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NZ Food Showcase: Eta Salad Dressings

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Today’s feature NZ food item: 🔹 Eta Salad Dressing 🔹 These food blog posts are all about showcasing the food that contributes to the everyday Kiwi cuisine!  I share the food that we are familiar with, the brands that I recommend, and the ways to enjoy each food so that you can know all about the authentic Kiwi food experience too! 🌻 Description: Eta is the classic go-to Salad dressing brand for Kiwi’s! Featured in this post are my top two flavours from their approx. 20 options available!   🌻How to eat it: - Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing: A great flavour to a green salad, bean/pasta salad, or on roasted capsicums  -  Avocado and Garlic Dressing: A creamy dressing to stir through a chicken salad, or within a chicken sandwich. Also, a nice substitute for plain mayonnaise in a potato salad (with bacon!)   🌻Where can it be purchased: Your local supermarket (I like Countdown!)   🌻Cost (at time of purchase): $3.29   🌻How it has become a food item familiar to t

What does Shincheonji teach?

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  One of the things I loved when first learning from Shincheonji Church of Jesus was that everything taught was completely based on God’s Holy Bible… as well as backed up and cross-referenced by it too! I had attended many different Bible studies and many years of church services too, but it was when I studied the Bible through Shincheonji that that I was able to understand deeply about the life of faith I was meant to be living. Their teaching is deep, pure and insightful - more than just a motivational talk - it was the nitty-gritty mature teaching that I was looking for! Although I realised my scriptural misunderstandings and lack of knowledge, I couldn’t not believe in what I was taught because I could see and hear for myself the words of God that linked so perfectly together!   At the time I was learning I was living a “all-in” life of faith, but I knew there was still so much more for me to understand. I wasn’t necessarily looking to study the Bible seriously, but I am foreve

NZ Food Showcase: Pascall Pineapple Lumps

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  Today’s feature NZ food item: 🔹 Pascall Pineapple Lumps 🔹 These food blog posts are all about showcasing the food that contributes to the everyday Kiwi cuisine!  I share the food that we are familiar with, the brands that I recommend, and the ways to enjoy each food so that you can know all about the authentic Kiwi food experience too!     🌻Description: Pineapple lumps are a chewy pineapple flavoured confectionary item covered in a milk chocolate coating. They are a classic kiwi sweet!   🌻How to eat it: Straight from the packet! Kept at room temperature, pineapple lumps are a soft kind of chewy, however kept in the fridge they become a crunchy kind of chewy - you can pick how you like it! Pineapple lumps have also been used in baking such as a lolly log/biscuit slice or as decoration on a cake. 🌻Where can it be purchased: Your local supermarket (I like Countdown!)   🌻Cost: $3.00   🌻How it has become a food item familiar to the NZ lifestyle: Alon

What are the Core Beliefs of Shincheonji?

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  The following are three core beliefs that Shincheonji upholds as God’s holy and faithful children in practicing the teachings of the Bible:   🔸Shincheonji is proud to be the reality of the promised City of Truth in Rev 22 Truth refers to the word of the Holy God (John 17:17). All members of Shincheonji inscribe the word onto their hearts and put them into action every day with the hopes of entering heaven and eternal life   🔸Shincheonji upholds God’s righteousness and Justice Righteousness refers to a fair way, and justice refers to the right way (Mal 2:8). Together, they refer to the “good and right teaching”. Shincheonji members’ actions follow the Bible that is fair and righteous (John 12:48, Rev 20:12)   🔸Shincheonji preaches the Word like virtuous Kings In the Bible, virtuous (holy, wise) kings refer to pastors. The members of Shincheonji are preaching the word of truth to ensure that many people can be turned from the way of wickedness to the way of salvation (1

NZ Food Showcase: Puhoi Valley Single Cream Brie

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  Today’s feature NZ food item: 🔹 Puhoi Valley Single Cream Brie 🔹 These food blog posts are all about showcasing the food that contributes to the everyday Kiwi cuisine! I share the food that we are familiar with, the brands that I recommend,  and the ways to enjoy each food so that you can know all about the authentic Kiwi food experience too! 🌻Description: This Brie Cheese is a soft, creamy cheese circle with a soft white “mould” coating (edible). Made in a small North Island township with NZ ingredients (NZ cow’s milk, NZ cream) to create it’s unique NZ flavour. 🌻How to eat it: Brie cheese is often seen on a cheese board platter at a shared lunch, work function, wine tasting, and wedding nibbles table. It pairs well with a cured meat (e.g salami/prosciutto) and pesto on crackers/bread. Also adding sliced wedges on top of a pizza with chicken and cranberry is a winner, or it can also be a great creamy addition within a toasted panini too! Must stay refrigerated until eate

Shincheonji in a nutshell

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  Name: Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony   Shincheonji: Shincheonji is the Korean word for the ‘New Heaven and New Earth’ spoken about in Rev 21:1-5. The book of Revelation is in parable, so it is not a literal New Heaven and New Earth that will be created at the end times, but a new Tabernacle (Heaven, Rev 13:6) and new people (Earth, 1 Cor 3:9) of the new era that begins at that time.   Church of Jesus: Jesus is the owner of the Church   Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony: The holy Temple where God dwells, the place that testifies to the New Testament prophecies and its fulfilment in reality.   Established: 14 March 1984,  Gwacheon, South Korea   Chairman Man Hee Lee   In Rev 22:16 it says Jesus promised to send a messenger to the churches to speak his words at his 2nd coming . Chairman Man Hee Lee was sent as the fulfilment of this promise, and he is sharing what he saw and heard and the true meani