The Lord Christ comes to convinced sinners with His invitation: “Poor creatures! How sad is your condition! What has become of the beauty and glory of the image of God in which you were created? You are now in the deformed image of Satan and even worse, eternal misery lies before you. Yet look up once more; behold Me! I will put Myself in your place. I will bear that burden of guilt and punishment which would sink you to hell for ever. I will be made temporarily a curse for you, that you may have eternal blessedness.”

John Owen

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains		Chicken	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	c	Water
1	tb	Salt
1	md	Onion; finely chopped
1		3-lb chicken or(3-4 whole ch
1	c	Long-grain rice
1/2	lb	Smoked sausage; sliced
2	tb	Herb seasoning
1	pk	"chicken and herb" seasoning

INSTRUCTIONS

Measure 6 cups of water, salt, onion, and chicken.
Boil until tender. (About 1 hour.) Remove chicken, let
cool and remove bones. Chop meat in bite-sized pieces.
Skim off fat from juices. Measure 3 1/2 cups of this
broth into a 6-qt saucepan. Add rice, chicken pieces
and smoked sausage, herb seasoning and "chicken and
herb" seasoning. Cook these ingredients for 30 mins.
Let come to a boil and turn to low, keeping covered
the entire time. If rice mixture is too juicy, cook
uncovered until desired consistency. Yield: 6 servings
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“The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.”

If [1 John 1:9] is a call to immediate confession of every sin we are in trouble: 1. We are in a logistical dilemma. We cannot remember every sin. If our forgiveness depends on this, we are in serious trouble. For this reason, most advocates of this theology say that the confession we are to do is to be for every known sin. But that is an accommodation to the text. It does not say that. Actually, no Christian has confessed every known sin either. 2. We are in a theological dilemma. We have a Catholic theology of sorts. That is, if forgiveness is dependent on our ongoing confession, then what if we die with unconfessed sins? Does this view of confession of every sin being essential for forgiveness and total cleansing mean that our sins are not separated from us like the east is from the west? Does it mean we are not forgiven? Does it mean we are not cleansed from all unrighteousness? In other words, does it mean that the work of Christ on our behalf is ineffective when it comes to forgiveness and cleansing? Does it mean that we are not justified until we get to the end of life, and only then if we have confessed everything? 3. We are in an exegetical dilemma. By this I mean that we cannot reconcile the fact that the same text admits to a continual cleansing from all sins on the basis of the blood with no conditions for the believer, while also requiring the condition of detailed confession in a contiguous verse.

Jim Elliff