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

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats		Crockpot, Stews, Beef	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Beef cuts
5		Carrots; sliced
3		Cut onions
6		Potatoes; cut up
3		Ribs celery; sliced
28	oz	Can whole tomatoes (juice also); cut up
1	c	Water
6	tb	Minute tapioca
3	tb	Worcestershire sauce
		Pepper and salt to taste
		Ground allspice; to taste
		Marjoram; to taste
		Thyme; to taste
2		Bay leaves
1	pk	(10 oz) frozen sweet peas

INSTRUCTIONS

Put all ingredients except peas into a slow cooker. Mix all the above
together in the crockpot cover; put on low and cook all day or overnight.
Turn to high and add frozen peas 1/2 hour to 1 hour before serving.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 408 by James and Susan Kirkland
<kirkland@gj.net> on Dec 27, 1997

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