The cause of Christ has been hurt more by Sunday-morning benchwarmers who pretend to love Christ, who call Him Lord but do not His commands, than by all the publicans and sinners. They say they are evangelical but not evangelistic. They glory in being… disciples of the Lowest Common Denominator. They traffic in unfelt truth and refuse to get excited over religion. Their ideal service is 'a mild-mannered man standing before a group of mild-mannered people, exhorting everybody to be more mild-mannered'... How many nice, comfortable, lovely people rest smilingly in church pews, their conscience drugged, their wills paralyzed, in self-satisfied stupor, utterly unconscious of their danger while the Lord of the Lampstands warns them, 'I am about to spit you out of My mouth.

Vance Havner

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Bread	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sugar
1	pk	(8-oz) cream cheese; softened
3		Ripe bananas; mashed
2		Eggs
2	c	Bisquick
1/2	c	Chopped pecans

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350&deg;. ln a bowl cream together the sugar and cream cheese
until light and fluffy. Beat in mashed bananas and eggs. Add Bisquick and
pecans. Pour into a greased 9x5 loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until done
(may be done after 50 to 55 minutes). Note: Cover with foil the last 20
minutes of cooking time if the bread browns too quickly. Cool thoroughly
before slicing. Yield: 1 loaf.
MARILYN FINCHER (MRS. EDWARD)
From <Traditions: A Taste of the Good Life>, by the Little Rock (AR) Junior
League.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

A Message from our Provider:

“Conviction of sin is God’s way of inviting you to restore fellowship with Him.”

Redemption, reconciliation, adoption, healing, conquest – all these are ways the Bible talks about the victory Christ won on the cross. That does not, however, mean that penal substitution is just one image of the cross among many, and that we may pick and choose which one we want to emphasize. The Bible’s images of atonement don’t work like that; they are not an all-you-can-preach buffet. Actually, each of the images the Bible uses to describe the atonement finally finds its resolution in the fact that Jesus died in the place of His people. If you trace down the reality that lies behind the images, that is, if you ask enough how and why questions, what you find at the bottom of every single one of them is penal substitution.

Greg Gilbert

There is no conflict between the gratification of desire and the enhancement of man’s pleasure, on the one hand, and fulfillment of God’s command on the other… The tension that often exists within us between a sense of duty and wholehearted spontaneity is a tension that arises from sin and a disobedient will. No such tension would have invaded the heart of unfallen man. And the operations of saving grace are directed to the end of removing the tension so that there may be, as there was with man at the beginning, the perfect complementation of duty and pleasure, of commandment and love.

John Murray