God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
But it is far more common for the evangelical preacher to edit God’s Word: 1. By removing the text from its context, and using it to say what-ever the preacher likes, 2. By moralizing the text, so that it is reduced to an ethical maxim that fits any religion, 3. By using the text to promote hobby-horses, and 4. By dogmatic insistence that the text says things it does not truly say. This homiletical hocus-pocus has subtle roots such as the desire to be clever and popular or synthetically relevant or intellectually respectable or to make the gospel more acceptable. But most often God’s Word gets watered down by the preacher’s laziness. He simply will not do the hard work to engage and preach a text in its context.
Anybody can worship Santa Claus. But hanging in there with God in the midst of intense suffering, as Christ hung on the cross, magnifies the worth of God as the one who sustains us. God’s goal in suffering, therefore, is to teach us that in life and in death, as in all eternity, He Himself is all we ultimately need.
In saucepan of boiling salted water, cook potato for 10 to 15 minutes or
until tender; drain, reserving 3/4 cup cooking water. Mash potato well to
make 1/2 cup. Let potato and cooking liquid cool to room temperature.
Remove baking pan from large ( 1 1/2 to 2 lb.) bread machine. Add to pan
(in order) cooking water, oil, sugar, salt, mashed potato and flour.
Sprinkle yeast over top, making sure yeast does not touch water mixture.
According to manufacturer's instructions, choose cycle appropriate to
nonsweet-or nonfresh-milk bread. When baked, immediately remove pan from
machine; shake loaf from pan. Let cool completely on rack. Makes 1 loaf
from pan, 12 slices. Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com Source: The
Canadian Living 20th Anniversary Cookbook.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest by "Cindy Hartlin" <cjhartlin@email.msn.com>
on May 4, 1998
A Message from our Provider:
“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess. #Corrie ten Boom”
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