Jim and Elizabeth Elliott sacrificed the comforts of modern life to tell others the good news about Jesus.

Their daughter Valerie explains why.

Their deepest desire in their hearts was to bring glory to God through being obedient.

Jesus said, if you lay down your life, you will save it.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing

Forgiveness for February 11th, 2020.

I'm Dana Gresh.

We're continuing a conversation today with Valerie Elliott Shepard, the daughter of Jim and Elizabeth Elliott.

And if you missed yesterday's program, you want to be sure and go back to our archives at revive our hearts.com and pick that up.

Listen to it if you can because Val shares the story of the martyrdom of her dad and totally different than the script anyone

would have written for her dad's life or her mom's life. But God was writing the script.

He is writing the script for your life, for your story,

and the fruit and the ministry and the glory for Christ that has come out of that tragedy

in January of 1956. There's no way to calculate the side of eternity all that God has brought

about for his glory because of the sacrifice of those lives.

So if you miss that story, whether you're familiar with it or it's new to you, you want to go back and hear that program from yesterday.

So, Val, welcome to revive our hearts.

Thank you for coming and sharing with our listeners.

I know many of them are just sitting on the edge of their seats and so thrilled for the chance to hear you again or some for the first time.

Thank you, Nancy. I feel privileged to be able to share.

And we want to unpack a bit more of that story.

And let me just say by way of introduction first, though, that some of our listeners are aware.

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