Distancing ourselves from both the left and the right, we don’t celebrate homosexual practice, we acknowledge God’s clear revealed word that it is sin; and we don’t hate those who embrace homosexuality, we love them enough to not just collapse under the societal pressure. We speak the truth in love into this confusion, saying, simultaneously, “That’s wrong” and “I love you.” We’re not the left; we say, this is wrong. And we’re not the right; we say, you’re loved. We speak good news, with those sweetest, deepest, most glorious words of the cross — the same words that God spoke us — “You’re wrong, and you’re loved.”

Jonathan Parnell

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy, Eggs		Poultry	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Whole chicken breasts; split and skinned
2	oz	Monterey Jack or Mozzarella cheese
1		Egg; beaten
1/4	c	Fine bread crumbs
1	tb	Parmesan cheese
1	ts	Parsley
1	ts	Chicken bouillon
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ds	Pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut slit in chicken breast. Cut cheese into strips and put inside slit in
chicken breast. Secure with toothpick. Place, bone side down, in baking
dish. Brush chicken with egg. Combine remaining ingredients. Sprinkle over
chicken. Cover with foil and bake 40 minutes or until tender.
Posted to recipelu-digest by "Diane Geary." <diane@keyway.net> on Feb 4,
1998

A Message from our Provider:

“God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?”

There are basically two ways to read the Bible — as a book of law, or as a book of promise. Our natural religious psychology wants to read the Bible as law: “God is explaining here how I can win his favor.” A law-hermeneutic is the pre-understanding we naturally bring to our Bible reading, every page. But in Galatians 3 Paul explains that he reads the Bible as a book of promise, and he wants us to as well. He sees every page of the Bible as gracious promise from God to undeserving sinners. Is there law in the Bible? Yes. But it was “added” (v. 19). Law was inserted after the promises to Abraham were established. It is promise that comes first (Genesis 12), then law comes later (Exodus 20). It is promise, therefore, that defines the all-encompassing framework within which we are to read everything else in the Bible... Every page [in the Bible], most deeply understood, shines forth as a promise of grace to sinners in Christ.

Ray Ortlund