God is calling…all Christians to expose the dark and fruitless work of abortion: 1. To expose the fact that there are 1.5 million abortions in America every year – 27 million since the Supreme Court overturned the public conscience of 48 states 19 years ago. 2. To expose the fact that 30% of all babies conceived in America are killed by abortion. 3. To expose the fact that medically women are told not to have abortions before the seventh week of pregnancy (see the Yes/Neon booklet), and yet by the eighth week the heart of the baby has been beating for a month, there are measurable brain waves, there is response to touch, there's thumb-sucking, grasping with the hands, swimming with the arms in the amniotic fluid, distinct arms and legs and sexual organs. This much must—not may, must—be present before most abortion centers will cut the baby to pieces with a suction machine 4,000 times a day. 4. To expose the fact that 9,000 babies were killed after the 21st week of pregnancy in 1987, fully formed and on the brink of being able to breathe for themselves – killed, legally! 5. To expose the fact that in Minnesota we have a fetal homicide law that makes it 'murder to kill an embryo or fetus intentionally, except in cases of abortion' – in other words, it's unlawful to kill the unborn child unless the mother chooses to have it killed. And that is a strange and dark criterion for lawful killing. 6. To expose the fact that 'There is inescapable schizophrenia in aborting a perfectly normal 22 week fetus while at the same hospital, performing intra-uterine surgery on its cousin' (Steve Calvin). 7. To expose the fact that viability outside the womb is not a criterion of personhood and right to life, because we ourselves don't want to give up our personhood and our right to life if we must be sustained on a respirator or dialysis machine the way a baby has to be sustained by a placenta. 8. To expose the fact that the size and reasoning power of a tiny person is irrelevant to human personhood because if it were, we might allow tiny and unthinking newborns to be killed. 9. To expose the fact that genetically human embryos and fetuses are utterly different from all other animal life; if they are just left alone, with nothing added but nourishment, they will grow up. 10. To expose the fact that if it is unlawful to crush the egg of a bald eagle, it is not excessively restrictive to make it unlawful to crush the egg of a human. 11. To expose the fact that when two legitimate rights conflict – the right not to be pregnant and the right not to be killed – justice demands that we give place to the greater right, the right that does the least harm – the one that does not willfully kill. 12. To expose the fact that there are thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in this country ready to help, and almost all of them are free – unlike the abortion mills that charge plenty of money – and the older the baby, the more they charge. 13. To expose the fact that there are no unwanted babies in Minnesota. Mary Ann Kuharsky (President of ProLife Minnesota) said in the Tribune she would take any baby whose life depended on it, and there are hundreds like her. 14. To expose the fact that it is hypocritical to speak as though choice were the untouchable absolute in this matter and then turn around and oppose choice in matters of gun-control and welfare support and affirmative action and minimum wage and dozens of other issues where so-called pro-choice people join the demand that people's choices be limited to protect others. It's a sham argument. All choices are limited by life. 15. To expose the fact that trespassing to save life is not a crime and that it does not undermine our legal system, but on the contrary endorses the one foundation stone without which that legal system in this land will fall, namely, the inalienable right to life. There will be no law but the law of individual choice (=anarchy) if the foundation stone of life's value is destroyed. And abortion is destroying it.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Canning, Information	1	Half

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Acid foods - Foods which contain enough acid to result in a pH of 4.6 or
lower. Includes all fruits except figs; most tomatoes; fermented and
pickled vegetables; relishes; and jams, jellies, and marmalades. Acid foods
may be processed in boiling water.
Altitude - The vertical elevation of a location above sea level.
Ascorbic acid - The chemical name for vitamin C. Lemon juice contains large
quantities of ascorbic acid and is commonly used to prevent browning of
peeled, light-colored fruits and vegetables.
Bacteria - A large group of one-celled microorganisms widely distributed in
nature. See microorganism.
Blancher - A 6 to 8 quart lidded pot designed with a fitted perforated
basket to hold food in boiling water, or with a fitted rack to steam foods.
Useful for loosening skins on fruits to be peeled, or for heating foods to
be hot packed.
Boiling-water canner - A large standard-sized lidded kettle with jar rack,
designed for heat-processing 7 quarts or 8 to 9 pints in boiling water.
Botulism - An illness caused by eating toxin produced by growth of
Clostridium botulinum bacteria in moist, low-acid food, containing less
than 2 percent oxygen, and stored between 40 degrees and 120 degrees F.
Proper heat processing destroys this bacterium in canned food. Freezer
temperatures inhibit its growth in frozen food. Low moisture controls its
growth in dried food. High oxygen controls its growth in fresh foods.
Canning - A method of preserving food in air-tight vacuum-sealed containers
and heat processing sufficiently to enable storing the food at normal-home
temperatures.
Canning salt - Also called pickling salt. It is regular table salt without
the anticaking or iodine additives.
Citric acid - A form of acid that can be added to canned foods. It
increases the acidity of low-acid foods and may improve the flavor and
color.
Cold pack - Canning procedure in which jars are filled with raw food. "Raw
pack" is the preferred term for describing this practice. "Cold pack" is
often used incorrectly to refer to foods that are open-kettle canned or
jars that are heat-processed in boiling water.
Enzymes - Proteins in food which accelerate many flavor, color, texture,
and nutritional changes, especially when food is cut, sliced, crushed,
bruised, and exposed to air. Proper blanching or hot-packing practices
destroy enzymes and improve food quality.
Exhausting - Removal of air from within and around food and from jars and
canners. Blanching exhausts air from live food tissues. Exhausting or
venting of pressure canners is necessary to prevent a risk of botulism in
low-acid canned foods.
Fermentation - Changes in food caused by intentional growth of bacteria,
yeast, or mold. Native bacteria ferment natural sugars to lactic acid, a
major flavoring and preservative in sauerkraut and in naturally fermented
dills. Alcohol, vinegar, and some dairy products are also fermented foods.
Headspace - The unfilled space above food or liquid in jars. Allows for
food expansion as jars are heated, and for forming vacuums as jars cool.
Heat processing - Treatment of jars with sufficient heat to enable storing
food at normal home temperatures.
Hermetic seal - An absolutely airtight container seal which prevents
reentry of air or microorganisms into packaged foods.
Hot pack - Heating of raw food in boiling water or steam and filling it hot
into jars.
Low-acid foods - Foods which contain very little acid and have a pH above
4.6. The acidity in these foods is insufficient to prevent the growth of
the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Vegetables, some tomatoes, figs, all
meats, fish, seafoods, and some dairy foods are low acid. To control all
risks of botulism, jars of these foods must be (1) heat processed in a
pressure canner, or (2) acidified to a pH of 4.6 or lower before processing
in boiling water.
======================================================= === * USDA
Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539 (rev. 1994) * Meal-Master format
courtesy of Karen Mintzias
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. #Jack Hyles”

Sanctification is a gift just as justification is (a double grace, or duplex gratia, as Calvin called it). Both are the gift of God, ours by virtue of union with Christ. Both are found in Christ alone. Both are necessary for salvation – justification being the root and sanctification being the fruit. As is often said: faith alone justifies, but the faith that justifies is never alone. So we must never separate justification and sanctification. The former can’t help but produce the latter, and the latter must flow from the former. And yet we should not be afraid to talk about justification in a different way than we talk about sanctification. One calls us to rest; the other to fight. One reckons us righteous; the other makes us righteous. One allows for no increase or degrees; the other expects progress and growth. One is a declaration of God about us, the other a work of God in us.

Kevin DeYoung