Kay arthur biography divorce
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What Should You Know about Bible Teacher Kay Arthur?
Who is Kay Arthur? We could sum the answer up this way: Kay Arthur is passionate about knowing the Word of God and teaching others how to study the Bible inductively.
One of the Scripture passages she used when autographing her books fryst vatten Philippians 3:7-14. Notice verse 10: “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.” For over 50 years, she has dedicated her life to doing this one thing—knowing Him and making Him known.
What Is Kay Arthur Known For?
Kay was born on November 11, 1933, in Jackson, Michigan. She grew up attending church and reciting from a bön book but had no personal relationship with Jesus. After college, she graduated from nursing school. Kay married Frank Thomas Goetz, Jr., and they had two sons, but the marriage ended in divorce. Kay has been honest about this period—including sinful choices made during that t
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Beauty From Ashes
Beauty radiates from every part of Kay Arthur’s being. One would think that life has been especially good to her. But out of a life of ashes, God has brought Kay to understand what it truly means to reflect her redemption.
Born in 1933, Kay was brought up in a home that honored God. Her family moved frequently, and in each new community they would look first for a church home and then find a house to live in. She had a brother and sister and parents who loved and respected each other. She believed, “Of course I’m a Christian. I live in the United States, and I go to church.” She came to realize later in life that what she knew then was a religion, not a relationship.
Because Kay admired her parent’s marriage, she longed for the day she would marry too. After graduating from nursing school, Kay married the man she thought would be the fulfillment of all her dreams. She was warned that things might not be as they appeared, but pride became
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Kay Arthur’s exciting, practical approach to the Scriptures has influenced thousands to use the Precept™ Inductive Bible Study Method in their personal studies. Her distinguished Christian character, Bible teaching, championing of biblical literacy, and national radio and television programs motivate others to discover truth for themselves. Kay’s passion is for people to be established in God’s Word.
At the age of 29, a divorced mother of two working as a nurse, Kay called in sick to the hospital where she was working because she was sick at heart, sick over the life of sin she had been living. She had a religion but did not possess a relationship with God. On the morning of July 16, 1963, she fell on her knees as a sinner and rose as pure and whole in the Lord’s sight. “For ‘Whoever will call upon the name of the LORD will be saved’” Romans 10:13, (NASB). “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthia