November 2009
10 posts
Rainy Afternoon Chicken Soup
This is where it starts - pastured raised organic Chickens Old laying hens, Chicken feet & necks, Water, Veggies and all day - makes a great stock Freeze lots of stock and then thaw as needed in hot water Add some diced vegetables Save bones and scraps for next bone broth or stock making day Add chicken and veggies to rich chicken stock Here it is - 30 minutes later. A delicious,...
Mixed up Christmas Cactus
Blooming in November Posted via email from Chris Dattilo’s Posterous | Comment »
Christian Understanding of Work
“What is the Christian understanding of work? I should like to put before you two or three propositions arising out of the doctrinal position which I stated at the beginning: namely, that work is the natural exercise and function of man — the creature who is made in the image of his Creator…..The first, stated quite briefly, is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to...
Awe and Intimacy
“The gospel means (as Luther said) that we are simul justus et peccator, that is, in Christ we are simultaneously righteous yet sinful. If we have a more antinomian view of salvation, believing that we are all accepted because God is vaguely loving, then we may be existentially aware of God’s love but not of his holiness. There will be no awe. That can lead to the exclusively warm,...
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Perfect Love, Perfect Justice - Meet at Calvary
But the God of Christianity is a God of both perfect love and perfect justice. The two meet, embrace, coalesce, at Calvary.
R. B. Kuiper, The Bible Tells Us So, p. 107
The Cross is the Tree of Life
He hangs in the place of death, yet thence He gives life. He delivers from death by dying. Life streams out, like rivers of water, from that center, the cross. The cross is the tree of life.
Horatius Bonar, Studies in the Gospel of John, p. 20
Foot of the cross, shrinks us to our true size
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, “I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.” Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary.....
Power of the Cross of Christ
And from these two great enemies, the power of the world and the power of self, nothing can deliver us but the Cross of Christ. Andrew Murray, Aids to Devotion p. 28
Prayer of Covenant with God
I usually don’t make comment on the quotes I post, but in reading this quote I was struck with the thought that ‘this is a prayer’! I’m glad God’s grace covers my inadequacy in prayer and pray that I may learn from saints who have gone before.
“O Blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and thirsty, poor and wretched, miserable, blind and naked, a most loathsome...
Calvin on Loving the Whole Human Race
“We ought to embrace the whole human race without exception in a single feeling of love; here there is no distinction between barbarian and Greek, worthy and unworthy, friend and enemy, since all should be contemplated in God, not in themselves. When we turn aside from such contemplation, it is no wonder we become entangled in many errors. Therefore, if we rightly direct our love, we must...