Posts tagged Jim Elliot

Overview This is the story you never heard. Jim Elliot got all the headlines from Ecuador in the 1950s, but Frank Drown took similar risks …

Conclusions God could have prolonged the lives of any or all of these men, but He was pleased to allow their lives to have what …

Yes. I’m the guy that gives people books for Christmas. Often, that book is a missionary biography. Why Read Missionary Biographies? Why? When I was …

As God has sent laborers into His harvest, many of these men and women of God have found strength and fruitfulness in abiding in Christ.[1] …

The Lord has blessed Rooted Thinking over the past year. Thank you to all who have read, shared, and commented. Here are the top ten …

You feel like you’ve done your duty, but something is missing. The intimacy you once experienced with God has fled. You feel spiritually dry. What’s wrong with your spiritual life?

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The people whose examples stir me most are dead now—at least their bodies don’t live on the earth anymore. But I can still take walks with them by reading their biographies. Here are snippets from the writings of several men whose examples never fail to stir me, correct me, and excite my hunger for God.