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Weekly Devotionals

God’s Help for God’s Assignment

Date posted: November 8, 2023
Sometimes a task we have begun takes on seemingly crushing size, and we wonder what ever gave us the notion...
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The Discipline of the Mind – Part 2

Date posted: October 5, 2023
**Continuing our theme of “In the Classroom”, teachings from our friend, Elisabeth Elliot… We were traveling in a car with...
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This Is My Classroom

Date posted: September 13, 2023
**Today is our second devotional from the series "In the Classroom."  How blessed we are to have Elisabeth share her...
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A Chance To Die

Date posted: March 8, 2023
**This week we continue our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith. To be transformed into the image...
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The Same Old Routine

Date posted: February 8, 2023
It is sometimes supposed that the Holy Spirit is stifled by order, planning, or routine, and can work only in...
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Gratitude, Part 1

Date posted: November 17, 2022
I had a very charming young lady staying with me once who told me this wonderful story about the kind of difference...
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Instant Obedience

Date posted: November 2, 2022
“With my own hands I founded the earth, with my right hand I formed the expanse of sky; when I summoned them, they sprang at...
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The Universal Thump

Date posted: October 26, 2022
It's so refreshing to find some encouragement to work and to be cheerful and take orders, instead of what is more...
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A Hard Decision, a Hard Discipline

Date posted: July 13, 2022
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

Date posted: July 6, 2022
**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

Date posted: June 23, 2022
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

Date posted: May 12, 2022
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

Date posted: April 28, 2022
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

Date posted: March 24, 2022
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

Date posted: March 10, 2022
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

Date posted: February 16, 2022
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

Date posted: January 27, 2022
“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

Date posted: November 11, 2021
“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

Date posted: September 30, 2021
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

Date posted: June 10, 2021
Originally published: Jun 10, 2021
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

Date posted: June 3, 2021
Originally published: Jun 3, 2021
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

Date posted: May 27, 2021
Originally published: May 27, 2021
Suddenly it happens that a source of life or joy or refreshment is cut off?  The supply dries up and...
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Drudgery

Date posted: May 20, 2021
Originally published: May 20, 2021
"I must admit I feel a lot of pressure with two children under two years of age. I am committed...
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A Life’s Work

Date posted: May 13, 2021
Originally published: May 13, 2021
Few women today are concerned about ironing sheets, but it is still possible to let many other things take precedence...