Name: Scandinavian Raspberry Soup
Ingredients: 2 pk (10 oz) frozen red raspberries in syrup, thawed; 1/2 c Orange juice; 1/4 c Lemon juice; 1 tb Cornstarch; 3/4 c Chablis or other dry white wine; Fresh orange sections; Raspberries, optional; Mint leaves, optional; Sour cream

The kind of love that animates the inclusivist god is more akin to sentimentalism than God's holy affection. If love means God abandons all of His other attributes, then love itself is deified. The love of God does not dictate that He abandon His justice or holiness. In fact, the glory of the gospel is that God is both just and justifier of the ungodly. God does not allow unregenerate sinners to do as they will, worship what they wish, live as they please, and still go free. In the divine scheme of things, sin demands punishment. The rebellion of self-worship requires wrath. Yet, the God of wrath is no less than the God of mercy. He is the same God. Were God never to have offered salvation to any sinner, His love would still survive unblemished. The reality and riches of God's love is not measured in the number of person's saved, but in the magnificence of the attribute itself.

Ben Mitchell

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Not, Sent	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	pk	(10 oz) frozen red raspberries in syrup, thawed
1/2	c	Orange juice
1/4	c	Lemon juice
1	tb	Cornstarch
3/4	c	Chablis or other dry white wine
		Fresh orange sections
		Raspberries, optional
		Mint leaves, optional
		Sour cream

INSTRUCTIONS

In blender container, puree 1 pkg raspberries; strain to remove seeds. In
medium saucepan, combine pureed raspberries, orange juice, lemon juice and
cornstarch; mix well. Over medium heat, cook and stir until slightly
thickened and clear; cool. Stir in remaining package raspberries and
chablis. Chill. To serve, place several orange sections in each bowl; add
soup. Garnish with raspberries, orange twists or mint leaves, if desired;
serve with sour cream. Refrigerate leftovers.
Recipe by: Borden Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #634 by The Taillons
<taillon@access.mountain.net> on Jun 03, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Give Satan an inch and he’ll be a ruler.”

God's holiness and righteous glory have been desecrated, defamed, and blasphemed by our sin. It is with a holy God that we have to do in our guilt! And there can be no justification, no reconciliation, no cleansing of our conscience, unless the holiness of God is honored and the defamation of His righteousness is repaired. The urgency of our problem with guilt is not that we feel miserable, but that God's name has been blasphemed. We live in a day with such a horrendously inflated view of human potential and such a miserably tiny view of God's holiness that we can scarcely understand what the real problem of guilt is. The real problem is not, 'How can God be loving and yet condemn people with such little sins?' The real problem is, 'How can God be righteous if He acquits such miserable sinners as we?' There can be no lasting remedy for guilt which does not deal with God's righteous indignation against sin. That's why there had to be a sacrifice. And not just any sacrifice, but the sacrifice of the Son of God! No one else, and no other act, could repair the defamation done to the glory of God by our sins. But when Jesus died for the glory of the Father, satisfaction was made. The glory was restored. Righteousness was demonstrated. Henceforth it is clear that when God, by grace, freely justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5), He is not indifferent to the demands of justice. It is all based on the grand transaction between the Father and the Son on the morning of Good Friday at Calvary. No other gospel can take away our guilt because no other gospel corresponds to the cosmic proportions of our sin in relation to God.

John Piper