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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

I’d like to propose that God’s love is much different and better than unconditional. Unconditional love, as most of us understand it, begins and ends with sympathy and empathy, with blanket acceptance. It accepts you as you are with no expectations. You in turn can take it or leave it. But think about what God’s love for you is like. God does not calmly gaze on you in benign affirmation. God cares too much to be unconditional in His love… Such real love is hard to do. It is so different from “You’re okay in my eyes. I accept you just because you’re you, just as I accept everybody. I won’t judge you or impose my values on you.” Unconditional love feels safe, but the problem is that there is no power to it. When we ascribe unconditional love to God, we substitute a teddy bear for the king of the universe… The word “unconditional” may be an acceptable way to express God’s welcome, but it fails to communicate its purpose: a comprehensive and lifelong rehabilitation, learning “the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”

David Powlison

Do you believe the Bible? Then depend upon it, hell is eternal. It must be eternal, or words have no meaning at all. “Forever and ever,” “everlasting,” “unquenchable,” “never-dying” all these are expressions used about hell, and expressions that cannot be explained away. It must be eternal, or the very foundations of heaven are cast down. If hell has an end, heaven has an end too. They both stand or fall together. It must be eternal, or every doctrine of the gospel is undermined. If a man may escape hell at length without faith in Christ, or sanctification of the Spirit, sin is no longer an infinite evil, and there was no such great need of Christ’s making an atonement. And where is the warrant for saying that hell can ever change a heart, or make it fit for heaven? It must be eternal, or hell would cease to be hell altogether. Give a man hope, and he will bear anything. Grant a hope of deliverance, however distant, and hell is but a drop of water.

J.C. Ryle

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Asparagus Au Gratin

January 22, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy			100	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3 3/4	qt	WATER; WARM
1 1/2	ga	WATER; BOILING
1 1/2	lb	CHEESE CHEDDER
1	lb	BUTTER PRINT SURE
13/16	oz	MILK; DRY NON-FAT L HEAT
20	lb	ASPARAGUS FZ
2	c	FLOUR GEN PURPOSE 10LB
1	tb	SALT TABLE 5LB
2	tb	SALT TABLE 5LB

INSTRUCTIONS

1.  ADD ASPARAGUS TO SALTED WATER.
2.  BRING TO A BOIL; BOIL GENTLY, UNCOVERED, 8 MINUTES OR UNTIL JUST
TENDER.
DRAIN; RESERVE LIQUID FOR USE IN STEP 3.
3.  RECONSTITUTE MILK; HEAT TO JUST BELOW BOILING.  DO NOT BOIL.
4.  BLEND BUTTER OR MARGARINE AND FLOUR TOGETHER; STIR UNTIL SMOOTH.
5.  ADD FLOUR MIXTURE TO MILK, STIRRING CONSTANTLY.  SIMMER 5 MINUTES OR
UNTIL
THICKENED.  ADD CHEDDAR CHEESE TO SAUCE.  AFTER SAUCE IS THICKEND, STIR TO
MELT CHEESE.
6.  TASTE; SEASON WITH SALT AS NEEDED.
7.  POUR SAUCE OVER ASPARAGUS.
NOTE:  IN STEP 1, FROZEN ASPARAGUS SPEARS MAY BE USED.
Recipe Number: Q00101
SERVING SIZE: 1/2 CUP
From the <Army Master Recipe Index File> (actually used today!).
Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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