Name: Traditional Hopping John
Ingredients: 4 Bacon strips; 1/4 c Onion, diced; 1/2 Bell pepper, diced; 1/2 Red bell pepper, diced; 2 c FRESH Blackeyed peas or purple hull peas OR-; 2 pk (10 oz) frozen blackeyed peas; 1/2 c Uncooked white rice; 2 c Water; Salt & pepper, to taste; Louisiana Hot Sauce

It is greatly to be feared that there are multitudes in Christendom who verily imagine and sincerely believe that they are among the saved, yet who are total strangers to a work of divine grace in their hearts. It is one thing to have clear intellectual conceptions of God's truth, it is quite another matter to have a personal, real heart acquaintance with it. It is one thing to believe that sin is the awful thing that the Bible says it is, but it is quite another matter to have a holy horror and hatred of it in the soul. It is one thing to know that God requires repentance, it is quite another matter to experimentally mourn and groan over our vileness. It is one thing to believe that Christ is the only Savior for sinners, it is quite another matter to really trust Him from the heart. It is one thing to believe that Christ is the sum of all excellency', it is quite another matter to LOVE HIM above all others. It is one thing to believe that God is the great and holy One, it is quite another matter to truly reverence and fear Him. It is one thing to believe that salvation is of the Lord, it is quite another matter to become an actual partaker of it through His gracious workings.

A.W. Pink

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Dutch	Rice, Pork, Holiday	10	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		Bacon strips
1/4	c	Onion, diced
1/2		Bell pepper, diced
1/2		Red bell pepper, diced
2	c	FRESH Blackeyed peas or purple hull peas OR-
2	pk	(10 oz) frozen blackeyed peas
1/2	c	Uncooked white rice
2	c	Water
		Salt & pepper, to taste
		Louisiana Hot Sauce

INSTRUCTIONS

Dice bacon. brown in dutch oven with onion and pepeprs, until bacon is
crisp and vegetables are soft. Add peas and rice. then water. Cover and
simmer over very low heat about 20 minutes, until the rice is tender. Salt
& pepper to taste.  Add a dash of hot sauce (to taste).
This recipe came to America from Africa though the slave trade. It is now
the traditional dish served by most Southerners on New Year's Day. It is
reported to bring good luck.
Recipe fron the collection of Joan Mershon
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Questioning God? He made the brain cells you think with”

We are not encouraged to forsake our sin by having our senses amused or our preferences coddled. The Gospel is inherently and irreducibly confrontational. It cuts against our perceived righteousness and self-sufficiency, demanding that we forsake cherished sin and trust in someone else to justify us. Entertainment is therefore a problematic medium for communicating the Gospel, because it nearly always obscures the most difficult aspects of it – the cost of repentance, the cross of discipleship, the narrowness of the Way. Some will disagree, arguing that drama can give unbelievers a helpful visual image of the Gospel. But we have already been given such visual images. They are the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper and the transformed lives of our Christian brothers and sisters (Mark Dever and Paul Alexander).

Other Authors