Spicy Beef And Plum Sauce

A few words to those among us who have homosexual desires: 1. Acknowledge the presence and pain of a disordered sexuality, with all the ambiguity of where it came from – much like other disorders and disabilities – and do not define your God-given personhood by your disordered sexuality. 2. Put your faith in Christ alone for the forgiveness of all your sins and for the gift of God’s righteousness and for the fulfillment of all his promises to you (Romans 1:16-17). The only sinner who can successfully battle his sins is a justified sinner. In other words, you fight against sexual sins from relationship, not for a relationship. 3. Begin to reorder your entire life around the centrality of the glory of God as your highest treasure. Homosexual sinning, like all other sinning, is an echo of exchanging the glory of God for other things. So restore the sun of God’s glory to its place at the center of your soul and all the planets of your desires will begin to return to their God-given orbit. 4. Resolve to live a chaste and, if necessary, celibate life by the power of God's Spirit, with the confidence that if God does not heal now, he will in the age to come; and all the patience of purity of will be worth it (Romans 8:18). May God grant all the single people (and married!) at Bethlehem a passion for purity. 5. Seek wholesome friendships with both sexes, especially in groups… The more we do things in groups rather than pairs, the more opportunities we create for wholesome non-sexual relationships. 6. …There are ministries like Outposts here in our cities that have insights and experience and encouragement and Biblical counsel from a depth of awareness that goes beyond what most of us can bring. This may be something God would use in your life. 7. Take a bold and compassionate stand for truth…and hold up God’s purposes for human sexuality, namely, as an expression of Christ’s love for the Church dramatized in the covenant love of marriage between one man and one woman.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Boneless sirloin steak
3	T	Sesame oil
2	T	Dry sherry, NOT cooking
		sherry – If you wouldn't
		drink it don't cook with
		it!
1/2	c	Tamari, Soy Sauce may be
		substituted
2	T	Cornstarch
2	T	Brown sugar
1	t	Crushed red pepper, up to 2
1	c	Chopped scallions
1	c	Vegetable oil
3/4	c	Plum sauce, Available in
		Oriental section of
		supermarket
1/2	c	Red wine vinegar
2		Cloves garlic, pressed
1/2	c	Sugar
		Lettuce and tomato for
		garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

This recipe was originally printed in YANKEE Magazine.  Cut the beef
into 1/8" strips (this is easier if meat is partially  frozen). Mix 1
Tblsp of the sesame oil with the sherry, tamari,  cornstarch, brown
sugar and red pepper. Pour this over the meat and  refrigeratore for 30
minutes, or more.  Drain and discard marinade.  In a wok or large
skillet, saute the scallions over high heat in 1  Tblsp of the sesame
oil. Leave the heat high and stir-fry half the  meat; add the third
Tblsp of oil and stir-fry the rest of the meat.  Put cooked meat and
scallions in a large bowl. Blend the plum sauce  ingredients and pour
over the beef.* Place the mixture on a platter  or in a shallow serving
bowl, and garnish with lettuce and tomatoes.  On the remote chance that
there are leftovers, stuff them into pita  pockets. * I usually heat
the sauce before pouring it on the meat.  Posted to Recipe Archive - 16
Mar 97 by ted by:  pmakolon@mail.wiscnet.net on Mar 16, 9

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 4134 Calories From Fat: 2575 Total Fat: 290.8g Cholesterol: 127mg Sodium: 10509.5mg Potassium: 697.7mg Carbohydrates: 313.4g Fiber: 24.9g Sugar: 131.5g Protein: 78.8g