Elisabeth Elliot
Weekly Devotionals
A Hard Decision, a Hard Discipline
Both Meirwyn and Robert had faced hard decisions, the latter involving marriage or singleness for the sake of the gospel. They waited. They prayed....
Weekly Devotionals
Child-Parent Relations
**Note from Elisabeth: Dan Tompkins, fourteen-year-old son of my dear friend Barb of Tucson, Arizona, wrote this for his school...
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The Discipline of the Body, Part Two
The Jerusalem Bible translates it this way: “Think of God’s mercy, my brothers, and worship Him, I beg you, in...
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of the Body, Part One
A television commercial shows a man springing out of bed, racing down the stairs, gulping a cup of coffee, snatching up coat...
Weekly Devotionals
A Word for Fathers
While visiting Columbia Bible College in South Carolina, I found in the library a little book called Father and Son,...
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A Simple Statement Suffices
Some of us feel thoroughly inadequate as “pray-ers”. We wish we could pray beautifully and consistently and effectively, and we...
Weekly Devotionals
Under Orders: Part 2
When I was in college, it was the custom when the yearbook came out to ask one’s friends to autograph...
Weekly Devotionals
Under Orders: Part 1
Christian discipline means placing oneself under orders. It is no mere business of self-improvement, to be listed along with speed-reading,...
Weekly Devotionals
The Gift of Work
The principal cause of boredom is the hatred of work. People are trained from childhood to hate it. Parents often...