The Power of a Woman's Words: Workbook and Study Guide Book

I feel bad criticizing a workbook about the power of a woman's words, but I think there are things that need to be said, so I'll do my best to say them nicely and respectfully.

I've done a lot of bible studies over the years. Some I've liked more than others, but I think I struggled with this one more than most (which is unfortunate because it's a topic that I was really looking forward to studying with my mom and sisters this summer).

From a formatting perspective, there are issues with spacing. Questions that required thought out answers sometimes had only one line of space while questions that required one to two word answers got three or four spaces.

In terms of the chapters themselves - they're long. Really long. Some of them had up to 30 multi-part questions with quite lengthy scripture readings. A number of the more recent studies I've done have divided study questions into days - which is something I think should have been done with this study to make it less overwhelming.

Admittedly, we only had 8 weeks to do this study and there are 14 chapters, which meant that most of the time, we were doing 2 chapters a week. That's just too much work. This study really needs to be done in a minimum of 10 weeks, preferably 12 if you plan on using the workbook.

Repetition was also an issue - both within the same question and throughout the study. Multiple questions required the reader to look up 4-6 scriptures and write an answer each time. The only problem was that 2-3 of the scriptures inevitably had the same answer so you're basically writing the same exact thing multiple times. The same scriptures were also used repeatedly throughout the study (gold ring in a pig's snout anyone?) to answer different questions.

Some of the questions had obvious answers and others asked the reader to compare things that had no clear connection. I also thought some of the scriptural examples used were questionable - as if the author was having to stretch to make her point.

Bottom line: the companion book for this study isn't horrible, but I would steer clear of the workbook.