Name: Cooking Dry Beans
Ingredients: None

God does not call all elders to be entrepreneurs, men who begin ministries and build them. Nor does He call all elders to be producers, men who accomplish a great amount of work in the church, although those are worthy things. Neither does He call all of them to be managers, adept at mobilizing others in the Lord's service, although that, too, is a worthy thing. The Lord does, however, call all elders to be godly leaders, men who by their exemplary lives as well as their sound teaching and preaching set a pattern of virtue and devotion to the Lord for other believers to follow.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Digest, Oct., Text, Reference, Fatfree	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

None

INSTRUCTIONS

This comes from Adele Davis' Let's Cook It Right:
Soaking legumes is unnecessary if the dry legume is quickly washed and
dropped into boiling water so slowly that boiling does not stop. As in
popping corn, the starch grains burst and break the outside covering of the
legume. After the covering and starch grains have burst, water is absorbed
rapidly and the cooking time is shortened. When all the beans, lentils, or
split peas have been put into the water, the heat should be lowered
immediately to prevent the protein from becoming tough. A simmering
temperature should then be maintained until the beans are tender.
It works for me; I've found cooking times to be *significantly* reduced.
Posted by "Jim Bakker" <jimb@netcom.com> to the Fatfree Digest [Volume 11
Issue 10], Oct. 10, 1994. FATFREE Recipe collections copyrighted by
Michelle Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by Sue Smith,
S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/fatfreex.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed! #A.J. Gossip”

Praying over the Word...has the effect of shaping our minds and hearts, so that we desire what the Word encourages us to desire, and not just what we desire by nature. That is why the prayers of Bible-saturated people sound so differently. Most people, before their prayers are soaked in Scripture, simply bring their natural desires to God, In other words, they pray the way an unbeliever would pray who is convinced that God might give him what he wants: health, a better job, safe journeys, a prosperous portfolio, successful children, plenty of food, a happy marriage, a car that works, a comfortable retirement, etc. None of these is evil. They're just natural. You don't have to be born again to want any of these. Desiring them - even from God - is no evidence of saving faith. So if these are all you pray for, there is a deep problem. Your desires have not yet been changed to put the glory of Christ at the center.

John Piper