God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The focal point of your discipline and correction must be your children seeing their utter inability to do the things which God requires unless they know the help and strength of God. Your correction must hold the standard of righteousness as high as God holds it… The alternative is to reduce the standard to what may be fairly expected of your children without the grace of God. The alternative is to give them a law they can keep. The alternative is a lesser standard that does not require grace and does not cast them on Christ, but rather on their own resources. Dependence on their own resources moves them away from the cross. It moves them away from any self-assessment that would force them to conclude that they desperately need Jesus’ forgiveness and power.
And we know how necessary it was that Christ should come forth as God and man; for salvation cannot be expected in any other way than from God; and Christ must confer salvation on us, and not only be its minister. And then, as He is God, He justifies us, regenerates us, illuminates us into a hope of eternal life; to conquer sin and death is doubtless what only can be effected by divine power. Hence Christ, except He was God, could not have performed what we had to expect from Him. It was also necessary that He should become man, that he might unite us to Himself; for we have no access to God, except we become the friends of Christ; and how can we be so made, except by a brotherly union?
1) Place the flour, yeast, salt, and ground cumin in a large mixing
bowl. Blend well. Add the water and mix the dough for 2-3 minutes, until
all the water is absorbed and evenly distributed. The dough will be damp
and very sticky, but no internal dry areas should appear by the end of the
mixing. If they do, mix a few minutes more, or add a little more water and
mix again.
2) Let the dough rest 5 minutes. Now sprinkle 1 or 2 tbsps. flour over
the dough and knead, either in the bowl or on a lightly floured surface for
5-10 minutes, until the dough is smooth and elastic and only slightly
sticky. Add more flour if needed (e.g. in humid weather). Let the dough
rest for 2 minutes more.
3) The dough should now be very smooth and easy to handle. Knead 30
seconds more, return the dough to the bowl, cover the bowl with a dish
towel or large plate, and let rise at room temperature for at least 3
hours; the dough should almost triple in size.
4) Flour the top of the dough lightly, punch it down, and remove the
dough from the mixing bowl. Form the dough into a rectangular loaf and
place in a well greasad loaf pan, 9-1/4 in. by 5-1/4 in. by 2-3/4 in. Cover
with a towel and let rise 1 hr., until nicely risen.
5) Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 35 minutes, until browned on
top; the bottom of the bread should sound hollow when tapped with the
finger. Let the bread cool, then serve.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini
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