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THIS is the promise of the Holy Spirit: that you are SAFE. You are safe in your faith; for it is not by your strength that you maintain it. You are safe in your identity as God’s child. You are safe, not because you have somehow “achieved” the Holy Spirit;
But instead because the Holy Spirit has come to you. You are safe not because YOU have the Holy Spirit, but instead because the Holy Spirit HAS YOU.
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Pumpkin Coffee Cake
This would taste great with some coffee and whip cream!
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For Jesus has given all, and he has done so in joy. Leave here today, then, pondering your worth, and still too in joy, contemplating this question:
Do you have any idea how much Jesus loves you? So much so, that he died. Thanks be to God. Amen.
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Halloween Cupcakes Stuffed With Chocolate Marshmallow Cream
Great recipe. Very easy, highly recommended!
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Paula Deen’s Gorilla Bread
A delicious and easy recipe! Has chunks of cream cheese swirled with cinnamon and sugar in every bite.
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Be where Jesus is. Come and worship him: him who died for you. He is not merely some sort of life coach who is there to help you out when you need him. HE IS GOD. He is the purpose and meaning of all. He is life and hope and he IS COMING!
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For you know the end of this story that is your life; and the story that is this world. It ends with the skies breaking forth like shining light; and the return of Jesus Christ; flowing with all the heavenly hosts as his train behind him. This story ends with us being raised from the dead; the perishable clothed with the imperishable; and the mortal with immortality. This story ends with us living in a Kingdom that knows no end, with our King walking among us: Jesus Christ!
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“While you cannot put a bandage on a man or woman’s wounded spirit, and while you cannot surgically remove remorse or despair or anger that words may cause, and while you cannot put a cast on a broken relationship. But you know what you CAN use to heal these things? WORDS. Words bring about healing, because, again, in WORDS there is power.”
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Now the term “Post Constantinian Culture” means, then, just what you would think it means: that we have moved PAST a world where the question isn’t “which church do you go to?” but is instead, “do you go to church?” Honestly, even more than that, the question is a more incredulous “Why should I go to church? Why would I?” It is a culture that has moved away from Christianity: and has, in many ways, moved past it in two ways: both in moving away from the Christian morality, and from the HEART of the Christian faith: the GOSPEL: the forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
Now there are many who are outraged by this. You can turn on the tv and hear any one of them. You can hear people talk all the time as though the america of the 1950’s were like the Kingdom of God come early.
But in saying that, here is something that we are forgetting:
Christians, from the beginning, and as our natural role in the world until Christ returns, are naturally AGAINST the culture. The CHURCH ITSELF is, by its nature, counter cultural. The church is that which subverts the culture: which stands against it!
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One of my top 3 FAVORIATE Cake Recipes.
Banana Butterscotch Chip Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
Ingredients
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ¼ tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 ½ cups granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs, at room temperature
6 TBSP plain yogurt
3 large VERY ripe bananas, smashed
1 cup butterscotch chips
Preheat oven to 350F.
Prepare two 9-inch round cake pans with baking spray.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add vanilla and beat an additional 30 seconds.
Add eggs, one at a time, scraping down the bowl after each addition.
Mix in half of the flour mixture on low speed.
Add in the smashed bananas and yogurt.
Add in the remaining flour mixture on low speed, just until incorporated.
Fold in butterscotch chips.
Divide batter evenly among two pans. Bake until golden brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool completely on a wire rack. Frost when cool.
Brown Sugar Frosing
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup milk
2 cups powdered sugar, more or less depending on how thick you want it
In a saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter.
Add the brown sugar. Bring to a boil and lower heat to medium low and continue to boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add the milk and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Cool to lukewarm. Gradually add sifted powdered sugar.
Using a stand mixer with whisk attachment beat until thick enough to spread. If too thick, add a little hot water.
Click photo for original source of recipe. Recipe from Culinary Concotions By Peabody!
