Seatte, WA 2009: Perfectly seasoned, done to fit your needs, and to your stomach’s content. Such seems also how this website appears to have its roots in a Brazilian restaurant. Enjoy!

From Trent Ling:

“Solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”  Hebrews 5:14.

For those who’ve had the unique pleasure of dining at a Brazilian steakhouse (churrascaria), please simply be advised that this website operates similarly (but without the hefty price tag, of course).  All you can eat?  Check.  Tableside service at your leisure?  Check.  Relentless offerings of a variety of well prepared red meats?  Check?  Lesser fare (chicken, fish, salad bar, dessert) for those not quite ready for steady streams of steak?  Check.  A meal to remember in any and every case?  Check.

Nobody knowingly waltzes into a churrascaria for something less than high quality beef.  Only scrambling tag alongs bother much with the poultry or seafood.  Of course, it’s all wonderful, nutritious, and filling.  The forty-item salad bar, the chicken, the salmon, and the dessert would delight anyone, any day.  But again, real Brazilian wannabes come for the meat.

This website similarly serves boatloads of red meat to any level of doneness necessary.  From ultra-rare, to charcoal briquette, to everything in between.  For those on a strict lettuce diet, we have that too (though you’ll have to pass on 98% of what servers offer as they cross your path).  Those still on milk can drink up here (though 95% of offerings must be declined to stay on milk alone).  Bottom line, whatever you try, nibble, enjoy, digest, and grow from, will always depend upon you and not upon me.  The food’s ready; it’s your move.  But know this:  I have not licensed or franchised a spiritual or educational McDonald’s, food court, soup shop, Bonefish, or even a Ruth’s Chris.

The dogged determination you see stems from the proper and serious notion that God’s spiritual and educational buffets do exceed in quality and quantity versus runner-up charrascarias run by man.  In that, “bring it on” would be and should be the call of anyone with a clue walking through this website door.  So, we gladly bring it on.

Do not weary yourself complaining that this is not Billy Graham’s place, or grandmas “church,” or the Kindergarten you fondly remember.  Save your breath that all you wanted was a cookie.  Don’t bother trying to convert this place into a noodle bar or a coffee shop.  Billy’s, grandma’s, KinderCare, Mrs. Field’s, Pei Wei, and Starbuck’s already exist.  Don’t grumble; go there.

But, should you really want to give a completely new eating experience a spin, you may have found the right place.  Here, we “Get Serious” and ironically pepper the place with salt while slathering it with mercy (Colossians 4:6).  We feed and soothe, and feed and clothe.  With little time, few opportunities, and seemingly diminishing chances, we forego the fluff and the non-essentials.  However, along the road (as is obvious on this site) plenty of levity, irony, humor, humility, relatability, and perspective come to bear to refresh, reassure, and rescue.

Before the questions and doubts multiply like popcorn, rest assured that your “Why So Mean?” questions have already been answered.  Under fire, you must understand “The Mad Bomber” before giving up on your own game.  It mustn’t always be about you, must it?  Prepare yourself for the realization that when you’re on the wrong ship, going “Dead in the Water” is a great thing!  And should you still not be light and easy as Jesus purposed (Matthew 11:30), take heart that “Calming the Living Room” was already considered and ordered and done.  For you.  Sit and relax, already.

So:  spiritual and educational red meat in droves; chicken and fish if you need them; salad bar and dessert if you want them.  Not bad.  Come on in?  Keep walking?  Again, it’ll always be up to you.  We hope to stay around should you ever change your mind and decide it’s finally time to eat for real.  For our regulars, amen for you and for those who count on you to continue to be well-trained from constant consumption of the good stuff (the driving verse from Heaven at the top of this letter).

It’s time to turn your cards.  Green or red for you?

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