Easy-as-pie Crust – We Love God!

Our death is just as meticulously planned as the death of Christ. There is no combination of evil men, disease, or accident that can kill us as long as God still has work for us to do. To those who walk with faith in God’s providence, they die according to God’s timetable… The immediate cause of death might be any number of things, but the ultimate cause is God. Yes, wicked men nailed Christ to the cross, yet we read, “But the Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief” (Isaiah 53:10).

Erwin Lutzer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Pies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4	c	Flour
1/8	t	Salt
1/2	c	Margarine
2	T	Cold water

INSTRUCTIONS

In medium bowl mix flour and salt. With pastry blender or 2 knives,
cut in margarine until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Sprinkle water
over flour mixture while tossing with fork to blend well. Press dough
firmly into ball. On lightly floured surface roll out to 12-inch
circle. Fit loosely into 9-inch pie plate. Trim and flute edge. Fill
and bake according to recipe.  Preparation Time: 15 minutes  Recipe by:
Treasury of Christmas Recipes (1991)  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1
#935 by "Eugene Johnston"  <ejohnston@mailexcite.com> on Nov 30, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“You’re never too young for God”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1380 Calories From Fat: 816 Total Fat: 92.3g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 1357.5mg Potassium: 214.6mg Carbohydrates: 120.2g Fiber: 4.2g Sugar: <1g Protein: 17.2g

In considering the conflict between the sovereignty of God in election and the human responsibility, J.I. Packer writes: What is an antinomy? The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines it as ';”a contradiction between conclusions which seem equally logical, reasonable or necessary.” For our purposes, however, this definition is not quite accurate; the opening words should read “an appearance of contradiction.” For the whole point of an antinomy – in theology, at any rate – is that it is not a real contradiction, though it looks like one. It is an apparent incompatibility between two apparent truths. An antinomy exists when a pair of principles stand side by side, seemingly irreconcilable, yet both undeniable.

J.I. Packer

Unless the Son of God died in our place, taking the punishment we deserve for our sins, we will not be saved, and we will not be citizens of His kingdom. Our guilt is too deep. If that is true, then we cannot soften the edges of the gospel message. We cannot move the penal, substitutionary death of Jesus to the side, we cannot replace it with any other truth, and we cannot reimagine it as something less offensive (and ultimately less wonderful!) than it really is. If we do, then we will present the world with something that is not saving, and that is therefore not good news at all.

Greg Gilbert