Elisabeth Elliot
Weekly Devotionals
Some of My Best Friends are Books: Part Three
The first full-length book I recall reading was not a piece of great literature, but it had a great effect...
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Some of My Best Friends are Books: Part Two
We continue with this second week in our Summer Reading series with Part Two of “Some of My Best Friends are...
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Some of My Best Friends are Books: Part One
For the past two summers we have taken you on our travels to Franconia, New Hampshire and Norway through our...
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Take Strength
These strong, simple words can be spiritual adrenaline for us when we need them. They were written by a man...
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Recollections of My Father: Part Four
We conclude this week with Elisabeth’s poignant recollections of her father taken from her book Shaping of a Christian Family and...
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Recollections of My Father, Part Three
We continue this week with recollections of Elisabeth's father, Phillip E. Howard Jr. as we learn from his heart and...
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Recollections of My Father: Part Two
We continue this series through the month of June in honor of Father's Day, as Elisabeth remembers her father in...
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Recollections of My Father: Part One
Journey with us in this month of June as we step inside Elisabeth's childhood home in Germantown, NJ, as she...
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An Overflowing Cup, Part Two
. . . And then there are my parents, both of whom are now also with the Lord, but with whom I...
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An Overflowing Cup: Part One
As we celebrate the spring season with both Mother's and Father's Day and the perfect time for tea, we bring...
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My Spiritual Mother
Katherine Morgan has been a missionary in Pasto, Colombia, for fifty years. She has been a friend of mine for...
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New England Spring
A New England Spring! Our daffodils are just finishing and cherry trees are blooming and tulips just starting in some...
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The Facets of Redemption
When Jesus accepted the will of the Father He accepted the radical weakness of human nature—an utter stripping and abandonment....
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Death Shall Not Hold Us
The power of the Resurrection is a power that vanquishes every other power in heaven or Earth. The battle was...
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The Holy Paradox
Jesus asked the Father that the cup might pass from Him, but added, “Yet it must not be what I...
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We Have Bargained for a Cross
Before we were married, Jim Elliot wrote exhorting me to lay aide all anxieties and to remember that I had...
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The Cross Day After Day
“Lord, could you possibly let me off the hook for a weekend or so?" is what an energetic old woman...
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Take Up the Cross
What must I do to follow One who was crucified? Take up the Cross. What does that mean? The "Cross" is...
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The Way of the Cross Leads to the Cross
As we enter into this Lenten season we journey together to the Cross of Christ as well as embracing our...
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The Arbiter is Peace
As we enter this Lenten season, we praise the Lord Jesus that He has paved the way of peace for...
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What Love Does, Part Two
(continued) Most questions about relationships can be answered quite simply if we ask ourselves this question: What does love do? Let me...
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What Love Does, Part One
Everything is an affair of the spirit. If eating and drinking can be done "to the glory of God" (1 Cor 10:31,...
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Hymn of Love (1 Corinthians 13)
If I have the language ever so perfectly and speak like a pundit and have not love that grips the...