Here’s the rub: We simply don’t like the idea that the reason for God’s choices resides wholly within God. We want to account for His decision. We want to explain it, to rationalize it, to provide grounds and warrant for it. We want to be able to point to “factor A, or datum B, or issue C” in something other than God or preferably to “characteristic X, or virtue Y, or work Z” in us. We want to point to this quality or that personality trait or some accomplishment in one that isn’t in another as the grounds for God’s decision.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		9, And, Good, Other, Snacks	18	Servings

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

You will need white corn tortillas, sea salt, water, cooking spray, a
shallow dish or pie tin, a cutting board, and two baking sheets.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray baking sheets with cooking spray.
This will only need to be done before every other batch.  Put warm
water in the shallow dish. Put a tortilla in the water for a  few
seconds, then place on the cutting board. Sprinkle with sea salt.
Repeat this process until you have 6 tortillas stacked. Slice the
stack diagonally in eighths. Place in a single layer on the prepared
baking sheets, and bake for about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven,
turn each chip over, return to oven and bake for 5 minutes more.
Remove from the oven and dump into a large bowl to cool. When cool,
store in zip-lock bags. (The chips are usually crisper the next day.)
To make flavored chips, in place of salt use any dry flavoring, such
as Ranch flavored dressing mix, taco seasoning mix, a cinnamon and
sugar mixture, etc.  It takes about an hour to make a 3 dozen package
of tortillas (which  yields 18 servings) in 1 gallon-sized zip-lock
bag.  NOTE: One serving, about 16 chips (or approximately 1 cup),
contains  about 1.5    grams of fat. Recipe by: To Your Health!  Posted
to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #017, by Sandra McGuire  <kd6hci@gte.net> on
Thu, 16 Jan 1997.

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus: All roads lead to tragedy – except one”

Nativity scenes and Christmas cards make the birthing place of Jesus like something out of a “Tennessee Made-for-Television Christmas Special” with Garth Brooks sitting on a bale of hay strumming some of our Holiday favorites in a clean barn with domesticated animals and seats for the children to drink their hot chocolate. Clearly this was not the case for Joseph and Mary. The conditions were crude. We can assume animals were present, but the text never confirms it. Animals probably were at some time housed there since Jesus was placed in a manger, which is a feeding trough for animals. The whole place smelled not only from animal droppings, but also from poverty, scandal, insignificance, helplessness, humiliation and embarrassment.

Randy Smith