The happiness for which we are eternally destined is a state of soul in which we experience and express optimum ecstasy in God. Happiness is the whole soul resting in God and rejoicing that so beautiful and glorious a Being is ours. Happiness is the privilege of being enabled by God’s grace to enjoy making much of Him forever. I’m talking about the ineffable and unending pleasure of blissful union with and the joyful celebration of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This is a joy of such transcendent quality that no persecution or pain or deprivation can diminish, nor wealth or success or prosperity can enhance.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Cajun	Miscellaneo	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	tb	Paprika
2	tb	Garlic powder
1	tb	Salt
1	tb	Onion powder
1	tb	Dried thyme
1	tb	Ground red pepper
1	tb	Black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine all ingredients; store in an airtight container.
Per serving: 158 Calories; 3g Fat (14% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 34g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 6415mg Sodium
NOTES : Keep this Cajun mix on hand as a low-salt flavoring for most any
food.
Recipe by: Cooking Light, May 1995, page 65
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #398 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“Gratitude is our ability to see the grace of GOD, morning by morning, no matter what else greets us in the course of the day.”

There are several problems with the Arminian view: 1. The doctrine of prevenient grace, on which the Arminian view of conditional election is based, is not found in Scripture. 2. Note well that there is no reference in [Romans 8:29] to faith or free will as that which God allegedly foresees in men. It is not what He foreknows but whom. 3. [Arminianism] assumes that fallen men are able and willing to believe in Christ apart from the regenerating grace of God, a notion that Paul has denied in Rom. 3:10-18. 4. Would not this view give man something of which he may boast? Those who embrace the gospel would be deserving of some credit for finding within themselves what others do not. 5. This view suspends the work of God on the will of man. It undermines the emphasis in Romans 8:28-38 on the sovereign and free work of God who foreknows, predestines, calls, justifies, and glorifies. It is God who is responsible for salvation, from beginning to end. 6. Even if one grants that God elects based on His foreknowledge of man’s faith, nothing is proven. For God foreknows everything. One must determine from Scripture how man came by the faith that God foreknows. And the witness of Scripture is that saving faith is a gift of God (Eph. 2:8-10; Phil. 1:29; 2 Pet. 1:1; 2 Tim. 2:24-26; Acts 5:31; 11:18).

Sam Storms