Name: Apricot-Glazed Pears
Ingredients: 6 lg Ripe, firm fresh pears; 1 c Apple juice; 1 ts Vanilla; 1 tb Butter or reduced-fat marg.; 1 Cinnamon stick; 1 12 oz. jar apricot preserves

The kind of meditation encouraged in the Bible differs from other kinds of meditation in several ways. While some advocate a kind of meditation in which you do your best to empty your mind, Christian meditation involves filling your mind with God and truth. For some, meditation is an attempt to achieve complete mental passivity, but biblical meditation requires constructive mental activity. Worldly meditation employs visualization techniques intended to “create your own reality.” And while Christian history has always had a place for the sanctified use of our God-given imagination in meditation, imagination is our servant to help us meditate on things that are true (Philippians 4:8). Furthermore, instead of “creating our own reality” through visualization, we link meditation with prayer to God and responsible, Spirit-filled human action to effect changes.

Donald S. Whitney

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Desserts, Crockpot	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	lg	Ripe, firm fresh pears
1	c	Apple juice
1	ts	Vanilla
1	tb	Butter or reduced-fat marg.
1		Cinnamon stick
1		12 oz. jar apricot preserves

INSTRUCTIONS

Peel pears, leaving them whole with stem intact. Place in slow cooker. Add
apple juice, vanilla, butter and cinnamon stick. Cook on high for 3-4
hours.
Remove pears with slotted spoon.  Place in individual dessert dishes. Heat
apricot preserves in small saucepan until melted. Top each pear with
preserves sauce. Serve 6 Source: Home Cooking Typed in MMFormat by
cjhartlin@msn.com 01/02/98
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #027 by "Cindy Hartlin"
<cjhartlin@email.msn.com> on Jan 26, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“He who angers you, controls you!”

It is greatly to be feared that there are multitudes in Christendom who verily imagine and sincerely believe that they are among the saved, yet who are total strangers to a work of divine grace in their hearts. It is one thing to have clear intellectual conceptions of God's truth, it is quite another matter to have a personal, real heart acquaintance with it. It is one thing to believe that sin is the awful thing that the Bible says it is, but it is quite another matter to have a holy horror and hatred of it in the soul. It is one thing to know that God requires repentance, it is quite another matter to experimentally mourn and groan over our vileness. It is one thing to believe that Christ is the only Savior for sinners, it is quite another matter to really trust Him from the heart. It is one thing to believe that Christ is the sum of all excellency', it is quite another matter to LOVE HIM above all others. It is one thing to believe that God is the great and holy One, it is quite another matter to truly reverence and fear Him. It is one thing to believe that salvation is of the Lord, it is quite another matter to become an actual partaker of it through His gracious workings.

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