Writer
For over 30 years, I’ve been writing to encourage people with the hope of the gospel. My newest guide for preparing your life and legacy, Preparing for Glory, Biblical Answers to 40 Questions about Living and Dying in the Hope of Heaven, is now available. I’ve also written two other devotionals, including, The Waiting Room: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in a Health Crisis. I write the Numbering Your Days column to encourage and equip people for the issues of aging, caregiving, legacy, and end-of-life.
Life and Legacy Coach
I help people live and share their story with the hope of the gospel. We work together to write or record the stories that will leave a lasting legacy. Learn more about Spiritual Legacy Coaching Packages. Contact Elizabeth for a twenty-minute free trial coaching session.
Teacher and Speaker
I love to help people learn things that help them live life! My new talk, 10 Ways to Prepare for Glory can be delivered in a 45 minute format or as a longer retreat. Online courses and small group retreats are focused on helping women live and share the legacy they want to leave. Check out my Organizing Your Life and Legacy Course or contact me about speaking at your event.
Precious Child of God
Mother of four, mother-in-law to three, Grandmother of four
Wife to Kip
41 yrs
Delighted Grandmother to four
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Turnage, passionate teacher, encouraging coach, and insightful writer, is well known for her ability to help people learn, live and love their stories for God’s glory. With her vast knowledge of Scripture, story, and the human soul, she helps people live passionately and intentionally the unique callings God has given them. Now she focuses her energy in helping people live, prepare, and share their legacies to encourage the next generation.
Elizabeth’s life experience, various vocations, and broad education have equipped her for her current calling. She has worked as an English teacher (6 years), stay-at-home mom (26 years), Bible study teacher (30 plus years), and mentor to moms (20 years). She has written numerous books and holds an M.ED. (English) and an M.A.C.S.(Theology, Cultural, and Counseling Studies). She is currently working on a Doctor of Ministry degree at Covenant Theological Seminary.
Married for 41 years to intimate ally Kip Turnage, she is the mom to their four children aged 29-35, the mother-in-law to three, and the grandmother to four.
The Story Version: Overview
Created by God in his image, fallen in sin, redeemed by Christ. I know I’m a broken woman; I know I’m a new creation. The mind-blowing truth of the gospel still sinking into me is that I can’t ever be enough in myself, but Christ’s righteousness makes me so-much-more-than-enough in God’s eyes! I am living in the extraordinary reality that Christ has set me free from condemnation, and I am free indeed!!
Statement of Faith
- I believe the Bible is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God’s truth and is infallible and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice.
- I believe in the Holy Trinity. There is one God, who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- I believe that all are sinners and totally unable to save themselves from God’s displeasure, except by His mercy.
- I believe that we are saved by God’s Grace alone through faith in Christ Alone.
- I believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, who through His perfect life and sacrificial death atoned for the sins of all who will trust in Him, alone, for salvation.
- I believe that God is gracious and faithful to His people not simply as individuals but as families in successive generations according to His Covenant promises.
- I believe that the Holy Spirit indwells God’s people and gives them the strength and wisdom to trust Christ and follow Him.
- I believe that Jesus will return, bodily and visibly, to judge all mankind and to receive His people to Himself.
- I believe that all aspects of our lives are to be lived to the glory of God under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.