A Christian is not a person who experiences no bad desires. A Christian is a person who is at war with those desires by the power of the Spirit. Conflict in your soul is not all bad. Even though we long for the day when our flesh will be utterly defunct and only pure and loving desires will fill our hearts, yet there is something worse than the war within between flesh and Spirit – namely, no war within because the flesh controls the citadel and all the outposts. Praise God for the war within! Serenity in sin is death. The Spirit has landed to do battle with the flesh. So take heart if your soul feels like a battlefield at times. The sign of whether you are indwelt by the Spirit is not that you have no bad desires, but that you are at war with them!

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Fruits		Cakes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Milk
1	c	Dried mixed fruit
1	c	Sugar
1	c	All-bran
1	c	Flour

INSTRUCTIONS

Soak first four ingredients together for at least 1 hour. Mix the flour in
well, and put into a greased lined loaf tin and bake for approximately 1
hour at 180C (GM4 375F). The cake is delicious, and served in slices with a
little margarine on. If you wrap it in foil and keep for a few days (if it
lasts that long) the flavour gets even better. The all-bran is available in
the UK as Kellogg's AllBran. It's sort of little sticks of high-fibre bran
stuff. If you can't get it in the US, I don't know what the equivalent is
(not having been to the US myself).
[You should come visit!  All Bran sounds like a variety of breakfast
cereal, yes? -- SdS] Posted By Sharon.Curtis@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Sharon
Curtis) On rec.food.recipes or rec.food.cooking
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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