Name: Sweet Potato Stars
Ingredients: 4 lg Sweet potatoes or yams; at least 3 inches in diameter; 2 tb Toasted sesame oil; 1 c Freshly squeezed orange juice; 5 1/2 tb Brown sugar; 1/2 ts Ground nutmeg

1. The altar call is simply and completely absent from the pages of the New Testament. 2. The altar call is historically absent until the 19th century, and its use at that time (via Charles Finney) was directly based upon bad theology and a man-centered, manipulative methodology. 3. The altar call very easily confuses the physical act of “coming forward” with the spiritual act of “coming to Christ.” These two can happen simultaneously, but too often people believe that coming to Christ is going forward (and vice-versa). 4. The altar call can easily deceive people about the reality of their spiritual state and the biblical basis for assurance. The Bible never offers us assurance on the ground that we “went forward.” 5. The altar call partially replaces baptism as the means of public profession of faith. 6. The altar call can mislead us to think that salvation (or any official response to God’s Word) happens primarily on Sundays, only at the end of the service, and only “up front.” 7. The altar call can confuse people regarding “sacred” things and “sacred” places, as the name “altar call” suggests. 8. The altar call is not sensitive to our cautious and relational age where most people come to faith over a period of time and often with the interaction of a good friend. 9. The altar call is often seen as “the most important part of the service”, and this de-emphasizes the truly more important parts of corporate worship which God has prescribed (preaching, prayer, fellowship, singing). 10. God is glorified to powerfully bless the things He has prescribed (preaching, prayer, fellowship, singing), not the things we have invented. We should always be leery of adding to God’s prescriptions for His corporate worship (Ryan Kelly).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lg	Sweet potatoes or yams; at least 3 inches in diameter
2	tb	Toasted sesame oil
1	c	Freshly squeezed orange juice
5 1/2	tb	Brown sugar
1/2	ts	Ground nutmeg

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place each sweet potato or yam on its side
and slice crosswise into 1/2inch rounds. Using a 3inch starshaped cookie
cutter, cut out a star shape from each round; discard the scraps. If your
star cookie cutter is packed away with the Christmas decorations, place a
paper star stencil on top of the round and use a paring knife to cut the
shape Pour the sesame oil into the bottom of a shallow ovenproof baking
dish and spread it so that the whole bottom is greased. Place the stars in
the baking dish. Pour the orange juice over the stars and sprinkle the
brown sugar and nutmeg on top. Cover tightly with aluminum foil. Bake for
30 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for 15 more minutes. Use a
spatula to remove the stars from the baking dish. Top each star with 1
teaspoon of the pan juice. Yield: 6 servings CHEF DU JOUR BOB BLUMER SHOW
#DJ 9285
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #816 by Holly Butman
<butma001@acpub.duke.edu> on Sep 28, 1997

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