CQOD: 07/19/06 -- Gore: praying in His name

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 19, 2006Meditation:
    Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
    -- John 14:13 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Many people have a very strangely childish notion, that “praying in the name of Christ” means simply the addition of the words “through Jesus Christ our Lord” at the end of their prayers. But depend upon it, they do not by adding these words, or any words, bring it about that their prayers should be in the name of Christ. To pray in the name of Christ means to pray in such a way as represents Christ. The representative always must speak in the spirit and meaning of those for whom he speaks. If Christ is our representative, that must be because He speaks our wishes, or what we ought to make our wishes; and if we are to pray in the name of Christ, that means that we are, however far off, expressing His wishes and intentions.
    ... Charles Gore (1853-1932), The Sermon on the Mount [1910]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Help me, Lord, never to speak Your Name in vain as I pray.

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CQOD: 07/18/06 -- Calvin: Scripture and Spirit

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 18, 2006Meditation:
    But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"--these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
    -- 1 Corinthians 2:9-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any acceptance in men’s hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken by the mouth of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts, to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what has been divinely commanded.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion [1559]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Spirit that I may be persuaded of the truth of Your word.

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CQOD: 07/17/06 -- Law: new every morning

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 17, 2006Meditation:
    For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
    -- 1 Corinthians 15:22 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I praise You and thank You for new life this day.

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CQOD: 07/16/06 -- Hanson: denominational blinders

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 16, 2006

Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099

Meditation:
    Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.
    -- Philippians 1:27-28 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    With us, our denomination is a source of pride: we feel an intimate link with our fellow church-member in Fiji, and we think how wonderful it is that we belong to a communion which spans the entire globe. We do not normally reflect that this sense of solidarity is very often gained at the expense of the unity which we ought to be experiencing with our fellow-Christian next door who belongs to a different denomination.
    ... Anthony T. Hanson (1916-1991)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, open my eyes to the needs and opportunities for witness and fellowship that are nearby.

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CQOD: 07/15/06 -- de Caussade: personal surrender

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 15, 2006

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274

Meditation:
    Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
    -- Matthew 6:31-33 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him.
    ... J. P. de Caussade (1675-1751)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I yield my cares to You, trusting in Your goodness.

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CQOD: 07/14/06 -- Fuller: God's work, God's way

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 14, 2006

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866

Meditation:
    Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
    -- 2 Corinthians 4:1-2 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    God’s own work must be done by God’s own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.
    ... Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I will follow Your ways to arrive at Your kingdom.

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CQOD: 07/13/06 -- Robertson: the rewards of virtue

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 13, 2006Meditation:
    In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
    -- Acts 20:35 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Do right, and God’s recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God’s reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness of giving. Love, and God will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven: love is God within you.
    ... F. W. Robertson

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send the Spirit of Love to me.

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CQOD: 07/12/06 -- Erasmus: full-time Christianity

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 12, 2006Meditation:
    We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
    -- Romans 6:9-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists himself as a soldier to fight under Christ’s banner all his life after. And Saint Paul, speaking of those that die with Christ, that they may live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, does not mean this of monks only, but of Christians universally.
    ... The Colloquies of Erasmus (1466?-1536)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to a life lived for You.

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CQOD: 07/11/06 -- Reid: the precious relic

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 11, 2006

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550

Meditation:
    And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
    -- Matthew 4:23 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises... A great many people sermonising in our churches today would be better off and of greater service if they absolved themselves from the bondage and disciplines of the pulpit and came down among their congregations, teaching informally on sounder educational principles. After all, the vital matter in the ministry of the Word is not that a clergyman delivers himself of a discourse but that the people to whom he ministers end up being taught something. The tragedy is that the professional clergy have been trained to sermonise and they seem overwhelmed with fears and a sense of insecurity when they contemplate other methods. A further problem, of course, is that most of our churches contain a significant number of people who become emotionally disturbed at any departure from what they have always done in the past. To them, the sermon is part of their Christianity—even if it bores them stiff!
    ... Gavin Reid, The Gagging of God [1969]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I confess that I fear departure from the familiar. Teach me to sense Your Spirit's prompting in all things.

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CQOD: 07/10/06 -- Jones: victorious living

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 10, 2006Meditation:
    I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
    -- John 16:33 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake—a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. And therefore the action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
    ... E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), Victorious Living [1936]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I confess that I sometimes cannot see the victory in my life. Remind me always that it is Your victory, not mine.

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CQOD: 07/09/06 -- Gossip: the adventure in Christ's appeal

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 9, 2006Meditation:
    For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
    -- Luke 14:28-33 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    And think of the appeal Christ made to men and women! He had many, but His favorite was to their chivalry and valor. Often He underlines the difficulties of discipleship, warns us what it will cost, that it means risk and loss and sacrifice, and pulling hard against fierce currents; and then He turns and looks at us, with that honoring trust of His in us that sets the blood tingling and makes the cheeks flush with pride. That, He says quietly, is why I am so sure that you will come: you are too big to keep out of it! And, indeed, in His own day, it was only daring and adventurous spirits who would risk declaring for Him, as it is only daring and adventurous spirits still who have the pluck to try to follow so original and unpopular a Master in the real living-out of life.
    ... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), From the Edge of the Crowd [1924]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the courage to follow You unconditionally.

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