Name: Baked Green Tomatoes
Ingredients: 15 lg Green tomatoes; Salt and pepper; 2 c Brown sugar; 3 c Coarse butter-cracker crumbs; 2 Sticks butter

Pastoral ministry is always shaped, formed, directed, and driven by worship. Your ministry will be shaped by worship of God or worship of you or, for most of us, a troubling mix of both. Perhaps there is no more powerful, seductive, and deceitful temptation in ministry than self-glory. Perhaps in ministry there is no more potent intoxicant than the praise of men, and there is no more dangerous form of drunkenness than to be drunk with your own glory. It has the power to reduce you to shocking self-righteousness and inapproachability.

Paul David Tripp

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Casseroles, Harned 1994	24	Servings

INGREDIENTS

15	lg	Green tomatoes
		Salt and pepper
2	c	Brown sugar
3	c	Coarse butter-cracker crumbs
2		Sticks butter

INSTRUCTIONS

Cut tomatoes in half and arrange in an oiled shallow casserole. Season with
salt and pepper and spread each with a tablespoon of sugar. Cover with
crumbs and dot with butter.  Bake at 350 F until tender but still firm -
the time will depend on the size and greenness of the tomatoes - but will
probably range from 30 to 40 minutes.
Note: 1/2" slices may be baked in this same manner.  Bake 25 minutes.
From "The Farmington Cookbook."  Louisville, KY: Farmington, 1968. Pg. 167.
Posted by Cathy Harned.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 18 Sep 96
Date:    Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:40:38 -0500
From:    LD Goss <[email protected]>

A Message from our Provider:

“A thankful heart is one of the primary identifying characteristics of a believer. It stands in stark contrast to pride, selfishness, and worry. And it helps fortify the believer’s trust in the Lord and reliance of His provision, even in the toughest times. No matter how choppy the seas become, a believer’s heart is buoyed by constant praise and gratefulness to the Lord. #John MacArthur”

No one who believes in the Bible disputes the fact that election is taught there. It isn’t the reality of election, or even its source, author, time, or goal that has elicited so much venom among professing Christians. It is rather the basis of divine election, that is to say, why and on what grounds some are elected to salvation and life and others are not. There are essentially only three options, the first of which is more pagan than Christian. 1. It has been argued that God elects those who are good. In this view, election is a debt God is obliged to pay, not a gift He graciously bestows. It is on the basis of inherent or self-generated righteousness that God elects men and women. This is the doctrine of Pelagianism, named after the British monk Pelagius who popularized the view in the fifth century. One would be hard-pressed to find an advocate of this perspective within the professing Christian church. 2. Others contend that God elects some who are bad who, notwithstanding their being bad, choose to exercise faith in Jesus Christ. It is on the basis of this foreseen faith that God elects them. This is the doctrine of Arminianism, named after the Dutch theologian James Arminius (1560-1609). It has also been called Wesleyanism because of the influence of John Wesley. 3. There is the view that God elects some who are bad who, because of their being bad, are not of themselves able to exercise faith in Christ. It is on the basis of His own sovereign good pleasure that God elects them. This is the doctrine of Calvinism, named after the French theologian John Calvin (1509-1564).

Sam Storms