HENDRICKSON CLASSIC BIOGRAPHIES Hendrickson Classic Biographies feature enduring stories about real people whose lives have been touched and transformed by God, and who in turn have touched others with God's love. This story was reintroduced to today's audiences in 2006 thanks to the release of the film, End of the Spear, which tells for the first time the killings from the perspective of the Huaorani. Elisabeth Elliot makes full use of Jim's revealing diaries to fill in the details of a life completely committed to God's service. Shadow of the Almighty has inspired Christians since its first publication in 1958. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker in constant demand. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Huaroni of eastern Ecuador. Elisabeth Elliot Gren (born 1926) is a Christian author and evangelist. It is the best-selling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador. I plan one day to read Through Gates of Splendor also.Shadow of the Almighty is a modern classic story of faithfulness, obedience, and martyrdom. Of course, the rest is history-as a result of their deaths, God used it to call more Christians to the missions field with their example and martyrdom. But don’t let that distract you as the reader: this book challenged me to think about the sacrifices involved with missions and also convicting to think about how young Jim Elliot and his fellow missionaries were when they went out to try to reach the unreached Huaorani tribe which of course they were eventually killed by when they were contacting them. I was much encouraged reading this book although at times I felt it was somewhat prolonged in the author’s choice of what details to share to the readers.
This book gives an honest portrait of a Christian who desires to serve God and also struggles as well. The letters examined include those written to Jim’s parents, siblings and Elisabeth before they got married.
This book examines more of Jim Elliot’s own writing from his letters and personal diary. The author’s classic book on her husband, Through Gates of Splendor, was written in the 1950s but what makes this book different than the first one is that this is written many decades later. The author Elisabeth Elliot was the wife of the famous missionary and martyr Jim Elliot. Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot.
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