Who Trains Our Children

This weeks Menu is pretty simple:

• Monday – *Leftover Minestrone/Chicken Soup
• Tuesday – Baked Ziti
• Wednesday – Tuna Casserole
• Thursday - Leftovers
• Friday - Pizza

These are my “old stand bys.” I will be taking a trip with my daughter to Ohio to go pick up my son from College. We leave on Thursday. I wanted to have enough leftovers for hubby to choose from on Thursday night.

* This is a Crock Pot Recipe for Minestrone Soup that I added chicken too:

1 chopped onion
2 chopped carrots
1 diced zucchini
1 cup shredded cabbage
2 cloves garlic
1 15 ounce can of white beans, drained
3 ½ cups of beef broth
28 ounce can crushed tomatoes
1 ½ tsp of Italian Seasoning
Salt
Pepper
1 cup Pasta (any that you like)
¼ cup Parmesan cheese
1 cup shredded chicken

Combine all the ingredients into Crock Pot except macaroni, chicken and Parmesan cheese.
Cook on Low 7-9 hours or on High 4-5 hours. Stir in the macaroni, Parmesan, and chicken in the last hour.

Hymn of the Month

Come, thou Fount of ev'ry blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise,
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's unchanging love.

Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by thy help I'm come;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God:
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be;
Let that grace now, like a fetter,
Bind my wand'ring heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above.

My Morning Devotions

This is my morning Devotion with Tabletalk Magazine, a daily devotional by RC Sproul.
Matthew 5:4-5, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed is to be approved by God. In the prior verse, Jesus has just said the Father approves of the poor in spirit , those who know their need for divine forgiveness. Keeping in that line of thinking He also says that the Father approves of those who morn (mourning over their own sin and it's effects on themselves and others) and those who are meek (persons of gentle and mild dispositions that are not easily provoked. They are prepared to do anything rather then do as the wicked do.)

The poor in spirit, the mourner and the meek are all the qualities of the believer that is approved by God. On our own we are no where near this, but with the grace and mercy of God, and the word that He has given us to learn from and grow, we can walk in his approval each day. And if we fail, and we surely will at times, we know where our help comes from.

Sinclar Ferguson Teachings on Ephesians

Sinclair Ferguson (born 1948) is a reformed Scottish pastor known for his outstanding expository teaching and writing. This is one of his messages on the book of Ephesians.
This message is entitled, The Riches of Our Inheritance; we are studying the book of Ephesians in our womens bible study using Sinclair Ferguson's' Lets Study Ephesians as one of our resources. Take some time to listen to the message along with me.

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