Name: Eggplant Curry
Ingredients: 4 lg Eggplants, peeled & cubed; 2 ts Salt; 2 lg Onions, chopped; 2 Garlic cloves, crushed; 4 tb Oil; 1 ts Cumin seeds, crushed; 1 ts Coriander; 3 Cardamom pods; 2 ts Ginger, grated; 1/2 ts Turmeric; 1 ts Salt; 2 Chili peppers, crushed; 3 lg Potatoes, chopped; 1 Tomato, peeled & chopped; 1 ts Tomato paste

No matter what the length of the portion explained may be, if it is handled in such a way that its real and essential meaning as it existed in the mind of the biblical writer and as it exists in the light of the overall context of Scripture is made plain and applied to the present-day needs of the hearers, it may be properly said to be expository preaching. It is emphatically not preaching about the Bible, but preaching the Bible. “What saith the Lord” is the alpha and omega of expository preaching. It begins in the Bible and ends in the Bible and all that intervenes springs from the Bible. In other words, expository preaching is Bible-centered preaching.

Merrill Unger

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Eggs, Grains		Main dish, African, Vegetables	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lg	Eggplants, peeled & cubed
2	ts	Salt
2	lg	Onions, chopped
2		Garlic cloves, crushed
4	tb	Oil
1	ts	Cumin seeds, crushed
1	ts	Coriander
3		Cardamom pods
2	ts	Ginger, grated
1/2	ts	Turmeric
1	ts	Salt
2		Chili peppers, crushed
3	lg	Potatoes, chopped
1		Tomato, peeled & chopped
1	ts	Tomato paste

INSTRUCTIONS

Sprinkle eggplant pieces with salt & set aside for 6 to 8 minutes.
Meanwhile in a large skillet, saute onions & garlic in the oil until
golden, stirring & ensuring that it's not scorching. Add all the spices &
peppers & stir-fry a couple of minutes. Squeeze eggplant pieces to get rid
of excess moisture.  Dump the pieces into the pot. Stir until they become
limp & slightly golden. Add more oil if necessary Add the potatoes & let
them brown on all sides. When potatoes are somewhat tender, but still fork
resistant, add tomatoes, paste & 1 1/2 c water.  Stir, bring to a boil,
reduce heat & simmer until vegetables are tender but not mushy. The sauce
should be thick, like syrup. If too thin, simmer a little longer. Serve
over rice.

A Message from our Provider:

“Hell! I thought it didn’t matter what you believed as long as you were sincere!”

A holy man used to say when he returned home from a night of table-talk that he would never accept such an invitation again, so remorseful did such nights always leave him; so impossible did he find it for him to hold his peace, and to speak only at the right moment, and only in the right way. And, without his holiness, I have often had his remorse, and so, I am quite sure, have many of you. There is no table we sit at very long that we do not more or less ruin either to ourselves or to someone else. We either talk too much, and thus weary and disgust people; or they weary and disgust us. We start ill-considered, unwise, untimeous topics. We blurt out our rude minds in rude words. We push aside our neighbour's opinion, as if both he and his opinion were worthless, and we thrust forward our own as if wisdom would die with us. We do not put ourselves into our neighbour's place. We have no imagination in conversation, and no humility, and no love. We lay down the law, and we instruct people who could buy us in one end of the market and sell us in the other if they thought us worth the trouble. It is easy to say grace; it is easy to eat and drink in moderation and with decorum and refinement; but it is our tongue that so ensnares us. For some men to command their tongue; to bridle, and guide, and moderate, and make just the right use of their tongue, is a conquest in religion, and in morals, and in good manners, that not one in a thousand of us has yet made over ourselves. [But Christ was such a one.] And much as I would have liked to see how He acted in everything, especially would I have watched Him how he guided, and steered, and changed, and moderated, and sweetened the talk of the table.

Alexander Whyte

In a letter written from prison, Paul requested Timothy to bring him “the books” (2 Tim. 4:13). Charles Spurgeon, the nineteenth-century “prince of preachers,” expressed amazement at such a request from Paul: “He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had had a wider experience than most men, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things which it was unlawful for a men to utter, yet he wants books! He had written the major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books! Spurgeon then reminds us, “He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves he has no brains of his own.”

Bob Kauflin