BSERC

Dear BSERC,

I just wanted to thank you all for making this Fall 2007 quarter memorable. I miss you all immensely, but I’m excited to see what 2008 has in store. May your Christmases be wonderful and blessed.

Amy

Dear Bserc,

I know that this does not pertain to the Word of God or any such Christian topic, unless one can argue that lemon scones were Jesus’ favorite pastry, but here is the recipe I keep forgetting to put up:

1 1/2 cup flour
3 Tbs sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 lemon’s zest
6 Tbs Butter (chilled)
1 lemon’s juice
8 Tbs whipping cream

Preheat oven 375 F

Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest in a mixing bowl. Using a pastry cutter (I just use 2 knives) cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbles. Add the juice and the whipping cream and mix with a wooden spoon until you form a dough (may require you to add more flour). I try to use my hands so that I can knead the dough, of course, constantly having to re-flour my hands and the dough. You can either drop them onto a floured cookie sheet by the tablespoonful or try to shape them on a cutting board.

Bake for 12 minutes or until you can lift the scones off the sheet without it sticking. Let cool.

You don’t have to, but I drizzle them with a glaze made out of powdered sugar and lemon juice.

Enjoy!

Love, Margret

Hmm … I wonder who will read this first. Or will you all hear it at BSERC tonight?

I just wanted to brag a little bit (horrible, I know). Yesterday, I installed both a prayer board and a photo gallery. Now, you all have no excuse to sign up and use them. I would just like to think that I didn’t spend all of my time yesterday (not doing my prospectus!) installing these two amazing programs just so you can ignore me. Pardon me if that sounded harsh, but I’d really hope you guys use them.

As follows:
Prayer Board - http://prayer.bserc.org/
Photo Gallery - http://gallery.bserc.org/

I love you. Truthfully.

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ that you are serving.” (Colossians 3:23-4)

http://kpucsd.org/weblog/

Calling all bsercers, Margrate and Joe Liski are performing for one of the best shows in history. It is our 15th annual Pilipino Cultural Celebration. It’s going to be awesome. For those who went last year, it’s not going to be all late like last time. For those who wanted to go last year, but could not and said, “next year i’m going.” Well… that year is NOW!!! Now is your opportunity to come and check this out. It’s going to be off the hook.

This is the webcite for y’all to know what’s sup with this amazing celebration. Just go on and you see what you need to know.

God bless, and hope you all doing well in midterms.

Come join us this Sunday for Easter services with the Rock Church at the Cox arena!
Here are the times and such. I know at least a couple of us are going so there won’t be any shortage of rides. Email me if you want to join us!

Also, there’s a free concert Friday night featuring Something Like Silas and Starfield - we’ll be meeting at 6:00 at Pangea if you want to come with! Should be pretty good ; )

See you Wednesday at BSERC!

I read Simon Cozens post about justification. His “now-common questions” for Justification by Faith are not all questions I have heard of yet, but then again I haven’t been dabbling much into views of justification. However, there are a couple questions which he listed that I have thought about as well, but without much success in answering:

• Why do we equate salvation and justification, failing to take note of the wider sense in which salvation is used in the Bible?
• If righteousness is imputed (ie. counted, considered) to us, is justification by faith anything more than a legal fiction where God pretends we’re righteous even when He knows full well that we are not? If not, and righteousness is imparted to us, is righteousness a kind of physical thing that it makes sense to pass around?
• Why did Jesus bother teaching? If Jesus came to save us and that salvation is reduced to the cross as substitution, what was the purpose of His teaching and commandments?

Being raised with this doctrine, I have never really tried to analyze its truthfulness (or “truthiness”, for that matter), so I’m sorta at a loss for where to begin. He presents a couple other views, and the one which he (seemingly) favors sounds quite reasonable to me (despite its name). I’m curious tho’, where have y’all found guidance in understanding the doctrine of justification you believe? I’m looking for reading material/resources.

I often read posts by Simon Cozens, and he just posted concerning a Christian group/church breaking down the success of missions in terms of numbers and not humans. I’m not sure, but I believe the peeps he mentions are associated with Fuller, where I considered going a year ago. Anyway, I highly recommend reading it. It’s not that long, and, like most of what he writes, it’s food for thought.

So the infamous Pie Night ensues… this time including the guys (’cause we’re so nice)
Join us for a taste of one of 10 kinds of pie, a movie, and good company!

Details:
Where: Earth Hall North 406 (Jessica’s apartment)
When: Friday, February 24 @ 7:30pm
Bring: You, your friends and roommates, etc.

See you there!

Upperclassmen are offering their hard-earned MMW paper skills to students of MMW 2
Here are the dates we will be available for the first paper:

Europe Hall Lounge
Monday, Jan 30 and Tuesday, Jan 31
7 - 10pm

**Upperclassmen who didn’t get a chance to sign up, we would be very grateful to have your help!

Come hang out on the ERC Green and play Ultimate Frisbee this Friday @ 4:30
Feel free to bring your roomies, friends, and anyone who looks like they want to play, too.
Don’t worry if you don’t know how to play- we’ve got Natalie and she’s a pro!

Also, we’re thinking about heading over to Pat & Oscar’s or maybe Coti’s afterwards…
See you there : )