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

God could reject our worship for a number of reasons. He specifically condemns acts of worship associated with idolatry, unbelief, disobedience, and evil motives (Jeremiah 13:10; Exodus 30:9; 32:22-27; Jeremiah 7:21-26). Rehearsing this list makes me aware that our offerings of worship will never please God on their own. Try as hard as we can, our hearts and worship will always be tainted in God’s sight. The ultimate factor of acceptable worship is faith in and union with Jesus Christ. Our spiritual sacrifices are “acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:5). It is His sinless offering of worship that cleanses and perfects ours.

Bob Kauflin

[The preacher’s] aim…will be to stand under Scripture, not over it, and to allow it, so to speak, to talk through him, delivering what is not so much his message as its. In our preaching, that is what should always be happening. In his obituary of the great German conductor, Otto Klemperer, Neville Cardus spoke of the way in which Klemperer “set the music in motion,” maintaining throughout a deliberately anonymous, self-effacing style in order that the musical notes might articulate themselves in their own integrity through him. So it must be in preaching; Scripture itself must do all the talking, and the preacher’s task is simply to “set the Bible in motion.”

J.I. Packer

We Love God!

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

Mexican Corn Bread (nmsu Extension)

January 29, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Mexican		6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	T	Margarine
3		Onions, chopped
1	lb	Packaged corn muffin mix
1		Creamed corn
1/2	c	Chopped jalapeno
1/2	c	Grated cheddar cheese
1/2	c	Sour cream

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare muffin mix (see directions on package) - substitute 1 cup of
corn for 1 cup milk.  Add onion and peppers.  Pour into pan.  Top  with
cream, then the cheese.  Bake 40 minutes at 425oF.  Leftover  makes a
good stuffing poultry.  Any sharp American cheese may be used.  New
Mexico State University Extension, 1971 NOTES : from 'PatH'
phannema@wizard.ucr.edu

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