CQOD: 10/14/07 -- Owen: false wisdom

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 14, 2007Meditation:
    Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
    -- 1 John 4:8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
    ... John Owen (1616-1683)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me to turn away from my arrogance and folly.

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CQOD: 10/13/07 -- Newton: patience in affliction

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 13, 2007

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066

Meditation:
    But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment. When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
    -- 1 Corinthians 11:31,32 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.
    ... John Newton (1725-1807)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, in my trials, You are always present.

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CQOD: 10/12/07 -- Lewis: the Gospels

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 12, 2007

Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709
Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845

Meditation:
    But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
    -- 1 Corinthians 15:12-14 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God’s] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had... The “Gospels” came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Screwtape Letters

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are forever risen!

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CQOD: 10/11/07 -- Allison: heresy's victims

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 11, 2007

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675

Meditation:
    If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
    -- 1 Corinthians 13:2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love... The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.
    ... C. FitzSimons Allison (b.1927), The Cruelty of Heresy [1994]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may your grace and mercy be extended to those who are trapped in heresy.

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CQOD: 10/10/07 -- Bonhoeffer: the ministry of listening

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 10, 2007

Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644

Meditation:
    Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
    -- Romans 10:17 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God’s love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Life Together [1954]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, great me an ear ready to listen.

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CQOD: 10/09/07 -- Gossip: the Bible as a resource

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 9, 2007

Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258
Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253

Meditation:
    Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
    -- 2 Timothy 2:22-26 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.
    ... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), In Christ’s Stead [1925]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that ministry shall not be words only.

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