Name: Savory Meatballs
Ingredients: 2 c Torn bread; 3/4 c Milk; 1 lb Ground beef; 1/2 c Finely chopped onion; 2 tb Chopped parsley; 1 ts Salt; 1/2 ts Garlic powder; 1/4 ts Black pepper; 1 1/2 c Tomato ketchup; 1/4 c Apricot preserves; 1 tb Dijon style mustard; 2 ts Cider vinegar; 1/4 ts Hot pepper sauce; 2 cn (16 oz) cut green beans,; Drained

Way[s] to grow in the knowledge of God your Father even if your father sinned against you: 1. Identify and take responsibility for the specific lies, false beliefs, desires, expectations, and fears that poison your relationship with God. 2. Find and apply specific truths in the Bible that contend with those lies and cravings. 3. Turn to God for mercy and help, so that the Spirit of truth would renew you, pouring out His love freely. 4. Take responsibility for the specific sins you express toward your father (i.e. bitterness, willfulness, avoidance, blame-shifting, brooding, fears, people-pleasing, slander, lying, self-pity, etc.). 5. Turn to God for mercy and help, that the Spirit of love would enable you to bear his fruit thankfully. 6. Identify the specific sins committed against you… Identifying the wrongs helps you know what to forgive. It also makes it clear what God calls you to tackle constructively. 7. Ponder the good things your father did for you. 8. The Father gives the power to return good for evil rather than evil for evil… Come up with a plan for specific changes (i.e. forgiving, giving love, seeking forgiveness, forbearing, confronting constructively, refocusing your attention, pouring your energies into God’s calling, etc.). 9. Find wise believers to pray for you, hold you accountable.

David Powlison

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy, Grains		Hamburger, Microwave, Beef	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Torn bread
3/4	c	Milk
1	lb	Ground beef
1/2	c	Finely chopped onion
2	tb	Chopped parsley
1	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Garlic powder
1/4	ts	Black pepper
1 1/2	c	Tomato ketchup
1/4	c	Apricot preserves
1	tb	Dijon style mustard
2	ts	Cider vinegar
1/4	ts	Hot pepper sauce
2	cn	(16 oz) cut green beans,
		Drained

INSTRUCTIONS

Microwave: In a mixing bowl,pour milk over bread and let stand 1 minute.Add
meat,onion,parsley,salt,garlic powder and black pepper; mix well.Roll into
1" size balls;place in a 2 quart microwave safe dish.Cover and cook on high
for 6 to 8 minutes or until done;drain.Blend ketchup with
preserves,mustard,vinegar and red pepper sauce.Combine sauce,beans and
meatballs.Cover and cook on high for 2 to 3 minutes or until heated
through.Makes 6 to 8 servings.

A Message from our Provider:

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. #Desmond Tutu”

A holy man used to say when he returned home from a night of table-talk that he would never accept such an invitation again, so remorseful did such nights always leave him; so impossible did he find it for him to hold his peace, and to speak only at the right moment, and only in the right way. And, without his holiness, I have often had his remorse, and so, I am quite sure, have many of you. There is no table we sit at very long that we do not more or less ruin either to ourselves or to someone else. We either talk too much, and thus weary and disgust people; or they weary and disgust us. We start ill-considered, unwise, untimeous topics. We blurt out our rude minds in rude words. We push aside our neighbour's opinion, as if both he and his opinion were worthless, and we thrust forward our own as if wisdom would die with us. We do not put ourselves into our neighbour's place. We have no imagination in conversation, and no humility, and no love. We lay down the law, and we instruct people who could buy us in one end of the market and sell us in the other if they thought us worth the trouble. It is easy to say grace; it is easy to eat and drink in moderation and with decorum and refinement; but it is our tongue that so ensnares us. For some men to command their tongue; to bridle, and guide, and moderate, and make just the right use of their tongue, is a conquest in religion, and in morals, and in good manners, that not one in a thousand of us has yet made over ourselves. [But Christ was such a one.] And much as I would have liked to see how He acted in everything, especially would I have watched Him how he guided, and steered, and changed, and moderated, and sweetened the talk of the table.

Alexander Whyte