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The Auca Story | 1962 — Album Liner Notes
This is the original album artwork and liner notes for the 1962 record series The Auca Story. Listen to the...
Newsletters
All Newsletters in One Place!
This PDF file contains all 116 of The Elisabeth Elliot Newsletters, from 1982 to 2003. The file is searchable and...
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Restlessness and Worry
The book of Ecclesiastes was written by a very restless man. He was fed up with his life and everything...
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What the Savages Taught Me
For the whole first year that I lived with the Auca Indians (1958–1959), I watched and learned and kept my...
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To a New Widow
Dearest one: I know the proportion of that pain, and there is no minimizing it here and now. I also...
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“Could You Not Wait?”
Olive trees are not much good for leaning against. Too knobby. I kick away a few stones and sit down...
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Hope as an Anchor
“I hope it doesn’t snow tomorrow,” we say, thinkng of our plans to visit family or friends. Or, “We’re just...
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Christmas on a Bed of Pain
It is nearly Christmastime. We don’t usually think of suffering during this glad season if we can help it. “It’s...
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Deliver Us From Temptation
Is there a way of life, a manner of serving the Lord, that will deliver us from the temptations and...
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Response Is What Matters
What do we really want in life? I am surprised at how few of us have a ready answer. Oh,...
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Amy Carmichael, God’s Missionary
As an old woman I find myself often in a quiet reverie, pondering the countless blessings of my long life,...
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Exulting in Suffering
So often people make remarks such as, “Isn’t it strange how God allows such awful things to happen—and she’s such...
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Struggling in Prayer
People who ski happen to enjoy skiing; they have time for skiing, can afford to ski, and are good at...
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Called to Act
Among the treasures in a box of old family papers, I found a series of letters from a great-aunt who...
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Service to God
There has often been a tendency to think of service to God as necessarily entailing physical hardship and sacrifice. Although...
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Anarchy or Discipline?
A Houston high school principal described the new educational system as a "cross-graded, multi-ethnic, individualized, open-ended learning program with the...
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A Strange Peace
Shortly before my daughter Valerie, my only child, went off to college as a freshman, a “sudden tide” came over...
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At What Price Contentment?
Nothing so hinders us,” said St. Francis de Sales, “as to be longing after something else.” And that longing, that...
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The Sovereignty of God
Perhaps it seems that I’m “biting off more than I can chew” by beginning this small newsletter with such an...
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An Assigned Portion
As we near the end of another year we may take eart, remembering the psalmist’s words, “Lord, you have assigned...
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The Grand Lesson
Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thess. 5:18). It is...
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As We Forgive Those
Two couples had gone together on vacation. What had been a happy friendship had somehow turned to bitterness. They had...