God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The ultimate issue in question is the authority of the Bible over our lives. Who is in charge? Who gets the final word? And the way that men (even saved but sinful men) avoid God’s authority is through autonomy: a self-determination that pursues self-sufficiency producing self-rule. It may not be an “intentional” self-determination – indeed we may be unthinkingly swept along by the influences of our culture – but the outcome is the same: a self-sufficiency (in place of God’s sufficiency through His Word) that results in self-rule.
A few words to those among us who have homosexual desires:
1. Acknowledge the presence and pain of a disordered sexuality, with all the ambiguity of where it came from – much like other disorders and disabilities – and do not define your God-given personhood by your disordered sexuality.
2. Put your faith in Christ alone for the forgiveness of all your sins and for the gift of God’s righteousness and for the fulfillment of all his promises to you (Romans 1:16-17). The only sinner who can successfully battle his sins is a justified sinner. In other words, you fight against sexual sins from relationship, not for a relationship.
3. Begin to reorder your entire life around the centrality of the glory of God as your highest treasure. Homosexual sinning, like all other sinning, is an echo of exchanging the glory of God for other things. So restore the sun of God’s glory to its place at the center of your soul and all the planets of your desires will begin to return to their God-given orbit.
4. Resolve to live a chaste and, if necessary, celibate life by the power of God's Spirit, with the confidence that if God does not heal now, he will in the age to come; and all the patience of purity of will be worth it (Romans 8:18). May God grant all the single people (and married!) at Bethlehem a passion for purity.
5. Seek wholesome friendships with both sexes, especially in groups… The more we do things in groups rather than pairs, the more opportunities we create for wholesome non-sexual relationships.
6. …There are ministries like Outposts here in our cities that have insights and experience and encouragement and Biblical counsel from a depth of awareness that goes beyond what most of us can bring. This may be something God would use in your life.
7. Take a bold and compassionate stand for truth…and hold up God’s purposes for human sexuality, namely, as an expression of Christ’s love for the Church dramatized in the covenant love of marriage between one man and one woman.
EGG RIVELS
Remove any excess fat from chicken. Place chicken giblets (except liver)
and neck in Dutch oven. Add water, onion, celery, carrot and salt; heat to
boiling. Skim foam from broth; reduce heat. Cover and simmer about 1-1/2
hours or until thickest pieces of chicken are done.Remove chicken from
broth; cool chicken about 10 minutes or just until cool enough to handle.
Remove chicken from bones and skin; cut chicken into small pieces. Skim fat
from broth; return chicken to broth. Stir in corn and eggs. Heat to
boiling; reduce heat. Sprinkle with Egg Rivel mixture; stir into soup.
Simmer uncovered 10 minutes.
8 SERVINGS (ABOUT 1-1/3 CUP EACH)
EGG RIVELS Mix all ingredients until mixture looks like cornmeal.
Although often prepared with fish or shellfish, a chowder is actually any
rich soup, usually milk-based, that contains solid ingredients. This
Pennsylvania Dutch recipe is thick with diced chicken, tender corn kernel
and rivels, diminutive dumplings that are added just a few minutes before
the chowder is served.
Source: Betty Crocker's Old-Fashioned Cookbook, c1990, 1992 ISBN
#0-13-073693-7
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #029 by "Bill Spalding"
<billspa@icanect.net> on Jan 29, 1998
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