Name: Crackling Biscuits
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

As we come to Christ, then, empty-handed, claiming no merit of our own, but clinging by faith to His blood and righteousness, we are justified. We pass immediately from a state of condemnation and spiritual death to a state of pardon, acceptance, and the sure hope of eternal life. Our sins are blotted out, and we are “clothed” with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. In our standing before God, we will never be more righteous, even in heaven, than we were the day we trusted Christ, or we are now. Obviously in our daily experience we fall far short of the perfect righteousness God requires. But because He has imputed to us the perfect righteousness of His Son, He now sees us as being just as righteous as Christ Himself.

Jerry Bridges

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”

As we carry out our responsibilities on our jobs, here are some questions we would do well to ask ourselves: 1. Do I regularly thank God for my job – whether it is a president of a Fortune 500 company or a garbage collector? 2. Do I properly respect those at work in authority over me, even those whose religious, political or moral convictions are different from mine? 3. Do I work heartily in whatever vocation I am placed – knowing that my service is to the Lord? 4. Do I work hard even when the boss is not watching? 5. Do I strive to have as good a reputation with my coworkers as I have with my fellow church members? 6. Do I work as efficiently as possible as to make my company profitable? 7. Do I refrain from cutting any moral corners on the job? 8. Do I make suggestions on how to improve job performance and morale? 9. Do I refrain from conversations in which the boss or supervisor is criticized? 10. Do I refrain from taking small items from my employee – paper clips, copy paper, pencils, etc. – even though “everyone else does it?” 11. Do I make personal copies on the company copier? 12. Do I use the company Internet connection for my personal use? 13. Do I fudge on my expense account or time card? 14. Am I the same person on the job as I am when away from the job? 15. Do I encourage employer respect, rather than helping create employee dissatisfaction? 16. Are my work habits sloppy, or do I attempt to always produce work of excellence? 17. Am I on time, or am I often tardy at work? 17. Do I misuse sick leave or personal leave days? 19. Do I abuse workers’ compensation benefits? Do I remind myself regularly that my job performance and general attitude can bring either glory, or dishonor, to my Lord? 20. Do I use company time to witness to my lost co-workers, or do I wait until break time or lunch time? 21. Do I remind myself regularly that my job performance and general attitude can bring either glory, or dishonor, to my Lord?

Curtis Thomas

And here it is, I say it with sorrow, here it is that men fall short so miserably. Few indeed are to be found who pray: there are many who go down on their knees, and say a form perhaps, but few who pray; few who cry out to God, few who call on the Lord, few who seek as if they wanted to find, few who knock as if they hungered and thirsted, few who wrestle, few who strive with God earnestly for an answer, few who give Him no rest, few who continue in prayer, few who pray always without ceasing and do not grow weak. Yes: few pray! It is just one of the things assumed as a matter of course, but seldom practiced; a thing which is everybody's business, but in fact hardly anybody performs.

J.C. Ryle