CQOD: 06/20/07 -- Brent: intercession

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 20, 2007Meditation:
    Brothers, pray for us.
    -- 1 Thessalonians 5:25 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
    ... Charles H. Brent (1862-1929)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, fill my life with prayer for Your people.

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CQOD: 06/19/07 -- Singh: the world's ways vs. God's way

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 19, 2007

Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929

Meditation:
    About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
    "Then I asked, 'Who are you, Lord?'
    "'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,' the Lord replied. 'Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'"
    -- Acts 26:13-18 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.
    ... Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send me.

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CQOD: 06/18/07 -- Law: the purpose of revelation

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 18, 2007Meditation:
    May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
    -- 2 Corinthians 13:14 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is wholly practical; it is revealed to us, to discover to us our high origin and the greatness of our fall, and to show us the deep and profound operation of the triune God in the recovery of the divine life in our souls: that by the means of this mystery thus discovered, our piety may be rightly directed, our faith and prayer have their proper objects, [and] the workings and aspiring of our own hearts may cooperate and correspond with that triune life in the Deity, which is always desiring to manifest itself in us.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), An Appeal to All that Doubt [1740]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to know You more deeply.

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CQOD: 06/17/07 -- Newton: status report

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 17, 2007

Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936

Meditation:
    [In Capernaum] a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue."
    So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
    When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
    -- Luke 7:2-10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.
    ... John Newton (1725-1807)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Say the word, Lord, and I will be healed.

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CQOD: 06/16/07 -- Rees: the Holy Spirit (V)

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 16, 2007

Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253
Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752

Meditation:
    I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?
    -- Galatians 3:2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Spirit guided the Church in the creation of organization and officers (Acts 6:3; 20:28). The first three gifts of the Spirit which God had set in the Church were apostles, prophets, and teachers, in addition to which the whole Church had a gift of government (I Cor. 12:4, 28). The decisions of the first council of the Church were first of all decrees of the Spirit (Acts 15:28). Paul had preached and created churches by the power of the Spirit (I Cor. 2:4; 1 Thess. 1:5,6; Gal. 3:2). In one Spirit were all believers baptized into one body (I Cor. 12:13: cf. Phil. 1:27). The Spirit therefore dwells in the Church as the principle of its entire united and common life (Eph. 2:18, 22; cf. I Cor. 3:16).
    ... Thomas Rees (1869-1926), The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience [1915]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Spirit to us, that we may speak the truth boldly.

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CQOD: 06/15/07 -- Rees: the Holy Spirit (IV)

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June 15, 2007

Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941

Meditation:
    I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done--by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
    -- Romans 15:18,19 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    As the Christian life in the individual is the work of the Spirit, it follows that the corporate realization of that life, in the Church built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, is also His creation... The great creative acts and significant turning-points were recognized, either by the Church or by its historian, as determined by the Spirit. The Spirit confirmed and preserved the community from the outset, by the descent at Pentecost (Acts 2:4). The extension of the Gospel beyond Judea and the first mission to the Gentiles were commanded and approved by the Spirit (Acts 8:29; 10:19, 44; 13:2, 4). Paul, on his journeys, was led by the Spirit (Acts 16:6, 7). He himself was especially conscious that his whole ministry was inspired by the Holy Ghost (Rom. 15:18,19). All the apostles were conspicuously men of the Spirit. (Continued tomorrow)
    ... Thomas Rees (1869-1926), The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience [1915]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, with Your Spirit, I can go anywhere You send me.

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CQOD: 06/14/07 -- Rees: the Holy Spirit (III)

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 14, 2007

Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691

Meditation:
    Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
    -- 2 Corinthians 1:21,22 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Spirit was the power manifested in the resurrection of Christ (Rom. 1:4), in the inner life of man (Rom. 15:13; Eph. 3:16), and in the preaching of the word (I Thess. 1:5; 1 Cor. 2:4). He is the Spirit of life, both now and hereafter (Gal. 6:8; I Cor. 15:45); and the Spirit of assurance, the guarantee of the new life, whereby man obtains confidence towards God and courage in the face of the world’s evil (II Cor. 1:22; Rom. 5:5; 8:16, 23; Eph. 1:13; 4:30). Man, therefore, as the dwelling-place of the Spirit, is the inalienable possession of God (I Cor. 3:16, 17; 6:19). (Continued tomorrow)
    ... Thomas Rees (1869-1926), The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience [1915]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have made Your home in me.

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CQOD: 06/13/07 -- Rees: the Holy Spirit (II)

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 13, 2007Meditation:
    I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
    -- Ephesians 1:17 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    That Paul regarded the subsequent development of Christian life and character as in its totality the work of the Spirit is not questioned. All the Christian virtues are the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22,23). He is the Spirit of holiness (Rom. 1:4), of sanctification (II Thess. 2:13), and of a new life (Rom. 7:6). Love, the greatest of the Christian graces, is the pre-eminent gift of the Spirit (I Cor. 13; Col. 1:8; Rom. 15:30), not only as the grace of character, but also as a principle of unity in the Church (Eph. 4:1-6; cf. Eph. 2:18, 22). The Spirit bestows wisdom and knowledge on the individual and in the Church. Paul spoke “God’s wisdom in a mystery... through the Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” (I Cor. 2:7-10). “For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit” (I Cor. 12:8). All Christian knowledge was derived from the Spirit, both by Paul and [the Apostle] John (Eph. 1:17, 23; 3:16-19; John 16:13; I John 2:20, 27; cf. James 1:5; 3:15, 17). (Continued tomorrow)
    ... Thomas Rees (1869-1926), The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience [1915]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I receive the gifts you ordain from Your hand.

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CQOD: 06/12/07 -- Rees: the Holy Spirit

CQOD: 06/12/07 -- Rees: the Holy Spirit

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 12, 2007Meditation:
    Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father."
    -- Galatians 4:6 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The experiencing of divine sonship, of adoption, is the act of the Spirit in our hearts crying Abba, Father (Gal. 4:6; Rom. 8:15,16)... Liberty, peace, and joy are correlative factors in the same moment of experience, and they are all attributed to the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:2,6; 14:17; Gal. 5:22,23; 1 Thess. 1:6). In the allegory of Abraham’s two sons, Paul contrasts the state of bondage under the Law with that of liberty under grace, and defines the one as being after the flesh, but the other after the Spirit (Gal. 4:21-29)... The first great moment of the new life, whether it be called justification by faith, the realization of sonship, or peace with God, is a work of the Holy Spirit, through the preaching of the Word. But [Paul] does not indicate... the exact logical or historical sequence of the various elements in the experience, and it may be doubted whether he would have entertained any idea of sequence within the complex experience of justification. (Continued tomorrow)
    ... Thomas Rees (1869-1926), The Holy Spirit in Thought and Experience [1915]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I now know my Father.

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CQOD: 06/11/07 -- Cotterill: Let songs of praise fill the sky

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June 11, 2007

Feast of Barnabas the Apostle

Meditation:
    When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
    -- Acts 2:1-4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Let songs of praises fill the sky! Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high, According to his word. The Spirit by his heavenly breath, New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death Of trespasses and sin. The things of Christ the Spirit takes, And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes, God’s image stamps again Come, Holy Spirit, from above, With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love Our hearts and tongues inspire.
    ... Thomas Cotterill (1779-1823)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Fill my heart, Spirit of God.

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CQOD: 06/10/07 -- Stott: a two-footed stance

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 10, 2007Meditation:
    Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
    -- Romans 12:1 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The loving service which God sends His people into the world to render includes both evangelism and social action, for each is in itself an authentic expression of love, and neither needs the other to justify it.
    ... John R. W. Stott (b.1921)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me boldness in speaking and living the Gospel.

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CQOD: 06/09/07 -- Betz: faith over sight

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 9, 2007

Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597
Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373

Meditation:
    Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
    -- John 20:27-29 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Jesus was the representative of the Lord who forgives sins and heals all infirmities; the disciples acknowledged him as “Lord” and transferred to him the position ascribed to the “Lord” in the Old Testament. Whereas Jesus placed the penitent heart and the saving will of God higher than the pride of the godly and the letter of the Torah, so Paul preached faith in Christ as the only way to salvation and rejected striving after righteousness through the works of the Law. Above all, Jesus knew himself to be the Messiah and he acted in messianic authority; hence the risen and glorified Jesus was acknowledged as the king of the last days. It is still faith, not sight, that is demanded from men.
    ... Otto Betz (b.1917), What Do We Know About Jesus? [1968]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, strengthen my weak faith.

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