Pastoral ministry is always shaped, formed, directed, and driven by worship. Your ministry will be shaped by worship of God or worship of you or, for most of us, a troubling mix of both. Perhaps there is no more powerful, seductive, and deceitful temptation in ministry than self-glory. Perhaps in ministry there is no more potent intoxicant than the praise of men, and there is no more dangerous form of drunkenness than to be drunk with your own glory. It has the power to reduce you to shocking self-righteousness and inapproachability.

Paul David Tripp

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	California		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Sugar
1	c	Water
1	tb	Lemon juice
		Figs

INSTRUCTIONS

Joanne Dean
Figs have been much used in southern California since the mission period.
This recipe calls for bringing the syrup to the hard crack stage
(300-310&deg;).
Boil the sugar and water together without stirring (after the sugar
dissolves) until it hardens and becomes brittle when dropped in cold water;
then add the lemon juice. Wash and open the figs; lay them in a square,
shallow pan, greased greased well with butter. Pour the sugar syrup over
the figs. When nearly cold, mark out in narrow strips with a knife.
Posted to recipelu-digest by LSHW <shusky@erols.com> on Feb 09, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“He who angers you, controls you!”

We give our hand to every man that loves the Lord Jesus Christ, be he what he may or who he may. The doctrine of election, like the great act of election itself, is intended to divide, not between Israel and Israel, but between Israel and the Egyptians, not between saint and saint, but between saints and children of the world. A man may be evidently of God’s chosen family, and yet though elected, may not believe in the doctrine of election. I hold that there are many savingly called, who do not believe in effectual calling, and that there are a great many who persevere to the end, who do not believe the doctrine of final perseverance. We do hope the hearts of many are a great deal better than their heads. We do not set their fallacies down to any willful opposition to the truth as it is in Jesus but simply to an error in their judgments, which we pray God to correct. We hope that if they think us mistaken too, they will reciprocate the same Christian courtesy; and when we meet around the cross, we hope that we shall ever feel that we are one in Christ Jesus.

C.H. Spurgeon