You and I come to worship hungry! We must not come with hands full of goodies and gifts, thinking that worship is fundamentally where we serve and feed God… Don’t come to God with a cooked goose on a platter, as if God were hungry. Come with open hands and an empty belly and let Him honor Himself by filling you (Psalm 50:10-12). This sentiment was echoed by Paul in his sermon on Mars Hill: The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with human hands; neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He himself gives to all life and breath and all things (Acts 17:24-25). Worship is a feast in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Eggs			2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	oz	Ground pork
6	oz	Ground beef
1/2	c	Corn chips–finely crushed
1/2	c	Thinly sliced green onions
1/2	c	Bottled chili sauce
1		Egg
1 1/4	ts	Chili powder
3/4	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Ground pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine pork, beef, corn chips, green onions, 1/4 cup chili sauce, egg,
chili powder, salt and pepper in medium bowl. Mix to blend well. Divide
mixture in half. Shape each half into 3/4" high oval and place side by side
in 8" square x 2" deep baking pan. Spread remaining 1/4 cup chili sauce
over meat loaves, dividing equally. (Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Cover;
refrigerate.) Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Bake meat loaves uncovered
until juices run clear when centers are pierced with small sharp knife,
about 20 minutes.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #016 by [email protected] (Best Image)
on Jan 16, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“You can spurn God’s love for only so long”

The theological roots of this concept of “vocation” are found in the biblical doctrine of creation and divine sovereignty. We are by God’s creative decree shaped in His image and thus designed to reflect in all our endeavors the purposeful activity of God Himself. All Christians, therefore, should ideally embrace their “work”, however secular and uneventful it may appear, as a calling of God, a responsibility for which they have been uniquely endowed that is designed in its own way to glorify God. One’s “job” or “career” or “occupation” thus has a meaning beyond mere personal fulfillment. “Ministry” is therefore not what the majority of Christians perform as “a discretionary time activity – something done with the few hours that can be squeezed out of the week’s schedule after working, sleeping, homemaking, neighbouring, washing and doing the chores” (Stevens, The Other Six Days, 132). It is, rather, all of life when discharged in faith.

Sam Storms