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

Distancing ourselves from both the left and the right, we don’t celebrate homosexual practice, we acknowledge God’s clear revealed word that it is sin; and we don’t hate those who embrace homosexuality, we love them enough to not just collapse under the societal pressure. We speak the truth in love into this confusion, saying, simultaneously, “That’s wrong” and “I love you.” We’re not the left; we say, this is wrong. And we’re not the right; we say, you’re loved. We speak good news, with those sweetest, deepest, most glorious words of the cross — the same words that God spoke us — “You’re wrong, and you’re loved.”

Jonathan Parnell

And who and what are ministers themselves? Frail men, fallible, sinning men, exposed to every snare, to temptation in every form; and from the very post of observation they occupy, the fairer mark for the fiery darts of the foe. They are no mean victims the great Adversary is seeking, when he would wound and cripple Christ’s ministers. One such victim is worth more to the kingdom of darkness than a score of common men; and on this very account, the temptations are probably more subtle and severe than those encountered by ordinary Christians. If this subtle Deceiver fails to destroy them, he artfully aims at neutralizing their influence by quenching the fervor of their piety, lulling them into negligence, and doing all in his power to render their work irksome. How perilous the condition of that minister then, whose heart is not encouraged, whose hands are not strengthened, and who is not upheld by the prayers of his people! It is not in his own closet and on his own knees alone that he finds security and comfort and ennobling, humbling and purifying thoughts and joys; but it is when his people also seek them in his behalf that he becomes a better and happier man and a more useful minister of the everlasting gospel.

Gardiner Spring

We Love God!

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

Fiddleheads On Toast

January 28, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	English	Breakfast	1	Serving

INGREDIENTS

		Fiddlehead ferns
		Toast

INSTRUCTIONS

Fiddleheads on Toast I: Cook fiddleheads; drain. Arrange on squares of
toasted bread or on toasted English muffin halves. Pour rich white
sauce with diced, hard-boiled eggs added over all. Serve sprinkled
with paprika.  Fiddleheads on Toast II: Cook fiddleheads; drain.
Arrange on toast  and top each serving with slices of crisp-fried bacon
and a generous  amount of white sauce, either plain or with cheese
added.  Fiddleheads on Toast III: Cook fiddleheads; drain. Roll
fiddleheads  in thin ham slices; broil and serve on toast or toasted
English  muffin halves with white sauce to pour over. Add cheese to the
white  sauce, if desired.  From The Wild Flavor by Marilyn Kluger.  Los
Angeles: Jeremy P.  Tarcher, Inc., 1984.  Pg. 250. ISBN 0-87477-338-5.
Typed for you by  Cathy Harned.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster
collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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