Name: Bacon and Water Chestnut Hors D' Oeuvres
Ingredients: 1 cn Water Chestnuts; drained; 1/4 c Soy sauce; 2 tb Sugar; Bacon strips; cut in thirds.

Our local deity is not Jesus. He goes by the name Jesus. But in reality, our local deity is Jesus Jr. Our little Jesus is popular because he is useful. He makes us feel better while conveniently fitting into the margins of our busy lives. But he is not terrifying or compelling or thrilling. When we hear the gospel of Jesus Jr., our casual response is “Yeah, that’s what I believe.” Jesus Jr. does not confront us, surprise us, stun us. He looks down on us with a benign, all-approving grin. He tells us how wonderful we really are, how entitled we really are, how wounded we really are, and it feels good. Jesus Jr. appeals to the flesh. He does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him. He is not able to understand them, much less impart them, because Jesus Jr. is the magnification of Self, the idealization of Self, the absolutization of Self turning around and validating Self, flattering Self, reinforcing Self. Jesus Jr. does not change us, because he is a projection of us.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	cn	Water Chestnuts; drained
1/4	c	Soy sauce
2	tb	Sugar
		Bacon strips; cut in thirds.

INSTRUCTIONS

Marinate water chestnuts in soy sauce for 30 minutes. If chestnuts are too
large cut into bite-size pieces. Roll each in sugar, the wrap in a piece of
bacon. Place on slotted surface of broiler pan and bake at 400 degrees for
approximately 20 minutes, turning once. Drain on paper towels.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 205 by [email protected] on Nov 6,
1997

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“Misunderstood? No one understands like Jesus”

As we approach the twenty-first century, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that our entire culture is in trouble. We are staring down the barrel of a loaded gun, and we can no longer afford to act like it’s loaded with blanks… Our society has replaced heroes with celebrities, the quest for a well-informed character with the search for a flat stomach, substance and depth with image and personality. In the political process, the makeup man is more important than the speech writer, and we approach the voting booth, not on the basis of a well-developed philosophy of what the state should be, but with a heart full of images, emotions, and slogans all packed into thirty-second sound bites. The mind-numbing, irrational tripe that fills TV talk shows is digested by millions of bored, lonely Americans hungry for that sort of stuff (J.P Moreland).

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