Simply Divine

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This book was a gift from a friend who knows I love the Housewives and knows that I love to entertain. This is not meant to be a book for high-brow entertaining (although you could defnitely use it for those types of gatherings); Lisa clearly wrote this book for mainstream middle-class women, who like to host get-togethers, but aren't quite sure how to make their efforts visually appealing.

Companies House is the United Kingdom's registrar of companies and is an executive agency of His Majesty's Government, falling under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Let me illustrate with a little thought experiment. Imagine that the Father, Son, and Spirit are just three parts, three qualities God has chosen to adopt. If that is the case, then deep down, God the Father is not Fatherly in his essential being. At some point, he simply decided to start becoming Fatherly. In which case the Father has not loved the Son for all eternity. God is not, eternally, love. The very character of God must be different from what we see in Scripture. I was always attracted to natural foods and products even when Health Food stores were far and few. When I was 40 (I am 65 now) I had a small health issue and sought natural healing. The moment I walked in the door to the office of an old fashioned herbalist with shelves filled with homemade tinctures and teas I was hooked. I immediately closed the business I had, and went all in on learning everything I could about natural healing. She recognizes great people and keeps them on her crew. Our event manager was on point, responsive, and wonderful!! Our chefs, bartenders, and servers knew their business and even their sanitation staff were super friendly and happy for us. No, God is angry at evil because he loves. It is the proof of the sincerity of his love, that he truly cares. His love is not mild-mannered and limp; it is livid, potent, and committed. And therein lies our hope: through his wrath the living God shows that he is truly loving, and through his wrath he will destroy all devilry that we might enjoy him in a purified world, the home of righteousness.Regretfully, Christians do often speak of the divine attributes that way, as if they were divine flavors that sometimes sit uncomfortably alongside each other. For example, how often have you heard Christians say, “Yes, God is loving, but he is also wrathful.” We may know what’s meant, but phrased like that it can sound as if love and wrath are different moods — so that when he’s feeling one, he’s not feeling the other. But these are not separable parts of God, as if sometimes he has love and sometimes he has wrath.

God is so overflowingly, superabundantly full of life in himself that he delighted to spread his goodness.” Brilliantly stylish, funny and a craze up until this time! Apparently, the two magazine companies that fancified the narrative of the heroine speak the entirety of the novel— Gorgeous and Fabulous!Crucially, no! For God has not chosen to have or co-opt three parts called Father, Son, and Spirit. God is Father, Son, and Spirit. The difference may sound petty, but it is in fact most profound. The photos are beautiful and reflect Vanderpump’s personal style of using a near neutral palette of creamy whites and blushing pinks with an eclectic mix of finds from antique stores, flea markets, and boutiques. She urges people not to worry about matching pieces, but instead to focus on getting pieces that are a neutral color. In fact, she says it’s better if they are mismatched. Simply Divine Cakes Limited is an entity registered with the Companies House, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom.

This is why Paul can tell the Athenians, “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything” (Acts 17:24–25). The living God isn’t in any need. He doesn’t need anything to be better, to be more God, or to be more fully himself. He depends on nothing. He has fullness of being. He has life in himself. Simply Divine Botanicals is the heartchild of Master Herbalist and Natural Healer Barbara Rogers. The name of the line comes from the happenstance that made a dream of creating pure potions into a reality beyond scientific imagination. Dedicated to health and healing, (Barbara opened the first Raw Food restaurant in Las Vegas) when she realized the effects of harmful chemicals applied to the skin, her quest began. Rather than organize it by types of recipes with all the appetizers in the front, she organized it by the mood of the party you might want to host, putting all the contenders for one party in one chapter. This makes it easier for the party host trying to pull together a cohesive menu.

It means that God does not “have” some thing called love or holiness or goodness, as if those were removable organs of his that you could transplant. No, God is love — he is goodness itself, truth itself, beauty itself, holiness itself. Goodness, for example, is not some external standard he tries to emulate. He is goodness. God has no parts on which he depends. Yet in the New Testament, the Son can say, “Father, . . . you loved me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24). The eternal Son, the one through whom all things were created, who is before all things (Colossians 1:15–19), who is Lord and God, was loved by the Father for all eternity. The Father, then, is eternally the Father of the eternal Son, and he finds his very identity, his Fatherhood, in loving his Son. In Acts 19, in Ephesus, Demetrius the idol-maker makes a striking admission. He complains that if Paul is allowed to say that man-made gods are no gods at all, then Below is an edited extract from an Interview with Simply Divine Botanicals founder, Barbara Rogers, from 2015.