I plan to continue my pattern of Wednesday posts. I find that to be a good accountability tool.
I didn't know much about Oswald Chambers until I came across the following bio. So if you're interested, here's what I found...
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.
Although Oswald Chambers wrote only one book, Baffled to Fight Better, more than thirty titles bear his name. With this one exception, published works were compiled by Mrs. Chambers, a court stenographer, from her verbatim shorthand notes of his messages taken during their seven years of marriage. For half a century following her husband's death she labored to give his words to the world.
My Utmost For His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic.
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1 comment:
Happy New Year PJ,
Congrats for getting through the Bible. I have never been able to get the entire way through.
I am also going to do something different this year. I am seeking a better understanding of the nature of God and the Holy Spirit. I am going to use the pamphlet "Faith in the Guidance of the Holy Spirit", prepared by the Board of Administration of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1943 - 1944. My desire is to live a Spirit filled life. I want to live a life of expectation. That God, through his Spirit, will do great things in our lives, our fellowship of believers, His Holy Church, our community, this world. We can always find the bad but do we continue to look for and give thanks for the daily work of the HS on earth?
I am anticipating a great year!
Charlie T.
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