As a philosophical idea, God’s decreeing of a thing has dominance over His seeing a thing beforehand. Even though…the word foreknowledge is more than pre-sight, we nonetheless cannot disregard the verity that God sees all things beforehand. Thus God’s seeing all things has forever been a reality to Him, and God’s determining all things has also been forever. These two have had eternal origins. As long as He has decreed, He has known; and as long as He has known, He has decreed. So, in one sense, we cannot put one philosophical idea ahead of the other in terms of time. Yet we can put one above the other in terms of dominance. If God has seen and determined at the same time, we cannot make His decreeing subservient to His knowing. The reason one is preceding the other in terms of force (not time) is that determination is a willful act of God, whereas seeing is a passive act. God cannot help but see all, but He wills to decree. Therefore what He determines, He sees; and what He sees, is determined. The force of decreeing a thing dominates the seeing.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		One 13×9 shallow baking pan
		Graham crackers
1		Stick butter
1		Stick margarine
1/2	c	Sugar
		Chopped pecans; about a cup more or less to your taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Break the 4-sectioned graham cracker in half (so that you have two sections
still intact; i.e., a square of graham cracker, comprising two sections,
intact), and line the bottom of the pan with the squares.
Melt the butter and margarine in a saucepan. Add the sugar and boil for 2
minutes.
Pour the mixture evenly over the graham-cracker squares, then sprinkle with
the chopped pecans. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Remove from pan at
once and watch 'em disappear.
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Patricia McGibbony-Mangum
<pmangum@primenet.com> on Mar 12, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Be Fishers of Men…. You catch ’em, He’ll Clean ’em.”

Opening our home to others is a wonderful gift and a neglected discipline in the church. But we easily forget the whole point of hospitality. Think of it this way: Good hospital-ity is making your home a hospital. The idea is that friends and family and the wounded and weary people come to your home and leave helped and refreshed. And yet, too often hospitality is a nerve-wracking experience for hosts and guests alike. Instead of setting our guests at ease, we set them on edge by telling them how bad the food will be, and what a mess the house is, and how sorry we are for the kids’ behavior. We get worked up and crazy busy in all the wrong ways because we are more concerned about looking good than with doing good. So instead of our encouraging those we host, they feel compelled to encourage us with constant reassurances that everything is just fine. Opening our homes takes time, but it doesn’t have to take over our lives. Christian hospitality has much more to do with good relationships than with good food. There is a fine line between care and cumber. In many instances, less ado would serve better.

Kevin DeYoung