Name: Kentucky Biscuits
Ingredients: 1 c Bisquick; 1 tb (rounded) Sour cream; 1/4 c Club soda; 1/2 ts Sugar; Pam cooking spray

Christian fasting is a test to see what desires control us. Fasting reveals the measure of food’s mastery over us – or television or computers or whatever we submit to again and again to conceal the weakness of our hunger for God. A real lived-out human act of preference for God over His gifts is the actual lived-out glorification of God’s excellence for which He created the world. Fasting is not the only way, or the main way, that we glorify God in preferring Him above His gifts. But it is one way.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	Kentucky	Breads	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Bisquick
1	tb	(rounded) Sour cream
1/4	c	Club soda
1/2	ts	Sugar
		Pam cooking spray

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix together in a bowl all ingredients.  Dip hand into just enough Bisquick
that you can knead dough right in the bowl until smooth and elastic. Shape
into 6 patties equal in size, 1-1/2" thick. Put close together in
Pam-sprayed 8" round baking pan.  Spray tops with Pam. Bake 450 degrees F.
(HOT) for 18-20 minutes, or until golden.
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A Message from our Provider:

“If God were an impersonal force we’d be superior to our Maker”

According to the opening chapters of 2 Corinthians we see the progression from trials to the resultant joy. Consider how Paul’s life was filled with hardship: “Affliction” (1:4), “abundant…suffering” (1:5), “burdened excessively, beyond...strength” (1:8), “sentence of death within ourselves” (1:9), “sorrowful” (2:1), “affliction and anguish of heart” (2:4), “afflicted [and] perplexed” (4:8), “persecuted [and] struck down (4:9), “constantly being delivered over to death” (4:11), “beatings...imprisonments...tumults...labors...sleeplessness...hunger” (6:5), “dishonor [and] evil report” (6:8), “dying [and] punished (6:9) and “having nothing (6:10). And that only takes us through chapter 6! And might I add that most if not all of this was related to his faithful service to Christ. So how can you go from this agony to praise to God? Answer: It was Paul knowing that Christians need to “walk by faith [and] not by sight” (5:7). And it’s this faith that recalls that every promise of God is fulfilled to us in Christ (1:20). We know we are “established…and anointed…in Christ” (1:21). We are “sealed” and given “the [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as a pledge” (1:22). We are “reconciled to God” (5:20). As a result of these truths, we “do not lose heart” (4:1) because we are [controlled by] the love of Christ” (5:14)and through our trials we are learning in those trials to “trust [more]...in God who raises the dead” (1:9). So therefore while we are “sorrowful” as a result of trials, we are because of God's promises 'always rejoicing' (6:10).

Randy Smith