Many are frightened because meditation has become something of a buzzword in New Age circles. But the differences between biblically based meditation and what we find in Eastern religions and the New Age movement are profound. Here are a few of them: 1. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates emptying the mind, Christian meditation call for is to fill our mind with God and His truth. 2. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates mental passivity, Christian meditation call on us to actively exert our mental energy. 3. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates detachment from the world, Christian meditation call for attachment to God. 4. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates visualization in order to create one’s own reality, Christian meditation call for visualization of the reality already created by God. 5. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates metaphysical union with “god,” Christian meditation calls for spiritual communion with God. 6. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates an inner journey to find the center of one’s being, Christian meditation calls for an outward focus on the objective revelation of God in Scripture and creation. 7. Unlike Eastern meditation, which advocates mystical transport as the goal of one’s efforts, Christian meditation calls for moral transformation as the goal of one’s efforts.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Spanish	Spanish, Beef, Chocolate	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lb	Roast Flour
2	tb	Oil
1	lg	Onion, sliced thin into rings
1	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Black pepper
2		Whole cloves
1	tb	Vinegar
1		Whole bay leaf
1	ts	Cinnamon
2	tb	Catsup
2	c	Water
2	oz	Semi-sweet baking chocolate, grated

INSTRUCTIONS

Flour roast.  Brown in oil on all sides.  Remove roast from pan and
set aside. Put onion rings into pot (Dutch oven).  Add salt and
pepper. Put roast on top of onion rings, add cloves, vinegar, bay
leaf, cinnamon, catsup and water.  Put lid on pot.  Let come to a
boil and simmer about 2 1/2 hours or until roast is tender.  Add
grated chocolate and stir around roast.  Let cook another 15 minutes.
Remove cloves and bay leaf.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #237
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:50:32 -0500
From: pickell@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)

A Message from our Provider:

“Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited – until you try to sit in their pews.”

When we take the history of a child of God, compressed within the short period of a single day — mark what flaws, what imperfections, what fickleness, what dereliction in principle, what flaws in practice, what errors in judgment and what wanderings of heart make up that brief history — how we are led to thank God for the stability of the covenant, that covenant which provides for the full redemption of all believers, which from eternity secures the effectual calling, the perfect keeping and certain salvation of every chosen vessel of mercy!

Octavius Winslow