CQOD: 02/17/08 -- Chambers: what we worship

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 17, 2008

Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977

Meditation:
    As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. But Peter made him get up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man myself."
    -- Acts 10:25,26 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Where would you be if God took away all your Christian work? Too often it is our Christian work that is worshiped and not God.
    ... Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, turn my eyes away from myself towards You.

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CQOD: 02/16/08 -- Sproul: Sola Scriptura

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 16, 2008Meditation:
    [Paul:] I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
    -- Galatians 1:11,12 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    For (Martin) Luther, the sola of “Sola Scriptura” was inseparably related to the Scriptures’ unique inerrancy. It was because popes could and did err and because councils could and did err that Luther came to realize the supremacy of Scripture. Luther did not despise church authority, nor did he repudiate church councils as having no value. His praise of the Council of Nicaea is noteworthy. Luther and the Reformers did not mean by “Sola Scriptura” that the Bible is the only authority in the church; rather, they meant that the Bible is the only infallible authority in the church.
    ... R. C. Sproul, “Sola Scriptura: Crucial To Evangelicalism”, in The Foundation of Biblical Authority, James Mongomery Boice, ed., London & Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, 1979, p. 104

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may Your word reign supreme in Your church.

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CQOD: 02/15/08 -- Kates: the terminus of faith

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 15, 2008

Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730

Meditation:
    He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.
    -- Acts 16:30-32 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian’s faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.
    ... Frederick Ward Kates (b.1920)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant Your presence to Your people.

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CQOD: 02/14/08 -- Johnson: truth in deepfreeze

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 14, 2008

Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885
Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269

Meditation:
    You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
    -- Titus 2:1 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Those of a strong doctrinal background... assumed that Christ tied the knot when the catechism was memorized and parroted correctly. The result: a generation so obsessed with saying it right, they hardly dare say it at all.
    ... Paul G. Johnson (b.1931)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach me to love Your truth.

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CQOD: 02/13/08 -- Reapsome: built on missions

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 13, 2008Meditation:
    Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: "We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'" When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
    -- Acts 13:46-48 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.
    ... James Reapsome

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a heart to see in all those I encounter a need for Your Gospel.

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CQOD: 02/12/08 -- Scofield: the church's divergence

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 12, 2008Meditation:
    Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
    -- Matthew 8:19,20 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.
    ... C. I. Scofield (1843-1921), Addresses on Prophecy [1914]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead Your church in the way that it should go.

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