Shredded flesh against unforgiving wood, iron stakes pounded through bone and wracked nerves, joints wrenched out of socket by the sheer dead weight of the body, public humiliation before the eyes of family, friends, and the world – that was death on the cross, “the infamous stake” as the Romans called it, “the barren wood,” the maxima mala crux. Or as the Greeks spat it out, the stauros. No wonder no one talked about it. No wonder parents hid their children’s eyes from it. The stauros was a loathsome thing, and the one who died on it was loathsome too, a vile criminal whose only use was to hang there as a putrid, decaying warning to anyone else who might follow his example. That is how Jesus died.

Greg Gilbert

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Seafood, Grains, Dairy		Tamara1	1	servings

INGREDIENTS

500	g	Chicken breast
6		Spring onions
8		Coriander stalks; leaves and stalks
		; chopped
2		Cloves garlic
8		Shiitake mushrooms
3	tb	Dry sherry
1	ts	Sugar
3	tb	Fish sauce
1	ts	Habanero chilli sauce
16	lg	Spring roll wrappers
1	c	Coriander leaves
1	ts	Palm sugar
2	tb	Fish sauce
150	ml	Coconut cream
		Two limes; juice of
		L00 g. roasted macadamia nuts

INSTRUCTIONS

FOR THE CHICKEN
FOR THE COCONUT SAUCE
Place all the ingredients in the first column in a food processor and
mince finely.
Place a spring roll wrapper on a work surface and place 1 tablespoon
of chicken mixture in one corner. Roll up, spring roll fashion,
tucking sides in as you roll. Continue rolling skins and chicken in
this way until all ingredients are used up.
Deep fry (or shallow fry if preferred) in peanut oil heated to 170c.
for 5 minutes until golden brown and crisp. Drain on kitchen towels
and serve hot. (I like to cut one to check that they are cooked
through).
To make the coconut sauce, process all ingredients in a food processor
until creamy.
Serve the chicken rolls cut on the diagonal, and standing up on their
base if possible, with coconut and soy sauces to dip.
Converted by MC_Buster.
Per serving: 1634 Calories (kcal); 102g Total Fat; (56% calories from
fat); 100g Protein; 78g Carbohydrate; 267mg Cholesterol; 344mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 2 Grain(Starch); 12 Lean Meat; 4 1/2 Vegetable; 0
Fruit; 13 Fat; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrates
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

A Message from our Provider:

“As a former fetus, I oppose abortion…”

Here is the Son of God, who in less than three years achieved far more than kings and generals had ever achieved in a thousand years, taking time out. Why? Well, He knew His needs and limitations – even He couldn’t work twenty-four hours a day seven days a week – and neither can we. But also He could have the confidence to do this because of His quiet, serene knowledge that His time was in His Father’s hands, that He wasn’t going to change the world by one endless round of activity, but by doing things in God’s time in God’s way.

Melvin Tinker