Flawed families of the Bible, by David E. Garland and Diana R. Garland.

Flawed Families of the Bible.
How God’s grace works through imperfect relationships
David E. Garland and Diana R. Garland
Brazos Press,
Grand Rapids, Michigan (2007).

In this book, David and Diana Garland introduce the reader to a group of families portrayed in the Bible. They take part in God’s plan not only by bringing new life to the world but also through their dreams, expectations, struggles, weaknesses, failures, betrayals and sins.

Based on both memory and historical data, we know that human beings learned to interpret God’s will questioning their deepest wishes, dreams, fears, successes and failures, as well as within nature an miracles. This book goes a step further and recovers and insight that pervades the first chapters of the Bible and continues throughout its many books: God reveals himself through human relationships, and is there that we clearly see God does not choose holy people or holy families to carry out his plans, but ordinary men and women with doubts and flaws always present in each person.