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

Gossip leaves a wide trail of devastation wherever and however it goes – word of mouth, email, blogging, YouTube. It erodes trust and destroys morale. It creates a social environment of suspicion where everyone must wonder what is being said behind their backs and whether appearances of friendship are sincere. It ruins hard-won reputations with cowardly but effective weapons of misrepresentation. It manipulates people into taking sides when no such action is necessary or beneficial. It unleashes the dark powers of psychological transference, doing violence to the gossiper, to the one receiving the gossip and to the person being spoken against. It makes the Body of Christ look like the Body of Antichrist – destroyers rather than healers. It exhausts the energies we would otherwise devote to positive witness. It robs our Lord of the Church he deserves. It exposes the hostility in our hearts and discredits the gospel in the eyes of the world. Then we wonder why we don’t see more conversions, why “the ground is so hard.”

Ray Ortlund

Divine election is certainly one of the more profound and controversial doctrines in Holy Scripture. To some it is an idea conceived in hell, a tool of Satan wielded by him to thwart the evangelistic zeal of the church and thus responsible for populating hell with men and women who otherwise would have been reached with the gospel message. To others divine election is the heart and soul of Scripture, the most comforting and reassuring of biblical truths apart from which grace loses its power and God His glory. To the former, then, election is a primary reason why people are in hell. To the latter, it is the only reason why people are in heaven!

Sam Storms

We Love God!

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

Coconut-cranberry Cheese Spread

January 27, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Breads, Muffins	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8	oz	Cream Cheese, softened
1/4	c	Whole-berry cranberry sauce
1	t	Grated Orange Rind
1/8	t	Salt
2	T	Flaked Coconut

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine first 4 ingred. stirring until well blended. Spoon into a
serving dish, and sprinkle with coconut. Serve spread with
gingersnaps. Yield: 1 1/4    c.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster
collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 925 Calories From Fat: 705 Total Fat: 80.4g Cholesterol: 249.5mg Sodium: 1065.2mg Potassium: 374.8mg Carbohydrates: 41.5g Fiber: 1.6g Sugar: 37.4g Protein: 13.9g