Lentils And Leeks – We Love God!

1. The Will of God for Marriage Was Expressed in Creation: Jesus confirmed God’s will in creation when He said in Matthew 19:4-6, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” That’s the Bible’s teaching and the Bible’s assumption from cover to cover. Marriage is one woman and one man becoming one flesh by covenant and sexual union. 2. There Is No Such Thing as Homosexual Marriage in the Eyes of God: The other biblical reason marriage cannot be between two men or two women is that, on the one hand, the Bible defines homosexual behavior as “dishonorable” and “shameless” and “contrary to nature” (Romans 1:26-27), but on the other hand the Bible says that marriage is to be “held in honor” (Hebrews 13:4). Marriage does not produce shame. And marriage is not contrary to nature. There is therefore no such thing as homosexual marriage in the eyes of God. And there should not be in the eyes of his people – no matter what the state says.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Vegetarian	Cooking liv, Import	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Leeks, well rinsed and
		sliced 1/2-inch thick
		including some of the
		green
		part
2		Carrots, peeled and sliced
		1/2-inch thick
1/4	c	Olive oil
2 1/2	c	Water
1	c	Green lentils
1	T	Tomato paste
1	t	Sugar
1 1/4	t	Salt
		Freshly ground black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

In a large saucepan toss the leek and carrot slices with the olive
oil. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, until the vegetables are
lightly browned, then stir in the remaining ingredients. Cover the  pan
and simmer the mixture for 1 hour, until the lentils are tender  and
most of the liquid has been absorbed. To keep the leek slices  intact,
do not stir. Serve hot.  Yield: 4 to 6 servings NOTES : (Recipes
courtesy of Darra Goldstein,  The Vegetarian Hearth)  Recipe by:
Cooking LIve Show #CL8793  Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #370, by
Angele Freeman  <jfreeman@netusa1.net> on Sun, 12 Jan 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“If it doesn’t lead to Jesus, it doesn’t lead to God”

Many of us would agree with Peter when he says that parts of Paul’s letters are hard to understand! And there are difficulties and apparent discrepancies in other parts of the Bible too. On this matter of discrepancies, I remember reading something written by an old seventeenth-century Puritan named William Bridge. He said that harping on discrepancies shows a very bad heart, adding: “For a godly man, it should be as it was with Moses. When a godly man sees the Bible and secular data apparently at odds, well, he does as Moses did when he saw an Egyptian fighting an Israelite: he kills the Egyptian. He discounts the secular testimony, knowing God’s Word to be true. But when he sees an apparent inconsistency between two passages of Scripture, he does as Moses did when he found two Israelites quarreling: he tries to reconcile them. He says, ‘Aha, these are brethren, I must make peace between them.’ And that’s what the godly man does.”

J.I. Packer