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If you want to raise a Pharisee, just follow these simple steps (sarcasm!). 1. Make the Christian home all about rule-keeping (do’s and don’t’s), but never explain to them why we should follow God’s Word. 2. Add your own rules to God’s Word and make them more important than God’s Word. 3. Strictly enforce the rules on your children, but give yourself a pass. 4. Show your children nothing about grace, forgiveness, mercy and love. 5. Preach at them until they are blue in the face (bore them with the Bible) and never listen to what they have to say about God’s Word. 6. Make Jesus a burden rather than a blessing – make God’s Word a bondage rather than a liberation. 7. Give them no opportunity to think spiritually for themselves. 8. Fail to guide them in a spiritual worldview – teaching them how to process life with the Bible. 9. Praise their externals regardless of their motives. 10. Teach them to obey only because they have to and not because they should also want to as God’s commands come from a loving and trustworthy Father. 11. Make your disciple punishment rather than correction. 12. Demand self-reformation, rather than pointing them to Christ-transformation by grace. 13. Teach them to obey you as God rather than to obey God by obeying you. 14. Use Scripture and church as punishment. 15. Never pray for them. 16. Correct them more than you encourage them. 17. Beat your kids into external conformity, often to simply make yourself look good and do nothing to shepherd their hearts.

Randy Smith

Can it be, that the chief object of existence is to sing, and play, and dress and dance? Do not these things, when we reflect upon them, look more like the pursuits of butterflies and grasshoppers, and canary birds – than of rational creatures? Is it not melancholy to see beings with never-dying souls, sinking to the amusements of children; and employing time as if it were given them for nothing but mirth; and using the world as if it were created by God only to be a sort of playground for its inhabitants?

John Angell James

We Love God!

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

Thai Calamari Salad With Lemon Grass

January 29, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood	Thai	Salads, Seafood, Thai	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3/4	lb	Cleaned small squid
		thin-sliced in rings
		tentacles divided
1/3	c	Thin slivers of red onion
		about
1/2	t	Crushed hot pepper flakes
3	t	Fish sauce, nuoc mam or nam
		pla or to taste
3	T	Lemon juice
2		Inch piece tender inner part
		of lemon grass stalk
		base
		finely slivered
		To make 1 Tbs.
2	t	Brown sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

Fine-slivered fresh hot chili pepper or Tabasco to taste Bibb or
iceberg lettuce, slivered Cilantro leaves, minced.  Combine squid in
skillet with lightly salted boiling water to barely  cover. Simmer one
minute, or until opaque throughout. Drain. Combine  in dish with onion
to taste. 2. In tiny pan stir pepper flakes over  low heat until
aromatic and toasty; be careful not to burn -- about  30 seconds.
Transfer to small dish; add 2 tsps fish sauce, lemon  juice, lemon
grass, 1 1/2 tsps brown sugar, and hot pepper or pepper  sauce to
taste. Toss with squid and onions. Let stand 5 minutes.  Adjust
seasoning, which should be quite fierce. 3. Cover and chill.  Serve on
lettuce, sprinkled with cilantro.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster
collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 107 Calories From Fat: 38 Total Fat: 4.3g Cholesterol: 147.4mg Sodium: 174mg Potassium: 170.4mg Carbohydrates: 6.6g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 1.7g Protein: 10.2g