Name: Fruity Pasta Salad with Ham
Ingredients: 1 pk Suddenly Salad pasta Primavera salad mix; 1/3 c Yogurt; plain; 1/2 c Seedless grape halves; 1/2 lb Ham; fully cooked, cubed; 1 cn Pineapple tidbits; 8 oz drained

God has already forgiven all our sins one-and-for-all through the death of Jesus Christ. Why then do we need to keep on asking for His forgiveness? The answer, of course, is that we are not perfect, and never will be in this life. We keep on sinning. We break God’s commandments every day, in thought, word, and deed. And although all our sins have been forgiven – past, present, and future – sin still has a way of disturbing our fellowship with God. It interferes with our intimacy with Him, estranging us from His holiness. When we sin, therefore, our personal relationship with God needs to be restored. The Puritans called this “renewing our repentance.” It means asking God to take the forgiveness He has already granted through Christ’s death on the cross and to apply it freshly and directly to our sins.

Philip Graham Ryken

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Grains		Fruits, Ham, Pastas	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	pk	Suddenly Salad pasta Primavera salad mix
1/3	c	Yogurt; plain
1/2	c	Seedless grape halves
1/2	lb	Ham; fully cooked, cubed
1	cn	Pineapple tidbits; 8 oz drained

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare salad as directed on package except - stir yogurt into mayonnaise
mixture. Stir remaining ingredients into finished salad.
Posted to recipelu-digest by Chtbaby <Chtbaby@aol.com> on Mar 29, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“God makes it, we mess it”

Displaying a Christmas nativity scene is a long-standing tradition, but it can also present a bit of a skewed view of the actual events of Jesus’ birth. While each person depicted in a traditional nativity scene is a part of the Christmas story, not all the characters were present in one place on the night Jesus was born. Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were in a stable that night due to the overcrowding in Bethlehem’s inn (Luke 2:7), but the Bible never mentions whether or not animals were present—in fact, it never even mentions a stable. The shepherds, once told of Jesus’ arrival, left their flocks to worship the newborn King (Luke 2:16). However, the angels, which are often part of nativity scenes, bore the good news to the shepherds in the fields (Luke 2:8–14). As far as we know, there were no angels flying visibly over the place where Jesus was when the shepherds arrived. In addition, the wise men (the Bible never says how many there were) were also probably not present that first night. The magi visited Jesus some time later, when He was in a house (Matthew 2:1–11).

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