June 30, 2009
Tuesday - A Dose of Daily Inspiration
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Staying in Step
"Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?" (Amos 3:3)
A while ago, I was having problems with my German shepherd whenever we went for a walk. If another dog came anywhere near him, he would go crazy and lunge out at the dog, even if it wasn't bothering him.
When I shared this with the people who gave him to us, they asked me how I was walking him. I told them how, a lot of times, I would take him out, turn him loose, and let him go wherever he wanted to. Sometimes he would chase rabbits. When he was done, I would take him home.
They told me I couldn't do that anymore, because I was letting him run wild. They said, "The problem is that he is too 'doggy.' " They went on to explain how he needed to be reminded of who his master was. They said I needed to get him on his leash and use a muzzle device.
I started using it, and I found that it did work. I would just pull on his muzzle a little bit and he couldn't go after that rabbit. He had to go where I wanted him to go.
After a while, I took the muzzle off. Now he no longer needs that device. I am the master and he is the dog. He just goes where I go.
We can be like that with God. We say, "Here is what I want to do, Lord. You come with me."
But God says, "That is not the way it works. I want you to be more like Me. I want you to get in step with Me. I want you to go where I am going."
When we do, we are living the Christian life to its fullest.
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Multi-Grain Scones
Multi-Grain Scones
10 Scones
These scones are the perfect answer for the morning rush! Unlike a lot of low fat foods, which can be so loaded with sugar that you feel hungry soon after eating them, these are quite filling -- you can eat just half of one and still satisfy the need for morning sustenance. Plus, you'll get in a nice amount of bran for the day, an appropriate source of roughage.
Ingredients:
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
5 tablespoons grapeseed or expeller-pressed canola oil
1/8 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 cup oatmeal (not instant)
1/4 cup wheat bran
1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour
2 tablespoons millet
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
Lemon Topping:
3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup confectioners sugar
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Whisk the egg, sugar, and oil together in a bowl. Mix the lemon zest and all of the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until all of them are evenly dispersed throughout. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the egg, sugar, and oil, and mix to create a thick dough. Add the milk and mix well.
3. Lightly grease a baking pan. Scoop up tablespoonfuls of the dough and drop them one by one in mounds onto the baking sheet, leaving 2 inches of space between. You should have about 10 scones. Bake for 15-20 minutes, just until the crust is barely golden brown and the dough is dry. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. With a fork mix the Lemon Topping ingredients until the sugar is completely melded in. Drizzle 1 tablespoon ever each scone.
Nutritional Information:
Per serving:
375 calories
10 g total fat (2 g sat)
23 mg cholesterol
62 g carbohydrate
9 g protein
5 g fiber
120 mg sodium
-Recipe reprinted with permission of DrWeil.com
10 Scones
These scones are the perfect answer for the morning rush! Unlike a lot of low fat foods, which can be so loaded with sugar that you feel hungry soon after eating them, these are quite filling -- you can eat just half of one and still satisfy the need for morning sustenance. Plus, you'll get in a nice amount of bran for the day, an appropriate source of roughage.
Ingredients:
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
5 tablespoons grapeseed or expeller-pressed canola oil
1/8 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 cup oatmeal (not instant)
1/4 cup wheat bran
1 1/2 cups unbleached white flour
2 tablespoons millet
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
Lemon Topping:
3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup confectioners sugar
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Whisk the egg, sugar, and oil together in a bowl. Mix the lemon zest and all of the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until all of them are evenly dispersed throughout. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the egg, sugar, and oil, and mix to create a thick dough. Add the milk and mix well.
3. Lightly grease a baking pan. Scoop up tablespoonfuls of the dough and drop them one by one in mounds onto the baking sheet, leaving 2 inches of space between. You should have about 10 scones. Bake for 15-20 minutes, just until the crust is barely golden brown and the dough is dry. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. With a fork mix the Lemon Topping ingredients until the sugar is completely melded in. Drizzle 1 tablespoon ever each scone.
Nutritional Information:
Per serving:
375 calories
10 g total fat (2 g sat)
23 mg cholesterol
62 g carbohydrate
9 g protein
5 g fiber
120 mg sodium
-Recipe reprinted with permission of DrWeil.com
Cookie-Coated Mallows
Cookie-Coated Mallows
Makes: 10 servings
Created by The MDM Team, Thursday, February 21, 2008 Description -->
Although they have all of the makings of a smore, it's so much more. Check out this scrumptious switch that uses the same ingredients in a different, flavorful fashion.
Ingredients
1 box Graham cracker crumbs
1 5 oz. milk chocolate bar, chopped
1 bag large marshmallows
Methods/steps
Pour Graham cracker crumbs into a large bowl. Using a fondue set or a double boiler, melt the chocolate bar. Roll the marshmallow around in the chocolate until it is completely covered. Then roll the chocolate covered marshmallow around in the Graham cracker crumbs and place on a cookie sheet sprayed with non-stick spray. After making desired amount place cookie sheet in the refrigerator for about an hour and serve chilled.
Makes: 10 servings
Created by The MDM Team, Thursday, February 21, 2008 Description -->
Although they have all of the makings of a smore, it's so much more. Check out this scrumptious switch that uses the same ingredients in a different, flavorful fashion.
Ingredients
1 box Graham cracker crumbs
1 5 oz. milk chocolate bar, chopped
1 bag large marshmallows
Methods/steps
Pour Graham cracker crumbs into a large bowl. Using a fondue set or a double boiler, melt the chocolate bar. Roll the marshmallow around in the chocolate until it is completely covered. Then roll the chocolate covered marshmallow around in the Graham cracker crumbs and place on a cookie sheet sprayed with non-stick spray. After making desired amount place cookie sheet in the refrigerator for about an hour and serve chilled.
June 29, 2009
Monday - A Dose of Daily Inspiration
Week of June 29
Unfulfilled Expectations
Do you have unfulfilled expectations? Is there an unmet need in your life, or has a dream been shattered? Sometimes in life we experience setbacks and failures. We work towards a goal, only to see it thwarted. We have an image in our minds of the perfect family, career, or lifestyle--yet what we have in reality is disappointing.
Hopes and dreams are not bad--they inspire us to keep going. But when dreams fail, they leave us confused, disillusioned and sometimes devastated. Unfulfilled expectations are painful. They can even be traumatic, especially when we have put our whole hope in these expectations.
Read 2 Kings 5. In this passage we see a man who almost became a casualty to his high expectations. Yet because he was willing to subdue his ego and submit to the Word of God; he experienced a miracle.
Naaman was a powerful man, but he had a painful problem: "Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy" (2 Kings 5:1).
There are many similarities between leprosy and sin. Like leprosy, sin begins small--a little patch--and then spreads insidiously all over the body, infecting our faculties, twisting our intellect, perverting our emotions, hardening our conscience and enslaving our will.
Leprosy and sin both lead to decreased sensitivity. Leprosy causes diminished nerve centers and the inability to feel sensation. Likewise, when we allow sin to control our lives, we become callous and numb to the Word of God.
During the days of the Bible, leprosy patients were treated as if they were already dead. There was no cure, and the lepers were isolated from the community. They were hopeless, considered living death. When Jesus Christ healed leprosy in the Gospels, He was not only performing a miracle but doing the unimaginable. The Savior touched the untouchable and loved the unlovable. He healed lepers when society wanted to isolate them. He forgave them when nobody else could. That same Savior is the only One who can perform a miracle in our hearts today.
We can only imagine how horrible leprosy was for Naaman--he had power and victory in every area of his life, except his health. Fortunately, there was a Hebrew slave girl in his household who told Naaman's wife, "If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy" (2 Kings 5:3). The girl's faith was not in the prophet, but in the God he served. She knew Jehovah-Rapha had the power to heal a disease that nobody else could.
Yet when Naaman met Elisha, his expectations were shattered. "Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, 'Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.' But Naaman went away angry and said, 'I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy....Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed?' So he turned and went off in a rage" (2 Kings 5:10-12).
When Naaman finally conceded and dipped in the River Jordan seven times, his skin was healed. The miracle did not come from the river, or even Elisha's words. The miracle came from Naaman's trip to the river, because there is blessing in surrender. There is a miracle in obedience. There is provision in submission. There is healing in yielding.
What sin have you been refusing to surrender to God? What disobedience have you been rationalizing? Pray to God today, "Lord God, I come to you in obedience. I cannot give this up, but help me give it up. Lord, I cannot do this. Please help me to do it. Lord, I don't want to surrender this, but I want you to help me to."
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June 28, 2009
Easy Baked Pancakes
Easy Baked Pancakes
Makes: 6 servings
Created by The MDM Team, Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Say sayonara to frying and hello to baking these cakes. Simply mix all of the ingredients together and pop them in the oven. They're every bit as good as the traditional kind.
Ingredients
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1/4 cup butter
Methods/steps
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Place butter on 13x9 inch pan. Mix all ingredients together. Pour batter on top of boiling butter. Cook 15-17 minutes.
Additional Tips
Ready in 25 min
Makes: 6 servings
Created by The MDM Team, Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Say sayonara to frying and hello to baking these cakes. Simply mix all of the ingredients together and pop them in the oven. They're every bit as good as the traditional kind.
Ingredients
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1/4 cup butter
Methods/steps
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Place butter on 13x9 inch pan. Mix all ingredients together. Pour batter on top of boiling butter. Cook 15-17 minutes.
Additional Tips
Ready in 25 min
Salsa Rice
Salsa Rice
1 Serving
This is a very easy way to season basmati or brown rice. You can use it for already cooked rice, or cook the rice from scratch. Pick your favorite all-natural salsa and experiment with different types of salsa. There are lots of new and interesting ones on the market.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup cooked rice (basmati or brown)
2 tbsp salsa
Instructions:
Just mix the salsa into the rice.
Nutritional Information:
Per serving:
129 calories
0 g total fat (0 g sat)
0 mg cholesterol
28 g carbohydrate
3 g protein
1 g fiber
142 mg sodium
-Recipe reprinted with permission of DrWeil.com
1 Serving
This is a very easy way to season basmati or brown rice. You can use it for already cooked rice, or cook the rice from scratch. Pick your favorite all-natural salsa and experiment with different types of salsa. There are lots of new and interesting ones on the market.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup cooked rice (basmati or brown)
2 tbsp salsa
Instructions:
Just mix the salsa into the rice.
Nutritional Information:
Per serving:
129 calories
0 g total fat (0 g sat)
0 mg cholesterol
28 g carbohydrate
3 g protein
1 g fiber
142 mg sodium
-Recipe reprinted with permission of DrWeil.com
Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup
Wild Rice and Mushroom Soup
Makes: 20 servings
Created by The MDM Team, Friday, December 7, 2007
Your guests will go wild over this rice and mushroom soup that puts those canned kinds to shame. They'll love every spoonful of this hearty offering.
Ingredients
7 1/2 pints vegetable or chicken stock
2 1/2 cups onion, fine chop
1 2/3 cups celery, chopped
1 2/3 cups green bell pepper, diced
5 Tbsp. parsley, chopped
5 oz. wild rice, washed and drained
20 oz. button mushrooms, sliced
1 1/4 cups red wine
Salt and pepper
Ham, bacon or chicken, chopped (optional)
Methods/steps
Put the stock into a soup pot. Sauté onions, celery and peppers; add to stock with parsley. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Add the wild rice and continue to simmer 40 minutes. Sauté mushrooms; add mushrooms and wine to soup. Season to taste. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Serve hot.
Makes: 20 servings
Created by The MDM Team, Friday, December 7, 2007
Your guests will go wild over this rice and mushroom soup that puts those canned kinds to shame. They'll love every spoonful of this hearty offering.
Ingredients
7 1/2 pints vegetable or chicken stock
2 1/2 cups onion, fine chop
1 2/3 cups celery, chopped
1 2/3 cups green bell pepper, diced
5 Tbsp. parsley, chopped
5 oz. wild rice, washed and drained
20 oz. button mushrooms, sliced
1 1/4 cups red wine
Salt and pepper
Ham, bacon or chicken, chopped (optional)
Methods/steps
Put the stock into a soup pot. Sauté onions, celery and peppers; add to stock with parsley. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 15 minutes. Add the wild rice and continue to simmer 40 minutes. Sauté mushrooms; add mushrooms and wine to soup. Season to taste. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Serve hot.
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