God could reject our worship for a number of reasons. He specifically condemns acts of worship associated with idolatry, unbelief, disobedience, and evil motives (Jeremiah 13:10; Exodus 30:9; 32:22-27; Jeremiah 7:21-26). Rehearsing this list makes me aware that our offerings of worship will never please God on their own. Try as hard as we can, our hearts and worship will always be tainted in God’s sight. The ultimate factor of acceptable worship is faith in and union with Jesus Christ. Our spiritual sacrifices are “acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:5). It is His sinless offering of worship that cleanses and perfects ours.

Bob Kauflin

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Desserts	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Water
3/4	c	Powdered milk
2		Eggs; well beaten
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
1 1/4	c	Sugar
1	c	Raisins
1/4	c	Margarine
1		Loaf day old bread
1/4	c	Sugar
2	ts	Cornstarch
1/4	c	Powdered milk
1/3	ts	Salt
1 1/2	c	Water
1 1/2	ts	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

PUDDING
SAUCE
Tear bread into quarters. Blend water and milk, beat in eggs. Blend salt,
vanilla and sugar and stir into milk mix- ture. Add raisins and margarine.
Mix bread in liquid until lightly moistened. Do not overmix. Bake in well
greased 8 x 8 x 2-inch pan at 350 degrees until lightly browned. Sauce: Mix
with wooden spoon sugar, starch, milk and salt. Blend in 1/2 cup water and
stir until smooth. Add vanilla and remaining cup of water and cook over
medium heat until thickened. Pour over warm pudding.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 657 by "Diane Geary."
<diane@keyway.net> on Jan 31, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Prayer: Don’t give God instructions — just report for duty!”

Many Christians in many evangelical churches these days are confessionally challenged in that they are either cynical, critical, or altogether skeptical of all things confessional — confessional documents, confessional churches, and confessional Christians. We might hear confessionally challenged Christians say things, such as “My only creed is Christ” or “I don’t need theology, just give me Jesus” or “Confessions divide, Christ unites.” Such Christians are actually under the impression that their churches don’t have confessions, when in truth every church has a confession, though it may not be written down and though it may constantly change according to the whims and fancies of the pastor. They have been somehow deceived into thinking that all of the various historic Reformed confessions only serve to divide the church of its unity and disarm the Bible of its authority. Nothing could be further from the truth, for what is so amazing about Reformed confessions in general is not how different they are from one another but how similar they are — how they each use biblical language in affirming the faith once delivered to the saints.

Burk Parsons