There is a grave danger in ritual familiarity with holy matters, even if you are not a professional. It is all too easy to go spiritually brain-dead when the prelude begins, to “say” prayers rather than pray them, to use the cadence of a confession as a rhythmic anesthetic, to mindlessly mouth the words of great hymns and gospel songs, to nod off during the sermon, to glibly mouth evangelical creeds – and then imagine that we’re really spiritual.

Kent Hughes

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs, Grains		Cakes, Desserts	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Buttermilk
2		Egg whites
1	c	Light brown sugar
1/2	c	Cocoa powder
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	c	Finely chopped hazelnuts
1/3	c	Safflower oil
1	ts	Vanilla extract
1	c	Whole wheat pastry flour
1	ts	Baking soda
1/4	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350F.  Combine first 5 ingredients in mixing bowl and beat
together with electric mixer.  Combine remaining ingredients except the
hazelnuts in another bowl.  Sprinkle into the wet mixture a bit at a time
and beat in with the mixer until velvety smooth.Lightly oil 9 in. cake
pan.  Sprinkle the bottom with flour.  Pour in half of the batter, then
sprinkle it evenly with half of the hazelnuts.  Pour in the remaining
batter and top with the remaining hazelnuts.  Bake for 25 to 30 min., or
until tests clean. Cook, and cut into wedges.
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmealnew.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. #A.W. Tozer”

Philosophical naturalism-the world-view undergirding evolutionism-can provide only three explanations for the existence of the universe in which we live. The first is that the universe is merely an illusion. This notion carries little weight in an age of scientific enlightenment. As has been well said, "even a full-blown solipsist looks both ways before crossing the street." The second is that the universe sprang from nothing. As previously pointed out, this proposition flies in the face of the law of cause and effect. And the third is that the universe eternally existed. This hypothesis is devastated by the law of entropy, which predicts that a universe that has eternally existed would have died an "eternity ago" from heat loss. There is, however, one other possibility. It is found in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). In an age of enlightenment and empirical science, nothing could be more certain, clear or correct.

Hank Hanegraaff