Today is Tuesday, November the 15th, 2022.

Welcome to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's bonus article written by Dr. Ryan

Denison.

Its title is, This Day in Christian History, the death of Oswald Chambers gave life to,

My Utmost for His Highest. Oswald Chambers, author of the beloved daily devotional,

My Utmost for His Highest, once stated, The Great Word of Jesus to His Disciples is Abandon.

When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples,

we have to venture on his word, trust entirely to him,

and watch that when he brings us to the venture, we take it.

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That insight was the result of a life,

albeit one cut tragically short, dedicated to such abandon.

As we'll see, however, the enduring legacy of Oswald Chambers' lessons is largely due to

someone who often receives far less recognition. Oswald Chambers was born in 1874 in Aberdeen,

Scotland. His father was a Baptist preacher,

but it was the teachings of Charles Spurgeon that led the boy to Christ at the age of 15.

Chambers then began sharing the gospel outside of London with his church shortly thereafter.

When he sensed the call to full-time ministry, he attended Danone College a relatively small

interdenominational theological school. He described his time there as four years of hell on earth.

However, his great distress across the span of time had less to do with the college than the growing

sense of his own depravity and powerlessness in the face of time had less to do with the college than the growing sense of his own depravity

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