CQOD: 06/06/07 -- Whale: the reason for the Gospels

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 6, 2007

Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945

Meditation:
    I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
    -- John 5:25 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection—the Resurrection explains the Gospels.
    ... John S. Whale (1896-1997)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have changed all of reality.

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CQOD: 06/05/07 -- Olds: the bottomless purse

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 5, 2007

Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754

Meditation:
    Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
    -- Luke 17:33 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.
    ... Glenn Olds

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your mercy is inexhaustible.

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CQOD: 06/04/07 -- Fénelon: Teach me to pray

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 4, 2007Meditation:
    In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
    -- John 16:23-24 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you. O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask. Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.
    ... François Fénelon (1651-1715)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, only Your Presence in me enables me to pray.

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CQOD: 06/03/07 -- Mother Teresa: making service acceptable

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 3, 2007

Trinity Sunday
Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910
Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978

Meditation:
    All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered. Those who have believing masters are not to show less respect for them because they are brothers. Instead, they are to serve them even better, because those who benefit from their service are believers, and dear to them. These are the things you are to teach and urge on them.
    -- 1 Timothy 6:1-2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
    ... Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, sanctify my service according to Your word.

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CQOD: 06/02/07 -- Spurgeon: law and grace

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 2, 2007Meditation:
    When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
    -- Mark 2:16,17 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.
    ... Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), "All of Grace"

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have shown me my sin and my redemption.

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CQOD: 06/01/07 -- Watts: Jesus shall reign

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 1, 2007

Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165
Commemoration of Angela de’Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540

Meditation:
    May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun.
    All nations will be blessed through him, and they will call him blessed.
    Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
    Praise be to his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
    -- Psalm 72:17-19 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
    Does its successive journeys run,
    His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
    Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

    For him shall endless prayer be made,
    And princes throng to crown his head;
    His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise
    With every morning sacrifice.

    People and realms of every tongue
    Dwell on his love with sweetest song,
    And infant-voices shall proclaim
    Their early blessings on his name.

    Blessings abound where’er he reigns;
    The prisoners leap to lose their chains;
    The weary find eternal rest,
    And all the sons of want are blest.

    Let every creature rise and bring
    Honors peculiar to our King;
    Angels descend with songs again,
    And earth repeat the loud amen.
    ... Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Psalms of David Imitated [1719], Psalm 72

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your praises shall be endless.

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CQOD: 05/31/07 -- Dodd: communion

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 31, 2007Meditation:
    You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
    -- Galatians 3:26,27 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The primitive Christians were accustomed to speak, in a language which was older than Christianity, of being “in the Spirit”—as though Spirit were an ethereal atmosphere surrounding the soul, and breathed in as the body breathes in the air. Paul, too, used this expression, but he placed alongside it a parallel form of words, “in Christ” or “in Christ Jesus.” Where we find these words used we are being reminded of the intimate union with Christ which makes the Christian life an eternal life lived in the midst of time. The deeper shade of meaning would often be conveyed to our minds if we translated the phrase “in communion with Christ.” But, Paul’s Christ mysticism is saved from the introverted individualism of many forms of mysticism by his insistence that communion with Christ is also communion with all who are Christ’s.
    ... C. Harold Dodd (1884-1973), The Meaning of Paul for Today [1920]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, show me Yourself in my brothers and sisters in You.

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CQOD: 05/30/07 -- MacDonald: the last resort

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 30, 2007

Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906
Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933

Meditation:
    Without warning, a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" He replied, "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"
    -- Matthew 8:24-27 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have driven me to the shores of Your grace.

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CQOD: 05/29/07 -- Palau: one encounter

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 29, 2007Meditation:
    As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
    -- Matthew 9:9 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.
    ... Luis Palau (b.1934)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I never knew purpose until I met You.

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CQOD: 05/28/07 -- Brent: the uses of temptation

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 28, 2007

Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089

Meditation:
    Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
    -- Hebrews 12:3,4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer.
    ... Charles H. Brent (1862-1929)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, strengthen me in temptation for the righteousness You call me to.

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