Name: French Chocolate Almond Sour Cream Cake
Ingredients: 1/2 lb Butter; 1/4 ts Salt; 1 c Sugar; 3 Eggs; 2 c Flour; 1/2 pt Sour cream; 1 ts Baking soda; 3 ts Almond extract; 3 ts Baking powder; 1 c Confectioners' sugar; 1/2 c Nuts; chopped; 4 Sq chocolage; (unsweetened), grated

When we are tempted and seek to know and love God, and like Moses long to see His glory, and out of that occupation of our minds have no further love for that previous temptation, we have experienced something of the reality of the very highest form of freedom from sin. It is one thing to love sin and to force ourselves to quit it; it is another thing to hate sin because love for God is so gripping that the sin no longer appeals. The latter is repentance; the former is reform. It is repentance that God requires. Repentance is “a change of mind.” To love and yet quit it is not the same as hating it and quitting it. Your supposed victory over a sin may be simple displacement. You may love one sin so much (such as your pride) that you will curtail another more embarrassing sin which you also love. This may look spiritual, but there is nothing of God in it. Natural men do it every day.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy, Grains	French		1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	lb	Butter
1/4	ts	Salt
1	c	Sugar
3		Eggs
2	c	Flour
1/2	pt	Sour cream
1	ts	Baking soda
3	ts	Almond extract
3	ts	Baking powder
1	c	Confectioners' sugar
1/2	c	Nuts; chopped
4		Sq chocolage; (unsweetened), grated

INSTRUCTIONS

FILLING
Cream together butter and sugar and then mix together with all remaining
ingredients, except for the filling ingredients. Grease and flour a tube
pan. Pour 1/2 batter into pan; sprinkle 1/2 the filling ingredients, then
repeat. Marble with a knife (swirl knife through). Bake 350 for 1 hour.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest by Ceil Wallace <ctyankee@snet.net> on Feb
10, 1998

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“Either Jesus pays or you do”

Though still set apart, retaining all His holiness and deity, God in His infinite wisdom became a man that first Christmas morning and chose to dwell intimately and personally amongst His creation. The God who created stars larger than our earth’s orbit and ten million times brighter than our sun, created the womb where He would grow and the manger where He would lay. The God who dwelt in perfect glory through eternity past would be wrapped in swaddling cloths to share space with barnyard animals. The God who deserved every right to born in a palace to royal people, humbled Himself and chose Bethlehem and a poor betrothed teenage couple named Mary and Joseph. Most humiliating was the fact that God, though without sin, took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and problems and chose to dwell among sinners.

Randy Smith