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Weekly Devotionals
Strength for Anything
Date posted: March 11, 2026
Paul writes to the Christians in Philippi about his prison experience, but without any descriptive detail. He might have dwelt on...
Weekly Devotionals
80/20 Vision
Date posted: November 19, 2025
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given....
Weekly Devotionals
Little Things: Part Two
Date posted: November 12, 2025
Continued from last week. . . "Great thoughts go best with common duties. Whatever therefore may be your office regard it...
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of Possessions: Lesson Three
Date posted: October 1, 2025
The third lesson is that things can be material for sacrifice. This is what is called the eucharistic life. The Father pours out...
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of Possessions: Part Two
Date posted: September 17, 2025
We continue this week in our new series on The Discipline of Possessions with the first lesson . . . The first lesson is...
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of Possessions Part 1
Date posted: September 10, 2025
As the summer winds gently usher us into the fall, we turn once again to the theme of discipline to...
Weekly Devotionals
Lord of All Seasons
Date posted: September 3, 2025
Last April I spoke to a group of women in Florida about Jesus Christ being “Lord of All Seasons.” ...
Weekly Devotionals
Secret of Contentment
Date posted: August 27, 2025
All of us, I suppose, have at times felt strangely displaced, wondering how on earth we landed in a situation...
Weekly Devotionals
All a Mistake?
Date posted: November 6, 2024
It is easy to conclude, when things turn out badly, that all was a mistake to begin with. The facts...
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A Quiet Heart, Part Two
Date posted: October 23, 2024
Purity of heart, said Kierkegaard, is to will one thing. The Son willed only one thing: the will of His...
Weekly Devotionals
A Heart with Skill to Listen
Date posted: October 26, 2023
**We continue as students "In the Classroom", as Elisabeth encourages us to cultivate a quiet heart with skill to listen...
Weekly Devotionals
The Song of the Wren
Date posted: July 12, 2023
Last summer a pair of dear little wrens moved into the wren house Lars had hung in a small oak...
Weekly Devotionals
Summertime in Strawberry Cove
Date posted: July 6, 2023
This week in our new summer series we again invite you to Strawberry Cove in Magnolia, MA ~ Lars and...
Weekly Devotionals
A Letter to Her Parents – March 24, 1950
Date posted: May 10, 2023
We are pleased to share with you two of Elisabeth's personal letters to her parents in honor of Mother and Father's...
Weekly Devotionals
Perfect Peace
Date posted: February 22, 2023
Amy Carmichael gives a beautiful illustration from nature of perfect peace. The sun bird, one of the tiniest of birds,...
Weekly Devotionals
At Every Stage of the Journey
Date posted: January 18, 2023
What matters in life is that we should stick with the Lord. Where He goes, we follow. When He says halt,...
Weekly Devotionals
Look for the Ancient Paths
Date posted: December 29, 2022
**As we approach the cross-roads of 2023 and all the decisions it will hold, here is an encouragement from Elisabeth...
Weekly Devotionals
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...
Weekly Devotionals
The Gift of Work
Date posted: May 19, 2022
The principal cause of boredom is the hatred of work. People are trained from childhood to hate it. Parents often...
Weekly Devotionals
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...
Weekly Devotionals
Maybe This Year . . .?
Date posted: January 20, 2022
"I hardly know where to start," a recent letter begins. "My story is not one involving men. That's the problem....
Weekly Devotionals
Seek Things That Will Last
Date posted: January 13, 2022
The world and the gifts it prizes can be bought with money. Christ and His gifts are priceless. Everything that...
Weekly Devotionals
Strength for Anything
Date posted: October 28, 2021
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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