Do you believe? 'I believe,' says one, and he begins to repeat what they call the 'Apostles’ Creed.' Hold your tongue, sir! That matters not; the devil believes that, perhaps more intelligently than you do; he believes and trembles. That kind of believing saves no man. You may believe the most orthodox creed in Christendom, and perish. Do you trust - for that is the cream of the word 'believe' - do you trust in Jesus? Do you lean your whole weight on Him? Have you that faith which the Puritans used to call 'recumbency' or 'leaning'? This is the faith that saves - faith that falls back into the arms of Jesus, a faith that drops from its own hanging-place into those mighty arms.

C.H. Spurgeon

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains	Dutch	Beef, Soups	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Stew meat
1	tb	Oil
1	md	Onion; chopped
1		Clove garlic
7	c	Water
32	oz	Tomatoes
1		Bay leaf
3/4	c	Barley
1/2	c	Celery
1/2	c	Carrots
4		Cubes beef bouillon
1/2	ts	Basil
10	oz	Green beans

INSTRUCTIONS

Brown beef in Dutch oven with oil, garlic and onions. Add remaining
ingredients except beans and simmer 1 hour. Add beans and simmer another 20
minutes.
Recipe by: Scotch Brand
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by "LauraG"
<gaggini@gate.usaor.net> on Nov 25, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“People disappoint. God doesn’t.”

I can remember when I was an undergraduate student, how enlightening it was to learn from William Temple that what the Bible means by sin is "self-centeredness." Let me tell you how Temple puts it in his great little book, Christianity in the Social Order. He says, "I am the center of the world I see. And where the horizon is depends on where I stand. Education may make my self-centeredness less disastrous by broadening my horizon of vision. It's like a man climbing a tower who sees further in terms of physical vision while remaining himself the center and the standard of reference. I am the center of the world I see." That's what the Bible means by sin. Luther talks about man curved in on himself. Malcolm Muggeridge talks about the dark little dungeon of my own ego. That is sin, a twist of self-centeredness that has us imprisoned. But God's order is that we love him with all our being, and then that we love our neighbor and put ourselves last. Sin is the reversal of the order.

John Stott