The stakes in the current conflict over sex are more critical, more central, and more essential than in any controversy the church has ever known. This is a momentous statement, but I make it soberly, without exaggeration. Conflict over sex these days is not just challenging tradition, orthodoxy, and respect for authority in areas such as ordination, marriage, and gender roles. And it does not just affect critically important decisions like the sanctity of human life, the authority and trustworthiness of Scripture, the Trinity and the incarnation of Christ. Rather, war over sex among Christians is now raging over absolutely essential matters of faith without which no one can be a Christian in the first place – matters such as sin, salvation, the gospel and the identity of God Himself (Daniel Heimbach).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Summer, Squash	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lg	Summer squash; chayote
1	md	Onion
1	lg	Bell pepper
1/2		Stick butter; or
		Extra virgin olive oil; large splash
5		Radishes; diced

INSTRUCTIONS

Wash and slice chayotes into thin pieces. Cook all ingredients together
slowly in a large cast-iron frying pan. - ------------ Butter OR OIL =
SUBstitute up to 3 tablespoons oil for 1/2 stick of butter. Thanks to
Marina Cheesman's post on McRecipe, "How to Substitute oil for shortening."
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Recipe By     : Greg Flynn, Charleston, SC
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #222
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 09:14:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: PatH <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu>

A Message from our Provider:

“Our hopelessness and our helplessness are no barrier to (God’s) work. Indeed our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act… We are facing one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks – then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins we will understand how we may be encouraged. #Ralph Davis”

To pray at all times is to live in continual God consciousness, where everything we see and experience becomes a kind of prayer, lived in deep awareness of and surrender to our heavenly Father. To obey this exhortation means that, when we are tempted, we hold the temptation before God and ask for His help. When we experience something good and beautiful, we immediately thank the Lord for it. When we see evil around us, we pray that God will make it right and be willing to be used of Him to that end. When we meet someone who does not know Christ, we pray for God to draw that person to Himself and to use us to be a faithful witness. When we encounter trouble, we turn to God as our Deliverer. In other words, our life becomes a continually ascending prayer, a perpetual communing with our heavenly Father. To pray at all times is to constantly set our minds “on things that are above, not on the things that are on earth” (Col. 3:2).

John MacArthur