Elisabeth Elliot
Weekly Devotionals
Let Me Be a Woman Part 6: Heirs of Grace
We conclude our spring series this week featuring excerpts from "Let Me Be a Woman", Elisabeth's wedding gift to her...
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Let Me Be a Woman Part 5: You Marry a Sinner
We continue this week in our series with excerpts from Let Me Be a Woman in honor of Valerie and Walt...
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Let Me Be a Woman Part 4: Creation, Woman for Man
We continue this week with part four in our series of excerpts from "Let Me Be a Woman". It is...
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Let Me Be a Woman Part 3: A Daughter, Not a Son
To understand the meaning of womanhood we have to start with God. If He is indeed "Creator of all things...
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Let Me Be a Woman Part 2: Not Who Am I? But Whose Am I?
We continue with the second week of our new series featuring excerpts from Let Me Be a Woman, Elisabeth's wedding gift...
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Let Me Be a Woman: A New Perspective, Introduction
In honor of Valerie and Walter Shepard's 50th wedding anniversary, we bring you a new series featuring excerpts from Let Me Be...
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A Life’s Work
Few women today are concerned about ironing sheets, but it is still possible to let many other things take precedence...
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When the Heat Comes
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and rests his confidence upon him. He shall be like a tree planted by...
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Transforming Power
If God is almighty, there can be no evil so great as to be beyond His power to transform. That transforming power...
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Death is a Gateway to the Palace
To be a Christian is to be a subject—subject to a king—that is, to welcome the rule of God in...
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Unconditional Self-Abandonment
The glory of the Resurrection followed the shame of the Crucifixion. Christ abandoned Himself, became subject to death, went to Gehenna, for...
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Looking at Graves
Matthew tells us in the last chapter of his Gospel that the two Marys came early in the morning, “to...
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But Also to Suffer
Amy Carmichael once spent a day in solitude in a cave in Japan, wrestling in prayer over some secret matter...
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Where to Begin
To be transformed into the image of Christ, we must know His character, love His obedience to the will of...
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Strength for Anything
Paul writes to the Christians in Philippi about his prison experience, but without any descriptive detail. He might have dwelt on...
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Passion and Purity: Does God Notice?
We conclude our series of excerpts from “Passion and Purity” this week. We encourage you to read it in its fullness to learn...
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Passion and Purity: The Revelation
We continue this week with excerpts from Passion and Purity. We conclude our series next week. A settled commitment to the Lord...
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Passion and Purity: Unruly Affections
We continue this week with excerpts from Passion and Purity with Elisabeth’s first mention of her meeting Jim Elliot. I...
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Passion and Purity Part 2: Me, Lord? Single?
We continue this week and throughout the month of February, with excerpts from Passion and Purity. Today we feature chapter one....
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Passion and Purity: Preface
This month, we introduce “Passion and Purity” to perhaps a new generation of readers. It seems like a natural follow-up...
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Epilogue II
We conclude our series this week with Epilogue II from Elisabeth’s book, “Through Gates of Splendor,” sharing the continued redemptive...
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Epilogue 1
This week we feature the first epilogue written in 1958 from “Through Gates of Splendor.” In this epilogue, Elisabeth recounts the miraculous...