There are people, professing Christian people, who are determined to bring you under their religious thumb. They are bent on making you a slave of their conscience. They have built a tidy religious box, without biblical justification, and strive to stuff you inside and make you conform to its dimensions. They are legalists, and their tools are guilt, fear, intimidation, and self-righteousness. They proclaim God’s unconditional love for you, but insist on certain conditions before including you among the accepted, among the approved elite, among God’s favored few… They threaten to rob you of joy and to squeeze the intimacy out of your relationship with Jesus. They may even lead you to doubt your salvation. They heap condemnation and contempt on your head so that your life is controlled and energized by fear rather than freedom and joy and delight in God.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables	Chicago	Salads	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Avocados
3		Papayas
3	tb	Lemon juice
1		Head lettuce
1/2	c	Honey mustard dressing; recipe follows
1/2	c	Toasted sliced almonds
2/3	c	Vegetable oil
1/3	c	Cider vinegar
1	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Pepper
1/4	c	Honey
2	tb	Dijon-style mustard

INSTRUCTIONS

SALAD
HONEY MUSTARD DRESSING
Date: Thu, 23 May 96 22:33:51 PDT
From: eboyd@shentel.net
Salad:  Peel and slice the papayas and avocados. Dip or sprinkle with lemon
juice. Arrange on lettuce-lined salad plates. Drizzle dressing over and
sprinkle with nuts.
Honey Mustard Dressing: Blend vegetable oil, cider vinegar, salt, pepper,
honey and mustard. Keep in a closed jar.
Nutrition information per serving: 366 calories, 30 gram fat, 6 mg
cholesterol, 100 mg sodium.
Chicago Tribune 12/16/93.
Posted on MealMaster Recipes List, Digest #145, 26 May 1996

A Message from our Provider:

“Even in a \”New Age\”, God’s truth is crystal clear”

The New Testament makes it clear that Jesus never sinned (Heb 4:15; 9:14; 1 Pet 1:19). And although theologians have debated the question of Christ’s impeccability—whether or not he could have sinned—it seems that the answer most consistent with the fullness of the New Testament revelation is that Christ, in fact, could not have sinned. Because the person of Christ is divine, and a divine person, being necessarily good, cannot sin, it seems best to argue for Christ’s impeccability. But this understanding of Christ’s inability to sin need not detract from the biblical teaching that Christ, as a human, was indeed tempted (Matt 4:1–11) and even “suffered” in his temptations (Heb 2:18). There may be better and worse ways of reconciling these two apparently contradictory aspects of the New Testament teaching, but however we attempt to reconcile them, it seems best to hold them both, without seeking to alleviate the tension by diminishing either (Luke Stamps).

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