Famous Women You Should Know

“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.” I first read about Corrie Ten Boom in the book 7 Women by Erik Metaxis. This was just a chapter description of her life but I was struck with the impact that this woman had. Her tenacity began when she was 22 and after some trial in her life she decided to become a watchmaker, making her the first woman watchmaker in holland. It was in her homeland of the Netherlands that the Nazis invaded in 1940. In their passion to save people the Ten Booms began housing Jews that were being hunted by the Gestapo. They built a hidden small room with brick and a built in bookshelf in order to hide at least six people at a time. The disguise of the watch shop quickly made this a safe house for many Jewish people. It is said that the Ten Booms saved about 800s Jews during the Nazi occupation. It was only one a fellow Dutch neighbor gave away the operation that they were then captured and taken to a concentration camp. S...

"I am content to fill a little space if god be glorified."  How many people do you know that would gladly "fill a little space"? The beautifully ironic thing about Susanna Wesley was that while she so desired in her humility to simply glorify the Lord, she did not fill a small space. In reality, coinciding with her teachings, she was able to help change the history of the church. Her son John Wesley was the one to found the Free Methodist Church, and changing church history all together. Now get this, Susanna was married at 19 to Samuel Wesley. All together they had 19 children. Yep, you heard right 19. This alone is a feat that I admire. Through time Susana had to endure hardships as 9 of her children died as infants, one even being smothered by her maid accidentally. On top of losing multiple children she also, in dedication, homeschooled each reaming child until they were adults. While she was doing all of this her husband was jailed twice, and even aban...

“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.” I was first introduced to Elisabeth Elliot the summer  after my  freshman year of college. Incidentally it was  through another blog called "Desiring God" . John Piper described  her  unique smile along with the steadfast character that  made her who she was. Elisabeth Elliot was a missionary  in the 1950's and wife of the famous and late Jim Elliot. They  lived and were married in Ecuador for about three years.  They were young and desperately in love, while also spreading  the gospel of Christ with all that they had. It was the day in January  1956, that Elisabeth was not expecting. Her husband Jim was  speared to death by fearful natives that had so carefully tried to reach.  She was left with Valerie, her daughter, less than a year old  and widow at the age of thirty along with the four other wives there . However, this did not diminish her...