David Eyer’s Pancake – We Love God!

The intellectual source for the notion that your experience of your father determines your view of the heavenly Father is psychodynamic psychology, not the Bible... In an earlier generation, one of the stock human excuses for unbelief was, “The church is full of hypocrites, so I don’t want anything to do with God.” That was more willful and bitter: “Get lost, God.” The new variant is more self-pitying: “I just can’t seem to trust God.” But the net effect is the same. No cry of “Abba, Father” springs from the heart. “My father didn’t love me, so my self-centeredness, self-pity, and unbelief have an underlying reason. Somebody else caused my problems; somebody else must fix them.”… People change when the Holy Spirit brings the love of God to their hearts through the Gospel. Whoever receives the Spirit of adoption as God’s child learns to cry out, “Abba, Father.” People change when they see that they are responsible for what they believe about God. Life experience is no excuse for believing lies; the world and devil don’t excuse the flesh. People change when biblical truth becomes more loud and vivid than previous life experience. People change when they have ears to hear and eyes to see what God tells us about Himself.

David Powlison

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Breakfast	2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Flour
1/8	t	Nutmeg, ground
2		Eggs
1/2	c	Milk
2	T	Oil
2	T	Sugar, powdered
1 1/2	T	Juice, lemon

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 425.  Combine first 4 ingredients in medium bowl. Melt
butter in heavy 12" skillet in oven. Pour batter into skillet. Bake
until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar and lemon
juice. Bake 3 more minutes.  Fill with ice cream or fruit, if desired.
MM by Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, Internet
sylvia.steiger@lunatic.com, moderator of GT Cookbook and PlanoNet
Lowfat & Luscious echoes

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 392 Calories From Fat: 180 Total Fat: 20.3g Cholesterol: 190.9mg Sodium: 100.6mg Potassium: 200.4mg Carbohydrates: 40.6g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 16.3g Protein: 11.6g

Picking up any of a number of recent works on the NT canon, one is likely to find the author seeking the roots of the NT canon somewhere in the needs of the early church. One says it was the battle against heresy that prompted the church to find some authoritative texts on which to take its stand. Another points to the catechetical and liturgical need for new scriptures to nourish the spiritual life of the church. Another looks to Constantine the Great’s campaign to unify the empire, which allegedly required an agreed-upon set of scriptures as an essential tool to promote concord. These all, and more, may have played limited roles in bringing about the church’s agreement on the contents of the NT. But the ultimate foundations for the existence of a NT canon must be sought not in any of these historical exigencies, but in the gracious purpose of a self-revealing God whose word carries His own divine authority.

Charles Hill