Orange Dessert Ring With Fruit

Most of our bitterness and anger towards others is rooted in an inability to be profoundly amazed at Christ's love for us in our sin. If you are struggling with bitterness then it may be that the Lord is letting the very sin that is flowing from your inability to see Christ be the means by which you come to see him. In other words, perhaps this season of rage, anger, and a fed-up 'I'm out of here and don't want anything to do with you' spirit is where you have had to come in order to see the greatness of your sin as a forgiven and justified saint. And the Lord has done it so that you would be stunned at his grace in a deeper way than you've ever been stunned by the grace of God before. And now, out of that experience can flow grace towards others.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Desserts	9	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Boiling water
2		Orange-flavored gelatin, 3oz
1		Pelled whole apricots, 16oz
		Cold water
2/3	c	Sweet white wine
1	c	Seedless green grapes
1		Banana

INSTRUCTIONS

Pour boiling water on gelatin; stir until gelatin is dissolved.
Measure reserved apricot syrup; add enough cold water to measure 1
cup. Stir syrup-water mixture and wine into gelatin. Pour into 4-cup
ring mold. Refrigerate until firm, at least 5 hours. Mix apricot
halves and grapes. Cover and refrigerate. Just before serving, dice
banana; stir into apricot halves and grapes. Unmold gelatin; fill
center and garnish side of ring with fruit.  From Gemini's MASSIVE
MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 24 Calories From Fat: <1 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 2.1mg Potassium: 81.4mg Carbohydrates: 6.2g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 4.4g Protein: <1g

Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.

Greg Gilbert