Black-eye Pea Soup – We Love God!

That is how the process of election always works. Those who remain outside God’s kingdom, who have not received His election and calling to become part of His people, do not lose something they sought to have but rather something they counted of no value. Noah does not have to fight to keep the masses out of the ark, as if it were the last lifeboat to leave a sinking ship. He does not have to stand by the gangplank with a shotgun, warding off the crowds. In fact, quite the reverse: only those whose hearts God has changed would want to take shelter within its confining walls.

Iain Duguid

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Black-eyed peas, soaked
		overnight
1		Onion, chopped
2		Carrots, peeled and sliced
2		Stalks celery, sliced
2	c	Kale, chopped
		Tabasco sauce
		Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Simmer black-eye peas until tender in 8-10 cups of water. Cook celery
and carrots together (microwave with some of the soup stock) until
tender, add to soup. Sautee onion carefully in some of the soup  stock,
add to soup. Add kale, tabasco and salt to taste, simmer 30  minutes.
Notes: Actually, I didn't measure anything.  Per serving: 107 Calories;
less than one gram Fat (4% calories from  fat); 7g Protein; 20g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 17mg Sodium  Next time I might put in
tomato paste or sauce (don't like chopped  tomatoes much), more tabasco
or equivalent; in a day or two I may  stretch it out with some rice.
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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 202 Calories From Fat: 14 Total Fat: 1.7g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 1155.6mg Potassium: 1523.5mg Carbohydrates: 44.2g Fiber: 13.3g Sugar: 17.7g Protein: 8.4g

Some of you have never preached on election since you were ordained. “These things,” you say, “are offensive.” And so you would rather offend God than offend man. But you reply, “These things will not be practical.” I do think that the climax of all man’s blasphemy is centered in that utterance. Tell me that God put a thing in the Bible that I am not to preach! You are finding fault with my God. But you say, “It will be dangerous.” What! God's truth dangerous? I should not like to stand in your shoes when you have to face your Maker on the Day of Judgment after such an utterance as that.

C.H. Spurgeon