Easy Cream Cheese and Spinach Roll Ups

These are good for when you need something that looks more fancy than crackers and cheese, but takes just about as much time and thought .

 

• Several flour tortillas, either plain, sun-dried tomato flavored or spinach flavored.
• Flavored cream cheese (I use Arla Buko Whipped Cream Cheese, Garlic and Herbs flavored.)
• Fresh spinach

Spread tortillas with cream cheese. Place spinach leaves in a single layer on top to cover the cream cheese. Roll up the tortillas, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a couple of hours or until serving time. Slice each tortilla roll into 1-inch thick pieces, place pieces cut side up on a platter and serve.

Variations:

• Egg Salad and Spinach Roll Ups—Substitute egg salad for the cream cheese.
• Tuna and Spinach Roll Ups—Substitute tuna salad for the cream cheese.
• Ham and Spinach Roll Ups—Place a layer of thin sliced deli ham between the cream cheese and the spinach.
  

Be sure to browse more appetizer recipes in May’s Recipe Round Up found at Hireath today. There’s still time to participate if you’d like, since Kim will add recipes to the collection until 8pm CDT today.  (Isn’t this fun?)

 

Next month’s Recipe Round Up will feature desserts at Simply A Musing Blog. I’ll be sure to post more details of that one as the date for it approaches.

On Preparing for Suffering and Evil from D. A. Carson

Last week I gave you notes on the first sermon of Donald Carson’s two sermons on this subject.  The two sermons give us five pillars on which to “lay out a stable way on which to think about suffering and evil.”  (I suggest you listen to this second sermon for yourself and only use my notes to supplement  it. I like to listen to sermons and lectures while I do the drudgework around here, and that might work for you, too.)  The first sermon included the first three of the five pillars, and this one included the last two. I’m including the first three pillars in my list here for clarity’s sake, and then the notes on the second sermon start with pillars four and five.

1. Insights from the beginning of the Bible’s story line: Creation and fall.
2. Insights from the end of the Bible’s story line: There’s a heaven to be gained, and a hell to be shunned.
3. Insights from the place of innocent suffering: Job.


4. Insights from the mystery of providence: God is sovereign, but human beings are responsible.
   
   This is one of the most difficult areas to work through theologically, and yet it is very important for us to come to some sort of stable view of these matters. Carson begins with two propositions, which he says are biblically mandated for thoughtful Christians. 
   
   
   • God is utterly sovereign, but his sovereignty never functions to mitigate human responsibility.
   • Human beings are morally responsible creatures, but their moral responsibility never functions to make God absolutely contingent (dependent on us in some way).
     
   These propositions can be defended in text after text after text. The trick is to put them together. In philosophical theology, the fact that they belong together is sometimes called compatibilism.  Compatibilism doesn’t claim that we can know exactly how they are compatible. It merely claims that we can know enough to believe both propositions.

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Sign of Spring

 Copyright © 2007, Andrew Stark. All rights reserved.

I’ve caught spring fever and thought it was about time to post a photo of one of the signs of spring at our house.  We’ve no trees in bloom, no lush green grass, no bright coloured tulips, but we do have this. Those who want to see the beauty in closer detail can click on the photo for a larger view.

 

And in case you haven’t seen photos of the Landcruiser previously, it’s supposed to look like this.

 

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Yep, it’s spring in the Yukon, when green turns brown.