Name: Popcorn--Sonoma Pop
Ingredients: 1/4 c Unpopped corn (8 cups; Popped); 1/4 c Extra virgin olive oil; 1/2 c Dried tomato bits (half of a; 3 oz Jar)

It is important that we have a firm understanding of what it means to please God. To state it succinctly, God is only pleased with that which is in perfect agreement with His perfections. God is only glorified in Himself either in beholding His innate triune perfections within His own being or observing Himself through His creation. Truly pleasing God from the creature’s perspective means being like God in moral and spiritual qualities.

John Hannah

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Appetizers, Snacks, Thanksgivin	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Unpopped corn (8 cups
		Popped)
1/4	c	Extra virgin olive oil
1/2	c	Dried tomato bits (half of a
3	oz	Jar)

INSTRUCTIONS

Pop popcorn.  Drizzle olive oil over the unseasoned popcorn. Sprinkle with
the dried tomatoes and toss until will blended.
From:  The Thanksgiving Cookbook Holly Garrison Macmillan Publishing
Company, 1991
Entered by:  Lawrence Kellie From: Lawrence Kellie Date: 29 Sep 96
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #271
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:44:12 -0400
From: BobbieB1@aol.com

A Message from our Provider:

“God will ultimately have HIS way, not yours!”

It grieves me that so many believers view the doctrine of God's sovereignty as a deterrent to a healthy, vibrant prayer life. That kind of thinking demonstrates an inadequate, incomplete and unacceptable understanding, both of God's sovereignty and of prayer. In truth, we pray because God is sovereign – He alone has power over all human events. In praying, we don't run from His sovereignty, we run to it. It's absolutely true that God is sovereign over every detail of our lives. Job acknowledged that even the number of every person's days is determined (Job 14:5). Life and death are in His hands (Jas. 4:15). Yet we eat and breathe and sleep and take measures to avoid any kind of calamity that might end our lives prematurely. Why? That's the very same question as, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' Here's the answer to why we need to breathe, and why we need to pray: God ordains the means as well as the end. And our prayers are one of the important means by which He accomplishes His will and glorifies Himself in the process.

John MacArthur