Abuses of fasting: 1. Any attempt to earn God’s blessing through fasting is clearly in contradiction to the scriptural teaching that Jesus’ death and resurrection is the ground for every spiritual blessing. Fasting is the humble response that puts us in a place to receive the life and victory Jesus has won for us. 2. One should never view fasting as a substitute for repentance and obedience. To do so turns fasting into a form of penance (cf. Isaiah 59:1-22). 3. To use [fasting as a means] to impress others. This is clearly what Jesus forbids in Matthew 6:18. The question is not so much whether others know about our fast but rather why we want them to know about it. The Scriptures make reference to corporate fasts, and thus fasting is not always a private matter. 4. [When we use fasting] to belittle the kind gifts of God. While on the one hand we can fall in love with the gift of food and not the Giver, on the other hand we can fail to enjoy the food with the taste buds that He provided and glory in our will power.

Bill Thrasher

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Lean ground beef; veal or turkey
1	qt	Tomato juice
1	ts	Cinnamon
1	ts	Ground cumin
1		Whole onion*
1	ts	Salt
1 1/2	ts	Vinegar
1	ds	Worchestire sauce
1/8	ts	Garlic powder
4	ts	Chili powder
1	ts	Allspice
1	ts	Pepper
1	ts	Red pepper
5		Bay leaves.

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine meat & tomato juice. Mash together. Add remaining ingredients. (The
onion should be peeled and placed in the pott--remove when chili is
finished.) Bring to a boil--reduce to simmer--1 1/2 hours. Remove the 5 bay
leaves
Serve this over a hotdog with grated cheese for a cheese coney--onions and
mustard are optional. Serve this by itself for chili, over spaghetti, for a
chili spaghet, or top that with cheese for a 3-way, add onions to that for
a 4-way, add beans to that for a 5-way.
*It is important to use the whole onion and remove it. It is only used as
flavoring. This is a good recipe for kids because most hate onions. If you
love onions on your chili, make it a 4 way, or just put chopped onions on
your chili. We rate our chili parlors by how wonderful sweet the onions
are. My health food store told me that Skyline is beginning to add tvp in
place of a little of the meat. That is a super healthy way to eat, because
you are still getting your taste of meat and getting some cancer fighting
soy at the same time. (Of course that is optional.) You won't believe a
little can of this (the size of Campbell's little soup can) sells for
around $1.50
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by mary curtis <curtism@fuse.net> on Feb 12,
1998

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