The very concept of “the weekend” is unbiblical. It turns Sunday into a second Saturday. Home Depot may gain, but we lose. It turns Sunday into the day we catch up on the stuff we were too lazy or disorganized to do on Saturday. It also turns Sunday into a day to ramp up for work or school on Monday. It hollows out not only Sunday but our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things. If we accept the world’s concept of “the weekend,” we inevitably end up “fitting God in” rather than centering the practical reality of our every week around Him. We trivialize Him, even as we allow secondary things to hijack the sacred place of centrality, we live soul-exhausted lives, and then we wonder why God isn’t more real to us, why church isn’t “working” for us, why we’re grumpy, and so forth.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Dips, Cheese/eggs	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8	oz	Cream Cheese, Softened
1/3	c	Hot Pepper Rings, Chopped
1	tb	Liquid From Hot Pepper Rings
2	tb	Fine Chopped Onions
2	tb	Jelly, Apple or Orange *
2	tb	Celery, Finely Chopped
2	tb	Sweet Pepper, Chopped Fine
1/4	c	Hot Pepper Rings (Garnish)

INSTRUCTIONS

* Orange Marmalade ~------------------------------------------------------
~------------- ~-- In a medium bowl, stir in cream cheese until smooth.
Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover; refrigerate until serving time, at
least 2 hours. Garnish with pepper rings. Serve with fresh vegetables or
crackers for dipping.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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