CQOD: 03/08/06 -- Studdert Kennedy: confronting the world

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 8, 2006

Commemoration of Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, Priest, Poet, 1929

Meditation:
    For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
    -- 1 Corinthians 1:17-18 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The tremendous power of mass-suggestion, which we call the world, can only be confronted, and its victims cured, if they are received into a body which is filled with a vivid, vigorous, and conscious community life of the Spirit. Individuals are powerless to cope with a power so subtle and all-pervasive as this mass-suggestion is. If we are to save and rescue sinners, there must grow up in our Church a Spirit of Love and Brotherhood, a Christian community-life, transcending class and national distinctions, as pungent, as powerful, as impossible to escape as the Spirit of the world. No Apostolic Succession, no Ecclesiastical correctness, no rigidity of orthodox doctrine, can be themselves and in themselves give us this; it comes, and can only come, from a clearer vision of the Christ, a more complete surrender to His call and to the bearing of His Cross.
    ... G. A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), The Wicket Gate [1923]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I cannot save others, but You can and do. Send Your Spirit, Lord, so that _____ and _____ shall come to faith.

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CQOD: 03/07/06 -- Overstreet: which gospel?

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 7, 2006

Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203

Meditation:
    [Jesus:] But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell[ as yourselves.
    -- Matthew 23:13-15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    We may look into a church, almost any church, and discover someone who, though he is offered a gospel of love, must subtly convert it into a gospel of hate before he can receive it. The gospel of love—with its emphasis upon brotherhood, equality before God, the dignity of every human being, and man’s social responsibility toward man—does not satisfy the lack that he urgently feels. That calls for something altogether different, for an assurance that he is superior, that he is right where others are wrong—a kind of cosmic teacher’s pet.
    ... Bonaro W. Overstreet (1902-1985)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, purify the Gospel in my mind and heart, so that it be not unrighteous.

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CQOD: 03/06/06 -- Driver: the unacceptable form

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 6, 2006Meditation:
    ... the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
    -- Habakkuk 2:20 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Silence, indeed, is the one form of worship which is almost universally thought intolerable by Dissenting clergy. Despite their not-too-distant affinity to the Quakers, they think they will be heard for their much speaking. And since their organists too are equally reluctant to let any liturgical action pass without a ruminative obbligato on the Swell manual, congregations are subjected to unrelieved noise during a service which may well have begun with the reading of the sentence, “Be still, and know that I am God.”
    ... Christopher Driver (1932-1997), A Future for the Free Churches? [1962]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Teach me silence, Lord, that I may listen to Your Spirit.

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CQOD: 03/05/06 -- Gwatkin: the witnesses to living power

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 5, 2006Meditation:
    For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 1For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,

        "I will tell of your name to my brothers;
        in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise."

    -- Hebrews 2:10-12 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    No wonder if the Christians made an impression out of all proportion to their numbers. Conviction in the midst of waverers, fiery energy in a world of disillusion, purity in an age of easy morals, firm brotherhood in a loose society, heroic courage in a time of persecution, formed a problem that could not be set aside, however polite society might affect to ignore it: and the religion of the future turned on the answer to it. Would the world be able to explain it better than the Christians, who said it was the living power of the risen Savior?
    ... Henry M. Gwatkin (1844-1916), Early Church History to A.D. 312 [1909]

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CQOD: 03/04/06 -- Tillotson: sinful sorrow over sin

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 4, 2006

Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647

Meditation:
    [Jesus:] Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.
    -- Matthew 15:10-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Sin is a base and ill-natured thing, and renders a man not so apt to be affected with the injuries he hath offered to God as with the mischief which is likely to fall upon himself.
    ... John Tillotson (1630-1694)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Holy Spirit, guard my tongue from sin, for Jesus' sake.

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CQOD: 03/03/06 -- Sayers: the Kingdom of Heaven

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 3, 2006Meditation:
    [Jesus:] Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.
    -- Matthew 13:47,48

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Quotation:
    “The Kingdom of Heaven,” said the Lord Christ, “is among you.” But what, precisely, is the Kingdom of Heaven? You cannot point to existing specimens, saying, “Lo, here!” or “Lo, there!” You can only experience it. But what is it like, so that when we experience it we may recognize it? Well, it is a change, like being born again and relearning everything from the start. It is secret, living power—like yeast. It is something that grows, like seed. It is precious like buried treasure, like a rich pearl, and you have to pay for it. It is a sharp cleavage through the rich jumble of things which life presents: like fish and rubbish in a draw-net, like wheat and tares; like wisdom and folly; and it carries with it a kind of menacing finality; it is new, yet in a sense it was always there—like turning out a cupboard and finding there your own childhood as well as your present self; it makes demands, it is like an invitation to a royal banquet—gratifying, but not to be disregarded, and you have to live up to it; where it is equal, it seems unjust; where it is just it is clearly not equal—as with the single pound, the diverse talents, the laborers in the vineyard, you have what you bargained for; it knows no compromise between an uncalculating mercy and a terrible justice—like the unmerciful servant, you get what you give; it is helpless in your hands like the King’s Son, but if you slay it, it will judge you; it was from the foundations of the world; it is to come; it is here and now; it is within you. It is recorded that the multitudes sometimes failed to understand.
    ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), The Poetry of Search [1963]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I was a spiritual zero, and You have given me the Kingdom. Blessed is Your Name.

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CQOD: 03/02/06 -- MacDonald on the signs of His coming

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 2, 2006

Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672

Meditation:
    Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
    -- Matthew 24:44 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Do those who say, “Lo here, or lo there, are the signs of His coming,” think to be too keen for Him, and spy His approach? When He tells them to watch lest He find them neglecting their work, they stare this way and that, and watch lest He should succeed in coming like a thief!
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905), “The Word of Jesus on Prayer,” Unspoken Sermons, Second Series [1885]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I should always be prepared to receive you.

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CQOD: 03/01/06 -- Forsyth: the mediator

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 1, 2006

Ash WednesdayFeast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601

Meditation:
    [Jesus:] "... If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him." Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
    -- John 14:7-9 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the finite an unreality, an intrusion? The mystic soul may impatiently think so, but the moral soul finds such mediation the way to reality; and the mystic experience is not quite trustworthy about reality. The pagan gods had no mediators, because they were not real or good gods; but the living God has a living Revealer. To know the living God is to know Christ; to know Christ is to know the living God. We do not know God by Christ but in Him. We find God when we find Christ; and in Christ alone we know and share his final purpose. Our last knowledge is not the contact of our person with a thing or a thought; it is intercourse of person and person.
    ... P. T. Forsyth (1848-1921), This Life and the Next [1918]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Because of You, gracious Lord, I believe.

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CQOD: 02/28/06 -- Joad: the truth about evil

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 28, 2006Meditation:
    But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
    -- James 1:14-15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The view of evil which regards it as the by-product of circumstances which circumstances can, therefore, alter and even eliminate—has come to seem to me intolerably shallow, and the contrary view of it as endemic in man—more particularly in its Christian form, the doctrine of original sin—to express a deep and essential insight into human nature.
    ... C. E. M. Joad (1891-1953), The Recovery of Belief [1952]

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Quiet time reflection:
    You are my salvation, Lord, and not me myself.

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