Oswald Chambers
I stumbled upon Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) journals one fine day while I was surfing for some articles in RBC Ministry and I got hooked ever since. His journals or rather his sermons are the most straight forward and raw I have ever come across. It is as if he was rebuking from his pulpit everytime he gave a sermon. I often wonder how the congregation would feel after every session they had with him. And perhaps, it is because of his raw honesty on the issues of human nature that draws me to read his sermon at least once a day.
Here is an excerpt from RBC on Oswald Chambers biography :-
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.
In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to troops from Australia and New Zealand as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.
Although Oswald Chambers wrote only one book, Baffled to Fight Better, more than thirty titles bear his name. With this one exception, published works were compiled by Mrs. Chambers, a court stenographer, from her verbatim shorthand notes of his messages taken during their seven years of marriage. For half a century following her husband’s death she labored to give his words to the world.
My Utmost For His Highest, his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic.
Indeed, we need more courageous preachers like him these days! Thank God for the internet 
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The congregation will feel that they have been awaken, not because of the rebuke but by the work of the God and in His good timing. “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). I agree that in times like these, we need more courageous preachers. Thus we should pray with faith that he will sent forth faithful and God-fearing labourers. God bless!
Matthew 9:37-38
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
let us go into the harvest field…..