Fresh Halibut Baked With Smoked Salmon

God wants us to follow a recurring pattern of intense work and then rest, intense work and then rest, and so forth. Whatever view one takes of the Sabbath, surely the six days of work and the one day of rest embedded in the creation remain relevant in some sense. Any routine of life that is unsustainable long-term cannot be of God. He calls us to work. But he also calls us to rest, in order to work most fruitfully. What sets us apart is this. We rest, in order to work; we do not work, in order to rest. We who believe the gospel are not living for the weekend, but for The End. In the meantime, we figure out rhythms of life that make fruitful labor sustainable.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood, Grains		Fish, Main dish	1	Recipe

INGREDIENTS

1/8	lb	Kippered salmon
		soft-smoked
		cut in 1/4" strips
2	T	Lemon juice
4	T	Sherry
2	lb	Halibut steak, 1" thick
4	oz	Butter
2	T	Coarsely chopped walnuts
		optional
		Pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Melt butter in skillet over medium flame; when very hot but not
smoking, brown steaks quickly, 2 minutes on each side; add lemon  juice
and sherry; season with pepper to taste; heat 1 minute only;  remove
from heat. Place halibut in shallow glass dish; pour pan  juices over;
garnish with nuts and smoked salmon. Bake at 350 for 10  minutes or
until fish flakes with a fork.  Source: Alaska Seafood Cookbook
Reprinted by permission from the  Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Gratitude produces deep, abiding joy because we know that God is working in us, even through difficulties. #Charles Stanley”

Nowhere in the New Testament do any of the Greek words translated “fellowship” imply fun times. Rather, they talk of, for example, “The fellowship of the ministering to the saints” (2 Cor. 8:4) as sacrificial service and financial aid (see for example, 1 Tim. 6:18). Elsewhere, Paul was thankful for the Philippian believers’ “fellowship in the gospel” (Phil. 1:5), for he knew that “inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers (same word as fellowship) of my grace” (Phil. 1:7). This sort of fellowship may even bring persecution. We are to emulate Christ’s humility and self-sacrificial love (Phil. 2:5-8) through the “fellowship of the Spirit” (Phil. 2:1). In some way known only partially to us, we have the privilege of knowing “the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death” (Phil. 3:10), and even the communion (i.e. fellowship) of the blood...and body of Christ” (1 Cor. 10:16) (J.D. Morris).

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