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

My grandmother lived a life devoted to Jesus, and today her talks have been made available in their original form.

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

Now without further ado, here is Elizabeth Elliot.

My topic this morning is crowned because he suffered.

C.S. Lewis was asked if he would write a book about pain and his response was if I have been asked to write a book about pain, I would like to write it anonymously.

Since if I were to say what I really thought about pain, I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that

they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them. That's wonderful CS Lewis kind of stuff and I'm sure you didn't

get it the first time I'll read it again. Speaking about the problem of pain and he did eventually comply with the other man's hope that he would write a book on the subject and it is entitled the problem of pain.

Some of you may have read it.

But when he was asked, he said,

I was asked leave to be allowed to write it.

I asked leave to be allowed to write it anonymously,

since if I were to say what I really thought about pain,

I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them.

We live in a world drenched in tears. Not very long ago on the TV I heard about an

inconsolable baby whose mother was on crack.

I'm sure there are hundreds of these.

My dear friend, Judy Squire, who was born with no legs.

She's a lovely Christian woman married has several children and she lives in California and the first time I saw her I was sitting in a group of women, we were all sitting in a circle, and there was one woman in a wheelchair.

And I casually noted that she was sitting in the wheelchair,

and then I looked a little bit more closely,

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