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Matthew 18:21-35

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Steve Molin

... ’s husband, Jim, and four other missionaries were mas- sacred by a handful of the Auca tribe. They demolished their airplane, they mutilated their bodies with spears, and scattered the corpses throughout the dense jungle. In November, 1957, Elisabeth Elliot wrote these words as an epilogue to her book, Through Gates of Splendor; “Nearly three years have passed since that Sunday afternoon. Today, I sit in a tiny leaf-thatched hut on the Tiwanu River, not many miles from where my husband died. In another ...

2. Stealth Christians

Mark 7:31-37

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King Duncan

... tribe attacked the five men and killed them. Even though the missionaries were armed, they had not fought back. The story of the men's murder touched countless people, but even more moving was the decision by Rachel Saint, Nate Saint's sister, and Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot's wife, to move to Ecuador to minister to the people who had killed their loved ones. Steve Saint was just a small child when his father, Nate, was murdered. He moved to Ecuador with his aunt, where he was raised among the Huaorani ...

3. Living at Cross-Purposes

Matthew 10:24-39

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... was working as a translator in a remote area of Ecuador when her indigenous assistant was murdered, and all her language materials were stolen. A flood destroyed the station Jim Elliot was working on. And finally, Elisabeth’s husband, Jim, was murdered by indigenous people with whom he was trying to share the gospel. In this interview, Elisabeth Elliot said, “When I was 12 years old, I told the Lord that I wanted Him to work out His will in my life at any cost. When He set about doing that, I was amazed ...

4. Passing The Ultimate Test

Genesis 22:1-19

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King Duncan

... who was asked to do the most suffering, Abraham, never questioned God's motives. He never questioned God's goodness. The man at the heart of the matter trusted in God completely. In 1956, missionary Jim Elliot was murdered by a tribe of Auca Indians in Ecuador. In the midst of her grief and confusion, Jim's widow, Elisabeth Elliot, sensed God calling her to move to Ecuador and carry on Jim's work among the Aucas. Why would God send her to minister among the people who had murdered her husband? It was all a ...

5. Job Presents Evidence against the Retribution Principle

Job 12:1--14:22

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Daniel J. Estes

... as well. Even when our circumstances seem most out of control, they are firmly under God’s control. Illustrating the Text The wicked, indeed, may prosper, and the righteous suffer. Memoir: These Strange Ashes, by Elisabeth Elliot. In this less well-known account by the wife of martyr Jim Elliot (1927–56), Elisabeth Elliot wrestles with the question of loss and what she is tempted to see as waste. Called to the Colorado Indians of Ecuador when single, she spent almost a year reducing the language of the ...

6. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

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Daniel J. Estes

... description is imaginative and also speculative, because no human was there to observe God’s creative work. When God speaks, he may not directly answer our questions. Book: On Asking God Why, by Elisabeth Elliot. Elliot (b. 1926) lost her husband, Jim, in Ecuador in 1956. Their only daughter was ten months old. Elliot understands suffering and talks about it often. She writes, “The psalmist often questioned God and so did Job. God did not answer the questions, but he answered the man—with the mystery ...

7. Make Me A Crossroads

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Michael P. Green

Jim Elliot, a dedicated missionary in Ecuador who was killed by the Auca Indians in 1956, said it well: “Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.” (Cited by Elisabeth Elliot, The Shadow of the Almighty [New York: Harper & Row, 1979], p. 59.)

8. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Jeannine K. Brown

... from a human perspective. According to Jesus in Matthew, we are to value and provide care for precisely these “little ones.” Illustrating the Text In the face of opposition, Jesus gives the counterintuitive exhortation “Do not be afraid.” Mission: Elisabeth Elliot, in Through the Gates of Splendor, chronicles the story of five missionaries, including her husband, Jim, who were martyred in their attempt to bring the gospel to the Huaorani tribe in eastern Ecuador. Before leaving on their mission, the ...

9. Missing The Real Miracle

John 6:1-15

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King Duncan

... us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." He is the bread of life, and he gives himself freely to all who hunger. Receive Jesus today and you will have eternal life. 1. Reader's Digest, March, 1980, Page 57. 2. Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die (Old Tappan, NJ: Revel, 1987), p. 365. 3. Values Driven Leadership--Discovering and Developing Your Core Values for Ministry by Aubrey Malphurs, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI, 1996, p. 179. 4. Fulghum, Robert. From Beginning to End (New York: Ivy ...

10. The Smell of Fear

Mark 4:35-41

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Leonard Sweet

... of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay The hope no disappointments tire The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. Amy Carmichael, as quoted by Elisabeth Elliot in A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1987), 221.

11. Lessons to Learn

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In her book, Discipline, the Glad Surrender, Elisabeth Elliot reveals four meaningful lessons to be learned from the discipline of our possessions: "The first lesson is that all things are given by God...Because God gives us things indirectly by enabling us to make them with our own hands (out of things He has made, of course) or to ...

12. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Preben Vang

... by God as a model of his relationship to the church, failure to be faithful in either of these covenants actually violates the other as well. Celibacy is a faithful expression of sexuality for the unmarried who receive it as a gift from God. Quote: Elisabeth Elliot. “The gift of virginity, given to everyone to offer back to God for His use, is a priceless and irreplaceable gift. It can be offered in the pure sacrifice of marriage, or it can be offered in the sacrifice of a life’s celibacy.”14 This ...

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