Lead Like Jael: 7 Timeless Principles for Today's Women of Faith
Autor Emma Watersen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mai 2026
In a culture that insists women must choose between two extremes—become a “girl boss” or embrace a “tradwife” ideal—many find themselves longing for something deeper. Neither path fully answers the yearning for purpose, wisdom, and a life aligned with God’s design.
Lead Like Jael offers a better way.
Drawing from the lives of Jael, Deborah, Sarah, Esther, Mary, and other heroines of the Bible, Emma Waters presents a compelling vision of womanhood rooted not in ideology, but in wisdom, faithfulness, and joyful submission to Jesus Christ in every season of life.
Named after the unexpected wartime heroine who defeated Israel’s enemy with a simple tent peg,Lead Like Jael argues that Jael’s greatness was not found in rejecting her femininity, but in faithfully embracing the life God had given her. Years of ordinary obedience in her God-given responsibilities prepared her for extraordinary faithfulness in a decisive moment. She didn’t seek a battlefield, but she didn’t shrink back when obedience to God required bold action. She simply used what God had placed in her hands, right where He had placed her.
That same pattern still holds true today. When women honor the seasons, limits, and responsibilities entrusted to them, God equips them with the wisdom and courage needed for every trial, every calling, and every moment.
Written for women in every stage of life, Lead Like Jael rejects simplistic cultural labels and invites readers into biblical maturity. Waters makes the case for the Tent Peg Strategy, offering seven principles for living wisely in a disordered age:
- Discernment shaped by God’s Word
- Shrewdness guided by conviction and courage
- Resourcefulness grounded in duty to one’s home
- Hospitality as a life-giving and life-saving force
- Marriage that embraces husbands as battle-mates, not rivals
- Motherhood as warfare wielding self-sacrificial love
- Wise counsel from faithful women
Whether you’re just beginning your journey or guiding others along theirs, this book meets you where you are and speaks with strength, clarity, and hope. God’s Word leaves no room for passivity: “The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down” (Proverbs 14:1).
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781510783539
ISBN-10: 1510783539
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Colecția Regnery Faith
ISBN-10: 1510783539
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Colecția Regnery Faith
Notă biografică
Emma Waters is a Policy Analyst for the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on family, bioethics, and reproductive technology. She is a former Visiting Fellow with Independent Women’s Forum and a contributing author with World Magazine. Emma graduated valedictorian of Lee University with a double major in Political Science and Biblical & Theological Studies. Today, she lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their two children. Follow her on X @emlwaters.
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Praise for Lead Like Jael:
“Lead Like Jael is pure gospel gold, a beautifully written book that champions feminine strength and greatness through Christ-wrought submission. Emma Waters calls all Christian women—maidens, mothers, and matriarchs—to lead deep, purposeful lives filled with wisdom. This accessible and wise book outlines a strategy for women at all stages of life to pursue a biblically grounded home economy in which faith, marriage, and children come first. Buy a copy for every woman in your life!”
—Rosaria Butterfield, wife, mother, and author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, and Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
“Emma Waters challenges the polarizing roles now offered to women. Lead Like Jael masterfully strips away these limits and helps us reexamine the power of our role in light of Scripture and discernment. Motherhood becomes a holy calling coupled with spiritual warfare (Psalm 127:4), your husband is your ally in battle, and your dinner table becomes an altar. You are going to want a copy for yourself and your daughter.”
—Lisa Bevere, New York Times bestselling author of Without Rival and cofounder of Messenger International
“While the US is in the midst of declining marriage and birth rates, when ‘self’ everything is the mantra of the age, Emma invites you to ‘recover a biblical vision of womanhood rooted in faithfulness to Christ above all.’ Truly, this is the abundant life.”
—Congresswoman Mary Miller, representing the Fifteenth District of Illinois
“Today’s marketplace of ideas for women seems to be narrowly defined by two extremes: the girl boss or the tradwife. Emma Waters, through rich and concrete examples, biblical heroines, and contemporary research, offers a much broader and healthier understanding of how we can live, lead, and love. Lead Like Jael offers women a model we all need but didn’t know existed.”
—Dr. Carrie Gress, author of Something Wicked and Theology of Home
“Lead Like Jael is a bracing, much-needed corrective to a quiet but corrosive trend within the modern church—the uncritical absorption of feminist assumptions that recast women’s flourishing in terms of autonomy, careerism, and self-actualization rather than covenant, obedience, and fruitfulness. With clarity and conviction, Emma Waters restores a biblical vision of womanhood rooted in Scripture rather than cultural fashion. For readers seeking an antidote to feminism’s quiet theological drift—and a compelling vision of womanhood that is joyful, disciplined, and rooted in God’s design—this book is both timely and necessary.”
—Megan Basham, New York Times bestselling author of Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda and culture reporter for The Daily Wire
“This book is a stake in the ground—or a tent peg!—for Christian femininity. Emma has mined the wisdom of our biblical foremothers to paint a practical and inviting picture of living a full and joy-filled life as a woman of God in our moment. Every young woman, and every ‘matriarch’ mentoring them, needs to read this.”
—Maria Baer, journalist and cohost of the Breakpoint This Week podcast with the Colson Center
“In Lead Like Jael, Emma Waters points out a path to women that runs between girl-boss feminism and the tradwife movement. This is a path that honors marriage and family, that upholds the dignity of all human life, that advances the common good, and that allows women to use the gifts they uniquely bring to public and private life. Waters is a singularly important new voice in today’s conversation about women, men, family, and the pursuit of justice.”
—W. Brad Wilcox, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and author of Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
“Every word Emma Waters writes radiates with beautiful, shimmering truth. She brilliantly compares powerful feminine examples from the Bible, like the righteous Jael, with modern-day women suffering under the self-inflicted lies of progressive feminism. Fascinating and insightful, the book itself is a sharp stake through the heart of the movement that has sought to subjugate us with decades of indoctrination. Emma understands like few young women do that victory in this fight will require us to channel some of the Old Testament heroine Jael’s implacable female bravery—and see our enemies for what they are. ‘God is within her, she will not fall.’ Emma Waters has written a book I wish someone had given me years ago, and one that all faithful women should own.”
—Peachy Keenan, author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War
“Lead Like Jael is pure gospel gold, a beautifully written book that champions feminine strength and greatness through Christ-wrought submission. Emma Waters calls all Christian women—maidens, mothers, and matriarchs—to lead deep, purposeful lives filled with wisdom. This accessible and wise book outlines a strategy for women at all stages of life to pursue a biblically grounded home economy in which faith, marriage, and children come first. Buy a copy for every woman in your life!”
—Rosaria Butterfield, wife, mother, and author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, The Gospel Comes with a House Key, and Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
“Emma Waters challenges the polarizing roles now offered to women. Lead Like Jael masterfully strips away these limits and helps us reexamine the power of our role in light of Scripture and discernment. Motherhood becomes a holy calling coupled with spiritual warfare (Psalm 127:4), your husband is your ally in battle, and your dinner table becomes an altar. You are going to want a copy for yourself and your daughter.”
—Lisa Bevere, New York Times bestselling author of Without Rival and cofounder of Messenger International
“While the US is in the midst of declining marriage and birth rates, when ‘self’ everything is the mantra of the age, Emma invites you to ‘recover a biblical vision of womanhood rooted in faithfulness to Christ above all.’ Truly, this is the abundant life.”
—Congresswoman Mary Miller, representing the Fifteenth District of Illinois
“Today’s marketplace of ideas for women seems to be narrowly defined by two extremes: the girl boss or the tradwife. Emma Waters, through rich and concrete examples, biblical heroines, and contemporary research, offers a much broader and healthier understanding of how we can live, lead, and love. Lead Like Jael offers women a model we all need but didn’t know existed.”
—Dr. Carrie Gress, author of Something Wicked and Theology of Home
“Lead Like Jael is a bracing, much-needed corrective to a quiet but corrosive trend within the modern church—the uncritical absorption of feminist assumptions that recast women’s flourishing in terms of autonomy, careerism, and self-actualization rather than covenant, obedience, and fruitfulness. With clarity and conviction, Emma Waters restores a biblical vision of womanhood rooted in Scripture rather than cultural fashion. For readers seeking an antidote to feminism’s quiet theological drift—and a compelling vision of womanhood that is joyful, disciplined, and rooted in God’s design—this book is both timely and necessary.”
—Megan Basham, New York Times bestselling author of Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda and culture reporter for The Daily Wire
“This book is a stake in the ground—or a tent peg!—for Christian femininity. Emma has mined the wisdom of our biblical foremothers to paint a practical and inviting picture of living a full and joy-filled life as a woman of God in our moment. Every young woman, and every ‘matriarch’ mentoring them, needs to read this.”
—Maria Baer, journalist and cohost of the Breakpoint This Week podcast with the Colson Center
“In Lead Like Jael, Emma Waters points out a path to women that runs between girl-boss feminism and the tradwife movement. This is a path that honors marriage and family, that upholds the dignity of all human life, that advances the common good, and that allows women to use the gifts they uniquely bring to public and private life. Waters is a singularly important new voice in today’s conversation about women, men, family, and the pursuit of justice.”
—W. Brad Wilcox, Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and author of Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
“Every word Emma Waters writes radiates with beautiful, shimmering truth. She brilliantly compares powerful feminine examples from the Bible, like the righteous Jael, with modern-day women suffering under the self-inflicted lies of progressive feminism. Fascinating and insightful, the book itself is a sharp stake through the heart of the movement that has sought to subjugate us with decades of indoctrination. Emma understands like few young women do that victory in this fight will require us to channel some of the Old Testament heroine Jael’s implacable female bravery—and see our enemies for what they are. ‘God is within her, she will not fall.’ Emma Waters has written a book I wish someone had given me years ago, and one that all faithful women should own.”
—Peachy Keenan, author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War