Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of the Mind – Part 1
**As we continue our theme In the Classroom, today we are Elisabeth's students as she begins teaching us about cultivating the...
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A Letter to Her Parents – March 24, 1950
We are pleased to share with you two of Elisabeth's personal letters to her parents in honor of Mother and Father's...
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A Call to Older Women – Part Two
**Continuing today Part 2 of 2 from this writing in our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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Passion and Purity
A twenty-six-year-old man preparing to be a missionary writes, "I wish someone had given me this book about six months...
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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...
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Sudden Change
Suddenly it happens that a source of life or joy or refreshment is cut off? The supply dries up and...
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A Life’s Work
Few women today are concerned about ironing sheets, but it is still possible to let many other things take precedence...
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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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Nothing is Lost
A pastor's wife asked, "When one witnesses a work he has poured his life into 'go up in flames' (especially...
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Discerning the Call of God
As a little girl I especially loved the story of God’s call to the child Samuel as he lay sleeping...