There’s no better place to cook a delicious meal than in Italy. Fresh ingredients make great food. But you need a good recipe and a great chef to make it all come together–and I happen to be married to one. We’ll post one or two a week so you’ll have time to make your own….
COOKING THE ITALIAN WAY My wife, Rosanne, is really Sicilian (there’s a difference, as any Italian or Sicilian would tell you) but at least she is here in Parma, Italy, making great food and sharing those recipes with you. CLICK HERE to go to her page where she will add new recipes every so often….
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Titus 1:12 NASB Cretans – Crete has an ancient history. Home to the Minoans, significant to the Mycenaeans, and a major port island in the Roman Empire, Crete plays a role in the Mediterranean for thousands of years. …
You shall have no other gods before me. Exodus 20:3 NASB Shall have – In May of 2014 we looked at the important difference between Greek thought and Hebrew thought in this verse. Usually translated “you shall not have,” the Hebrew verb plus negative, lo-yihye’, reveals an important characteristic of Hebrew thought. The translation, “shall…
I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; Romans 7:9 NASB I died – In 1977, Krister Stendahl changed everything about the way Christianity understood Paul.[1] You probably didn’t know that; in fact, you probably never heard his name. What he started is now…
O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath, and chasten me not in Your burning anger. Psalm 38:1 NASB Rebuke – How long is your fuse? How long can you hold out before that deep anger about the injustice in life explodes? Oh, I don’t mean all the social injustice we observe every day. I mean that sense…
to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. Jeremiah 1:2 NASB In the days of – Theology is the progeny of Hellenism. What I mean is that theology—thinking about God—is not a Hebrew idea. The Hebrew idea is behaving according to…
to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. Jeremiah 1:2 NASB In the days of – From Moses to Malachi God sent prophets to provide His people with His point of view. But something happened about 2500 years ago. The prophetic…
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 NASB Of all nations – Perhaps we need to rethink the…
