Christian Living
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,...
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The Gift of Work
The principal cause of boredom is the hatred of work. People are trained from childhood to hate it. Parents often...
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A Mother is A Chalice
Scripture teaches that older women have the responsibility of teaching younger ones to love their children. Love certainly involves attention...
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Take Up the Cross
What must I do to follow One who was crucified? Take up the Cross. What does this mean? The “Cross” is every...
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Stress, Discipline, and Choice
Today we begin a new series on Discipline. We pray you are encouraged and strengthened in your faith by Elisabeth’s...
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The Howard Home
As we conclude this season’s focus on relationships, we share a beautiful portrait of the Howard home, the home of Elisabeth’s...
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A Transformed Marriage
Those of you who pray for God's working through my speaking will be glad to know of one who had...
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What Do You Mean by Submission?
People are always asking me this. What is this business of "submission" you're always talking about? We're not really very...
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Encouragement
Called to be holy. If fathers of families could keep ever before their eyes this single high purpose toward which they...
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What Love Does
Everything is an affair of the spirit. If eating and drinking can be done “to the glory of God” (1...
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Lord of Her Lovelife
“I have been married for six weeks," writes a reader, "and I look back to about a year and a...
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Maybe This Year . . .?
"I hardly know where to start," a recent letter begins. "My story is not one involving men. That's the problem....
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An Assigned Portion
As we near the end of another year we may take heart, remembering the psalmist’s words, “Lord, you have assigned...
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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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Jesus Was Never Busy
“To be busy is to be engaged in an occupation which makes it inconvenient to be disturbed.” So wrote Janet...
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From Start To Finish
The great witnesses to faith in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, beginning with Abel, who offered a sacrifice by faith,...
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When the River Bursts
Psychologists chart stress factors related to various kinds of emotional trauma and the response of different people to those factors—death,...
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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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There Is No Other Way
In order to get to a place called Laity Lodge in Texas you have to drive into a riverbed. The...
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The Father’s Voice
Norbert Selking, of Hebron, Illinois, who writes to me and prays for me, wrote, "I am reminded of our young family...
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My Father’s Remembrance of His Father
In honor of Father’s Day this weekend, we share as a Devotional this special reflection from Elisabeth… “When I was...
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Something Much Smaller
Has it ever happened with you that you have asked God to show you what He wants done about a...
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Small Change
We have promised the Lord our loyalty and lifelong obedience, “at any cost.” We imagine perhaps having to pay the...