Their god is something which they created themselves, a being who is always prepared to oblige and excuse them. They do not worship him with awe and respect, indeed they do not worship him at all. They reveal that their so-called god is no god at all in their talk. For they are forever saying that 'they simply cannot believe that God will punish the unrepentant sinner to all eternity, and this and that.' They cannot believe that God will do so, therefore, they draw the conclusion that God does not and will not. In other words, God does what they believe he ought to do or not do. What a false and blasphemous conception of God! How utterly untrue and unworthy! Such is the new paganism of today.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2		Ripe bananas; diced, (1 cup)
3/4	c	Prepared salsa verde
1/2	tb	Fresh lime juice
1	tb	Chopped fresh cilantro

INSTRUCTIONS

Cost: $ ; Preparation Time: 10 minutes Difficulty Level: 1 ; Servings:
makes 1-1/2 cups
1. In a bowl, combine all ingredients
2. Serve right away as a dip for tortilla chips. You can also use as a
salsa topping for grilled fish or chicken.
Posted to The Gourmet Connection Recipe Page Newsletter  by Gourmet
Connection <trp@gourmetconnection.com> on Jun 1, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart. #Charles Finney”

Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.

Phillips Brooks