Name: Hoppin' John
Ingredients: 3 c Black-eyed peas (frozen or canned); Drippings from 4 strips of bacon; 2 c Uncooked rice

Eight reasons that ministers should examine themselves: 1. You have heaven to win or lose yourselves… A holy calling will not save an unholy man. 2. You have sinful inclinations as well as others. 3. (You) have greater temptations than most men. 4. The tempter will make his first and sharpest onset upon you. If you will be leaders against him, he will spare you no further than God restrains him. 5. Many eyes are upon you, and therefore there will be many to observe your falls. 6. Your sins are more aggravated than those of other men. They have more of hypocrisy in them, and are more detrimental to the cause of religion. 7. The honor of your Lord and Master, and of His holy truth, doth lie more on you than other men. 8. The souls of your hearers and the success of your labors do very much depend upon your self-examination.

Richard Baxter

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Holiday, Southern	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	c	Black-eyed peas (frozen or canned)
		Drippings from 4 strips of bacon
2	c	Uncooked rice

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook peas with bacon drippings for one hour, using plenty of water. Add
rice and stir. Place in greased casserole dish and cover lightly with foil.
Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. REduce heat to 250 degrees and cook for
another hour.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 26 Dec 96
Recipe by: Southern Recipes and Legends, 1996, p. 54
From:    Lou Parris <lbparris@EARTHLINK.NET>
Date:    Fri, 27 Dec 1996 14:00:17 -0600

A Message from our Provider:

“All suffering can be traced back to people disobeying God”

We live in a post-vocational age. Without any theology of vocation we lapse into debilitating alternatives: fatalism (doing what is required by “the forces” and “the powers”); luck (which denies purposefulness in life and reduces our life to a bundle of accidents); karma (which ties performance to future rewards); nihilism (which denies that there is any good end to which the travail of history might lead); and, the most common alternative today, self-actualization (in which we invent the meaning and purpose of our lives, making us magicians). In contrast the biblical doctrine of vocation proposes that the whole of our lives finds meaning in relation to the sweet summons of a good God (Paul Stevens).

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