There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest.

B.B. Warfield

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables		Vegetables	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Extra-large artichokes
2	c	Concentrated lemon juice
1	tb	Salt
1	ds	Black pepper
1	ds	Dried oregano
1	ds	Crushed red pepper flakes
1	c	Olive oil
1/2	c	White wine vinegar
3		Garlic cloves peeled and crushed
1	ds	Dried oregano
1	ds	Crushed red pepper flakes
1	tb	Capers
2	tb	Chopped pimiento
		Salt, pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

VINAIGRETTE
Trim artichokes stems to 1/2 inch. Place upright in large kettle and add
enough water to cover. Add lemon juice, 1 tablespoon salt, pepper, oregano
and red pepper flakes. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer about 1 hour
or until leaves pull easily from base of artichokes. Remove from pan and
invert artichokes to drain thoroughly and cool. Using spoon, remove chokes
and discard. To make vinaigrette, combine oil, vinegar, garlic, oregano,
red pepper flakes, capers and pimiento in medium bowl. Season to taste with
salt and pepper. Blend well. Stand artichokes upright in serving dish.
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A Message from our Provider:

“Some people look down on others because they don’t look UP to God.”

Let us look at our lives in the light of this experience [in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10] and see whether we gladly glory in weakness, whether we take pleasure, as Paul did, in injuries, in necessities, in distresses. Yes, let us ask whether we have learned to regard a reproof, just or unjust, a reproach from friend or enemy, an injury, or trouble, or difficulty into which others bring us, as above all an opportunity of proving how Jesus is all to us, how our own pleasure or honor are nothing, and how humiliation is in very truth what we take pleasure in. It is indeed blessed, the deep happiness of heaven, to be so free from self that whatever is said of us or done to us is lost and swallowed up in the thought that Jesus is all.

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