Path Through Suffering: Discovering the Relationship Between God’s Mercy and Our Pain. The Mark of a Man:Following Christ’s Example of Masculinity, originally written for a nephew. Let Me Be a Woman (1977) was written not long before her daughter was married and discusses what the Bible has to say about Biblical womanhood. Quest For Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity contains Elisabeth’s answers to questions people sent her after reading Passion and Purity.įurnace of the Lord: Reflections on the Redemption of the Holy City (1969) contains some of her thoughts as she visited Israel (out of print). This book mainly talks about the need to put God first in one’s love life and to trust Him for the outcome. They were willing for that, if that was what God wanted, though they did love each other. Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ’s Control (1984) shares her love story with Jim, which was not a smooth one, as they both originally thought God wanted them to be single missionaries. These Strange Ashes: Is God Still in Charge? is an account of her first year as a missionary, before her marriage to Jim, and if I remember correctly, contains the account of the murder of the man who was helping her translate the Colorado language and her wrestlings with why God allowed it to happen. The Savage My Kinsman (1961) tells of Elisabeth’s years working with the Aucas/Waorani after Jim’s death. This and his journals were prime reading material among many students when I was in college. The Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot (1958) is her biography of Jim. The Journals of Jim Elliot (1978) are, as the title says, the journals of her first husband, Jim, with some notes by Elisabeth here and there. This book started me on the path of reading missionary biographies and reading Elisabeth Elliot. Through Gates of Splendor (1957) was her first, in which she told the story of her husband and the four other missionaries who were killed by the Auca (now known as Waorani) Indians in the 1950s. I am using the original publication dates where I can find them: many of them have been reprinted multiple times, some with an update from Elisabeth in them, so on Amazon or other places the more recent date they show is that of the reprint. I’ve also had a few comments from people who had never heard of her or didn’t know much about her, so I thought a book list would be a good idea. I hope that someone will put all the pieces together in a biography of her someday soon. I think all of her books are autobiographical to a degree, though there is not any one that tells her whole life story. Someone commented early on in this series that I should list some of Elisabeth’s books, particularly those that are autobiographical.

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