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Friday, December 23, 2016
Meditation:
When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.
—Luke 2:15-17 (ESV)
Quotation:
The King of glory sends his Son,
To make his entrance on th..

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Meditation:
[Peter:] “All the prophets testify about [Jesus] that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
—Acts 10:43 (NIV)
Quotation:
God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men’s curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter’s, be thereby manifested to the world.
… Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Commentary on ..

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Meditation:
For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
—1 Thessalonians 1:8 (ESV)
Quotation:
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame ..

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Monday, December 19, 2016
Meditation:
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
—Ephesians 5:25-27 (ESV)
Quotation:
The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be h..

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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Advent IV
Meditation:
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
—Ephesians 2:19-22 (ESV)
Quotation:
One of th..

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Saturday, December 17, 2016
Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of ‘Save the Children’, 1928
Meditation:
And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
—John 19:37 (ESV)
Quotation:
Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves—blessed riddance. The man who has stru..

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Friday, December 16, 2016
Meditation:
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
—1 Peter 2:9-10 (KJV)
Quotation:
Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten th..

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Thursday, December 15, 2016
Meditation:
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be..

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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.”
—John 15:9 (ESV)
Quotation:
No knowledge, therefore, and no conceptions in this mortal life, can serve as proximate means of this high union of the love of God. All that the understanding may comprehend; all that the will may be satisfied with; and all that the imagination may conceive; is most unlike unto God, and most..

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Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304
Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784
Meditation:
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
—2 Timothy 3:12 (ESV)
Quotation:
It is by affliction chiefly that the heart of man is purified, and that the thoughts are fixed on a better state. Prosperity … has power to intoxicate the imagination, to fix the mind upon the present scene, to produce confidence and elation, and ..

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