Name: Fresh Tomato Salad
Ingredients: 4 lg Tomatoes; 12 Fresh basil leaves, cut up; 1/4 c Balsamic vinegar; 1/4 ts Oregano; 1/2 Red onion, diced fine; 1/2 c Extra virgin olive oil; 1 Garlic clove, chopped; Salt/pepper; Italian Bread

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

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Italian	Italian, Salads	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lg	Tomatoes
12		Fresh basil leaves, cut up
1/4	c	Balsamic vinegar
1/4	ts	Oregano
1/2		Red onion, diced fine
1/2	c	Extra virgin olive oil
1		Garlic clove, chopped
		Salt/pepper
		Italian Bread

INSTRUCTIONS

Place the tomatoes, onion, and garlic in a bowl, add seasonings then oil
and vinegar.
Serve with Italian bread, using the bread to soak up the juices from the
salad.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by Paula <demoness@bellatlantic.net> on Sep
03, 1998

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Are you running to God during your trials? If not, you are short-cutting the process. You see, when most people, even most Christians have problems, they immediately run to all the sources they have available to bring relief. Some are good, others are bad. The problem is none of them are ultimately effective. We expect people to be our personal Messiahs and they can’t. We use entertainment to numb our troubles and the trouble, though camouflaged, is still there. We abuse substances to turn off the pain and it doesn't. We try food and sex to fight the pain with pleasure and it’s ineffective. These things bring a shallow refuge and temporary reprieve in the little matters, but in the long haul they are proven unsuccessful. That is why God in His love for us wants us to run to Him.

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