Name: Sausage and Apple Skillet Dinner
Ingredients: * * * * * *; 1 pk Hash brown potatoes w/onions; Water; Salt; Butter or Margarine; 2 pk 8 oz ea- Brown 'n serve - Sausages; 1 cn (1 pound) Sliced Apples; 2 tb Sugar; 1/4 ts Ground Cinnamon; 1/4 ts Salt; 1/4 ts Sage leaf, crumbled

If I did not believe in the absolute sovereignty of God: 1. I would despair of my eternal destiny. I would have no assurance of salvation. Knowing the depravity of my soul, I would most certainly apostatize were it not for God’s sovereign preservation of me (cf. Rom. 8). 2. I would be terrified of all suffering, with no confidence that God can turn evil for good and bring me safely through (cf. Rom. 8:28 and relation to vv. 29-30). 3. I would become manipulative and pragmatic in evangelism, believing that conversion is altogether a matter of my will/skill vs. will/skill of unbeliever. 4. I would cease praying for God to convert and save the lost. If the ultimate causal factor in human conversion is the self-determined human will, not the divine will, it is futile and useless to ask God to work or touch or move upon the human will so as to assuredly bring them to faith. 5. I would despair of the political process and live in fear/anxiety/resentment of those elected officials who oppose the kingdom of God. See Daniel 2:21; 4:17,25,32; 5:18-31. 6. I would live in fear of nature: tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, wind and hail and rain (cf. Psm. 147-148). 7. I would despair of ever doing anything of a spiritual nature that God requires and commands of me. Phil. 2:12-13.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats		Cyberealm, Main dish, Meats	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		* * * * * *
1	pk	Hash brown potatoes w/onions
		Water
		Salt
		Butter or Margarine
2	pk	8 oz ea- Brown 'n serve – Sausages
1	cn	(1 pound) Sliced Apples
2	tb	Sugar
1/4	ts	Ground Cinnamon
1/4	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Sage leaf, crumbled

INSTRUCTIONS

FROM LOIS FLACK
CYBEREALM BBS (315)786-1120
1.  Prepare potatoes with water, salt, and butter, following label
directions, in a medium sized fry pan.
2.  Heat sausages, following label directions, until golden-brown, in a
large fry pan - move to one side of pan. Add sliced apples; sprinkle with
sugar and cinnamon, salt and sage; heat 5 minutes or until tender and hot.
3.   To serve, arrange potatoes, sausages and apples slices on a heated
platter.
From the "I'm no gourmet" -kitchen of Lois Flack, CYBEREALM BBS, Watertown,
NY.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“Does it hurt when people don’t trust you? Imagine how God feels”

Seven Tactics of Temptation: 1. Satan especially likes to tempt us when our faith is fresh, i.e., when the Christian is only recently converted and thus less prepared to know how to resist his seductive suggestions. 2. Satan especially likes to tempt us when our faith feels strongest, i.e., when we think we are invulnerable to sin. If we are convinced that we have it under control, we become less diligent. 3. Satan especially likes to tempt us when we are in an alien environment. 4. Satan also likes to tempt us when our faith is being tested in the fires of affliction. When we are tired, burnt out, persecuted, feeling excluded and ignored, Satan makes his play. His most common tactic is to suggest that God isn’t fair, that he is treating us unjustly, from which platform Satan then launches his seductive appeal that we need no longer obey. 5. Satan especially likes to tempt us immediately following both spiritual highs and spiritual lows. Periods of emotional elation and physical prosperity can sometimes lead to complacency, pride, and a false sense of security. When they do, we’re easy targets for the enemy’s arrows. 6. Perhaps Satan's most effective tactic in tempting us is to put his thoughts into our minds and then blame us for having them. 7. A related tactic of temptation is for him to launch his accusations as if they were from the Holy Spirit. In other words, he couches his terms and chooses his opportunities in such a way that we might easily mistake his voice for that of God.

Sam Storms