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

Way[s] to grow in the knowledge of God your Father even if your father sinned against you: 1. Identify and take responsibility for the specific lies, false beliefs, desires, expectations, and fears that poison your relationship with God. 2. Find and apply specific truths in the Bible that contend with those lies and cravings. 3. Turn to God for mercy and help, so that the Spirit of truth would renew you, pouring out His love freely. 4. Take responsibility for the specific sins you express toward your father (i.e. bitterness, willfulness, avoidance, blame-shifting, brooding, fears, people-pleasing, slander, lying, self-pity, etc.). 5. Turn to God for mercy and help, that the Spirit of love would enable you to bear his fruit thankfully. 6. Identify the specific sins committed against you… Identifying the wrongs helps you know what to forgive. It also makes it clear what God calls you to tackle constructively. 7. Ponder the good things your father did for you. 8. The Father gives the power to return good for evil rather than evil for evil… Come up with a plan for specific changes (i.e. forgiving, giving love, seeking forgiveness, forbearing, confronting constructively, refocusing your attention, pouring your energies into God’s calling, etc.). 9. Find wise believers to pray for you, hold you accountable.

David Powlison

If any (or almost any) approach to God is as good as another, how do we make sense of the Bible’s insistence on monotheism, its consistent rejection of all forms of idolatry, and the missionary impulse — that the nations would turn to the true God — running from Genesis to Revelation? Most crucially, pluralism cannot do justice to the privileged place the Bible gives to Jesus Christ. Every knee must bow before Him. He will judge all peoples. The God of the Bible, revealed as Yahweh in the Old Testament and incarnated at Jesus Christ in the New, is nothing if not a universal God who accepts no rivals. To reject the unique person and work of Jesus Christ is to make an utter mockery of the Bible. To reject His claims is to reject God Himself and to steal from Him the glory that is rightly His. Ultimately it is to turn one’s back on the Bible and on the God of the Bible.

Tim Challies

We Love God!

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

Chocolate-coconut-cherry Fudge

January 27, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Fudge	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		14 ounces sweetened
		condensed milk not
		evaporated milk
2	T	Stick butter or margarine
		not spread
2/3	c	4 ounces vanilla chips
2	c	12 ounces semisweet
		chocolate chips
1/2	c	Dried pitted tart cherries
		chopped
1/2	c	Sweetened shredded coconut

INSTRUCTIONS

Line a 9-inch square pan with foil, letting foil extend above pan on 2
sides. Stir milk and butter in medium-size saucepan over low heat
until butter melts. Measure 1/3 cup into a small bowl, add vanilla
chips and stir until melted. Stir in cherries. Add chocolate chips to
mixture in saucepan; stir until melted, returning to heat if
necessary. Using half the vanilla mixture, drop small teaspoonfuls
into prepared pan, leaving spaces between each. Sprinkle with half  the
coconut. Spread chocolate mixture evenly on top, then spoon on
remaining vanilla mixture. Sprinkle with remaining coconut.
Refrigerate at least 8 hours until firm enough to cut. Lift foil by
ends to cutting board. Cut fudge in 1-inch squares. Store airtight
with waxed paper between layers.  BUTTERSCOTCH CRUNCH VARIATION Proceed
through Steps 1 and 2,  substituting 2/3 cup butterscotch chips for the
vanilla chips and 1  cup thin chow-mein noodles for the dried cherries.
Continue through  Step 3, substituting butterscotch mixture for vanilla
mixture.  Sprinkle with 1/4 cup coarsely chopped salted mixed nuts (in
place of  the coconut). Spread with chocolate mixture; sprinkle with
another  1/4 cup coarsely chopped salted mixed nuts. Proceed through
Step 4  Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 357 by "Marie Smith"
<craftee@sprynet.com> on Dec 11, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. #A.W. Tozer”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 3173 Calories From Fat: 1643 Total Fat: 200g Cholesterol: 113mg Sodium: 1466.7mg Potassium: 2088.9mg Carbohydrates: 366.6g Fiber: 40.2g Sugar: 64g Protein: 55.8g