Name: Everybody's Favorite Chocolate Cake
Ingredients: 3 Chocolate squares,unsweetene; 2 1/2 c Cake flour,sifted; 2 ts Baking soda; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/2 c Butter,at room temperature; 2 1/2 c Brown sugar,firmly packed; 3 Egg,at room temperature; 1 1/2 ts Vanilla; 1 c Sour cream; 3/4 c Water,boiling

A healthy church has a pervasive concern with church growth – not simply growing numbers but growing members. A church full of growing Christians is the kind of church growth I want as a pastor. Some today seem to think that one can be a “baby Christian” for a whole lifetime. Growth is seen to be an optional extra for particularly zealous disciples. But be very careful about taking that line of thought. Growth is a sign of life. Growing trees are living trees, and growing animals are living animals. When something stops growing, it dies.

Mark Dever

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Desserts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3		Chocolate squares,unsweetene
2 1/2	c	Cake flour,sifted
2	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	c	Butter,at room temperature
2 1/2	c	Brown sugar,firmly packed
3		Egg,at room temperature
1 1/2	ts	Vanilla
1	c	Sour cream
3/4	c	Water,boiling

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 325'F.
2. Melt chocolate on a large square of aluminum foil
in a very low oven, bringing up edges of foil to
prevent spillage. Cool to room temperature.
3. Grease and flour an oblong shallow baking pan,
preferably glass, 12x8x2".
4. Sift flour, baking soda, and salt onto waxed paper
and set aside.
5. Beat butter in a large bowl until very light and
fluffy (easier with an electric mixer). Add brown
sugar and beat until very fluffy and no trace of
sugary "grittiness" remains. Add eggs and beat until
well blended, then stir in melted chocolate and
vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with sour
cream, beating after each addition with a wooden
spoon. Add boiling water and stir in well.
6. At this stage the batter will be thin. Pour at once
into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for 35-40
minutes, or until cake tests done. Turn out onto cake
rack and frost with Chocolate-Peanut Butter Frosting
(recipe follows) or cut into squares and serve with
whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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“People ignore God and then blame him for the chaos that results”

It’s evident when a society turns its back on God. Many necessary traits of a civilized and orderly democracy go out the window. One of them is the loss of the concept of honor and respect. How does that come about? Take the belief that you evolved which makes life without honor, add it the self-esteem movement that teaches you only to honor yourself, add to that no moral absolutes whereby your end goal will justify your dishonorable means and then throw away divine accountability to honor because you believe you are the final say defining right and wrong.

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