My Utmost For His Highest: Limited PB Edition [Paperback]

Oswald Chambers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2008

A powerful devotional - quality packaging - tremendous price. You get it all in My Utmost for His Highest, Updated Edition, a limited-time promotional version! The My Utmost for His Highest promotion is back and it's better than ever! Welcome old friends and introduce new readers to Oswald Chambers's classic devotional-in the updated language edition of editor James Reimann. This 400 page paperback - in a solid yet handy trim size - features the complete devotional text plus topic and scripture indexes.

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Oswald Chambers, a Scotsman who converted to Christianity in his teens under the ministry of Charles Spurgeon, has been affecting Christians with his devotional words since My Utmost for His Highest was first published in 1935. This acknowledged classic contains 365 daily readings that take heady doctrine and make it practical, realistic, and intensely personal. With humor and humility, Chambers speaks plainly to the common man struggling with devotion to Christ in daily living. Worldly cares and self-serving desires begin to lose their appeal as Chambers aides the reader in transforming his mind by viewing life through the instruction of God's Word. Richard Halverson, former chaplain of the United States Senate, attests to this: "no book except the Bible has influenced my walk with Christ at such deep maturing levels." This is Chambers's chief desire, directing the reader to "shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only--My Utmost for His Highest... determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone." --Jill Heatherly --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Men and women the world over return again and again to the words of Oswald Chambers in the most popular devotional book ever published. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Discovery House Publishers; Ltd Upd edition (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602601860
• ISBN-13: 978-1602601864
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (221 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Oswald Chambers was converted in his teen years by the ministry of Charles Spurgeon. Chambers studied art and archaeology before answering the call to Christian ministry. Author of the bestseller My Utmost for His Highest, Chambers has more than thirty other titles to his credit, all but one compiled by his wife, Gertrude.

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60 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roadmap to a walk with Christ!, December 15, 1999

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This review is from: My Utmost for His Highest (Leather Bound)

This compilation of Oswald Chamber essays and sermons was originally captured by his wife after his death. The format of a daily devotional provides an excellent daily read for the avid and growing Christian.

The individual devotionals are not easily devoured in one reading, generally requiring a second or third reading to fully grasp the depth of Oswald Chambers' deeply Christian messages based on Biblical scriptures. This is not light reading, but in the small fifteen minute devotional increments daily, this makes for excellent reading and provides specific daily focus for the Christian reader. This thought-provoking book can easily become a favorite habit, and it also makes an excellent evangelical gift to those who are new to Christianity.

If you buy only one Christian book this year, buying Oswald Chambers' 'My Utmost for His Highest' would be an excellent choice.

56 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Awesome devotional, not so awesome edition., January 9, 2007

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Jonathan R. Wing (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST UPDATED MOCHA (Oswald Chambers Library) (Leather Bound)

I would give this item five stars if it was the original edition, which I thought it was. However, when I got it in the mail, I noticed it said "updated in today's modern language." I think what makes Oswald's writings so powerful is also the way he writes, with a sense of mystery and flavor. I compared it side-by-side with an older edition I have and found that this edition was dull in constrast. It lacks the life and spirit of the original.

Don't read a dumbed-down "easy" Oswald Chambers. Even if you find his original writings a bit difficult at first, keep on reading and you'll begin to piece things together in a way that is ultimately epiphanic.

52 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars profound insights and guidance, October 4, 2004

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Alejandra Vernon "artist & illustrator" (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Utmost for His Highest: Updated Edition (Hardcover)

I find there is no better way to start the day than with the wisdom in this magnificent devotional; these profound thoughts were given by Oswald Chambers while at the Bible Training College in England, during the years of 1911 through 1914, and after his death in 1917 (while serving in Egypt during World War I) were edited by his wife, and later updated into modern English by James Reimann, who says in his introduction that the book is the "culmination of approximately 1800 hours of research and editing", and the end result are words that flow and feed and sometimes pierce the soul with remarkable accuracy, to remind one of the way Jesus intended us to live. This book, in conjunction with the Bible (Reimann recommends one to read this with one hand and the Bible in the other) are guideposts for a meaningful life.

Not a "God loves you and all is well" type of book, there are many passages of tough love, that keep one on the right track, and I often have the experience of it answering a question that is on my mind. Each day under the header, is a relevant Bible quote, and underneath Chambers' teaching on the subject, in the 250 word range in length. There are various editions to chose from, and mine is a small leather-bound volume using the NKJV for its Bible quotes, with a foreword by Charles Stanley, who as Reimann's pastor, was the one who recommended the original Chambers work to him.
The back of the book has two useful sections, a Subject Index, and a Scripture Index.
As the end of the year approaches, I'm looking forward to reading this on a daily basis for the second time, and every year thereafter; its teachings are invaluable, and I believe this is a truly inspired work, that will guide and nurture all who read its truth.