28 Nov, 2007
NYC eatery offers $25,000 dessert
NEW YORK - This is one rich cup of haute chocolate: A New York eatery is offering a $25,000 dessert bulging with top-grade cocoa, edible gold and shavings of a luxury truffle.
The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate was declared the most expensive dessert in the world by Guinness World Records.
The dessert is a frozen, slushy mix of cocoas from 14 countries, milk and 5 grams of 24-carat gold topped with whip cream and shavings from a La Madeline au Truffle.
It is served in a goblet with a band of gold decorated with 1 carat of diamonds and served with a golden spoon diners can take home.
The dessert was created by Serendipity 3, a restaurant popular with tourists and once featured in a John Cusack movie.
photo & story courtesy news.yahoo.com, 11/8/07
Fine dining!
John 6:26-35 (NLT)
26 Jesus replied,
28 They replied, “We want to perform God’s works, too. What should we do?”
29 Jesus told them,
30 They answered, “Show us a miraculous sign if you want us to believe in you. What can you do? 31 After all, our ancestors ate manna while they journeyed through the wilderness! The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 Jesus said,
34 “Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day.”
35 Jesus replied,
What does today's God's Story scripture tell us about the "real food" that satisfies and lasts forever?
Today's story about the $25,000 dessert is crazy....unbelievable...and you hope that there aren't people who are so self-centered that they actually would buy this dessert. Yes, think about how many starving people could eat for $25,000.
But $25,000 is nothing compared to the priceless cost of the BREAD OF LIFE. The amazing truth is that this meal with Jesus is free for us...it's on the Father...His grace has paid the bill.
Check out the explanation in the study notes from Tyndale's LIFE APPLICATION STUDY BIBLE:
6:26 Jesus criticized the people who followed him only for the physical and temporal benefits and not for the satisfying of their spiritual hunger. Many people use religion to gain prestige, comfort, or even political votes. But those are self-centered motives. True believers follow Jesus simply because they know he has the truth and his way is the way to live.
6:35 People eat bread to satisfy physical hunger and to sustain physical life. We can satisfy spiritual hunger and sustain spiritual life only by a right relationship with Jesus Christ. No wonder he called himself the bread of life. But bread must be eaten to sustain life, and Christ must be invited into our daily walk to sustain spiritual life.
You know how sometimes you save room for dessert, but sometimes you're just too full from a good meal to even think about dessert?
Eat the BREAD OF LIFE daily. It's like "having your cake and eating it too"! It's fine dining that lasts forever...
How can we connect today's God's Story scripture to our lives?
- Praise Jesus for being the BREAD OF LIFE. Confess any way in which you have been substituting worldly junk food to feed your soul. Thank God that this life-sustaining food is free though it cost Him the life of His Son. Ask Jesus to show you how to share His "bread" with a world that is full of spiritually hungry people.
- Memorize John 6:35 as a reminder of how to feed your soul every day.
- Write down a list of worldly "junk food" that has robbed you of real spiritual nourishment from Jesus. Ask Jesus to help you avoid these items. Keep it where you will see it and be reminded to let Jesus help you to eat healthy!
How can we connect today's story and God's Story scripture and our story to others?
- Use this DAILYBIDE as a study and/or discussion starter with your youth group or small group.
- Email this DAILYBIDE to a Christian friend to encourage them by sharing what you are learning.
- Take a friend who needs Jesus as his or her Savior out to eat. Make sure you order dessert and use today's story about the $25,000 dessert as a way to talk about the expense that God paid so that you could eat the BREAD OF LIFE free.
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