Mama Allerding can cook. She makes one mean vegetable soup! Better yet—she can bake! And the best part of all: she taught her boys (meaning my husband included) how to bake, too! Brian’s latest peach pies: let's just say INCREDIBLE!
His older brother, Tim, is quite the baker, as well. My favorite is undoubtedly his molten lava cake recipe. Brian told a story the other day about Tim baking cookies that got me to thinking. He was laughing about how Tim cannot eat cookies without a glass of milk.
Brian always tells people, “One time I called him at like 10:00pm, and said, ‘What ya doing?’ And he told me, ‘I’m at the store—I made some cookies and we didn’t have any milk!’”
Brian gets to laughing every time—shaking his head as he pictures Tim rushing to the store at 10pm for his glass of milk.
You can’t have cookies without milk.
And it got me to thinking about the Gospel. Everything is so politically correct these days. Don’t talk politics and don’t talk religion with your friends. And if you do, don’t you dare start using the name of Jesus!
But wait… Don’t talk religion with my friends? How, then, could I ever be called a friend? Will they get to the gates of heaven and look at me and say, “You knew all that time?? Why didn’t you tell me???”
So we must tell. We are called to tell. And we must use the name of Jesus.
It’s like having cookies without milk.
You can’t have heaven without Jesus.
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Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6