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 Elliott.

I was told that last year the women of Crossroads Church Denver attended a women's retreat

and they were encouraged there to view their faith as a great marathon race.

Well, they said we were interested in carrying over this vital message to my seminar.

So they wanted me to talk about the faith race.

Now personally, they wanted to know four things.

What has your faith race been like and what has kept you in the race?

Number two, how have you managed to avoid disqualification from the race?

What kind of training did the Lord require of you and any advice for us?

And then for what outstanding runners have you known and how have they helped you?

So this was a unique assignment.

I had never had anything quite like this, but as I pondered it, I thought it makes very

good sense because it gives me an opportunity to talk about my wonderful parents.

As you've just heard, my parents were missionaries and I was born there in Belgium.

But they taught us from earliest childhood to love God and to do what he says.

And so I think of them as icons in my life.

Both of them were godly, dedicated Christians and both of them had given their lives completely

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