The Oswald Project
Many of you, like myself, have loved and benefitted from Oswald Chamber's daily devotions, My Utmost For His Highest. First published in 1935, it has been translated into 39 languages and has sold more than 13 million copies. For years, I have journaled through Oswald's challenging daily discipleship devotionals, and now, through audio podcasting, I'm able to share his unique Scriptural insights in tandem with my personal reflections and teaching notes.
Episodes
How many songs have been written, recorded, and climbed the charts about "freedom"? Maybe hundreds...maybe thousands. There's Redemption Song by Bob Marley, Chimes of Freedom by Bob Dylan, Rockin' in the Free World by Neil Young, and the iconic "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke...plus so many more. But the award for the "who's who" of writers about freedom, in my book, has to go to the Apostle John who, two thousand years ago, ...
In the case of the American practice of placing your hand on the Bible and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, the theory is that at least ceremoniously, you are calling on the presence of a higher power than yourself, thereby giving the jury a greater confidence in what you are going to testify is acturally true. In the case of God, there is no higher power for Him to swear by--so if He makes an...
Today's podcast explores being led by the Spirit. In Genesis 24, we see a sweet prayer offered to God by Abraham's most trusted servant, who is thankful for how the Lord has led him. So how, where, why, and how did the Lord lead him, and for what? The story is worth hearing, and the lessons are most certainly worth learning.
What can possibly cause a slave boat captain to be totally changed and reverse the direction and purpose of his life, so much so that he becomes a preacher of the gospel and writes the hymn, "Amazing Grace?" To what, or to whom, does one give credit for the testimony of the Apostle Paul, who at one time considered himself the "foremost" of sinners? According to Galatians 2:20, both of these men claim to have been "crucified with Ch...
In John 3:3, Jesus told a Jewish scholar that he could not see the kingdom of God unless he was born again. This gives us the distinct impression that the stakes were high. This is anything but a casual conversation about religious options that we get to choose or leave on the table.
If you read the Bible from cover to cover, make no mistake: you will find some things that deeply disturb you. Such is the case of God commanding a parent, Abraham, to take the life of one of his children (Issac) as a test of faith. What could have possibly tipped the scales that made Abraham's faith override a typical parental response of absolute horror?
In today's devotion, we explore the heart of the matter when it comes to following Jesus the way Jesus expects a faithful Christian to do. Paul was going through severe persecution, and he knew it would soon happen to the Christians at Thessalonica. In America, some do get persecuted and even die for the gospel, but most of us know little about the realities of actually following Jesus as He describes it.
Romans 8:28 assures Christians that God is working all things out for the good of those who love God. But is this Scripture just about having confidence that God is working out a good ending for my problems and issues? Is God just working things out for me, or is there a bigger picture with a bigger promise attached? Today, let's go up and look at this passage from 10,000 feet. It may look different from up there.
In verses 5 and 6 of John 11, we see that Martha is upset at Jesus because she thought she knew Him well enough that she could trust that He would come quickly when her brother, Lazarus, fell ill. In the end, we see that, from Jesus' vantage point, it was more loving to put Lazarus through death and his sisters through grief if doing so would reveal more of God's glory to them. Martha thought she knew Jesus, but when all was said a...
In 1 Peter 4:13, the Apostle Peter urges Christians to rejoice "in so far as we share in Christ's sufferings..." It's interesting that Peter doesn't say...rejoice in SPITE of your sufferings. Instead, he says to rejoice in so far as we share Christ's sufferings, which can be translated to mean: "Rejoice BECAUSE you suffer." Really? Rejoice BECAUSE I might suffer? That sounds and feels like fingernails on a chalkboard instead of som...
Millions have purchased Oswald Chamber's daily devotion, My Utmost For His Highest, but few realize the four-year struggle he went through that he later called "the dark night of his soul." Today, in step with James 4:8, I wanted to share about this period in Oswald's life in hopes that it might encourage anyone who may be facing a struggle in their walk with Christ.
Who wants to be crucified with Christ today? Who wants to make a clean break with their own independence and surrender to the supremacy of Christ? Who wants to be an iron saint for the sake of Jesus? Anybody? I give you fair warning that today's devotional will challenge you--but it has the capacity to bless you as much as it challenges you.
Ephesians 2:8 teaches us that the faith to believe in Christ as Savior and Lord cannot be manufactured or earned by human means. It is a gift from God. And being given the gift of faith doesn't earn us anything. Faith brings us into a right relationship with God, but it is also faith that is tested and tried so that it helps us to progress in our trust of God and His Word. The question is, "Will I remain true to God's ...
Faith is a predominant theme in both the Old and New Testaments of the bible. Abraham's faith was tested when he was asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on an altar. Thomas was faced with a crisis of his faith when the other eleven disciples told him they had seen the resurrected Jesus. A Roman centurian was commended by Jesus for His great faith, and the disciples were sometimes reprimanded for their little faith. In Ephesians ...
The Bible's claim in 2 Corinthians 5:21 is that "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." So today, we're going to talk about those three words: TO BE SIN. Are we to believe that the Son of God somehow became sin; or that He became a sinner like you and me? If He became a sinner, then He aligned Himself with Satan, like Adam and Eve, and exchanged the nature of God for the...
When you hear Christians say they've been "justified," what comes to your mind? Chances are, you've heard or even said the 6-word phrase: Just As If I Never Sinned." In one sense, there's some truth there, but on the other hand, is it safe to say that these six words fall short of conveying what the Bible teaches about the doctrine of justification?
In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus gives His disciples their marching orders, their mission, or as we call it today, the Great Commission. Jesus doesn't "call them" to share the gospel and make disciples; he commands them to do so. Maybe you've thought disciple-making was a "calling" for the gifted people with the right personality. But Jesus never says anything about "calling" saved believers to the d...
In Jesus' day, the highest honor to be given to a Roman general was a "triumph." The triumph was a victory procession, a parade, that wound through the streets of the Roman capitol, honoring the return of a victorious general. Today's devotion is taken from 2 Corinthians 2:14, where the Apostle Paul says, "Thanks be to God who always leads us in TRIUMPH in Christ.
Few things are more frustrating than the gradual erosion of the meaning of Scripture. Most Christians know 2 Corinthians 5:17--even by memory. "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." The question is, what old things have passed away? What new things have come? And why does Paul begin verse 17 with "therefore?"
Romans 8:14-16 is a beautiful passage of Scripture. In only three verses, the Apostle Paul uses the figure of "adoption" to explain and confirm the believer's intimate and permanent relationship with God. The first confirmation is that the Spirit of God leads true, converted Christians. The question is, how does He do that?
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