This one is so simple that we miss it. Why aren’t we more grateful? There are many answers to that question, but this one is central: we aren’t grateful because we’ve never asked God to give us a grateful heart. By nature we are covetous, greedy, grasping and unhappy. Left to ourselves, we will be just like that rich fool. Generosity isn’t our natural impulse. We aren’t born giving; we’re born getting. Gratitude is not the inborn language of the heart.

Ray Pritchard

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	pk	Yeast
1	ts	Sugar
1	ts	Salt
2	tb	Lukewarm water
1	ts	Pepper
1		Egg yolk
1/2	c	Sour cream
2	c	Flour
2		Eggs
1	c	Cracklings or crisp chopped bacon

INSTRUCTIONS

Soak the yeast in lukewarm water with sugar. After 15 minutes, blend in
salt, pepper, whole eggs, cracklings and cream. Stir in the flour and knead
well. Roll out 1/2 inch thick. Cut into 2 inch rounds and arrange on an
ungreased baking sheet. Make diagonal cuts on top of each biscuit, brush
with egg yolk and let rise in warm place for 30 minutes. Bake at 350 F,
until browned, about 15 minutes. Makes 15 - 20 biscuits. Posted to TNT -
Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by Judy Ferbert <ajewell@sound.net>
on Jul 15, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed, knowing that God’s bonds are as good as ready money. #Matthew Henry”

I have never known anyone whose speech communicated such a sense of the reality of God as did the Doctor (Martin Lloyd-Jones) in those occasional moments of emphasis and doxology. Most of the time, however, it was clear, steady analysis, refection, correction and instruction, based on simple thoughts culled from the text, set out in good order with the minimum of extraneous illustration or decoration. He knew that God’s way to the heart is through the mind (he often insisted that the first thing the gospel does to a man is to make him think), and he preached in a way designed to help people think and thereby grasp truth – and in the process be grasped by it, and so be grasped by the God whose truth it is.

J.I. Packer