Questions to ask a pro-choice legislator: 1. Are you willing to explain why a baby's right not to be killed is less important than a woman's right not to be pregnant? 2. Are you willing to explain why most cities have laws forbidding cruelty to animals, but you oppose laws forbidding cruelty to human fetuses? Are they not at least living animals? 3. Are you willing to explain why government is unwilling to take away the so-called right to abortion on demand even though it harms the unborn child; yet government is increasingly willing to take away the right to smoke, precisely because it harms innocent non-smokers, killing 3,000 non-smokers a year from cancer and as many as 40,000 non-smokers a year from other diseases? 4. And if you say that everything hangs on whether the fetus is a human child, are you willing to go before national television in the oval office and defend your support for the 'Freedom of Choice Act' by holding in your hand a 21 week old fetus and explaining why this little one does not have the fundamental, moral, and constitutional right to life? Are you willing to say to parents in this church who lost a child at that age and held him in their hands, this being in your hands is not and was not a child with any rights of its own under God or under law?

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		October 199	1	servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	lb	Extra-sharp yellow Cheddar; grated coarse
1/4	lb	Extra-sharp white Cheddar; grated coarse
1		Green bell pepper; cut into very thin
		; 1-inch-long strips
1/2	c	Thinly sliced scallion
1/2	c	Bottled mayonnaise
1 1/2	ts	Dijon-style mustard
		Saltine crackers as an accompaniment

INSTRUCTIONS

In a bowl toss together the Cheddars, the bell pepper, and the
scallion, add the mayonnaise, the mustard, and black pepper to taste,
and combine the mixture well. The spread keeps, covered and chilled,
for 1 week. Serve the spread with crackers.
Makes about 2 cups.
Gourmet October 1990
Converted by MC_Buster.
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“You’ve achieved nothing until you find God”

But it is far more common for the evangelical preacher to edit God’s Word: 1. By removing the text from its context, and using it to say what-ever the preacher likes, 2. By moralizing the text, so that it is reduced to an ethical maxim that ﬁts any religion, 3. By using the text to promote hobby-horses, and 4. By dogmatic insistence that the text says things it does not truly say. This homiletical hocus-pocus has subtle roots such as the desire to be clever and popular or synthetically relevant or intellectually respectable or to make the gospel more acceptable. But most often God’s Word gets watered down by the preacher’s laziness. He simply will not do the hard work to engage and preach a text in its context.

Kent Hughes