FROM THE PASTOR

What is your favorite dish that your Mom ever made? I have always loved the ones that became tradition. It was very traditional for us to come home on Sunday afternoons to Chicken and Rice. Mom would put the oven on low and let it bake until we got home from church, and on those Sundays when we had a special encounter with God—well, let’s just say that the burnt edges of the rice still tasted really good to me!

Pam wanted to know what my all time favorite cake was that my Mom made me for my birthday. I told her it was a chocolate cake and a strawberry cake. Pam still makes the strawberry cake for me each year, but when I told her about the chocolate cake, she went back into the archives and found a chocolate cake my Mom made from scratch. She spent hours getting all the ingredients just right. When she served it to me and asked how I liked it—I had a hard time telling her that’s not the cake I had in mind. We came to discover that the one I was wild about was the $2 Betty Crocker cake! Oy vey…

Our holiday tradition at the Greer clan gathering is a breakfast dish called monkey bread. Pam found the recipe back when I played professional baseball. Of course, all the grandkids go crazy over monkey bread, but even we adults look forward to it, even with all the sugar and cinnamon.

There are at least 3 women listed in the Hebrews 11 Hall of Faith—Sarah, Rahab, and the widow of Zarephath. Today we are going to look at these Moms and their recipes for faith. You might be surprised to discover where the real definition of faith is in today’s text!

Blessings,

Randy & Pam