The greatest of all the temptations that assail a preacher is pride. Pride, because he is set up there almost on a pedestal. He is standing in a pulpit, he is above the people, all of whom are looking to him. He has this leading place in the Church, in the community; and so his greatest temptation is that of pride. Pride is probably the deadliest and the most subtle of all sins, and it can assume many forms; but as long as one realizes this all is well.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Dessert	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Firm; ripe bananas
2	ts	Cornstarch
2	tb	Sugar
1/3	c	Orange juice
1	tb	Butter
1	tb	Light brown sugar
1/3	c	Shredded sweetened coconut
		Whipped cream

INSTRUCTIONS

submitted by: sgjg6566@pipeline.com (Julie, Michigan, USA)
Hi everyone!  Here's a recipe given to me by a friend who's "ape" about
bananas ;>) !!!!!!!!!!!!  Enjoy!!
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.  Peel the bananas and cut crosswise and
lengthwise into halves.  Arrange in a buttered baking dish.  Combine the
cornstarch, sugar, and orange juice.  Pour the mixture over the bananas,
coating well.  Dot with the butter and sprinkle with the brown sugar and
coconut.  Bake for about 30 minutes or until the bananas are tender and the
sauce is thickened.  Can serve this with either whipped cream or ice cream.
DAVE <DAVIDG@CLAM.RUTGERS.EDU>
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“A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart. #Charles Finney”

Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield