Salsa For Canning – We Love God!

If we are to grab the next generation with the gospel, we must grab them with passion. And to grab them with passion, we must be gripped with it ourselves. The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. As W.E. Sangster put it, “I’m not interested to know if you could set the Thames on fire. What I want to know is this: if I picked you up by the scruff of your neck and dropped you into the Thames, would it sizzle?”

Kevin DeYoung

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Onions, chopped
2	lb	Fresh chiles, New Mexico
		Jalapeno or Serrano or
		mixturechopped
5	lb	Tomatoes, peeled seeded and
		chopped can used canned
2	t	Salt
1/2	t	Pepper
1/3	c	Lemon juice or vinegar

INSTRUCTIONS

a
Bring salsa to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Pack in hot,
sterilized jars, leaving 1/2" headspace. Process in hot water bath  for
10 minutes. Make sure all jars are sealed. Makes 6 pts. Posted to
CHILE-HEADS DIGEST V3 #295 by Judy Howle <howle@ebicom.net> on Apr  15,
1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Peace starts with a smile.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 570 Calories From Fat: 28 Total Fat: 3.4g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 7912.6mg Potassium: 4941mg Carbohydrates: 133.8g Fiber: 30.7g Sugar: 73.2g Protein: 22.8g

Jacob is about to enter the Promised Land. He will be one of the venerated Patriarchs of the faith. But before Jacob can become Israel, the man must be broken. Jacob needs to learn that his life is to be one of continual striving with God, but doing it with full dependence on God. He will learn that with God there is a continual heat from the refiner’s fire, but through the adversity there is an unspeakable joy in the journey. And though God probably won’t be wrestling with any of us physically like He did with Jacob, there is a continual tension of finding our greatest peace when we are most intimate in close communion with God. At times we struggle, but in the pain we learn to submit to His will, allow Him to expose our defects, yield to the wounds He creates and then trust Him that the pain is for our greatest good as the “old man” is further put to death. If we act in the flesh and run away or defend ourselves or blame others or whine and complain, we’ll never experience this. As creatures so prone to follow our selfish instincts, there is a serenity that comes when God wrestles us to the ground, breaks us further of our pride and reminds us that our sufficiency is only in Him.

Randy Smith

As important as unity is, it is not our most important value. Jesus Christ taught that truth transcends unity as a priority. It is critical to recall that in Christ’s high priestly prayer, before He prayed that we would be one, He prayed that we would be set apart in the truth (Jn. 17:17). From God’s point of view, truth is not only more important than unity but it is in fact the basis for unity. The Bible does not know a unity that is just for unity’s sake. Authentic Christian unity is a unity forged in a common cause, a common conviction, a common interest. Biblical unity is forged in our mutual bondedness to the truth in Christ, “the way and the truth and the life” (Jn. 14:6). When we embrace the truth, we are free to embrace one another in the truth.

Joseph Stowell