The fact is, the higher up we find ourselves in terms of power, influence, and wealth – the more people look up to us – the more vulnerable we are to pride and self-deceit, and the more prone we are to be blind to our spiritual needs and deficiencies. Once we are established in a position of influence, we have a reputation to maintain. We have a lot to lose if we get honest about our real spiritual needs. For most of us, the subtle encroachment of pride is more dangerous, and more likely to render us useless to God and others, than any other kind of failure.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs	American	Cheese/eggs, Appetizers	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	lb	Butter or margarine
1/4	lb	"rat" cheese (American)
2	ts	Salt
2	c	Sifted flour
1	ds	Cayenne

INSTRUCTIONS

Cream grated cheese and shortening;  work in flour and salt. Knead on board
until smooth.  Roll into long thin roll (size of a 25 cent piece) and
chill.  Slice thin and bake on cookie sheet in 350 degree (F) oven for 8
minutes. Dust with sugar and keep indefinitely. Serve as hors d'oevres.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Jesus: power to break life controlling problems”

[The preacher’s] aim…will be to stand under Scripture, not over it, and to allow it, so to speak, to talk through him, delivering what is not so much his message as its. In our preaching, that is what should always be happening. In his obituary of the great German conductor, Otto Klemperer, Neville Cardus spoke of the way in which Klemperer “set the music in motion,” maintaining throughout a deliberately anonymous, self-effacing style in order that the musical notes might articulate themselves in their own integrity through him. So it must be in preaching; Scripture itself must do all the talking, and the preacher’s task is simply to “set the Bible in motion.”

J.I. Packer