Chopped Olive And Cheese Canapes

The real issue was the design, or purpose, of God’s plan in laying upon His Son the burden of the Cross. Was it God’s purpose simply to make salvation possible for all but certain for none? Did God have to wait to see if any would respond to Christ to make His atonement efficient? Was it theoretically possible that Jesus would die “for all” yet never see the fruit of His travail and be satisfied? Or was it God’s eternal purpose and design of the Cross to make salvation certain for His elect? Was there a special sense in which Christ died for His own, for the sheep the Father had given Him?

R.C. Sproul

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Appetizers	50	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Green olives with pimentos
		chopped fine
1/2	c	Black olives, chopped fine
1/2	c	Mayonnaise
3/4	c	Parmesan cheese, grated
2	ds	Tobasco sauce
		Garlic
		Butter
		White bread

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix olives, mayonnaise, cheese, and tobasco.  Saute garlic in butter.
Remove crusts from bread.  Cut bread into diamond or round shapes.
Toast one side of rounds of bread. Dip the other side in melted  garlic
butter. Spread buttered side with olive mixture.  Top each  piece with
a slice of green olive, if desired.  Bake at 350F for 10  minutes, or
until bubbly. Can be frozen before baking.  The canapes can also be
formed into mini-quiches by cutting pie crust  pastry into rounds,
placing in mini-muffin tins, brushing with a small  amount of garlic
butter (don't overdo it), and filling with olive  mixture. Bake at 350F
until bubbly.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 50 Calories From Fat: 29 Total Fat: 3.3g Cholesterol: 6.8mg Sodium: 51.7mg Potassium: 7.7mg Carbohydrates: 4g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: 1.2g

In the Puritan tradition George Whitefield wonderfully exemplified in his preaching a stable understanding of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. He used to place lost sinners in a vice. He pressed home the necessity of repentance. But the lost sinner is a slave. He cannot repent. Yet to be saved he must repent. He cannot. He must. His only recourse is to look away from himself to the one who can save. His escape route is cut off. There is no help in himself. His only hope is to call on God for mercy. And a God of mercy will never cast out those who come to Him in faith.

Erroll Hulse