Name: Sweet and Sour Brusssels Sprouts
Ingredients: 1/2 pk (8oz) sliced bacon; diced; 3 pk (10 oz) fresh or frozen; (thawed) Brussels sprouts; 1/2 md Onion; minced; 2 tb Cider vinegar; 1 tb Sugar; 1/2 ts Salt; 1/4 ts Dry mustard; 1/8 ts Pepper

Christian, it does not need to be this complicated! Do you really think the infinite lover of our soul has neither the desire nor power to keep you from despair? Didn’t He promise you His joy (Jn. 15:11)? Didn’t He promise you true life? So, not to minimize any of our trials, but when we despair, we can’t blame God. The trial is only made worse through our own choices and ignorance or unwillingness to do it God’s way and His ability to bring joy despite and through the trial (Jas. 1:2). We choose the bad attitude. We choose the unhealthy conversations. We choose to the bad theology. We chose to be ignorant of biblical teaching. We choose to exhibit unbelief in the promises of God.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables	Dutch	My favorite, Recipe exch, Side dishes, Vegetables	10	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2	pk	(8oz) sliced bacon; diced
3	pk	(10 oz) fresh or frozen; (thawed) Brussels sprouts
1/2	md	Onion; minced
2	tb	Cider vinegar
1	tb	Sugar
1/2	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Dry mustard
1/8	ts	Pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

1.in a 5 quart Dutch ovenor 4 quart saucepanover medium low heat, cook
diced bacon until brown. With a slotted spoon remove the bacon pieces to
drain on paper towels.
2. In same Dutch oven, in bacon drippings, cook Brussels sprouts with the
rest of the ingredients until tender-crisp, about 10 minutes, stirring
occasionally.
3.Stir bacon into Brussels sprouts mixture
Recipe by: The Good Houskeeping Illustrated Cookbook
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Catherine <cathrine@lancnews.infi.net> on
Mar 5, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess. #Corrie ten Boom”

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