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Lectures & Talks, Podcast
Do The Next Thing
Date posted: June 22, 2025
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Elisabeth originally presented this talk at the Denver Radio Ralley on March 7, 1998. This recording is a result of...
Weekly Devotionals
God’s Help for God’s Assignment
Date posted: November 8, 2023
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Sometimes a task we have begun takes on seemingly crushing size, and we wonder what ever gave us the notion...
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of the Mind – Part 2
Date posted: October 5, 2023
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
**Continuing our theme of “In the Classroom”, teachings from our friend, Elisabeth Elliot… We were traveling in a car with...
Weekly Devotionals
This Is My Classroom
Date posted: September 13, 2023
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
**Today is our second devotional from the series "In the Classroom." How blessed we are to have Elisabeth share her...
Weekly Devotionals
A Chance To Die
Date posted: March 8, 2023
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
**This week we continue our quarterly theme of Elisabeth Elliot’s Heroes of the Faith. To be transformed into the image...
Weekly Devotionals
The Same Old Routine
Date posted: February 8, 2023
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
It is sometimes supposed that the Holy Spirit is stifled by order, planning, or routine, and can work only in...
Weekly Devotionals
Gratitude, Part 1
Date posted: November 17, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
I had a very charming young lady staying with me once who told me this wonderful story about the kind of difference...
Weekly Devotionals
Instant Obedience
Date posted: November 2, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
“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...
Weekly Devotionals
The Universal Thump
Date posted: October 26, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
It's so refreshing to find some encouragement to work and to be cheerful and take orders, instead of what is more...
Weekly Devotionals
A Hard Decision, a Hard Discipline
Date posted: July 13, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Both Meirwyn and Robert had faced hard decisions, the latter involving marriage or singleness for the sake of the gospel. They waited. They prayed....
Weekly Devotionals
Child-Parent Relations
Date posted: July 6, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
**Note from Elisabeth: Dan Tompkins, fourteen-year-old son of my dear friend Barb of Tucson, Arizona, wrote this for his school...
Weekly Devotionals
The Discipline of the Body, Part One
Date posted: June 23, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
A television commercial shows a man springing out of bed, racing down the stairs, gulping a cup of coffee, snatching up coat...
Weekly Devotionals
Discipline: The Answer to God’s Call
Date posted: May 12, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
As a child in a Christian home, I did not start out with an understanding of the word discipline. I simply knew...
Weekly Devotionals
Take Up the Cross
Date posted: April 28, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
What must I do to follow One who was crucified? Take up the Cross. What does this mean? The “Cross” is every...
Weekly Devotionals
A Transformed Marriage
Date posted: March 24, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Those of you who pray for God's working through my speaking will be glad to know of one who had...
Weekly Devotionals
Encouragement
Date posted: March 10, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Called to be holy. If fathers of families could keep ever before their eyes this single high purpose toward which they...
Weekly Devotionals
What Love Does
Date posted: February 16, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Everything is an affair of the spirit. If eating and drinking can be done “to the glory of God” (1...
Weekly Devotionals
Lord of Her Lovelife
Date posted: January 27, 2022
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
“I have been married for six weeks," writes a reader, "and I look back to about a year and a...
Weekly Devotionals
Strength for What’s Coming
Date posted: November 11, 2021
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
“You shall observe all that I command you this day, so that you may have strength to enter and occupy...
Weekly Devotionals
This Moment’s Need
Date posted: September 30, 2021
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
Originally published: Mar 7, 1998
The urgency of some matter at hand—a family member ill or rebellious or unemployed or estranged, a sudden disaster, an...
Weekly Devotionals
Something Much Smaller
Date posted: June 10, 2021
Originally published: Jun 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...
Weekly Devotionals
Small Change
Date posted: June 3, 2021
Originally published: Jun 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...
Weekly Devotionals
Sudden Change
Date posted: May 27, 2021
Originally published: 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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