Bean Burrito Casserole – We Love God!

Having lost the security of being rooted in the eternal reality of the Word of God, we are looking to busy activity to fill the void that has been created in our lives. And under that bondage to activity we find it difficult to linger with the Word simply for the joy of it. In fact, we may be afraid to stop our busyness lest it expose the shallowness of our lives. So we go on from activity to activity, from project to project. But activity is a dangerous source of fulfillment. Instead of finding our identity, our sense of self-worth, from our relationship with God, we begin to look to success in programs and other earthly indicators of success for our self-worth. But these will never satisfy. This will only enslave us more in our bondage to activity.

Ajith Fernando

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		December 19	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Onion, chopped fine
4		Garlic cloves, minced
3	T	Olive oil
		Two 1-pound cans black
		pinto or pink
		beans rinsed and
		drained
1	c	Tomato sauce
2	t	Ground cumin
4		Fresh or pickled jalapeno
		chilies if seeded and
		chopped
		desired wear rubber
		gloves
1/4	c	Chopped fresh coriander if
		desired
		Twelve, 7- to 8-inch flour
		tortillas warmed
1 1/2	c	Grated Monterey Jack, about
		6 ounces
		Guacamole and tomato salsa
		as
		accompaniments

INSTRUCTIONS

Make the filling:  In a large heavy skillet cook the onion and the
garlic in the oil over  moderately low heat, stirring, until the onion
is softened, add the  beans, and mash about half of them coarse with
the back of a wooden  spoon. Add the tomato sauce, the cumin, the
chilies, and salt and  black pepper to taste, simmer the mixture,
stirring, for 3 to 5  minutes, or until it is thickened slightly, and
stir in the coriander.  Working with 1 warmed tortilla at a time and
keeping the others  covered, spread about 3 tablespoons of the filling
down the center of  each tortilla and roll the tortillas, enclosing the
filling but  keeping the ends open. Arrange the burritos, seam sides
down, in one  layer in a baking dish, sprinkle them with the Monterey
Jack, and  bake them, covered with foil, in the middle of a preheated
350F. oven  for 10 minutes. Serve the burritos with the guacamole and
the salsa.  Makes 12 burritos, serving 6.  Gourmet December 1990
Converted by MC_Buster.  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 3157 Calories From Fat: 1084 Total Fat: 124.7g Cholesterol: 150.9mg Sodium: 4791.5mg Potassium: 5687.9mg Carbohydrates: 427.1g Fiber: 108.4g Sugar: 27.8g Protein: 136.3g

[The preacher’s] aim…will be to stand under Scripture, not over it, and to allow it, so to speak, to talk through him, delivering what is not so much his message as its. In our preaching, that is what should always be happening. In his obituary of the great German conductor, Otto Klemperer, Neville Cardus spoke of the way in which Klemperer “set the music in motion,” maintaining throughout a deliberately anonymous, self-effacing style in order that the musical notes might articulate themselves in their own integrity through him. So it must be in preaching; Scripture itself must do all the talking, and the preacher’s task is simply to “set the Bible in motion.”

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