Obedience
Weekly Devotionals
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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Child-Parent Relations
**Note from Elisabeth: Dan Tompkins, fourteen-year-old son of my dear friend Barb of Tucson, Arizona, wrote this for his school...
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The Discipline of the Body, Part One
A television commercial shows a man springing out of bed, racing down the stairs, gulping a cup of coffee, snatching up coat...
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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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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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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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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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Strength for What’s Coming
“You shall observe all that I command you this day, so that you may have strength to enter and occupy...
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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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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...
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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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Where to Begin
To be transformed into the image of Christ, we must know His character, love His obedience to the will of...