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The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

A Godly Woman is a Happy Woman

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

There is nothing worth living for unless it is worth dying for.

0:10.6

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available

0:16.0

in their original form.

0:18.1

So you too can be built up through the insights and mysteries God revealed to her throughout

0:23.7

her ministry.

0:25.4

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliott.

0:33.0

Harris Dottal said many years ago that all men see happiness.

0:39.6

There are no exceptions.

0:42.7

And as I ponder that statement, I would agree all of us want happiness.

0:51.1

The thing that differs is where we look for it.

0:55.4

And Christians are very strange people, weird peculiar people whose lives make absolutely

1:02.5

no sense except in terms of invisible things.

1:09.9

Think about that.

1:12.7

It's very difficult to explain why we do what we do and why we don't do what we don't

1:17.3

do.

1:18.9

And when my husband Jim Elliott was killed back in 1956 by a tribe of so-called savages

1:25.3

called Alkas, this piece of news was flashed around the world very quickly.

1:30.8

This was in the early days of TV before everybody had gotten so enured to shock that we were

1:37.6

still capable of being shocked.

1:40.2

And people were shocked.

1:41.6

First of all, to discover that there were still stone age people in the world.

1:47.5

And secondly, to find that there were five young, strong American men, apparently normal

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