Scripture does not portray people as merely sick or even confined to intensive care. They are spiritually dead. They are religious and moral cadavers! Yes, people are very much alive physically and mentally and emotionally. But they are dead spiritually. This is not to say that faith and repentance are unnecessary. If a man is to be saved it will be through faith, or not at all. But because he is spiritually lifeless (Eph. 2:1-2), he must first be made alive by the power of God’s grace before he is able to repent and believe.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Bread	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Lukewarm water
1	pk	Yeast
2	c	Buttermilk
1/4	c	Honey
2	ts	Salt
1/4	c	Oil
1/2	ts	Baking soda
4 1/2	c	Flour

INSTRUCTIONS

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Scald buttermilk and add honey, salt, oil and
soda. Cool to lukewarm; add yeast and stir well. Add flour to make a soft
dough. Knead until smooth. Shape into rolls. Cover and let rise. Bake at
425    for 15-20 minutes.
MRS WINSTON BURKS (JENNIE)
MARVELL, AR
From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell,
AR  72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

A Message from our Provider:

“Many people give thanks to God when He gives. Job gave thanks when He took.”

Our Western worldview gets involved here once again. We have a strong tendency to want to analyze everything and place the parts in neat, mutually exclusive categories. So we ask questions like, How do I know whether it is the world, the flesh, or the devil? My response is that most situations will involve some of each element to some extent… (They) are treated as working together so closely that you cannot talk about one without talking about the other. The flesh is the earthly qualities about which enable us to respond to the temptation. The world is the milieu in which we live and which is under the control of 'the ruler of the kingdom of the air.' Satan and his demons know what fleshly parts of us are especially vulnerable, and they use the stimuli of the world around us to arouse sinful thought in us. The Devil would be a fool not to try to take advantage of the world and the flesh in his aim to destroy us.

Timothy Warner