Parents, take inventory in your own hearts. Do you thirst for God as the deer pants after the water? Or is your own life sending your children a message of hypocrisy and spiritual indifference? Is our own commitment to Christ what you hope to see in your children’s lives? Is your obedience to His Word the same kind of submission you long to see from your own kids? These are crucial question each parent must face if we really want to be successful parents and good role models for our children. Parents who are lax in these areas virtually guarantee that their sons and daughters will fail spiritually.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Appetizers	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lg	Texas or Vidalia Onion
		Boiling water
		Ice water
1		Egg; beaten
2	tb	Flour
1	c	Cracker crumbs
		Oil for deep frying

INSTRUCTIONS

Select a well-rounded onion.  Peel outer skin off.  Leave root intact and
cut off any hanging roots.  Using a small, sharp knife, divide onion into
four sections by making 2 cuts crosswise, beginning at the top and cutting
toward root, stopping about 1/2" away.  Cut each section twice. Place onion
in bowl of enough boiling water to cover it and leave for 5 minutes. The
sections, or petals, will begin to open. Remove onion from water and
immerse into ice water, which will further the opening. Drain well by
turning upside down on paper towel. Put flour into paper bag, add onion and
shake gently to coat with flour. Roll floured onion in beaten egg to coat.
Put cracker crumbs in bag, add onion, and shake gently to coat. Refrigerate
1 hour before deep frying in oil to a golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
Originally posted by Beckie Paiz (FDPN79B)
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #338 by fjmills@ktis.net (Florence J. Mills)
on Dec 29, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Either Jesus pays or you do”

But it is far more common for the evangelical preacher to edit God’s Word: 1. By removing the text from its context, and using it to say what-ever the preacher likes, 2. By moralizing the text, so that it is reduced to an ethical maxim that ﬁts any religion, 3. By using the text to promote hobby-horses, and 4. By dogmatic insistence that the text says things it does not truly say. This homiletical hocus-pocus has subtle roots such as the desire to be clever and popular or synthetically relevant or intellectually respectable or to make the gospel more acceptable. But most often God’s Word gets watered down by the preacher’s laziness. He simply will not do the hard work to engage and preach a text in its context.

Kent Hughes