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Phillips: Christ and mysticism

02/07/2016 0 Comment

Saturday, July 2, 2016
Meditation:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
—Galatians 3:28-29 (ESV)
Quotation:
It should be noted, at least by those who accept Christ’s claim to be God, that he by no means fits into the picture of the “mystic saint.” Those who are fascinated by the supposed superiority of the mys..

van Ruysbroeck: the universality of His love

01/07/2016 0 Comment

Friday, July 1, 2016
Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873
Meditation:
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
—1 Timothy 2:5-6 (ESV)
Quotation:
Christ was common to all in love, in teaching, in tender consolation, in generous gifts, in merciful forgiveness. His soul and His body, His life and His death and His minist..

Robertson: too hard to hear

30/06/2016 0 Comment

Thursday, June 30, 2016
Meditation:
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through..

Trench: the human need of support

29/06/2016 0 Comment

Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles
Meditation:
If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
would not God discover this?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
—Psalm 44:20-21 (ESV)
Quotation:
No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely the forgetting the name of our God, and hol..

Augustine: hope for good

28/06/2016 0 Comment

Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Feast of Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200
Meditation:
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
—2 Corinthians 4:7-10 (ESV)
Quotatio..

Barclay: where heaven is

27/06/2016 0 Comment

Monday, June 27, 2016
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”
—John 14:2-3 (NIV)
Quotation:
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be forever with Him. When we love anyone wit..

Neill: the Church in the Gospel

26/06/2016 0 Comment

Sunday, June 26, 2016
Meditation:
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
—Ephesians 3:8-10 (ESV)
Quotation:
Theologically, we have been discovering anew t..

Fuller: God’s work, God’s way

25/06/2016 0 Comment

Saturday, June 25, 2016
Meditation:
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
—2 Corinthians 4:1-2 (ESV)
Quotation:
God’s own work must be done by God’s own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify..

Newman: pray for a perfect heart

24/06/2016 0 Comment

Friday, June 24, 2016
Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist
Meditation:
I will sing of mercy and judgment:
unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way.
O when wilt thou come unto me?
I will walk within my house
with a perfect heart.
—Psalm 101:1-2 (KJV)
Quotation:
Pray Him to give you what Scripture calls “an honest and good heart,” or “a perfect heart;” and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is bette..

Tozer: continuous prayer

23/06/2016 0 Comment

Thursday, June 23, 2016
Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678
Meditation:
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
—Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
Quotation:
God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing he..