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

Are there dangers in mutual confession [of sin]? Yes, and they are substantial. Psychologically needy persons sometimes use confession to get attention for themselves. Through the apparently spiritual medium of “confession” they can handcuff a captive audience as they relate the details of their sin with deluded or feigned contrition. Confession can also foster spiritual exhibitionism, a perverted moral pleasure in airing one’s laundry. The overly morbid can bend confession to become an excuse for unhealthy hyper-introspection. Ostensibly humble confession can also be used as a vehicle for spiritual aggression: “I want to ask your forgiveness for being bitter toward you over the years” – but what follows is not a confession, but an egregious assault… Confession turned into religious routine is deadly!

Kent Hughes

A death by crucifixion seems to include all that pain and death can have of the horrible and ghastly – dizziness, cramp, thirst, starvation, sleeplessness, traumatic fever, shame, publicity of shame, long continuous torment, horror of anticipation, mortification of intended wounds – all intensified just up to the point at which they can be endured at all, but all stopping just short of the point which would give to the sufferer the relief of unconsciousness. The unnatural position made every movement painful; the lacerated veins and crushed tendons throbbed with incessant anguish; the wounds, inflamed by exposure, gradually gangrene; the arteries – especially at the head and stomach – became swollen and oppressed with surcharged blood, and while each variety of misery went on gradually increasing, there was added to them the intolerable pang of a burning and raging thirst, and all these physical complications caused an internal excitement and anxiety, which made the prospect of death itself – of death, the unknown enemy, at whose approach man usually shudders most – bear the aspect of a delicious and exquisite release. One thing is clear. The 1st century executions were not like the modern ones, for they did not seek a quick, painless death or the preservation of any measure of dignity for the criminal. On the contrary, they sought an agonizing torture which completely humiliated him. And it is important that we understand this, for it helps us realize the agony of Christ's death.

Frederick Farrar

We Love God!

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

The Apple Of My Eye

January 30, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Femina, Femina3, Soft speak	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

30		Lychee syrup
180		Apple juice
		A generous helping of
		crushed ice
1		Apple
2		Cherries

INSTRUCTIONS

PUT lychee syrup in a pilsner glass. Add apple juice and top with
crushed ice.  Decorate with apple slice and cherries placed along the
rim of the  glass.  Converted by MC_Buster.  Converted by MM_Buster
v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“How impersonal God seems is a measure of the distance you have put between yourself and God”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 919 Calories From Fat: 32 Total Fat: 3.8g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 38.7mg Potassium: <1mg Carbohydrates: 229.8g Fiber: 15.3g Sugar: 0g Protein: 7.6g