Name: Beef in Costume for Halloween
Ingredients: 1 (4 lb.) pumpkin; 1 lb Lean ground beef; 1 c Chopped onion; Cooking oil; 1/3 c Chopped red pepper; 1/3 c Chopped green pepper; 1 Clove minced garlic; 1 ts Salt; 1/4 ts Thyme; 1/4 ts Pepper; 1 (7 1/2 Oz.) pitted ripe olives; 1 (8 Oz.) Can tomato sauce; 2 Beaten eggs

If Christ has borne whatever our sins deserved, and by doing so has satisfied God’s justice to the full, then God cannot, in justice, punish us for sin, for that would require the full payment from Christ and yet demand part of it from us... God does not chastise us as a means of satisfaction for sin, but for rebuke and caution, to bring us to mourn for sin committed, and to beware of the like. It must always be remembered that, although Christ has borne the punishment of sin, and although God has forgiven the saints for their sins, yet God may correct His people in a fatherly way for their sin. Christ endured the great shower of wrath, the black and dismal hours of displeasure for sin. That which falls upon us is as a sun-shine shower, warmth with wetness, wetness with the warmth of His love, to make us fruitful and humble… That which the believer suffers for sin is not penal, arising from vindictive justice, but medicinal, arising from a fatherly love. It is His medicine, not His punishment; His chastisement, not His sentence; His correction, not His condemnation.

Samuel Bolton

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Eggs		Halloween	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		(4 lb.) pumpkin
1	lb	Lean ground beef
1	c	Chopped onion
		Cooking oil
1/3	c	Chopped red pepper
1/3	c	Chopped green pepper
1		Clove minced garlic
1	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Thyme
1/4	ts	Pepper
1		(7 1/2 Oz.) pitted ripe olives
1		(8 Oz.) Can tomato sauce
2		Beaten eggs

INSTRUCTIONS

Preparation : Cut top from pumpkin; scrape out seeds and fibers. Simmer in
salted water to cover for 20 to 25 minutes or until almost tender. Drain.
Brown beef and onion. Add peppers and garlic. Cook one minute. Remove from
heat, stir in remaining ingredients. Spoon into pumpkin. Place "lid" on
top. Brush pumpkin with oil.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
Let stand 10 minutes.
Cut into edges to serve.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #252
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:13:09 -0700
From: Greg Leonhardt <[email protected]>

A Message from our Provider:

“We don’t change God’s message — His message changes us.”

When we speak of assurance, we are speaking of that which we know because the evidence is clear. This is the heart of First John and the other passages dealing with this subject. The way to tell if you are a Christian is not to look at the sincerity of a decision, but to look at the change in the life. As far as I can tell, there is no teaching in the Word which says that you can be sure that you are a Christian by looking back at an historical conversion experience. “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life...” (1 Jn. 5:13, emphasis mine). What things? Those tests which make up the content of the epistle. In other words, one’s assurance should be based on discernible factors which can be tested.

Jim Elliff