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DEVOTEDLY: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot
Valerie Elliot Shepard
Their paths to God’s purpose led them together.
Many know the heroic story of Jim Elliot’s violent death in 1956, killed along with four other missionaries by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe they were seeking to reach. Many also know the prolific legacy of Elisabeth Elliot, whose inspiring influence on generations of believers through print, broadcast, and personal testimony continues to resonate, even after her own death in 2015.
What many don’t know is the remarkable story of how these two stalwart personalities—single-mindedly devoted to pursuing God’s will for their young lives, certain their future callings would require them to sacrifice forever the blessings of marriage—found their hearts intertwined. Their paths to God’s purpose led them together.
Now, for the first time, their only child—daughter Valerie Elliot Shepard—unseals never-before-published letters and private journals that capture in first-person intimacy the attraction, struggle, drama, and devotion that became a most unlikely love story.
Riveting for old and young alike, this moving account of their personal lives shines as a gold mine of lived-out truth, hard-fought purity, and an insider’s view on two beloved Christian figures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
1948 Love's Stirring
1949 Love's Questioning
1950 Love Lets Go
1951 Love's Longing
1952 Love Waits (Again)
1953 Love Transcending
Epilogue
"This book is riveting. It unveils something we've always yearned to see: the deepest recesses of Jim and Elisabeth's hearts. From the first few chapters, you become enthralled and fascinated by the worshipful way they turn every awakening emotion into a cause for celebrating Christ. Rather than allowing breathless passions to escape the stall, they prayerfully measure each desire against their devotion to the Savior. (Who does that nowadays?!) Jim and Elisabeth's amazing journey of love shows the reader what a sacred romance is all about. 'Devotedly' is a should-read for those of us who grew up on Elliot books, but it is a blessed MUST-READ for today's young Christian couples." - Joni Eareckson Tada
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