Name: Apple Nugget Muffins (Motts)
Ingredients: 1/2 c Margarine or butter; 1/2 c Firmly packed brown sugar; 1 1/2 c Unsweetened Apple Sauce; 1/4 c Milk; 1 ts Vanilla; 2 Eggs; 1 1/2 c All-purpose flour; 1/2 c Whole wheat flour; 1 ts Baking powder; 1 ts Baking soda; 1/4 ts Salt; 1 c Chopped walnuts; 1 c Grated apple; 1/2 c Raisins

Does the Bible explicitly condemn or forbid gambling? No. However, I do believe there are certain principles that militate against it. 1. Gambling is poor stewardship. The believer’s responsibility is to use wealth to promote the kingdom of God. The emphasis in Scripture is never on the use of money with a view to increasing one’s personal fortune but on putting our money to use in the service of those who are in need. It simply is not wise and responsible behavior to take what God has graciously bestowed and entrust it to circumstances over which we have no control (Pr. 12:11). 2. The biblical command is that the believer should obtain money by faithful and diligent exercise of God-given talents in work. Gambling is an attempt to obtain money that promotes sloth and is often an excuse for not working. 3. Gambling promotes covetousness and greed, whereas the Word of God encourages contentment (Phil. 4:11-12; Heb. 13:5). If one is seven times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win a million dollars in a state lottery, why do people continue to buy tickets? Greed! 4. Gambling appears to create a condition in which one person's gain is necessarily another person's loss. In other words, in gambling, someone always loses. If so, it would seem to violate brotherly love and justice. 5. There is a fundamental flaw in the character of any government that seeks to capitalize financially on the moral weakness of its members. 6. Gambling appears to violate our belief in the sovereignty of God. 7. Gambling has such a powerful potential for enslaving those who participate that it may well violate the admonition of Scripture that we not be mastered by anything or anyone other than the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:12).

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs, Grains		Muffins, Brandname	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	c	Margarine or butter
1/2	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
1 1/2	c	Unsweetened Apple Sauce
1/4	c	Milk
1	ts	Vanilla
2		Eggs
1 1/2	c	All-purpose flour
1/2	c	Whole wheat flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1	ts	Baking soda
1/4	ts	Salt
1	c	Chopped walnuts
1	c	Grated apple
1/2	c	Raisins

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oven to 375F. Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin cups or line with paper
baking cups.
In large bowl, beat margarine and brown sugar until fluffy. Add applesauce,
milk, vanilla and eggs; blend well.
Stir in all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda
and salt. Blend just until dry particles are moistened; stir in walnuts,
apple and raisins.
Fill prepared muffin cups. Bake at 375F for 20 to 25 minutes or until
toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from
pan.
Notes: Pantry: Mott's Natural Apple Sauce. Get your family off to a great
start with these nutritious muffins. Serve with strawberries, melon wedges,
pineapple chunks and chilled orange juice for a delicious breakfast.
>Hanneman/Buster 1998-Apr
Recipe by: Motts Applesauce www.motts.com
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by KitPATh <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on Apr 18,
1998

A Message from our Provider:

“God specializes in surprise endings”

As churchpeople, we sometimes assume that we are immune to the temptations of power. We don't make much money. Society gives us so little power that we think ambition – the drive to succeed, achieve and have prestige and influence over others – is a problem only for people in business or politics, not for people like us. We thus sometimes fail to see how we get caught up, for the very noblest of reasons, in the same ambitions that motivate everybody. Eventually, the people climbing to the top of the body of Christ can look just like those scrambling to the top of General Motors. Often you can't tell much difference between our leaders and those of the gentiles.

Unknown Author