Name: Denise's Pineapple Cheese Ball
Ingredients: 2 pk (8 oz.) softened Philadelphia Cream Cheese; 1 cn (8.5 oz.) crushed pineapple; drained; 1/4 c Green pepper; finely chopped; 1 tb Seasoned salt; 2 ts Onion; finely chopped; 2 c Pecans, chopped

God's sovereign election and man's exercise of responsibility in choosing Jesus Christ seem opposite and irreconcilable truths - and from our limited perspective they are opposite and irreconcilable. That is why so many earnest, well-meaning Christians throughout the history of the church have floundered trying to reconcile them. Since the problem cannot be resolved by our finite minds, the result is always to compromise one truth in favor of the other or to weaken both by trying to take a position somewhere between them. We should let the antimony remain, believing both truths completely and leaving the harmonizing of them to God.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Philadelphia		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	pk	(8 oz.) softened Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1	cn	(8.5 oz.) crushed pineapple; drained
1/4	c	Green pepper; finely chopped
1	tb	Seasoned salt
2	ts	Onion; finely chopped
2	c	Pecans, chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix all ingredients together except save 1 C. pecans.  Chill and form into
a ball. Roll in 1 C. pecans and chill again.
Note: I do not know where these recipes originated from so I am using the
names of the two ladies that gave them to me many years ago. (grin)
Posted to EAT-L Digest 23 October 96
Date:    Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:56:45 -0400
From:    nancanne@SOJOURN.COM

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus is my Lifeguard!”

To say that election took place before creation indicates that God’s choice was due to His own free decision and love, which were not dependent on temporal circumstances or human merit. The reasons for His election were rooted in the depths of His gracious, sovereign nature. To affirm this is to give to Christians the assurance that God’s purposes for them are of the highest good, and the appropriate response from those who are chosen in Christ from all eternity is to praise Him who has so richly blessed us (P.T. O'Brien).

Other Authors

What is sanctification?... Regeneration is the new birth, sanctification is the growth that necessarily results from it. Justification is God’s declaration that a believing sinner is righteous because of the merits of Christ imputed to him. Sanctification is the believer leaving the courtroom where God has once and for all time declared him righteous, and immediately beginning the process whereby God’s Spirit enables him to increasingly conform to Christ’s righteousness, both inwardly and outwardly... We may say that sanctification has nothing to do with regeneration or justification, and yet it has everything to do with demonstrating that one has experienced them.

Donald S. Whitney