Name: Easy Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cake
Ingredients: 4 oz Butter; softened; 1 1/4 c Sugar; 2 Eggs; 1 c Sour cream; 2 ts Vanilla extract; 2 c Flour; 1 ts Baking powder; 1/2 ts Baking soda; 1 ds Salt; 1 c Chopped walnuts or pecans; 1 1/2 c Semisweet chocolate chips; (9 ounces)

Every man, by his own natural will, hates God; but when he is turned to the Lord, by evangelical repentance, then his will is changed; then his conscience, now hardened and benumbed, shall be quickened and awakened; then his hard hearts shall be melted, and his unruly affections shall be crucified. Thus, by that repentance, the whole soul will be changed, and he will have new inclinations, new desires, and new habits.

George Whitefield

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy, Grains	Jewish	Cakes-, Bundt, And, Tube	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	oz	Butter; softened
1 1/4	c	Sugar
2		Eggs
1	c	Sour cream
2	ts	Vanilla extract
2	c	Flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1	ds	Salt
1	c	Chopped walnuts or pecans
1 1/2	c	Semisweet chocolate chips; (9 ounces)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, beat together butter,
sugar and eggs with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and
fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in sour cream and vanilla until well blended.
Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; beat until well mixed. Stir
in nuts and chocolate chips. Turn batter into a well greased 12- cup bundt
pan.
2. Bake 45 to 55 minutes, or until golden and a cake tester inserted in
center comes out clean. Let cake cool in pan 15 minutes, then unmold onto a
serving plate to cool completely.
SOURCE: 365 Great Chocolate Desserts by Natalie Haughton p. 15 Harper
Collins, NY 1991 ISBN 0-06-016537-5
Recipe by: 365 Great Chocolate Desserts  p. 15
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #333 by Linda Shapiro <lss@coconet.com> on
Dec 25, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you?”

Only the doctrine of unconditional election preserves the integrity of divine grace. According to the notion of conditional election, God graciously makes possible, but not certain, the election of all people by restoring to each that power and freedom of will of which they had been deprived by Adam’s fall into sin. Whether or not God elects any person is therefore dependent on the way in which he or she makes use of this ability. By establishing the condition for election as faith, God is thereby obligated to elect all those who, by means of their now purportedly free wills, believe in the gospel of Christ. But surely, then, election itself can be neither of grace nor according to God’s good pleasure. I suppose one might say that it was gracious of God to restore in all people sufficient ability to believe and that it was gracious of God to impose the condition of faith in Christ (by which one qualifies for election). But it is certainly not possible to say that election is itself gracious. To choose men because they believe is an obligation to which God is bound; it is a debt he must pay. If it would be unjust of God, having made faith the condition of election, not to elect those who believe, then election is a matter of giving man his due. Election would be the divine response to what a person deserves. He deserves being chosen because by a free act of will he has fulfilled the condition (faith) on which election was suspended… How can election be gracious if it is something God must do because justice requires it? Election is gracious precisely because it is the bestowal of life on those who deserve only death.

Sam Storms