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. We meditated last night on the difference between the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of the cross, the wisdom of God.

And I want to remind you again of one verse that I read to you last

night 1st Corinthians 117 and also I will add 18.

Paul says, for Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel,

not with words of human wisdom.

Lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Think about that.

If Paul had preached solely with human wisdom, the cross of Christ would have

been emptied of its power. And he goes on in this chapter, as you know, to describe what that cross is, and what utter foolishness it appears to be to the world.

God's principles seem to be unworkable, preposterous, illogical,

and absolute foolishness. Vowice.

Vowice is foolishness to those who are perishing.

But to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. I don't hear enough nowadays about the

cross. I heard of a pastor recently who was talking to his congregation on the subject of psychological

counseling and so-called Christian counseling.

There's a very great deal of counseling going on and

as I was an adjunct professor at Gordon Conville Seminary for a few years and I was

dismayed to see how many men were coming to the seminary, many of them having been in business and believing that God had called them to be preachers, and they came there with that intention of being preachers and ended up becoming

counselors, giving up the idea of preaching and becoming counselors.

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