Name: Egyptian Chickpea and Orzo Soup
Ingredients: 6 c Chicken broth OR vegetable broth; 2 c Water; 6 Garlic cloves; thinly sliced; 1/2 Onion; chopped; 1 1/2 c Cooked chickpeas; drained; 1 ts Finely chopped parsley; optional; Salt and pepper; to taste; 6 oz Orzo OR other small soup pasta; 2 Lemons; cut into wedges

I heard R. C. Sproul explain it this way: He said that apart from God there is no reason for human significance and no grounds for self-worth. Consider the alternative. If you don't believe in God, then you don’t have any reason for being here. You must believe that you are simply the product of impersonal time plus chance. And when you die, you must believe that you simply cease to exist and vanish into eternal nothingness. In short, if you leave God out, what you are left with is this: You didn't come from anywhere and you aren’t going anywhere after you die. This is the humanist dilemma. They say, “You come from nothing and you're going to nothing, but in between you have great significance.” It doesn't make sense at all.

Ray Pritchard

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Vegetables, Meats	Egyptian	Mediterrane, Soups, Beans, Mc-recipe	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6	c	Chicken broth OR vegetable broth
2	c	Water
6		Garlic cloves; thinly sliced
1/2		Onion; chopped
1 1/2	c	Cooked chickpeas; drained
1	ts	Finely chopped parsley; optional
		Salt and pepper; to taste
6	oz	Orzo OR other small soup pasta
2		Lemons; cut into wedges

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine the broth, water, garlic and onion in a saucepan. Bring to a boil,
then simmer over medium heat for about 10 minutes, or until the onion
softens.
Add the chickpeas and continue to cook for 15 minutes or so, until the
chickpeas are very soft and tender, the soup well-flavored, the garlic and
onions soft. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in the parsley.
Meanwhile, cook the orzo or other pasta in rapidly boiling salted water
until tender; drain.
Serve the soup in bowls, ladled over the orzo, each bowl with a wedge or
two of lemon to squirt in, then leave to impart its lemony flavor from the
rind. Serves 4.
PER SERVING: 305 calories, 16 g protein, 54 g carbohydrate, 3 g fat (0 g
saturated), 2 mg cholesterol, 6 mg sodium, 4 g fiber.
Excerpt from SF Chronicle 05/06/98 Food Section see www.sfgate.com ; Busted
by HANNEMAN
Notes: "If you have no orzo, use spaghetti broken into short lengths before
cooking. And if you have any of the ends you've snapped off asparagus, this
is a good place to use them. Jut cut them into thin rounds and add to the
soup about 5 minutes before serving. They are delicious with the
chickpeas."
Recipe by: Marlena Spieler, San Francisco Chronicle (1998)
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by Kitpath <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on May 07,
1998

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But God’s goal is not simply to have us stop looking down on other races. God wants unity, not just a ceasing of hostilities. He wants the very makeup of His church to preach the gospel: that despite our racial variants we are united under one ancestor, Adam; that we had one problem, sin; and that we have one hope, salvation in Christ. He wants us to demonstrate to the world that this unity in Christ is weightier than anything that might divide us. When the Holy Spirit confronted Peter’s racism, he didn’t just command him to quit looking down on other races. He commanded Peter to embrace Cornelius, to go in and eat with him. Peter did not go from “racist” to “non-racist”; he went from “racist” to “gracist.”

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