Thursday, January 31, 2013

Further adventures in sourdough

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I hadn't intended this to become a series! Oh well. I hope you are enjoying this; I sure am. So far everything has been edible, so even ...

Evening activities

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I'm researching short season tomatoes...how many catalogs do you see? There are 14; I had a hard time finding them all in the picture...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Observations on sourdough starter

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Not like I'm an expert after two weeks! But, here's some observations... As I mentioned in the first post , I used the instructions...
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Sourdough, part 3

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Yesterday, I told about the rye bread with 2/3 rye. It was so successful that I decided to try 100% rye. I mixed up the ingredients, using t...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Motivation

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I am ashamed to think that any Christian should ever put on a long face and shed tears over doing a thing for Christ, which a worldly man wo...

Potpourri

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A few interesting things around the blogosphere... The Eerdmans blog has a post (that finishes yesterday's) on abortion. Here's a...

More adventures in sourdough

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The day I made the cinnamon bread, Joel, Renee, and the grandkids came over. Debbie's been at her parents place, assisting for a week or...

Interdependence

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Humans are inherently social creatures. Even those of us who are relatively serious loners are only loners intermittently. ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Adventures with sourdough

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I've been experimenting with sourdough for about 2 weeks now. I made my own starter using the instruction here . I used rye flour; the ...

Self denial

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The great effort among sinners has always been to be saved in some way of self-indulgence. They are slow to admit that self-denial is indisp...

Intellectual assent

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Many in the eighteenth century viewed Christianity as an intellectual system, centred on systematic theology; belief was then an intellectua...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Thought for today

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Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in th...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Procrastination

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...they put this matter of becoming holy off to the most distant time possible. Feeling a strong dislike to it now, they flatter themselves ...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Full salvation is for now

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Many would be willing to be saved in heaven, if they might hold on to some sins while on earth-- or rather they think they would like heaven...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

An iron collar

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It has often struck my mind with great force, that many professors of religion are deplorably and utterly mistaken on this point. Their real...

Sin defined

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...sin is defined as a deliberate violation of the law of love, making it voluntary, intentional and culpable. This means that infirmities, ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

God as love

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From the very beginning of his Oxford years Wesley had visualised God’s essential nature as love; a love displayed amongst the Persons of th...

Eschatology

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I approached one of those standing there and asked him the meaning of all this. “So he told me and gave me the interpretation of these thing...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Good theology

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In these final years Wesley continued to maintain the vision of the Christian life that he had held from his time at Oxford. He retained his...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Sanctification

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...we cannot hope to reach this maturity in any other way than by yielding ourselves up utterly and willingly to His mighty working. But the...