CQOD: 04/08/07 -- Denney: the diagnostic understanding

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 8, 2007

Easter
Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877

Meditation:
    Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him.
    -- Luke 17:3-4 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It is the recognition of this divine necessity—not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is—it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognize it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.
    ... James Denney (1856-1917), The Atonement and the Modern Mind [1903]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, restore forgiveness in the center of my life.

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CQOD: 04/07/07 -- Trench: God our refuge

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 7, 2007

Holy Saturday

Meditation:
    He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
    -- Psalm 91:1-2 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    If there had anywhere appeared in space
        Another place of refuge where to flee,
    Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,
        And not with Thee.

    For we against creation’s bars had beat
        Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought
    Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,
        Where Thou wert not.

    And only when we found in earth and air,
        In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be
    That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,
        We fled to Thee.
        ... Richard Chevenix Trench (1807-1886)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I have sought You, and You found me.

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CQOD: 04/06/07 -- Dürer: prayer to the Shepherd

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 6, 2007

Good FridayCommemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564

Meditation:
    I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
    -- John 10:14-16 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    O God in heaven, have mercy on us! Lord Jesus Christ, intercede for your people, deliver us at the opportune time, preserve in us the true genuine Christian faith, collect your scattered sheep with your voice, your divine Word as Holy Writ calls it. Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
    ... Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I hear your voice.

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CQOD: 04/05/07 -- Hamill: God we can know

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 5, 2007

Maundy Thursday

Meditation:
    ... the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. Oh that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!'
    -- Deuteronomy 5:28b-29 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person—a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.
    ... Robert Hamill (1912-1975)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are my true Father.

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CQOD: 04/04/07 -- Schaeffer: the chasm

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 4, 2007Meditation:
    O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge," for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.
    -- 1 Timothy 6:20-21 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    We cannot expect people to take seriously our belief in objective truth if, in our practice, we indicate only a quantitative difference between all men who are in ecclesiastical structures or who use theological language. I do not mean that we should not have open dialogue with men; my words and practice emphasize that I believe love demands it. But I do mean that we should not give the impression in our practice that, just because they are expressed in traditional Christian terminology, all religious concepts are on a graduated, quantitative spectrum—that, in regard to central doctrine, no chasm exists between right and wrong.
    ... Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984), Death in the City [1969]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord Jesus, You are the center of unity among Your people.

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CQOD: 04/03/07 -- Grou: suffering

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 3, 2007Meditation:
    Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
    -- James 1:12 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
    ... Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have implanted Your love in me, that I may cease to struggle against Your perfect will.

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