but out of a need to gain material wealth and prestige. In a word, my heart was broken over how far women of the church had strayed from the Word and will of God.
What do you hope folks will gain from this project? Since I began writing this book, I prayed for one woman, unknown to me, whose life would be changed by it. I prayed that it would lead her to confront her sin before a holy and just God, repent of it, and be delivered. I want every reader to be that woman just like I was once that woman.
How were you personally impacted by working on this project? The process of writing this book taught me first that the Bible interprets itself and that all the answers we need are within its pages. Second, without Jesus Christ, we can do nothing (John 15:5). Third, it is God who works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Phil. 2:13).
So at the end of the day, any and all glory belongs wholly to God. I love the freedom and knowledge that this truth lends itself to. There is nothing more fulfilling than to meditate on God's Word day and night!
Who are your influences, sources of inspiration or favorite authors / artists? God is my number One influence, my Saviour, Master, Creator, Counselor, Father, and Friend. My husband is my saviour with a little "s". He led me to Christ. He inspires me, encourages me, teaches me, and loves me. Other authors who have shown me a beautiful and honest picture of Biblical womanhood, whose work I admire, are Teri Maxwell and Debi Pearl.
Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know: Just this: If you want to have a prospered soul, to be blessed, joyful, and fulfilled, read the Bible and do what it says!
