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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Many of the pulpiteers of the past fifty years acted as though the first and last object of their calling was the salvation of souls, everything being made to bend to that aim. In consequence, the feeding of the sheep, the maintaining of a Scriptural discipline in the church, and the inculcation of practical piety, was crowded out; and only too often all sorts of worldly devices and fleshly methods were employed under the plea that the end justified the means; and thus the churches were filled with unregenerate members. In reality, such men defeated their own aim. The hard heart must be ploughed and harrowed before it can be receptive to the gospel seed. Doctrinal instruction must be given on the character of God, the requirements of his Law, the nature and heinousness of sin, if a foundation is to be laid for true evangelism. It is useless to preach Christ unto souls until they see and feel their desperate need of him.

A.W. Pink

Worship empowers serving; serving expresses worship. Godliness requires a disciplined balance between the two. Those who can maintain service without regular personal and corporate worship are serving in the flesh. It doesn’t matter how long they’ve been serving that way or how well others think they serve, they are not striving according to God’s power, as Paul did, but their own… At the same time, one measure of the authenticity of worship (again, both personal and corporate) is whether it results in a desire to serve… Therefore, we must maintain that to be Godly, we should discipline ourselves for both worship and service. To engage in one without the other is, in reality, to experience neither.

Donald S. Whitney

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Rich Passover Brownies

January 24, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs	Jewish		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Butter or margarine
2	c	Sugar
1/2	ts	Salt
3	tb	(heaping) Cocoa
2/3	c	Cake meal
4		Eggs

INSTRUCTIONS

Here is my favorite Passover Brownie Recipe. It is from "From Soup to Nosh"
a local cookbook of the Solomon Schecter School of Greater Boston. The
recipe was contributed by Roberta Yellin, the mother of one of my
daughter's friends.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Melt butter or margarine and cool.
3. Mix in all other ingredients.
4. Pour into greased 9 x 9 pan.
5. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 35 minutes (the book says 30
minutes, but they are not done in my oven at that point). Posted to
JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #135 by "Barbara S. Wand" <bwand@ccs.neu.edu> on Apr
27, 1997

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“Lust and selfishness do not equal love”