No-tenemos Rancho Applesauce Cake

The ambiguous words “I feel” are commonly used in four distinct ways. The phrase speaks of experience, emotions, thoughts, or desires. Serious problems arise because the word is typically loaded with authority: “If I feel it, then it’s inherently true, right, and valid.” Clear biblical thinking pierces the fog of ambiguity and authority that wraps itself around “feelings.” As minds and hearts are renewed by the Spirit’s life-giving truth, everything about us is touched.

David Powlison

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Cakes, Desserts	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Unbleached Flour
1	T	Corn Starch
1/2	t	Cinnamon
1/2	t	Cloves
1	t	Baking Powder
1	c	Nuts
1/2	c	Oil
3	c	HOT Applesauce
1	c	Sugar
1	T	Cocoa
1/2	t	Nutmeg
2	t	Baking Soda
1/2	t	Salt
1	c	Raisins
1	t	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

Sift together all the dry ingredients, add nuts and raisins.  Stir in
the oil, vanilla and hot applesauce.  Pour into a 9 x 13-inch pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30 to 40 minutes or until done.

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 714 Calories From Fat: 274 Total Fat: 31.8g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 702.5mg Potassium: 446.1mg Carbohydrates: 105.7g Fiber: 5.3g Sugar: 61.8g Protein: 8.5g

Brief history of Christian interpretation of sanctification: 1. Early church fathers (Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp) – though noting the grace of God, they emphasized a striving toward holiness. 2. Gnosticism – converts are perfect, set apart from the world. 3. Montanism – demanded separatism from unholy body of believers. 4. Clement of Alexandria – necessity for denial of world and bodily needs. 5. Pelagianism – holiness is result of self-willed moral effort. 6. Augustine – sanctification is God’s activity; not by human effort. 7. Bernard of Clairvaux – mystical personal piety by imitation of Jesus. 8. Peter Lombard – sanctifying grace by infusion of Spirit in believer. 9. Thomas Aquinas – no distinction between justification and sanctification; just infusion of God’s grace in man. 10. Council of Trent – grace inheres in soul of believer by Holy Spirit, and becomes permanent condition or attribute of believer. 11. Roman Catholic doctrine – misstated and overstated subjective implications of infused sanctifying grace, providing a boost of human ability toward perfectibility and divinization. 12. Reformers (Luther, Calvin, et al) – justification emphasized and separated from sanctification; insistence on absence of human merit. 13. Protestant doctrine – over-reacted and overstated objective implications of forensic, legal and extrinsic factors of justification and sanctification. 14. Pietists – reverted to moralistic behavioral standards of holy living, in reaction to epistemological emphasis on doctrine. 15. John Wesley – “entire sanctification,” perfect holiness possible in this life; necessity of “second blessing” experience; Holiness Movement. 16. Karl Barth – reemphasized subjective implications of Christocentric and ontological dynamic of holiness. Evangelical Protestants for the most part resisted; Catholic theologians recognized and appreciated.

James Fowler