CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Canadian	Misc	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

NEW YEAR'S Tablecloth: Shiny black fabric /or Silver mylar covered
with shredded foil /or children's stars, sparkle confetti Napkins:
Black Dinnerware: Black, with crystal serving pieces/Crystal  Flatware:
Silver Centrepieces: goblets filled crystal marbles and  white votive
candles clocks bunches of red grapes dipped in wine and  dusted with
-powdered sugar  TROPICAL (for midwinter) Tablecloth: Peach Napkins:
Peach Dinnerware:  White /or Green /or Blue Flatware: gold Centrepiece:
potted ferns  scatter shells or gold chocolate coins on tablecloth
child's bucket  and pail  FIESTA Tablecloth: brightly coloured drapery
fabric Dinnerware: Heavy  beige ironstone/ Orange Napkins: Orange/
bright blue with straw  napkin rings Flatware: gold Centrepiece: rattan
tray filled with  rocks & tiny clay pots of cactus Bird of Paradise
flowers  VALENTINE'S DAY Tablecloth: Red & white strips/ or Red,
covered with  white eyelet Dinnerware: Red /or White / can use pink
serving pieces  Napkins: Red / or White / or Red & white striped
Flatware: Silver  Centrepiece: White cupids White dish filled with red
cinnamon hearts  /or chocolate -hearts Heart shaped boxes scatter red
construction  hearts on tablecloth  This table can be used for Canada
Day (without the hearts) with the  addition of mini Canadian flags
stuck in a vase for a centrepiece  For July 4th, Independence Day, Add
blue in the tablecloth and or  serving pieces add mini American flags,
a blue bowl of strawberries  sprinkled with powdered sugar  For either
an old quilt (covered with protective plastic) can be used  as a
tablecloth  EASTER/SPRINGTIME Tablecloth: Pink /or Yellow / or flowered
bed sheet  /or Eyelet lace over pastel coloured tablecloth Napkins:
Pink / or  Cream /flowered print/ flowered handkerchiefs / use Napkin
rings with  flowers Dinnerware: Pink/ or Green/ or Flower patterned
Flatware:  Gold Centrepiece: Bowl or basket filled with jellybeans or
dyed  Easter eggs or foil covered eggs Bunny or goose figurines set in
green "grass" vase or pitcher of Daffodils or Forsythia clay pots
filled with flowering plants or herbs a woman's straw hat, decorated
with fresh flowers for Mother's Day a box filled with old cards,  white
gloves, a string of pearls, set on a silk scarf brass  candlesticks
with pastel coloured tapers  SPRING 2 Tablecloth & Napkins: pale
lavender /or Pink Dinnerware:  Purple /or Black Flatware  : Gold
Centrepiece: Violets /or Pink roses in black vase  From Gemini's
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“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not. #C.S. Lewis”

Some Reasons Baptists Do Not Baptize Infants: 1. In every New Testament command and instance of baptism the requirement of faith precedes baptism. So infants incapable of faith are not to be baptized. 2. There are no explicit instances of infant baptism in all the Bible. In the three “household baptisms” mentioned (household of Lydia, Acts 16:15; household of the Philippian jailer, Acts 16:30–33; household of Stephanus, 1 Corinthians 1:16) no mention is made of infants, and in the case of the Philippian jailer, Luke says explicitly, “They spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house” (Acts 16:32), implying that the household who were baptized could understand the Word. 3. Paul (in Colossians 2:12) explicitly defined baptism as an act done through faith: “…having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God.” In baptism you were raised up with Christ through faith – your own faith, not your parents’ faith. If it is not “through faith” – if it is not an outward expression of inward faith – it is not baptism. 4. The apostle Peter, in his first letter, defined baptism this way, “…not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:21). Baptism is “an appeal to God for a good conscience.” It is an outward act and expression of inner confession and prayer to God for cleansing, that the one being baptized does, not his parents. 5. When the New Testament church debated in Acts 15 whether circumcision should still be required of believers as part of becoming a Christian, it is astonishing that not once in that entire debate did anyone say anything about baptism standing in the place of circumcision. If baptism is the simple replacement of circumcision as a sign of the new covenant, and thus valid for children as well as for adults, as circumcision was, surely this would have been the time to develop the argument and so show that circumcision was no longer necessary. But it is not even mentioned.

John Piper