Name: Ostrich Steaks Au Poivre
Ingredients: 1 tb Mixed peppercorns; coarsely crushed; 1/2 oz Plain flour; 2 5 oz ostrich steaks; 1 oz Butter; 1 tb Sunflower oil; 4 oz Shallots; halved; 8 oz Button mushrooms; halved; 2 Cloves garlic; crushed; 2 tb Brandy; (2 to 3); 3 tb Creme fraiche; 1 tb Wholegrain mustard; 2 tb Freshly chopped flat leaf parsley; Salt and freshly ground black pepper

The next time your heart is indifferent toward sin, think for a moment of what sin cost your Savior on the cross. Think about His lacerated back ripped open to the bone from the Roman scourge. Think how He suffered for a breath of air as He extended His bloody body up the vertical beam of the rugged cross. Think about the splinters that dug deeper into His freshly cut wounds with every movement. Think about the large spikes that pierced His hands and His feet penetrating deeply into nerve endings. Think of the slow suffocation as Jesus hung there in the nude, mocked by the onlookers. Jesus didn't die for His own sin; He died for ours. '[He was] pierced through for our transgressions… [He was] crushed for our iniquities' (Isa. 53:5). Does the love of Christ compel you to turn from that which brought Him unspeakable anguish?

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	French	Sainsbury3, Sainsbury’s	2	servings

INGREDIENTS

1	tb	Mixed peppercorns; coarsely crushed
1/2	oz	Plain flour
2		5 oz ostrich steaks
1	oz	Butter
1	tb	Sunflower oil
4	oz	Shallots; halved
8	oz	Button mushrooms; halved
2		Cloves garlic; crushed
2	tb	Brandy; (2 to 3)
3	tb	Creme fraiche
1	tb	Wholegrain mustard
2	tb	Freshly chopped flat leaf parsley
		Salt and freshly ground black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Mix the peppercorns, salt and flour together. Use this to pat on both
sides of the steaks.
2. Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan, add the steaks and fry the
steaks for 4-5 minutes on each side. Remove and keep warm.
3. Add the shallots to the pan and fry until golden. Stir in the mushrooms
and fry until browned. Stir in the garlic and fry for a further minute.
4. Pour in the brandy and cook for 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat
and stir in the creme fraiche and mustard with the parsley and seasoning.
Converted by MC_Buster.
NOTES : Ostrich is becoming a lower in fat alternative to other meats and
it is delicious too. This traditional French recipe is an ideal dinner for
two.
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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Consider carefully the following evidence that the redemption accomplished through Christ’s resurrection determined the day for Christian worship: 1. Jesus Christ arose on the first day of the week (Matt. 28:1). He entered into his rest from labor, not on Saturday (the seventh day), but on Sunday (the first day of the week). As Jesus entered into his rest on the first day, so he encourages us to begin the week by resting in the confidence that He will provide for all our needs for seven days with only six days of labor. 2. Jesus Christ appeared to His assembled disciples on the first day of the week, as well as to Mary and to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus (John 20:10; Luke 24:13). By these appearances on the first day of the week, the resurrected Lord set a pattern for meeting with His disciples. They began expecting to meet with Him on the day of his resurrection, which is the first day of the week. 3. Jesus appeared to the assembled disciples one week later on the first day of the week, with doubting Thomas present this time (John 20:26). Already a new pattern of assembly for worship was emerging. God’s new covenant people were making it a habit to assemble together on the first day of the week, the day of Christ’s resurrection. Jesus honored these assemblies by appearing to the disciples at this time, and encouraged their faith in Him as the resurrected Lord. 4. The resurrected Christ poured out his Spirit on the assembled disciples exactly fifty days after the Sabbath of the Jewish Passover, which was the first day of the week (Acts 2:1; cf. Lev. 23:15–16). The word Pentecost means 'fifty,' referring to the fifty days after the Sabbath of the Passover. Forty-nine days would span seven Jewish Sabbaths or Saturdays, and the fiftieth day would then fall on a Sunday, the first day of the week. So it would appear that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit came on the first day of the week, when God’s new covenant people were assembled for worship. So the pattern would be established more firmly. Both the resurrection of Christ and the outpouring of the Spirit occurred on the first day of the week. 5. As Paul spread the gospel of Christ among Jews and Gentiles throughout the world, the first day of the week was used as the time for Christians to assemble for worship. In Greece, Paul and Luke assembled with the people of God to break bread and to hear the preaching of God’s word on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7). This was the day that the people of the new covenant assembled to hear God’s word. 6. Paul wrote to the Christians in Corinth to establish the pattern for their presenting of offerings for the service of the Lord. He ordered the Christians in Corinth to follow the pattern that had already been set with the churches in Galatia (1 Cor. 16:1). On the first day of every week they were to consecrate their offerings to the Lord (1 Cor. 16:2). This schedule for honoring the Lord had become the pattern for God’s people throughout the churches. The churches were not to present their offerings any time they wished. Rather, on the first day of each week, all the Corinthian Christians were to follow the pattern that had already been set among the Galatian churches. The first day of the week was the designated time for the presentation of offerings to the Lord.

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