As I mentioned in my last post, IHOP sees itself at the moment as being something of a bootcamp for intercessors. And in the boot camp tradition of "As of today, you don't know how to tie your own shoes!", I feel like I've been relearning everything about God, Jesus, the Bible, prayer, and holiness.

Dave Sliker apparently welcomes Onething interns by telling them "Our purpose here is to convince you that you don't really know God. And then we want to convince you to spend the rest of your life solving that problem."

Although Stuart didn't use the same catchy line for the Fire in the Night interns, the concept certainly applies. For me, the shakeup this week was about the Gospel.

For most of us from an evangelical background, what we mean by "the Gospel" is substitutionary atonement – that is, Jesus died in my place on the cross so I can be saved only by His grace which comes through faith. We were introduced to the Gospel through something like the "Four Spiritual Laws:"

1. God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life.
   
2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.
   
3. Jesus Christ is God's ONLY provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.
   
4. We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.
   

Even before I came here, I saw that there were significant gaps in this definition of what the Gospel is.

• Where is the Holy Spirit? What does He do, and why is He so important?
  
• What is the significance of the Resurrection of Jesus? If the death of Jesus for our sin was what really mattered, why do we care that He was raised from the dead?
  
• What is the motivation for holiness? By yielding to Christ, our "interests are directed by Christ, resulting in harmony with God's plan" – but how important is that? Is it an issue of quality of life? Or is it an issue of life and death?
  
• And is God's plan just for my life? Does God have a plan for the whole world, or is the best that we can hope for that individuals will live better lives and go to heaven because they accepted Jesus?
  

Obviously, the above issues are typically considered discipleship issues rather than evangelism issues, meaning that a person can make an initial decision to accept Christ as Savior, and then work through the "details" later on. But there's a big problem with that idea. As someone said, "What you win them with is what you win them to." I think that some of the holes in this message are the reason that so many people in the Bible-believing Evangelical church are living worldly lives of sin and compromise. They may literally be "slipping through the cracks."

I'd like to present what I think is a more complete way to introduce the Gospel, but before I do that, I feel that I need to present a few caveats:

First, I have to say that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to those who preached the Gospel to me in this form. I do not wish to slam the many excellent para-church organizations that seek to equip believers to share their faith and get them over their fears so that they will actually share Jesus with friends, family, and co-workers. The work of these organizations has borne fruit and continues to bear lasting fruit in many places. And the approach described above separating out evangelism issues from discipleship issues did in fact work for me.

Second, the issue that we're facing is much bigger than one of getting our theological ducks in a row. The following statements by Paul should be extremely sobering to anyone who aspires to preach the Gospel:

Galatians 1:11-12

11 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it
came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I Corinthians 2:1-5

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

What we need is not a better-thought-out way to arrange Bible verses, but the actual word of God (that is, the scriptures brought to life through the enlightening of the Holy Spirit), attested to by supernatural power in the Holy Spirit. (which, lest anyone misunderstand, will principally manifest itself in a life of obedience to the Sermon on the Mount)

Third, the Gospel, in a word, is Jesus. It is the Good News of His incarnation, His perfect life, His death, His resurrection, His second coming, and His coming eternal reign. As we used to say in the church where I grew up:

Christ has died;

Christ is risen;

Christ will come again.

(The "mystery of faith," from the United Methodist Common Liturgy)

Ultimately the "Full Gospel" is the person of Jesus Himself, and every one of us that submits our lives to Him will be searching out the mysteries and wonders of the Good News of the God-Man for all eternity.

So with those caveats on the table, I'd like to present my very-imperfect suggestion of a more complete way to introduce the Gospel:

The Gospel of the Kingdom

1. God, the Creator, made all of creation good and entrusted it to humanity as the good rulers of His creation.
   
   Genesis 1:28
   
   Genesis 1:31
   
2. Humanity was deceived by the devil into rebelling against God. We became bad rulers who are slaves of the devil and subject to death.
   
   Genesis 3:17-19
   
   Romans 5:12-14
   
   Luke 4:5-6
   
3. God became a Man in Jesus Christ so that He could recover the right to rule God's creation as a good Ruler.
   
   Luke 1:31-33
   
   Isaiah 11:1-5
   
4. Jesus, the King and the Suffering Servant, paid the penalty for rebellion and sin by dying on the cross.
   
   Isaiah 53:4-6
   
   Romans 5:6-10
   
5. Jesus the King was raised from the dead and received His kingdom. All of creation is now rightfully His.
   
   Matthew 28:18
   
   Acts 17:30-31
   
6. For a short time, Jesus has allowed rebellion to continue on earth, in order that as many as possible may repent of rebellion and accept Him as King. All who accept Him will receive the Holy Spirit to empower them to obey His law.
   
   John 1:11-12
   
   Romans 10:5-10
   
   Jeremiah 31:31-34
   
7. When the time is up, Jesus the King will return to earth and end all rebellion. He will fulfill every promise He ever made to Israel and the world. His kingdom will last forever.
   
   Daniel 7:13-14
   
   Matthew 24:30-31

From Compass Direct: Young Muslims Murder Three Christians

Two Turkish believers and a German believer were martyred in the Turkish city of Malatya on Thursday this week (18-Apr). They were tied up and tortured with knives for 3 hours before the police arrived. The 5 youths killed their prisoners as soon as they realized the police were breaking in.

It is somewhat unsettling to me to realize that this happened on the same day that I was praying for Turkey for boldness in witness for the church and for the Word of God to have power on it. Tertullian said the blood of the martyrs is seed, and Jesus said that "unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain." (John 12:24) So, praise God.

It's really hard to go through the process, though! :(

Again, we'd better get used to this kind of thing - we're going to need the grace to go through that process a lot more before the end comes.

Please pray for the families of the victims, and for continued boldness in the Turkish Church. (Acts 4:29-31, 2 Thes 3:1-2)

More information:

Three killed at Turkish publisher

(WARNING: graphic details)

Turkish doctor details torture of victims at publishing house

I mentioned that my initial reaction to IHOP was that I felt like it was the coolest place on earth. I think that wore off a little bit after the first week or so – being in the prayer room is a bit more like work now rather than just a thrill. But it's a joyful kind of work – at least on days when I'm not exhausted!

I've adjusted well to the night schedule, and have even adapted to the Nightwatch habit of referring to 2 pm as "morning" and 6 am as "night." (Hmm… "Woe to those who … put darkness for light, and light for darkness…" – Isaiah 5:20) I have been drinking a bit more coffee than I used to, but not ridiculously so…

The biggest thing that I think has been happening in the past two weeks is that a lot of bad ideas have been "de-toxing" out of my mind. Here are a few examples of new ideas that have replaced bad ones:

• Prayer should be positive – There are about 25 apostolic prayers in the New Testament in addition to the prayers of Jesus. There is not one of them in which the person prays against a sin, or a spiritual condition, or a false teaching, or even a demonic stronghold. All New Testament prayers are positive – they pray for love for God; opening of our eyes to the revelation of God; unity in the body; power to comprehend the greatness of God's love; etc. If those kinds of prayers are answered, then sin, pride, worldliness, lukewarmness, unbelief, etc. will all be dealt with! And we will not have encouraged strife and division in the body in the process.
  
  
  
• Denominations are not evil – IHOP is committed to supporting and encouraging every denomination of the church. Our goal should not be the removal of denominations, but the renewal of every denomination.
  
  
  
• Elitism is utterly out of place – IHOP has not "got it all figured out". All IHOP is right now is a boot camp for intercessors to work through their demons, figure out a little bit of who God is, and get lots and lots of practice praying the prayers that Jesus and the Apostles gave us. We're praying for big things, but praying in full recognition that we are as needy as everybody else.
  
  
  
• God's word is true and meant to be understood by everybody – There have been at least half a dozen times in this first week in which someone has asked something like "What does it mean that there will be 7 angels with 7 trumpets?" and the answer has been "It means that there will be 7 angels with 7 trumpets." The hard part is not understanding what the Word says, but dealing with the fact that we don't believe or we don't like what it says. For me, this happened quite prominently over Psalm 145:14:
  

  The LORD upholds all who fall,
  
           And raises up all who are bowed down.
  

  I must have prayed over this for an hour. "All who fall?" "All who are bowed down?" I just didn't believe it. Surely someone somewhere falls and God does not uphold them? Surely some are bowed down who will never be raised up?
  

  But no – the Word is still true. God really does raise up all who are bowed down – it's just a question of when. When I said "some who are bowed down are never raised up", I meant "never raised up in this age." But I failed to realize that God's perspective is not like our perspective. He does not restrict His view to 70 or 80 years of human life, or to a few thousand years of human history. He looks at things from the perspective of eternity.
  

  And so when David wrote that God upholds all who fall, this was not something that David had obtained by natural observation. It was a revelation from the throne of God Himself, viewed from the perspective of eternity. In the Resurrection, there will be no one bowed down who has not been raised up.
  

• Prophets are not infallible and not teachers – IHOP's history rests on a number of really dramatic prophetic words. When I arrived, I had a large dose of skepticism about these words because I had heard several pretty sketchy stories about some of the prophets involved.
  

  I've had several opportunities to ask these questions very frankly in the first two weeks, and have had the following very significant mental shift: Prophets are not teachers. Ephesians 4:11 says "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers," That means that the prophets may not be qualified to interpret the dreams and visions that they themselves receive. So if you hear a prophet preaching something unbiblical, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's a false prophet, it just means that he's not a teacher, and whoever let him teach is the one who made the mistake.
  

  This is a subject that I'd need more than a single bullet point to really address, but suffice to say that I've been convinced that the prophecies on which IHOP is based have been heavily checked against the Word of God and are well validated, even though some of the prophets who gave the words have themselves gone off the deep end.
  

• Prophecy is usually for edification and exhortation and comfort, not direction – In our internship binder, we have a great little section on "inappropriate uses of simple prophecy." It says that there is a distinction between the office of a prophet (in the New Testament sense – Ephesians 4:11), and the general gift of prophecy (which all believers can operate in – I Corinthians 14:1 and 14:31).
  

  Those who have the specific office of prophet should have their words validated by a long track record of accurate predictions. If they have that, they can be trusted to give words of direction and correction to ministries and leaders.
  

  But the gift of simple prophecy should function primarily for edification, exhortation, and comfort (I Corinthians 14:3). It should not be used for direction. This is especially true when it comes to personal issues – do I take that job; do I marry that person; do I buy that house? The way to make those sorts of decisions is by wisdom, godly counsel, and the inner confirmation of the Holy Spirit. Or, as Stuart Greaves said (paraphrasing Augustine): "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and then do whatever you want."
  

I believe that in every sermon I've ever heard on Moses, if the story of the burning bush was included, the preacher interpreted Moses' response to God as being stubborn foot-dragging. Moses, I was told, brings out every hesitation and "what-if" scenario in the book in order to avoid obeying God; and then when he finally runs out of excuses, he simply asks God to send someone else. These sermons typically pointed out that God refrains from anger the entire time that Moses is playing this game, until he finally digs in his feet and refuses to obey (Exodus 4:13-14). This is meant to show God's patience and slowness of anger as He bears with our foolishness.

Certainly God is patient and slow to anger – and Moses' last comment does appear to be a failure of courage. But I'd like to suggest a very different reading of Exodus 3 and 4. Notice how much Moses gained in his dialog with God.

Moses asks for the Presence of God

Exodus 3:11-12

But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."

Moses was aware of his complete inability and powerlessness to do anything about the situation of Israel in Egypt. He had already tried to deliver Israel once, and the vanity of attempting it in his own strength was abundantly revealed to him. God had to send Moses into the wilderness to tend sheep for 40 years – quite a step down from living in Pharaoh's palace and growing up as an Egyptian nobleman! – before he could recognize that his own strength was utterly insufficient for the task that God had called him to.

So Moses asked for God to go with him. God had to do the work, not Moses.

Moses asks for the Knowledge of God

Exodus 3:13-14

Then Moses said to God, "Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is His name?' what shall I say to them?"

And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"

This is an incredible request and an incredible answer. Moses has the boldness to ask God for a revelation of Himself in the form of a name which will show His difference from and superiority to the gods of Egypt. God's answer is profound – both as a revelation of the nature of God as the self-existent One – the One from whom and for whom and through whom are all things – but also because this was a brand new revelation:

Exodus 6:3

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name LORD [YHWH – "I AM WHO I AM"] I was not known to them.

In The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer said "The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems." When Moses asked for God to reveal His name and His identity, he was not stalling for time or looking for a way out. He was asking a profound and utterly relevant question – "God, who are You?" Everything in ministry and calling and life is affected by the answer to that question.

Moses asks for the Power of God

Exodus 4:1-3

Then Moses answered and said, "But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you.'"

So the LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?"

He said, "A rod."

And He said, "Cast it on the ground." So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

The assumption behind the sermons that I've heard seems to be that Moses should have been willing to go off to Egypt without asking God all of these questions. Moses is lacking faith because he asked for all of these things. But yet, how exactly do people believe in God? Is it a matter of being convinced intellectually that God is real? Would a good argument on Moses' part have convinced the Israelites to believe that God cared about them? Would a good argument (perhaps an appeal to conscience?) have persuaded Pharaoh that keeping Hebrew slaves was immoral and unwise, and that "the right thing to do" was to let them go?

Of course not. And the same is true for the ministry of God throughout history. Paul said precisely the same thing about his ministry to the Corinthians:

I Corinthians 2:1-5

And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Moses asks for the Anointed Word of God

Exodus 4:10-12

Then Moses said to the LORD, "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."

So the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say."

These sermons (and others, perhaps in the vein of "God can use anyone – just look at Moses!"), often interpret verse 10 as Moses saying that he had a stuttering problem. Stuart Greaves from IHOP gave me the following insight on this verse: Moses had been trained as an Egyptian nobleman. He had had the best schooling in Egypt. He didn't have a stuttering problem – he had a God problem. He had encountered a Reality for which human language was utterly insufficient. His reaction was the same as that which most of the prophets had when they encountered God – Isaiah ("I am a man of unclean lips!"), Jeremiah ("Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth."), Job ("Behold I am vile… Once I have spoken, but I will not answer.")

What Moses needed was not natural speaking ability, but the ability to communicate incommunicable truths about the transcendent God. He needed a word that was not his own, but the very word of God spoken with power, that would have the effect of breaking down the strongholds of darkness. He needed words with power in them. And again, this is consistent with the experience of the New Testament church:

Acts 4:29-30

"Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."

Note also that God's response to Moses' issue about speech was not to send Aaron with him – that was a response to Moses' final statement, in which it seems that his courage really did fail him. God's answer about speech was to promise him that He would be with his mouth and give him the words to say. In other words, He would give him the word of God anointed with power.

My conclusion with regard to this interaction between Moses and God is that Moses was a broken man. God had broken him down, shattered his pride and his self-reliance, and emptied him of any hope of accomplishing his calling by relying on human strength. And so he had obtained poverty of spirit – that precious quality of the inner being which is the pre-requisite for everything in the Kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3). He was a fit vessel for the glory of God to work through him. And in his condition of poverty of spirit, he saw that it was absolutely critical that he ask God for what he needed.

So why do so many of these sermons preach about Moses as being stubborn and unbelieving because he asked God for revelation and power before he acted? I'm afraid it's because the American model of ministry doesn't ask for anything before it acts. Our definition of faithfulness is to try hard, think carefully, strategize well, and the ultimate goal is being productive for the kingdom of God. We fit prayer in there, but for some reason the prayer meetings are always sparsely attended. There are lots of reasons for that (Mike Bickle's series "Experiencing Easy Prayer" has a great discussion of that), but I think one of the reasons why we don't really pray much is because we don't honestly think we need it. It doesn't "work" for us – prayer is somehow the opposite of the "work" of the ministry.

If we had the heart of Moses, prayer would become absolutely central to everything we do. In comparison to who God actually is, we have an infinitesimal revelation of what He is like. In comparison to what God is calling His church to do and to be, we have no power to make anything significant happen. We need to stop making fun of Moses and start imitating him!

So I suppose I can admit publicly that I am a Battlestar Galactica fan. The show seems to have cleaned up its act a bit this season, and if Dave Sliker can use losing at Risk as an illustration of Psalm 2, I think I'm justified in using Battlestar Galactica as an illustration…

In a recent episode, Colonel Tigh commented that the Galactica had been so beat up in its last battle that it would take 6 months in dry dock just to get out the dents (let alone the more serious damage).

Those not familiar with the series could easily miss the pathos in this comment. There is no dry dock for Galactica. There never will be. The only dry docks that existed for the Colonial Fleet were destroyed in the Cylon invasion of the Colonies, and the home that the Colonials left behind is now an uninhabited radioactive wasteland thousands of light-years away. Galactica may be crippled and limping along, but there is no hope for repair. There's no home to go back to.

The only hope that the Galactica has is that the rumors and vague hints of a new home (a place called "Earth"), may possibly be true.

The Bible tells us that the world is "fallen." What we see around us is the crippled and limping wreck of a planet which was all but destroyed in its last battle – the one in which the appointed governors of the world willingly and treacherously handed over the keys to the arch-enemy of all creation. The fact that the world exists at all after that disaster is only a testimony to the mercy of its rightful King.

The image of Galactica heavily damaged and in need of extensive repairs which can never come is only the faintest shadow of the reality in which we live every day. Everything is broken, everything is wrong, and there is no hope for repair or restoration in this world.

But we too have rumors and hints of a hope. The rumor is that the King who made the world – that He entered His creation, became one of us, brought all the brokenness and decay of fallenness into Himself, and then conquered it all. He did away with the brokenness of sickness and death and the much more serious problem of the treacherous rebellion of the human heart by His death on the cross.

There is life for the world; there is a hope and a future; there will be a restoration and a setting-right of all things. The King will come again and He will set up His Kingdom literally and physically on planet Earth, and "of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end." (Isaiah 9:1-7)

But here we come to the part that is strange. We live in the midst of total disaster; everything is wrong, and in our heart of hearts, we all know it. We all know that we don't have what we need to make life work; that our lives are fundamentally lacking. There is a great emptiness and hopelessness at the heart of creation and the human heart…

And yet, we deny it continually. Democratic nations are built on hopeful promises for a future where things really get fixed once and for all and everything works right; Undemocratic nations are built on the imaginations of men who believe that somehow the increase of their own government and power will know no end. Individually, we all pretend that with a bit more organization, a bit better planning, a bit more effort, or just a bit more luck, we will somehow break through the problems and everything will be fixed.

It is not surprising that nonChristians believe this. After all, for them, there is no hope any other way. Why admit defeat when there's no possibility that anything will be different? As I heard someone say recently, "Why stop running when you believe that no one will have mercy on you, even if you're severely injured?"

What is surprising is that Christians believe this. We act like, somehow, we will pull things together. Sure, my life is full of sin and depression and confusion. Sure, my church is full of pride and anger and strife and worldly ambition. But if we just try a little harder… if we just get a little better theory for how to make life work…

Most frightening of all is that when we define the problem in those terms, and seek the solution by those means, we will define success in the same terms. We will actually think that we are making a difference when we plug three holes in a sinking ship. Look, last year there were 27 holes in the ship. This year, there are only 24. We are clearly making progress! What we fail to realize is that last year the water was up to our shins. Now it is up to our waists. The ship is going down and "a bit more" of the same is never going to save us.

Jesus addressed this issue when He spoke to the church in Laodicea:

Revelation 3:17-19

Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

The reality for every one of our lives and every one of our churches is exactly what Jesus says: Poor. Blind. Naked. The only way that any of those conditions changes is when we live in active relationship with the Lord. He does not give us gifts so that we do not need Him anymore. The only Gift He gives us is Himself. To the extent that we are connected with Him, we are rich, we can see, and we are clothed in white garments. To the extent that we live without Him, we will always be poor, blind, and naked.

The amazing promise here is that the currency by which Jesus allows us to purchase "gold refined in the fire" that we may be rich and "white garments" that we may not be naked and "eye salve" that we may see, is precisely what we have: our hunger. Poverty buys gold. Nakedness buys garments. Blindness buys eye salve.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

The folly of our lives is trying to pretend that we have the resources to make life work without Jesus.

The practical application of this is simply this: We must ask. It is only the poor who ask for help. The Kingdom of God is fundamentally driven by request. The way that God has set up life is that those who ask receive. Those who seek find. To those who knock, the door will be opened. Asking, seeking, and knocking must be non-negotiable activities of the people of God. This means that we must pray. We must fast. And we must be persistent (more on that later perhaps).

For a much better explanation of these issues, as well as a great context for understanding what being connected to Jesus really means, I highly recommend Corey Russell's book Pursuit of the Holy. He doesn't include any references to Battlestar Galactica, though…

Greetings all!

Sorry for the delayed post, but I wanted to let everyone know that I have arrived at IHOP!

I think this is the coolest place on earth.

Don't have much time to post right now (I'm only getting on the computer an average of 1 hour every couple of days), but here are some highlights from the first week:

• Stuart Greaves, the director of the internship, gave an amazing talk on the Eternal Servanthood of the God on Sunday. Check out the notes online at:
  
  04-01-07 - The Beauty of Jesus As The Servant of All - Stuart Greaves
  
  
• We've been praying quite a bit in the Nightwatch for upcoming Sunday Easter services and for revival to break in the church in America. We've been singing this chorus a lot:
  
  Every congregation
  All denominations
  Demonstrate Your power!
  
  
• Since I'm sure Joy (at least) will get a kick out of this, here are some things that I've eaten in the first week here:
• Pastrami sandwiches on white bread rolls
• White bagels with Skippy peanut butter
  
• Cheesecake
• Several bottles of Mountain Dew (the coffee shop closes at 11!)
• A mango slushy (read: ice, sugar, artificial flavoring and artificial coloring...)

(Actually the food isn't bad, but getting healthy food is a bit of a challenge...)

Much more later!