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MacDonald: ministering to the poor

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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970
Meditation:
So [Jesus] replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”
—Luke 7:22-23 (NIV)
Quotation:
I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man, not t..

Basil: don’t neglect the community

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Monday, January 2, 2017
Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389
Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833
Meditation:
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the w..

Lamb: the many forms of grace

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Sunday, January 1, 2017
Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus
Meditation:
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
—Colossians 3:17 (NIV)
Quotation:
I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, th..

Wycliffe: understanding of Scripture

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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384
Meditation:
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
—1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)
Quotation:
Christian men and women, old and young, should study well in the New Testament, for it is of full authority, and open to understanding by simple men, as to the points that are most needful to salvation. Each part of Scripture, both open and dark, teaches meekness and charity; and t..

Hanson: the nature of service

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Friday, December 30, 2016
Meditation:
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
—1 Corinthians 1:22-24 (NIV)
Quotation:
In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is not his, but Christ’s. Therefore he must not feel too keenly the burden of responsibility, because at the end of the..

Phillips: a terrifying ignorance

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Thursday, December 29, 2016
Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170
Meditation:
… thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation, but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”
—Romans 15:20-21 (ESV)
Quotation:
To me there is a much more frightening ignorance in our modern world than the “ignorance of the heathe..

M’Cheyne: Christ in the desert

28/12/2016 0 Comment

Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Meditation:
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
it shall blossom abundantly
and rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the Lord,
the majesty of our God.
—Isaiah 35:1-2 (ESV)
Quotation:
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then ..

Pascal: the reason of everything

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist
Meditation:
For by [the Son] all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
—Colossians 1:16-17 (NIV)
Quotation:
Jesus Christ is the end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything.
… Blaise P..

Lloyd: the need to be forgiven

26/12/2016 0 Comment

Monday, December 26, 2016
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr
Meditation:
But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it’s something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.
—Romans 4:5-8 (Message)
Quotation:
If Christianity is what Jesus taught and lived and died for, then nothing can be truly the Gospel which lays..

Bonar: a Bethlehem hymn

25/12/2016 0 Comment

Sunday, December 25, 2016
CHRISTMAS DAY
Meditation:
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of..