Name: Pumpkin Seed Salsa
Ingredients: 3 Guero Chiles; 1 md White Onions; 8 Cloves Garlic; 1 lg Tomato; 1/4 c Pumpkin Seeds; 1 c Water; 1/4 ts Oregano, Toasted; 1/4 ts Salt

A sinner does not “decide” for Christ; the sinner “flies” to Christ in utter helplessness and despair saying – Foul, I to the fountain fly, Wash me, Saviour, or I die. No man truly comes to Christ unless he flies to Him as his only refuge and hope, his only way of escape from the accusations of conscience and the condemnation of God's holy law. Nothing else is satisfactory. If a man says that having thought about the matter and having considered all sides he has on the whole decided for Christ, and if he has done so without any emotion or feeling, I cannot regard him as a man who has been regenerated. The convicted sinner no more “decides” for Christ than the poor drowning man “decides” to take hold of that rope that is thrown to him and suddenly provides him with the only means of escape. The term is entirely inappropriate.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Salsa	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Guero Chiles
1	md	White Onions
8		Cloves Garlic
1	lg	Tomato
1/4	c	Pumpkin Seeds
1	c	Water
1/4	ts	Oregano, Toasted
1/4	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Char chiles until blistered and black, then seed and devein.
Thickly slice onion and pan-roast until brown and soft.
Pan-roast garlic until brown and soft, then peel.
Pan-roast tomato until blistered, black, and soft.
Toast pumpkin seeds in 1 tbsp. olive oil until puffed and brown
In a blender or food processor, puree ingredients together until a chunky
salsa is formed. NOTES
: Is supposed to be great when served with broiled fresh goat cheese and
baby greens.

A Message from our Provider:

“Questioning God? He made the brain cells you think with”

Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.

Greg Gilbert