We are not encouraged to forsake our sin by having our senses amused or our preferences coddled. The Gospel is inherently and irreducibly confrontational. It cuts against our perceived righteousness and self-sufficiency, demanding that we forsake cherished sin and trust in someone else to justify us. Entertainment is therefore a problematic medium for communicating the Gospel, because it nearly always obscures the most difficult aspects of it – the cost of repentance, the cross of discipleship, the narrowness of the Way. Some will disagree, arguing that drama can give unbelievers a helpful visual image of the Gospel. But we have already been given such visual images. They are the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper and the transformed lives of our Christian brothers and sisters (Mark Dever and Paul Alexander).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains, Dairy		Pasta, Mcrecipe	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

12	oz	Bow-tie pasta
		Salt
1	tb	Olive oil
1	lb	Onion; thinly sliced
3/4	c	Chicken broth
1	ts	Cornstarch
1/4	ts	Crushed red pepper
16	oz	Cannellini beans; drained and rinsed (canned white kidney or navy beans)
20	oz	Spinach
2	tb	Grated Romano OR Parmesan cheese

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Prepare bow ties as label directs, using 2 teaspoons salt in water.
2. Meanwhile, in nonstick 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, heat olive
oil. Add onion and cook until golden brown, about 10 to 12 minutes.
3. In 1-cup glass measuring cup, mix chicken broth, cornstarch, crushed red
pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Add to same skillet along with beans and
cook over medium-high heat until sauce boils and thickens slightly, about 1
minute.
4. Just before draining pasta, stir spinach into water in saucepot; leave
in only until it wilts. Drain pasta and spinach; return to saucepot. Add
sauce; toss to mix well. Sprinkle with Romano cheese to serve.
Each serving: About 545 calories, 24 g protein, 99 g carbohydrate, 7 g
total fat (1 g saturated), 5 mg cholesterol, 925 mg sodium.
Copyright © 1995 The Hearst Corporation; all rights reserved
Notes: Work Time: 10 minutes; Total Time: 25 minutes. Flavored with onion,
crushed red pepper, and grated Romano cheese, this dish is perfect with
skinny crisp bread sticks and a salad tossed with Tomato-Orange Vinaigrette
(see recipe)
Recipe by: Homearts Recipe Archive
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Feb 26,
1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Moses was called \”God’s friend\”. Are you?”

What would you say of the man who saw his neighbor’s house in danger of being burned down, and never raised the cry of “fire?” What ought to be said of us as ministers if we call ourselves watchmen for souls, and yet see fires of hell raging in distance, and never give the alarm? Call it bad taste, if you like, to speak of hell. Call it charity to make things pleasant, and speak of smoothly, and soothe men with constant lullaby of peace. I have not read my Bible. My notion of charity is to warn men plainly of danger. My notion of taste in the ministerial office is to declare all the counsel of God.

J.C. Ryle