CQOD: 03/30/08 -- Bruce: the New Testament documents

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 30, 2008Meditation:
    Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
    -- Romans 10:4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no-one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt. It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament than have many theologians.
    ... F. F. Bruce (1910-1991), The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, p. 15 [1949]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Living Word, I thank You for Your written word.

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CQOD: 03/29/08 -- Bennet: brevity

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 29, 2008

Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974

Meditation:
    Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
    -- Ecclesiastes 5:2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The reason that the Ten Commandments are short and clear is that they were handed down direct, and not through several committees.
    ... Dan Bennett

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me simplicity in Christ.

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CQOD: 03/28/08 -- Willard: the Beloved Presence

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 28, 2008Meditation:
    On one occasion, while he was eating with them, [Jesus] gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
    -- Acts 1:4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Thomas à Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, “A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift.” The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr’s stake or noose into a place of coronation.
    ... Dallas Willard (b.1935), Hearing God [1999], p.45

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your Spirit guarantees my redemption.

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CQOD: 03/27/08 -- Reed: Spirit divine

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 27, 2008Meditation:
    After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.
    -- Acts 4:31 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Spirit divine, attend our prayers.
        And make this house thy home;
    Descend with all thy gracious powers;
        O come, great spirit, come!

    Come as the light; to us reveal
        Our emptiness and woe;
    And lead us in the paths of life
        Where all the righteous go.

    Come as the wind: sweep clean away
        What dead within us lies,
    And search and freshen all our souls
        With living energies.

    Come as the fire: and purge our hearts
        Like sacrificial flame;
    Let our whole soul as offering be
        To our redeemer’s name.

    Spirit divine, attend our prayers,
        Make a lost world thy home;
    Descend with all thy gracious powers:
        O come, great Spirit, come!
    ... Andrew Reed (1787-1862), 1829

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your breath has shaken and cleansed my home.

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CQOD: 03/26/08 -- Barclay: Called out or called in?

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 26, 2008

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883

Meditation:
    Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
    -- Ephesians 4:29,30 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    There is a certain kind of so-called conversion which separates a man from his fellow men. It may fill him with a self-righteousness which rejoices in its own superiority to those who have had no like experience. It may move a man to a Pharisaic self-isolation. There have in fact been not a few so-called conversions as a result of which a man has left the Church to belong to some smaller and holier body. The plain truth is that such a one should very seriously examine himself, if he finds what he regards as his Christian experience separating him from his fellow-men, or his fellow-Christians.
    ... William Barclay (1907-1978), In the Hands of God [1967]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach me to love those whom You love.

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CQOD: 03/25/08 -- Bonar: Faith is rest

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 25, 2008

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary

Meditation:
    We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
    -- Hebrews 6:19,20 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.
    ... Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), The Everlasting Righteousness, James Nisbet & Co., London: 1873, p. 116

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, my rest is complete in You.

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CQOD: 03/24/08 -- Harris: counter-culture or Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 24, 2008

Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980
Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953

Meditation:
    There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism.
    -- Romans 2:9-11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Counter-culture’s glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture—we could have the Kingdom of God.
    ... Marvin Harris (1927-2001), Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches [1974] p. 253

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach us Your way of peace.

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