Baked Rum And Pecan Bananas With Liquorice Ice Cream

It is never said in so many words that we are to give 10% in the NT, though it is worth pointing out that the tithe was not original to Moses and the Mosaic law. It is found early in the life of God’s people. Abraham paid a tithe to Melchizedek in Gen. 14, if you remember. There is some case there for arguing that the tithe is basic to human life as God ordered it. But, if you are not persuaded of that, remember that if the 10th is not our rule any longer, surely in the NT we are not going to argue that we should give less! We are not going to argue that having seen the Lord on the cross, having witnessed the resurrection, knowing as we now do what price was paid for our redemption, we should give less than they did in the OT? Surely not. Jesus, remember, makes a point of calling attention to the generous gift of a poor woman when she was worshipping at the temple and Paul makes a good deal of the sacrificial financial stewardship required of Christian believers. Now, perhaps we like the tithe after all!

Robert Rayburn

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Bananas, peeled and cut into
		halves
55	g	Unsalted butter, 2oz
55	g	Demerara sugar, 2oz
		Zest and juice from 2 limes
		Seeds from 1 vanilla pod
55	g	Pecan nuts, 2oz

INSTRUCTIONS

Squeeze juice into a nowl and toss the bananas in this. Remove the
fruit and lay in a single layer in a gratin dish. Save the juice.  Pour
the juice into a pan with the sugar, zest, butter and vanilla.
Dissolve the sugar and then cook together to bubble and blend the
flavours.  Pour over the fruit and scatter with chopped nuts.  Bake in
hot oven or under the grill until golden and crusty on top.  Serve with
scoops of liquorice ice-cream.  Converted by MC_Buster.  Per serving:
1046 Calories (kcal); 48g Total Fat; (38% calories from  fat); 8g
Protein; 166g Carbohydrate; 120mg Cholesterol; 13mg Sodium  Food
Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 10 1/2  Fruit; 9
Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

A Message from our Provider:

“Give Satan an inch and he’ll be a ruler.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1405 Calories From Fat: 743 Total Fat: 86.5g Cholesterol: 118.3mg Sodium: 13.1mg Potassium: 2773.3mg Carbohydrates: 169.4g Fiber: 23.7g Sugar: 88.8g Protein: 13.2g

The Lord waits so long in His graciousness that people think He cannot judge, but when He does come in judgment, it is so decisive that it seems as if He cannot show mercy. For this is not the sudden anger of an irritable temper, easily inflamed but equally easily pacified. This is deliberate, measure wrath, following a full investigation of the facts. There can be no last-minute appeals or reprieves, for there is no higher court to whom appeal can be made, and no pertinent facts have been overlooked in reaching the verdict. So it was with Sodom and Gomorrah, and so it shall be at the end of history [see Luke 17:28-30].

Iain Duguid