Christmas Preparations GTJP-53
The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast
The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We share Gateway to Joy radio programs:
- Preparing for Christmas (GTJ-171)
- Daily Preparation for Life (GTJ-172)
With guests:
- Walt Shepard (Elisabeth taught me about love, and I was her bodyguard)
- Valerie Elliot Shepard (my stepfather, my mother and a conference that changed my life.)
Visit www.ElisabethElliot.org for more lectures and talks, devotionals, videos, Gateway to Joy programs, and other resources.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome as we look into the life and message of Elizabeth Elliot as she called us to live to a higher standard every day. |
| 0:12.0 | To not be satisfied with just a little religion, that's a shallow substitute for what God wants for us. |
| 0:20.0 | In this series, as we continue in the coming weeks we'll hear from family friends and others |
| 0:25.1 | who are influenced by Elizabeth's life and message. Well it's Christmas time and |
| 0:30.9 | today we think about Christmas preparations. |
| 0:35.0 | Typically we think of Christmas is family time and we'll hear from a couple of the family members of Elizabeth today. |
| 0:42.0 | Our daughter, Valerie Elliot Shepard, will talk about her |
| 0:46.1 | own youth testimony and about her stepfather, Addison Leach. Also her husband, Elizabeth's son-in-law, Walt Sheppard, will be talking about what he learned |
| 0:57.4 | about love from Elizabeth. That's coming later. Also today, Gateway to Joy 171, preparing for Christmas. |
| 1:08.0 | Later, another Christmas message coming up, daily preparation for life. So stay with us for that. Well, as you prepare for Christmas, let's hear from Elizabeth. How can you really prepare yourself? |
| 1:22.0 | You are loved with an everlasting love. How can you really prepare yourself? |
| 1:22.6 | You are loved with an everlasting love. |
| 1:25.6 | That's what the Bible says. |
| 1:27.6 | And underneath are the everlasting arms. |
| 1:30.6 | This is your friend Elizabeth Elliot talking with you today about the subject of Advent. |
| 1:38.0 | Advent is the name that the church has given to what precedes the Christmas season, and the word simply |
| 1:46.9 | means coming. It comes from two Latin words, meaning to come toward. So we want to think during this week about the coming of the |
| 1:58.0 | Lord Jesus. Frankly I'm very grateful that we have times and seasons and rhythms and celebrations. |
| 2:08.0 | I often think about what a blessing it is that we have days and nights. |
| 2:15.0 | Can you imagine if we had to just work for 24 hours each day and no break in between? |
| 2:22.0 | But that major unconscious break that the Lord gives us because of darkness and sleep is such a blessing and one of his great gifts. |
| 2:34.0 | Minutes, hours, days, nights, weeks, months, years, |
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