Name: Spice Hot Pads
Ingredients: 4 Cinnamon sticks; 2 tb Cloves; 1 c Raw rice

Jesus came to a growing understanding of his Messianic calling by reading the Scriptures. He had to learn the Bible just as we must. Of course, He is the greatest theologian who has ever lived. His reading of the Bible would have been free from the problems that beset Christians who wrongly interpret passages and bring their own sinful dispositions to the text. Nevertheless, we must not imagine that Christ had all of the answers as a baby and merely waited to begin His ministry at the age of thirty without putting in hard yet delightful work on a daily basis in obedience to His Father’s will. As Christopher Wright notes, the Old Testament enabled Jesus to understand Himself. The answer to His self-identity came from the Bible, 'the Hebrew scriptures in which he found a rich tapestry of figures, historical persons, prophetic pictures and symbols of worship. And in this tapestry, where others saw only a fragmented collection of various figures and hopes, Jesus saw His own face. His Hebrew Bible provided the shape of His own identity.' …He had to study to know what to do. While He was never ignorant of what He needed to know at any stage of His life, He nevertheless was required to learn (Mark Jones).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Non-, Food, Recipes	1	servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Cinnamon sticks
2	tb	Cloves
1	c	Raw rice

INSTRUCTIONS

Crush the cinnamon sticks and cloves. Mix with the uncooked rice. Place in
a cloth bag, about 7" x 7". Sew up the open end. Use as a hot pad, the
scent will come out when a hot dish is placed on the mat. You can
substitute herbs (herbal tea works well) for the spices.
If you want to be more fancy, carefully sew seams across the pad, so you
end up with a criss-cross or chessboard pattern. This will make the pad
less floppy and easier to use.
Notes: Christabel La Motte (lamotte@netaxs.com) Cissy Thorpe
(cthorpe@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu)
You can also use feed corn or lentils instead of rice, for an even more
frugal gift.
Cut back on the spices, and these make excellent heating pads.  You can
heat them up in the microwave and put them in your bed in the winter.
Mmmm...
Recipe by: misc.consumers.frugal-living
Posted to MasterCook Digest by Karen Wheless <kwheless@rockland.net> on Aug
30, 1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“We see a only a glimmering of the plans of God…”

There are basically two ways to read the Bible — as a book of law, or as a book of promise. Our natural religious psychology wants to read the Bible as law: “God is explaining here how I can win his favor.” A law-hermeneutic is the pre-understanding we naturally bring to our Bible reading, every page. But in Galatians 3 Paul explains that he reads the Bible as a book of promise, and he wants us to as well. He sees every page of the Bible as gracious promise from God to undeserving sinners. Is there law in the Bible? Yes. But it was “added” (v. 19). Law was inserted after the promises to Abraham were established. It is promise that comes first (Genesis 12), then law comes later (Exodus 20). It is promise, therefore, that defines the all-encompassing framework within which we are to read everything else in the Bible... Every page [in the Bible], most deeply understood, shines forth as a promise of grace to sinners in Christ.

Ray Ortlund