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About Beth Moore

Any believer can enjoy the comfort of security of God's loving presence — That's the wonder of God's ceaseless love. That's why Beth Moore has made it her mission to guide women everywhere into a richer, more fulfilling relationship with the Father.

Beth Moore is a woman of purpose, preparation, prayer and passion. It's apparent in everything she does, from teaching Sunday School at her home church to sharing her biblical insights and observations in her Bible studies and books.

Long before this gifted teacher's Bible studies were ever published, Beth spent countless hours preparing each week's lesson for her weekday class at Houston's First Baptist Church. The class has grown from a handful of women to over 200, and the lessons Beth has taught them since 1984 have resulted in the popular Bible studies utilized by nearly 750,000 people each year. The demand for new Bible study material means Beth spends a good portion of each week studying and writing when she isn't traveling across the country (and sometimes, the world) to speak to the thousands of women who attend her Living Proof conferences.

The positive response to her work is encouraging, but Beth is still troubled by the fact that so many believers seem to be merely "getting by" rather than experiencing the abundant life promised in Scripture.

"I see so many believers walking in defeat and not walking in the power of God's Word," she says. "We have the truth, we've been given the truth, but does it abide in us? Only when it abides in us will our joy be full, according to John 15."

Beth identifies with discouraged believers because she, too, once felt defeated before the transforming power of God's Word changed her life. But, she acknowledges she learned an important lesson that she now shares with other believers — "I learned that living in victory only happens when you absolutely surrender to the total power of God and to His truth."

Raised in Arkansas and Texas by Christian parents, she welcomed Jesus into her heart at a very early age. "It seemed the most natural thing in the world to receive into my heart the Savior I had heard about all of my life," she recalls.

But she fell into the hands of someone who could not be trusted and became a victim of some childhood abuses. Those experiences, she says, "drove her in desperation" to seek out ways to heal her pain before accepting the healing embrace of her Savior.

The troubled little girl grew into an insecure young woman who made many wrong choices. "Every time I did something foolish, I'd cry out to God 'why do I do the things I do?' But I never felt abandoned by Him."

The summer after her freshman year at Southwest Texas State University, Beth surrendered to God's call on her life to full-time Christian vocational service. She graduated, married and began raising a family with her husband, Keith. In addition to raising their two daughters, they were also parents to the son of a close relative for seven years.

Her life has had its share of pain, but Beth chooses to focus not on what she has lost, but rather on what she has gained — a deeper relationship with God.

"I was driven in desperation to an intimate relationship with Christ," she says. "I had no choice if I was going to live the abundant life."

Never dreaming she would one day have a national teaching ministry, Beth began serving God in small ways, speaking to small groups and sharing with women in her home, all the while studying the Word of God intensely and finding her gifts of speaking, writing and teaching encouraged by supportive people such as Marge Caldwell, John Bisagno and Jeanette Clift George, who, Beth says, "saw something in me I didn't."

When Beth was in her early '30s, after a period of intense brokenness — when she says "God showed me He didn't want me to live for Him, but rather He wanted to live through me" — her ministry really began to grow. Her first Bible study, A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place, was published by LifeWay Church Resources, followed by six more: A Heart Like His: Seeking the Heart of God Through a Study of David; To Live Is Christ: The Life and Ministry of Paul; Living Beyond Yourself: Exploring the Fruit of the Spirit; Breaking Free: Making Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life; Jesus, the One and Only; and Living Free: Learning to Pray God's Word. She's also written a devotional journal, Whispers of Hope (LifeWay) as well as an inspirational collection of poetry and essays, Things Pondered ... From the Heart of a Lesser Woman (Broadman and Holman). Her eighth trade book, When Godly People Do Ungodly Things, published by Broadman and Holman Publishers in 2002, is now on the Christian Booksellers Association's best seller list.

As Beth's ministry continues to grow, one thing remains constant-her passionate desire to see lives transformed by the Word of God. For she knows from first-hand experience that it is only when hearts like ours are shaped into hearts like His that we will ever truly experience abundant life.

For more on Beth Moore, visit her own Living Proof Ministries Web site.

See all of LifeWay's Beth Moore Bible study resources on our Beth Moore Women's Ministry page...