The very concept of “the weekend” is unbiblical. It turns Sunday into a second Saturday. Home Depot may gain, but we lose. It turns Sunday into the day we catch up on the stuff we were too lazy or disorganized to do on Saturday. It also turns Sunday into a day to ramp up for work or school on Monday. It hollows out not only Sunday but our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things. If we accept the world’s concept of “the weekend,” we inevitably end up “fitting God in” rather than centering the practical reality of our every week around Him. We trivialize Him, even as we allow secondary things to hijack the sacred place of centrality, we live soul-exhausted lives, and then we wonder why God isn’t more real to us, why church isn’t “working” for us, why we’re grumpy, and so forth.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Eggs		Main dish, Meats	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	lb	Lean ground beef
1 1/2	c	Herb seasoned stuffing mix
2	c	Finely chopped apples
3		Eggs
2	ts	Salt
2	tb	Prepared mustard
2	tb	Horseradish
1		Onion; finely chopped
3/4	c	Ketchup

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Mix all ingredients together well
in a large bowl. Pack into a large loaf pan. Bake about 1 hour and 15
minutes, or until cooked through. Let rest for 10 minutes before slicing.
Recipe by: BUSY COOKS - http://busycooks.miningco.com
Posted to recipelu-digest by Lynn Nelson <lynnn@erols.com> on Feb 16, 1998

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