God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Rules for life:
1. Eagerly start the day’s main work.
2. Do not murmur at your busyness or the shortness of time, but buy up the time all around.
3. Never exaggerate duties by seeming to suffer under the load, but treat all responsibilities as liberty and gladness.
4. Never call attention to crowded work or trivial experiences.
5. Before confrontation or censure, obtain from God a real love for the one at fault. Know the facts; be generous in your judgment. Otherwise, how ineffective, how unintelligible or perhaps provocative your well-intended censure may be.
6. Do not believe everything you hear; do not spread gossip.
7. Do not seek praise, gratitude, respect, or regard for past service.
8. Avoid complaining when your advice or opinion is not consulted, or having been consulted, set aside.
9. Never allow yourself to be placed in favorable contrast with anyone.
10. Do not press conversations to your own needs and concerns.
11. Seek no favors, nor sympathies; do not ask for tenderness, but receive what comes.
12. Bear the blame; do not share or transfer it.
13. Give thanks when credit for your own work or ideas is given to another.
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.
Combine rice, 3/4 cup cheese, 2 slightly-beaten eggs and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Press mixture firmly and evenly over bottom and sides of a greased 12 inch
pizza pan or 2 (9 inch) pie pans. Set aside. Add onions to broccoli and
cook according to package directions. Drain well. Beat remaining eggs
slightly and stir in milk, pepper, mushrooms, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon
salt. Add to broccoli and mix well. Pour into rice crust. Bake at 375° for
20 minutes. Sprinkle cheese on top and bake 10 more minutes. Cool some
before cutting. Yield: 10 to 12 servings.
ANN R. LEWIS (MRS. GENE, JR.)
From <Traditions: A Taste of the Good Life>, by the Little Rock (AR) Junior
League. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.
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