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Friday, January 13, 2017
Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367
Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603
Meditation:
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
—1 Corinthians 15:21 (NIV)
Quotation:
He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing our flesh He might forgive sins; a flesh which He shares with us by wearing it, not by sinning in it. He blotted out through dea..

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Thursday, January 12, 2017
Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167
Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689
Meditation:
I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.
—Philemon 1:4-6 (ESV)
Quotation:
“The..

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915
Meditation:
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
—Galatians 5:25-26 (ESV)
Quotation:
Covetousness, pride, and envy are not three different things, but only three different names for the restless workings of one and the same will or desire…
Wrath, which is a fourth birth from these three, can have no existenc..

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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
—Mark 8:36-38 (ESV)
Quotation:
The Gospel commission is the key to all problems of church history, large or small. It is the key to..

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Monday, January 9, 2017
Meditation:
I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall break[a] them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
—Psalm 2:7-9 (ESV)
Quotation:
Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells
That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.
Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells
Hunger that craves immorta..

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Sunday, January 8, 2017
21st anniversary of CQOD
Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Ecuador, 1956
Meditation:
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
—Philippians 1:21 (KJV)
Quotation:
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
… Jim Elliot (1927-1956), Shadow of the Almighty: the life & testament of Jim Elliot, Elisabeth Elliot, Harper, 1958, p. 108 (see the book)
See also Phil. 1:21; M..

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Saturday, January 7, 2017
Meditation:
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
—Isaiah 56:6-7 (ESV)
Quotation..

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Friday, January 6, 2017
EPIPHANY
Meditation:
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
—2 Peter 3:18 (ESV)
Quotation:
He that is alive may know that he was born, though he know neither the place where nor the time when he was so; and so may he that is spiritually alive, and hath ground of evidence that he is so, that he was born again, though he know neither when, nor where, nor how. And this case i..

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Thursday, January 5, 2017
Meditation:
Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”
—Mark 3:20-21 (ESV)
Quotation:
There is a curious betrayal of the popular estimate of this world and the world to come, in the honour paid to those who cast away life in battle, or sap it slowly in the pursuit of wealth or honours, and the contempt expressed for those who..

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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Meditation:
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace…
—1 Peter 4:10 (ESV)
Quotation:
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
… William R. Inge (1860-1954), Outspoken Essays, London: Longmans, Green, 1919, p. 32 (see the book)
See also 1 Pet. 4:10; Rom. 12:6-8; 15:27; 1 Cor. 4:7; 12:4-11; 2 Cor. 9:2; Eph. 4:4..

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