We Love God!

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

God decrees one state of affairs while also willing and teaching that a different state of affairs should come to pass. This distinction in the way God wills has been expressed in various ways throughout the centuries... For example, theologians have spoken of sovereign will and moral will, efficient will and permissive will, secret will and revealed will, will of decree and will of command, decretive will and preceptive will, voluntas signi (will of sign) and voluntas beneplaciti (will of good pleasure), etc.

John Piper

The invisibility of God is a great problem. It was already a problem to God’s people in Old Testament days. Their pagan neighbors would taunt them, saying, “Where Is now your God?” Their gods were visible and tangible, but Israel’s God was neither. Today in our scientific culture young people are taught not to believe in anything which is not open to empirical investigation. How then has God solved the problem of His own invisibility? The first answer is of course “in Christ.” Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. John 1:18: “No one has ever seen God, but God the only Son has made him known.” “That’s wonderful,” people say, “but it was 2,000 years ago. Is there no way by which the invisible God makes Himself visible today?” There is. We return to 1 John 4:12: “No one has ever seen God.” It is precisely the same introductory statement. But instead of continuing with reference to the Son of God, it continues: “If we love one another, God dwells in us.” In other words, the invisible God, who once made Himself visible in Christ, now makes Himself visible in Christians, if we love one another. It is a breathtaking claim. The local church cannot evangelize, proclaiming the gospel of love, if it is not itself a community of love.

John Stott

We Love God!

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

Wurstsalat

January 25, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

300	g	Mortadella or similar sausage
150	g	Pickles
1		Onion
		Some Parsley
		Oil
		Vinegar
		Pepper
		Some Chili powder
		Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut sausage and pickles into stripes. Mix. Add spices, vinegar and oil.
Stir well. Store in refrigerator for 3-4 hours. Cut onion to rings. Spread
onion rings and cut parsley on top.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 09 Sep 96
From:    Boris Horner <horner@MRTHP5.MACH.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE>
Date:    Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:41:43 METDST

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