Our New Feature - Chef's Corner. Dirty Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Take that, Wyatt. I started at age 4.

I have been planning to post some of my recipes, with some suggestions for our granddaughters.

When I learned that one of my best education students has a son who likes to cook, I decided to do a little writing on the topic.

I will tag these "Chef's Corner" so they are easy to group together in a label search. The label list is in the left column.

Dirty Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

These are dirty because I begin with a pan that was used to warm up grilled meat - leaving some beef juice behind - or to fry bacon, leaving bacon flavoring behind. The better the meat, the better the grilled cheese.

I always start with coconut oil, which we make a point of using daily. There are many good benefits of coconut oil, and we love the flavor. Also, it is stable at high temps, which means it does not smoke.

Add coconut oil to the residue in the pan and heat at medium on a gas stove.

Place bread on the new and old mixture. I usually keep the bread in the freezer, so I want it warming up fast.

The keys to good grilled cheese are quality cheese and bread, plus the melt.

Cut good cheese on the bread warming up. I have my favorites in the quality cheese area of Walmart - not in the massive hanging cheese displays, which often cost the same or a little more. I like their

• Muenster - about $6 a pound.
• Smoked Gouda - roughly the same per pound.

On the cheese I place a little bit of butter - for the flavor. I make butter last a long time. As I explained to the doctor, butter is a gateway drug for me. I eat more bread because of the butter, and never tire of eating more bread and butter, toast and butter, cinnamon sugar and toast and butter.

Reducing bread consumption, as suggested by Dr. Bandy, meant my weight dropped 7 pounds.

You can use good bread - Pepperidge Farm - or white bread. Do I have to write a jeremiad on cheap, white bread? Me, a born and bred baker?

I keep the temperature at medium and place the other bread on top. To hold in more heat for the melt, I place a metal pan lid on top of the bread. Soon smoke rises up, which means the bread is toasting, maybe even blackened. I love it blackened and I am in a hurry. Those who want to back off the burn will have to wait longer for the melt.

If your cheese is not liquefied at the end, your mission has failed.

Flip the sandwiches when the smoke forms the first time. Some chefs will turn down the burner a bit, but they will wait longer too. I keep mine at medium and expect black-brown on both sides.

Muenster and other cheeses will melt and drip onto the skillet. That will make a hissing sound - your sandwiches are done. If burning is a fear, turn it low or off at the end and let the heat penetrate.

You can follow the same directions for pristine grilled cheese sandwiches, but why not take advantage of a skillet that has been baconed or beefed up already?

That is the melt desired.

Hutter Compend of Lutheran Doctrine - Based on the Confessions - Not Halle University and Missouri Sex Cult

Hutter Compend - As Mentioned on SpenerQuest

Let's fact it - they do not read, do not study, and do not engage in critical thinking.

2. How do you define man's justification before
God?
Justification is a work of God, by which, out of
pure grace, or gratuitously, he releases from sin
the sinner who believes in Christ ; grants him
forgiveness of the same, and so imputes the righteousness
of Christ to him, that being most fully
reconciled and adopted as a son, he is freed from
the guilt and punishment of sin, and obtains eternal
blessedness.

4. In order to understand these things more fully I
desire to know what you consider the causes of our
justification ?
There are three causes of our justification : 1.
The grace of God; 2. The merit of Christ; 3.
Faith, which in the promise of the Gospel accepts
these divine blessings, {Form of Concord, Sol. Dec,
Art. iii, 25.)

12. What is justifying faith?
Justifying faith is not mere historical knowledge
of Christ; but it is a great gift of God, by
which, in the Gospel, we correctly recognize
Christ as our Redeemer, and trust in him, that
alone on account of his obedience, we obtain the
gratuitous forgiveness of sins, are considered holy
and righteous in the sight of God the Father, and
obtain eternal salvation. [Form of Concord., Epitome,
Art. iii, 6.)

17. Prove from Scripture that man is Justified by
faith ?
Eom. 3 : 28. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.
Gal. 2 : 16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the
law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus
Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by
the works of the law.
Phil. 3 : 9, 10. And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through faith; the
righteousness which is of God by faith, that I may know him and
the power of his resurrection.
Eph. 2 : 8, 9. For it is by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that
not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man
should boast. {Apology, Art. ii.)

UOJ Source Material - Reading a UOJist about UOJ Is Very Important. A Festschrift Article Is Often the Best Work of a Writer.Huber, Walther, Stephan, Preus

Readers - do you find justification by faith
or UOJ in these quotations?

Justification and Easter
A Study in Subjective and Objective
Justification in Lutheran Theology

by Tom G. A. Hardt.

(This study was first published in “A Lively Legacy: Essays in Honor of Robert Preus” Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana 1985. Published here by Lutherska Konkordiekyrkan in Sweden with due permission.)

http://luk.se/Justification-Easter.htm

⁷⁵ J. G. Baier: Compendium ... , p. 286. The question concerning Walther’s relation to Huber has been treated by R. Söderlund in his article “Läran om den universella rättfärdiggörelsen i teologihistorisk belysning” (“The doctrine of universal justification in the light of the history of theology”) in Svensk Teologisk Kvartalstidskrift, 1979, pp. 114-129. Söderlund differentiates between universal justification which leaves room for an individual justification as a real act of God and which is legitimate within orthodox Lutheran theology, and another type of universal justification which permits no such act and is accordingly illegitimate. According to Söderlund the latter type is found with Huber, Zinzendorff, the Swedish Moravian 18th century theologian Rutström and also in Missourian theology. Missourian theology has, according to Söderlund, succumbed to Herrnhutism on this point through two channels: one through Stephan, the other through Swedish neoevangelicalism, which is thought to have influenced Missourian theology, a statement based on Realencyclopädie für protestantische Theologie and Kirche, 3.Aufl., Leipzig 1896-1913, 3:328, entry ”Bornholmer, die.“ The former, acceptable type of universal justification is, according to Söderlund, found with the Swedish Pietistic 18th century court preacher A. Norborg, who taught that Christ is justified as the representative head of mankind and that insofar the world was justified in Him. Yet Norborg regards individual justification as a real act of God; Söderlund, op. cit., p. 126. The material presented in our article, however, has given full proof for stating that Walther rather sides with Norborg and that his theology cannot be regarded as the offspring of Moravianism. It should be pointed out that Norborg was not unknown to the Missourian tradition. As early as 1872, during the lifetime of Walther, the Synodical Conference, the joint representation of the synods of Missouri, Wisconsin, the Norwegians, Illinois, Minnesota and Ohio, in its dealings about universal justification approvingly referred to Norborg (mistakenly called “Rohrberg”), quoting exactly the same passages as Söderlund, where Christ is regarded as the representative of mankind in His resurrection, and where “the right middleway” is proclaimed, leaving room for an individual justification as a real act of God; cfr.

Wikipedia article

Tom Gunnar Arvid Hardt, born 19 July 1934 in Oskar Parish, Stockholm, died 28 June 1998 in Öddö in Tjärnö parish, Stromstad (registered in the Kungsholmenparish, Stockholm) ^[1], was a Swedish theologian.

Hardt matriculated at the East area in Stockholm in 1953, became the Masters of Arts in Stockholm in 1956 and Theology. Laws in Uppsala. In 1971 he became a doctor of theology with a thesis on Luther's theology of communion, Venerable et adorabilis Eucharistia. It was highly acclaimed and translated into German. A popular summary was published in the book If the sacrament of the altar (1973, 2nd edition 2009). It was translated quickly to the German and Finnish. He won international recognition as a prominent connoisseur of Luther, theology and had a wide scientific network. In 1961 he resigned from the Swedish church and formed together with some like-minded standalone community Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden, in which he also was ordained. He was then, and until his death vicar of St Martin's church in Stockholm. He came early in contact with the famous German theologian Hermann Sasse and stood like this stranger for all allmänprotestantism and saw in the Sacrament Lutheran doctrine with its realism, a truth that he found negotiable. For the wider public, he became famous when his ward won a case before the European Court against the Swedish government concerning parental rights and denominational religious education for the parish children. The case, he has described in the book of St. Martin and the dragon. He translated a lot of Swedish literature from other languages, and some of his own production has been translated into other languages. His bibliography includes about 400 numbers.

Asking about Objective Justification - from ELDONA. Parts 1, 2, and 3

Published on Sep 2, 2015

A loyal viewer asks why the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America rejects the doctrine of Objective Justification. The diocese has published theses on the Scriptural doctrine of Justification, available on Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/Theses-Justific...

This is part 1 of 3 (or 4 or 5 or however many it takes to rummage through this doctrine so that you can judge if Scripture teaches it or not). Comments are welcome but please be respectful if you disagree.

Questions or comments that you'd like discussed can be sent to atpholycross@gmail.com and we'll include them in this series.

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Keith Shedron 1 day ago

In discussing UOJ with a friend, I brought up Matthew 12:32 "And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come." I pointed out that Jesus was claiming that a person the speaks against the Holy Spirit is NEVER forgiven, which contradicts UOJ, which claims they are already forgiven. I then asked if Scripture contains contradictions, and, if not, then UOJ must be false. The response in support of UOJ was bulletproof:"Scripture does not contain contradiction, UOJ is true and the words of Jesus are also true." It was then pointed out that the problem was not UOJ or the Bible, but my poor reasoning. How would you respond? Is my example valid? Thanks for the video.

Ask The Pastor 17 minutes ago

+Keith Shedron, You ran into the UOJ brick wall. "Jesus is right. UOJ is right. You're too stupid to reconcile the two." This is sad though because it demonstrates how people cannot argue their point from Scripture but only from emotional attachment to the doctrine. Onto your questions: How would I respond? I've honestly never thought about the sin against the holy Ghost as proof against OJ. Let me think about it some more. It does expose the silliness of "God justified you already, then because you didn't believe you were already justified, God took that justification away from you, but not really because you'll still be justified in hell." That alone exposes one of the main issues. OJ uses the word 'justify' in two different ways in the same argument. The best argument against OJ remains Romans 4. The only justification the Scripture teaches is Justification by faith alone not works. The issue which we will spend time on in the next video is Romans 4:25 and just what IS the object of saving faith, that face that you've already been declared righteous or the merits of Christ He earned by his perfect obedience and death on the cross? That, ultimately, is the issue, in my opinion. Keep fighting the good fight. Don't let folks get away from the Scriptures to ad hominem attacks. Just take them and drive them back to the pattern of sound words, my friend. Thanks for watching ATP and let me know if I can clear this up any further. Adios~

Matthew 6 - The Birds of the Air Teach Us To Trust in God

One reader and I have been discussing the relative absence of birds in my yard in September. We seem to be in transition from the summer birds to the winter ones. One clue is having male cardinals together, because they fight for territory when seeking a mate. In the winter, with snow on the ground. clusters of male cardinals will appear on a feature - quite a colorful sight.

Luther used the birds as teachers, because they start each day without even knowing where their next meal will come from - yet they begin each day with Matins, singing songs of praise.

Many times I have trained birds to the point where they begin a happy burbling sound when I step into the yard. Their happy talk confirms their trust that God will provide.

Yesterday I had a jay call out from his vantage point in a tree, as soon as I went into the back yard. "Feed me!"

Mourning Dove

White-winged Dove

Inca Dove

When my mother lived with us in Phoenix, she loved having birds in the yard. We bought dove blocks, large cubes of seed (dove blocks), scattered sunflower seeds, and grew them. I watched her distribute sunflower seed one morning. After generous donations of seed here and there, Mom dug into the 40 pound sack and tossed an extra large scoop across the soil. We had mourning doves that never left the yard. They waited on the fence for their next meal. They often frightened workmen by their startled and noisy flight from the yard when a stranger came out. They have noisy wings and a group cry, something apparently figured out during billions of years of evolution. The effect was impressive. Some workmen admonished me to warn people in advance.

We had all three doves in our yard in Phoenix, plus some rock doves (pigeons) here and there.

Red Cross-bills.

We even had crossbills inside our house from time to time, wandering in because the doors were left open. Mrs. Ichabod thought I should usher them out as well, and I did by talking to them, urging them to find another place to roost, and showing them the door.



Birds do not depend on us, in spite of urban legends to the contrary. They do not starve when we are on vacation. Most of my birdfood planning is through building up plants that will feed them what they need most, not with sugarwater and snackfood, but with bugs, fruit, grubs, and flower seeds.

Bluejays, native to America and unknown to Luther, do hoard acorns, and they pick the ones most likely to germinate. This has the effect to planting oak forests even more effectively than squirrels do - so some claim. Are the jays forgetful or do they lose their food on purpose, an example enlightened self-interest? I would love to read the code on their software, because that is quite an elaborate program. Alas, I only know HTML, so I doubt I could read it.

God's Creation Shows Good Management

God's management can hardly be disputed, if investigated with diligence. I read through the Good Bug, Bad Bug book by Jessica Walliser, a second or third time. This amused me - advice to avoid bad bugs - avoid garden trash and litter, because pests hide out and multiply there.

Advice to foster the growth of beneficial bugs - leave garden trash and litter, because beneficial bugs hide out and multiply there. Confidential to Jessica - I read the entire book for insect advice.

I knew which advice to take. WWMD - What Would Maynard G. Krebs Do? - "Leave the litter, because God will work out the details."

Whether anyone believes in Creation or not, the management of Creation continues. Weeds reclaim bare land. Creatures move in to do their work without complaining and find their particular role in each place or move on.

Ichneumon Waps are designed to destroy pests,
to multiply where the pests are.

Ichneumons (“ ick-new-mons”) are mysterious and exotic wasps that are parasitic connoisseurs. Each specializes in one specific host (or a very few hosts). Ichneumons are delicately sculptured and patterned with almost infinite variety and subtlety. There are tens of thousands of species, and they are difficult to differentiate; males and females within a species often come in different shapes and sizes, dimensions of appendages, and colors (from yellow and brown to brilliant shiny metallic-blue with contrasting black and white patterns). The female possesses an ovipositor that projects out of her rear end. Depending on the species, the ovipositor can be so short as to be barely visible, or as long or longer than the wasp’s body itself. The ovipositor doubles as a stinger, but primarily it is a tool for injecting eggs into the body of her host.

Heinrich, Bernd (2008-12-24). The Snoring Bird (Kindle Locations 179-184). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. 

Be honest with yourselves, readers. You did not know about this tiny wasp before you read about it here. Maybe you heard about it once and the facts did not stick in your memory. But the wasps were there all along. I can bend over any group of flowers on a calm day (if they do not spray) and find Ichneumons or flower flies (aka hover flies).

Flower Fly - Hover Fly - Syrphids.