God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
No matter how terrible they may be, the hardships and tragedies of human living that often befall Christians are not the crosses of which Jesus speaks. Such things as a cruel spouse, a rebellious child, a debilitating or terminal illness, the loss of a job, or destruction of a house by a tornado or flood, may strongly test a believer’s faith; but those are not crosses. The cross of a believer is not a mystical or spiritual identification with the cross of Christ or some “crucified life” idea. Such concepts are foreign to the context, and the cross of Christ was yet future when Jesus spoke here. The disciples would hear cross and think only of physical death. A cross is the willing sacrifice of everything one has, including life, for the sake of Christ. It is something that, like the Lord Himself, a believer must take on himself when it is thrust upon him by the unbelieving world because of his relationship to God.
Like a whirlpool, sin has a powerful vortex effect. Before we know it, we find ourselves in over our heads – and getting out is so much harder than getting in.
*Make clean-up easy by spraying the kneading paddle of your machine with
nonstick spray coating before adding ingredients and by soaking the paddle
and pan in hot soapy water immediately after removing the baked bread.
*Use the end of the handle of a wooden spoon to remove the kneading paddle
from the hot loaf of bread.
*When rolling out dough mixed in a machine, stop and let the bread rest
about 5 minutes; then finish rolling it out. The dough is very elastic and
letting it rest makes it easier to shape.
*To store baked bread, cool it completely; it will take several hours. Wrap
it in foil or plastic wrap, or place it in a plastic bag. Store it in a
cool, dry place up to 3 days. To freeze yeast bread, place bread in a
freezer bag or container, or tightly wrap it in heavy foil. Freeze it up to
3 months. Bread can be thawed in the package for 1 hour or wrapped in foil
and reheated in a 300* oven about 20 minutes. From: Bread Machine
Bounty-Better Homes and Garden Books ISBN: 0-696-01992-2 Copyright 1992
Meal Mastered by Roberta Thompson
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #256
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:23:31 -0500
From: netdir@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)
A Message from our Provider:
“God is unfeeling? Ha! Alongside him we’re as cold as stones”
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