Oswald Chambers

Around six years ago I bought a copy of The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers. It was on special–reduced by around $20. It contains something-like 40 books either on biblical topics, Bible books, or daily devotional readings.

I’ve dipped into the volume sporadically since–though not for several years now. Until that point the only book of Oswald’s that I had read was My Utmost For His Highest. The fascinating backstory is that Oswald didn’t write ‘My Utmost’. True, he spoke or taught the words that appear in it, but it was compiled by his wife (widow), Gertrude or ‘Biddy’ from her shorthand notes typed up of his sermons and talks taken verbatim during his time running the Bible Training College in London between 1911 and 1915, and later as a YMCA chaplain to British, Australian and New Zealand troops in Egypt between 1915 and 1917 during World War I.