For the Christian to be driven or motivated toward personal resolution by a change of the calendar frankly seems a little superstitious… To say that January 1st is somehow the best day to make personal resolutions is to pattern ourselves after two societies that were completely steeped in paganism… For us to then say that we are most significantly convicted of the need for change in the days or weeks leading up to January 1st is to say that the Holy Spirit is somehow constrained or motivated by the same pagan system of days that motivated the Romans and the Babylonians… As Christians we know that we are to live in a continual state of repentance, always being sensitive to the necessity for change, always pursuing holiness, and always seeking to obey Christ. To wait until January 1st, viewing it as the one time each year when we make what we hope will be the most significant of these changes is to say that they were not just as necessary on May 7th, or August 19th, or any other day of the year.

Daryl Wingerd

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy		Poultry, Pasta	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	lb	Fettuccine
1	T	Butter
1		Garlic clove, minced
1		Onion, chossped
1		Can (15 ounce) lobster
		Bisque
1/2	c	Heavy cream
1/4	c	Grated Parmesan cheese
10	oz	Precooked sliced chicken

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook fettuccine according to package directions; drain and keep warm.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Add
garlic and onion; cook 3 to 5 minutes, or until softened, stirring
constantly.
Stir in bisque, heavy cream, Parmesan cheese and chicken. Reduce heat
to low and cook 5 minutes, or until chicken is heated through,
stirring frequently. Add the fettuccine, mix well. Serve immediately.
From Mr. Food Magazine  typed by jessann :)
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #8 by Henry Ackerman
<henacker@bigfoot.com> on Feb 17, 1999

A Message from our Provider:

“You can spurn God’s love for only so long”

For if [a Christian] cannot thank and praise God as well in calamities and sufferings as in prosperity and happiness, he is as far from the piety of a Christian as he that only loves them that love him is from the charity of a Christian. For to thank God only for such things as you like is no more a proper act of piety than to believe only what you see is an act of faith. Resignation and thanksgiving to God are only acts of piety when they are acts of faith, trust and confidence in the divine goodness.

William Law

It is axiomatic that to err is human and to forgive is divine. This axiom is so set in concrete that we assume that forgiveness is not merely a divine option, but a veritable prerequisite for divinity itself. We think that not only may God be forgiving, but He must be forgiving or He wouldn’t be a good God. How quick we are to forget the divine prerogative: “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion” (Rom. 9:15).

R.C. Sproul