CQOD: 10/30/05 -- Luther: the promise of resurrection

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 30, 2005

Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546

Meditation:
    And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
    -- Romans 8:11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.
    ... Martin Luther (1483-1546)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Spirit of God, live within me!

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CQOD: 10/29/05 -- Oden: strength through adversity

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 29, 2005

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885

Meditation:
    For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
    -- 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a “Christian society.” Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.
    ... Thomas C. Oden (b.1931) in Christian Advocate

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Spirit to strengthen the church.

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CQOD: 10/28/05 -- Shoemaker: the source of power

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 28, 2005

Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles

Meditation:
    For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
    -- Colossians 3:3 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    True spiritual power of the Christian order is a kind of possessedness. It arises in and flows through a life hid with Christ in God. Its source is the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the potency of the Holy Spirit. True spiritual power is the child of two parents: the truth as it is revealed in Jesus and our own experience resulting upon our acceptance of Him and His truth. The objective factor is that whole set of facts and truths, of historic events, and of interpretation of them, which is held by the church and set forth in the Bible. The subjective factor is what happens in the crucible of your life and mine when we accept the set of facts and truths and interpretations, and it begins to work in us.
    ... Samuel M. Shoemaker (1893-1963)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, by Your Spirit, help me to lay down my old life and take up the new one.

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