Devotional Life
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...
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Discipline: The Answer to God’s Call
As a child in a Christian home, I did not start out with an understanding of the word discipline. I simply knew...
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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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Common Courtesy
Talking with a group of seminary students I mentioned that the common rules of courtesy are often overlooked nowadays, especially...
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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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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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Seek Things That Will Last
The world and the gifts it prizes can be bought with money. Christ and His gifts are priceless. Everything that...
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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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Rich Enough For The Need
Can God possibly do anything about the matter that troubles me most today? Isn’t it really a bit much to...
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This Moment’s Need
The urgency of some matter at hand—a family member ill or rebellious or unemployed or estranged, a sudden disaster, an...
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He Will Find a Place
Uncertainty is surely, for most of us, one of the harder lessons in faith. We look ahead and see only...
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Moonless Trust
Some of you are perhaps feeling that you are voyaging just now on a moonless sea. Uncertainty surrounds you. There...
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No Reservations
Obedience to the call of God must be wholehearted. That is, we can lay down no conditions, withhold no part of ourselves...
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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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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...