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Erasmus: full-time Christianity

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Meditation:
We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
—Romans 6:9-11 (ESV)
Quotation:
I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists ..

Law: the will to goodness

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Monday, July 11, 2016
Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550
Meditation:
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
—Romans 8:28 (KJV)
Quotation:
No creature can be a child of God but because the goodness of God is in it; nor can it have any union or communion with the goodness of the Deity till its life is the Spirit of Love. This is the one only band of union betwixt God and the c..

Grou: true path to peace

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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Meditation:
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
—James 4:7-8 (ESV)
Quotation:
The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and m..

Gossip: the adventure in Christ’s appeal

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Saturday, July 9, 2016
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against..

Rutherford: life’s reward

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Friday, July 8, 2016
Meditation:
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
—Hebrews 2:9 (NIV)
Quotation:
Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.
… Samuel Rutherford (1600-..

Reid: the precious relic

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Thursday, July 7, 2016
Meditation:
And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
—Matthew 4:23 (ESV)
Quotation:
It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonising, which we have made into a special activity in the church premises…
A great many p..

Newton: status report

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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Feast of John Huss, Reformer, Martyr, 1415
Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, &
John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535
Meditation:
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
—1 Corinthians 15:10 (NIV)
Quotation:
1. I am not what I ought to be. Ah! how imperfect and deficient. 2. Not what I might be, considering my privileges and opportuniti..

Tillotson: the Scriptures

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Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Meditation:
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures…
—1 Corinthians 15:1-4..

Trueblood: democracy

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Monday, July 4, 2016
Meditation:
What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin…
—Romans 3:9 (ESV)
Quotation:
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
… Elton Trueblood (1900-1994), Foundations for Reconstruction, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946, p. 105 (see the book)
See also Rom. 3:9-18,23; Ps. 143:2; Matt. 1:21; Rom. 5:12; Gal. 2:..

Sayers: down to earth indeed

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Sunday, July 3, 2016
Feast of Thomas the Apostle
Meditation:
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly ou..