Christian Disciplines
Who doesn't need help developing their character when it comes to suffering, peril, prayer, patience, or who doesn't need answers in the areas of loneliness and divine guidance? Oswald Chambers, author of My Utmost for His Highest calls these disciplines, and helps you understand God's perspective and how to understand the events of our life, and how they are used to mold you more and more into the character of Christ. As you grow in these personal disciplines, you'll find that your intimacy with Christ grows too, helping you to find a more satisfying and abundant faith life.
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“If we trace the lineaments of the servants of God in the Bible, we find a servant of God to be altogether different from an instrument of God. An instrument of God is one whom God takes up and uses and puts down again. A servant of God is one who has given up for ever his right to himself, and is bound to his Lord as His slave.” (source)
“The eternal truth is that God created me to be distinctly not Himself, but to realise Him in perfect love. If I allow that God teaches me to walk in His will, I shall allow my neighbour, whom I love as myself, the same certainty, although his way may seem so different. ‘What is that to thee? follow thou Me.’” (source)
“the true portraiture of the saint: Saved, and sanctified, and sent.” (source)
“The school of the Divine Guidance by God’s Sayings is one of severe discipline. It will mean great heart-searchings, great patience, and great simplicity to be guided in this way.” (source)
“symbol? A symbol represents a spiritual truth by means of images or properties of natural things.” (source)
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan. The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London,and as a chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War l. After his death, the books which bear his name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks.
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BillS
5/13/2021
The content that's there is 5 stars. But I'm rating this 2 stars because I can see the differences between the print & e-editions. Many if not most of the volume, essay, chapter, & sub-topic headings were either missing or misinterpreted, resulting in loss of many of the associated forwards . For a few examples associated with just ONE Volume: 1) The Volume One headings appear to have been lost. Missing are each one's Table of Contents & sub-TOCs. Volume 1 essays include The Discipline of Divine Guidance, The Discipline of Suffering, The Discipline of Peril, & The Day of the Lord. 2) The Day of the Lord ended up being subsumed under the essay on peril vs. being its own essay. 3) Each of these Essay should've had its own TOC, all which got lost. 4) On the essay The Day of the Lord, only the poem at its beginning was included. The main content was omitted. I'm just getting to Volume 2, but I'm hoping the errors get fixed by an editor so I'm reviewing now with enough detail to hopefully get it fixed.
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