Spring Stir-fry – We Love God!

Prayer becomes a natural reflex like breathing. We don’t need to search for prayer content. We just need to love the Lord by learning His word and love others in the church in an intimate way. In following the two greatest commandments, we’ll have the knowledge we need to pray appropriately. In our love for the Lord we will naturally have a desire to speak continually with Him and in our love for others we know the best thing we can do for them is pray. You see, prayer is birthed not from duty, but from relationship – first love to God and then love to others.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains	Italian	April 1995	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

12		Baby red or golden beets
		trimmed
4	T	Unsalted butter, 1/2 stick
1	c	Packed sliced shallots
6	oz	Oyster mushrooms, stems
		trimmed
1/2	lb	Sugar snap peas, stringed
2 1/2	t	Mustard seeds
1 1/2	t	Dried thyme
3/4	t	Sugar
1 1/2	c	Thinly sliced fennel
1/2	c	Fresh shelled peas or 1/2
		cup frozen
4		Green onions, sliced on
		diagonal
		into 1/2-inch-thick
		pieces
1/2	c	Fresh Italian parsley leaves
2	T	Balsamic vinegar

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook beets in medium pot of boiling salted water until tender, about
15 minutes. Drain; cool. Peel beets and cut in half.  Melt 2
tablespoons butter in heavy large nonstick skillet over high  heat. Add
shallots and mushrooms; saute 3 minutes. Add sugar snap  peas; saute 2
minutes. Mix in mustard seeds, thyme and sugar. Add 2  tablespoons
butter, fennel and peas. Stir-fry 4 minutes. Add green  onions,
parsley, vinegar and beets; toss to blend. Season with salt  and
pepper.  Serves 6.  Bon Appetit April 1995  Converted by MC_Buster.
Per serving: 509 Calories (kcal); 47g Total Fat; (78% calories from
fat); 9g Protein; 21g Carbohydrate; 124mg Cholesterol; 69mg Sodium
Food Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 3 Vegetable; 0 Fruit;
9 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates  Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 6684 Calories From Fat: 4410 Total Fat: 491.4g Cholesterol: 1394.2mg Sodium: 1081.2mg Potassium: 6658.3mg Carbohydrates: 218.3g Fiber: 64.6g Sugar: 65.3g Protein: 352.6g

Whoever desires to be saved should above all hold to the catholic faith. Anyone who does not keep it whole and unbroken will doubtless perish eternally. Now this is the catholic faith: That we worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity, neither blending their persons nor dividing their essence. For the person of the Father is a distinct person, the person of the Son is another, and that of the Holy Spirit still another. But the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their majesty coeternal. What quality the Father has, the Son has, and the Holy Spirit has. The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, the Holy Spirit is uncreated. The Father is immeasurable, the Son is immeasurable, the Holy Spirit is immeasurable. The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, the Holy Spirit is eternal. And yet there are not three eternal beings; there is but one eternal being. So too there are not three uncreated or immeasurable beings; there is but one uncreated and immeasurable being. Similarly, the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, the Holy Spirit is almighty. Yet there are not three almighty beings; there is but one almighty being. Thus the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God. Yet there are not three gods; there is but one God. Thus the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, the Holy Spirit is Lord. Yet there are not three lords; there is but one Lord. Just as Christian truth compels us to confess each person individually as both God and Lord, so catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or lords. The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten from anyone. The Son was neither made nor created; he was begotten from the Father alone. The Holy Spirit was neither made nor created nor begotten; he proceeds from the Father and the Son. Accordingly there is one Father, not three fathers; there is one Son, not three sons; there is one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits. Nothing in this trinity is before or after, nothing is greater or smaller; in their entirety the three persons are coeternal and coequal with each other. So in everything, as was said earlier, we must worship their trinity in their unity and their unity in their trinity. Anyone then who desires to be saved should think thus about the trinity. But it is necessary for eternal salvation that one also believe in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ faithfully. Now this is the true faith: That we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, is both God and human, equally. He is God from the essence of the Father, begotten before time; and he is human from the essence of his mother, born in time; completely God, completely human, with a rational soul and human flesh; equal to the Father as regards divinity, less than the Father as regards humanity. Although he is God and human, yet Christ is not two, but one. He is one, however, not by his divinity being turned into flesh, but by God's taking humanity to himself. He is one, certainly not by the blending of his essence, but by the unity of his person. For just as one human is both rational soul and flesh, so too the one Christ is both God and human. He suffered for our salvation; he descended to hell; he arose from the dead; he ascended to heaven; he is seated at the Father's right hand; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. At his coming all people will arise bodily and give an accounting of their own deeds. Those who have done good will enter eternal life, and those who have done evil will enter eternal fire. This is the catholic faith: one cannot be saved without believing it firmly and faithfully.

Unknown Author

Whenever a Christian converses with a non-Christian about the truth of the faith, every request of the non-Christian for the proof of Christianity should be met with an equally serious request of proof for the non-Christian's philosophy of life. Otherwise we get the false impression that the Christian worldview is tentative and uncertain, while the more secular worldviews are secure and sure, standing above the need to give a philosophical and historical accounting of themselves. But that is not the case. Many people who demand that Christians produce proof of our claims do not make the same demand upon themselves.

John Piper