If any (or almost any) approach to God is as good as another, how do we make sense of the Bible’s insistence on monotheism, its consistent rejection of all forms of idolatry, and the missionary impulse — that the nations would turn to the true God — running from Genesis to Revelation? Most crucially, pluralism cannot do justice to the privileged place the Bible gives to Jesus Christ. Every knee must bow before Him. He will judge all peoples. The God of the Bible, revealed as Yahweh in the Old Testament and incarnated at Jesus Christ in the New, is nothing if not a universal God who accepts no rivals. To reject the unique person and work of Jesus Christ is to make an utter mockery of the Bible. To reject His claims is to reject God Himself and to steal from Him the glory that is rightly His. Ultimately it is to turn one’s back on the Bible and on the God of the Bible.

Tim Challies

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood, Dairy, Meats	St. Louis	Appetizers, Seafood, Side dishes	20	Servings

INGREDIENTS

20		Won-ton wrappers
3	tb	Butter, melted (up to 4)
		Parmesan cheese, grated
8	oz	Cream cheese
2	tb	Milk
1/4	ts	Garlic powder
6	oz	Crab meat
1	tb	Chopped parsley, or green onions
		Sweet and sour sauce, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly brush a cookie sheet with melted
butter. Cut won ton squares in half (to make rectangles). Arrange
rectangles in prepared pan. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with
parmesan cheese. Bake 5 to 7 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on paper
towels. Repeat with remaining won ton rectangles.
Place cream cheese in glass bowl and soften in microwave oven on high power
1 to 2 minutes. Stir in milk and garlic powder. When well blended, stir in
crambeat and parsley. Heat 1 to 3 minutes longer until thoroughly heated.
Spread mixture in shallow serving dish. Top mixture with the sweet and sour
sauce, if desired. Serve heated spread with won ton crackers.
Recipe by: Junior League of St. Louis
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #445 by Diane Lamere <dlamere@plantnet.com>
on Jan 29, 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. #C.S. Lewis”

The Gospel is the good news of pardon to the guilty; and it enters into no calculations, in regard to the different degrees of guilt in those whom it addresses. It reveals an atonement sufficient for all; and every sinner of the human race is commanded to receive it as a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save the chief of sinners. The Gospel does not teach us how to lay a foundation for ourselves, but informs us of the sure foundation which God has laid in Zion, upon which all are equally invited and commanded to build their hopes, without any apprehensions of being upbraided for their past conduct by their gracious Creator.

James Haldane