A New Creature. . . an Apostolic Pentecostal blog

When I bake I pray.  I give continual thanks to God,  for making me in His image and allowing me to also be a creator. . . Genesis 2:6-7 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.  (7)  And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Where was the Lord's kitchen?  What specific spot did he choose for the creation of man?  What thoughts went through our Lord's mind as He made his preparations?  The word translated as 'dust' might equally be read as clay or mud.  We are told of the mist watering the whole face of the ground.  This was not dry dust.  This was no arid and sterile powder in danger of being blown away by the wind, but this was moist and malleable clay in the hands of a master. I gather my ingredients, liquids first and then the dry, adding the flour bit by bit until the texture is perfect.  ...

  I've been on a bread baking kick for a few weeks now. I've written of this previously, how I learned to make bread from my Grandpa Brown. He was a butler for Eli Lilly of Lilly Pharmaceuticals, when I was growing up (my Grandma was the cook). Grandpa made bread for their household. So, I've been making bread for more than 50 years. I can whip out a batch of dough and get it rising in less than 30 minutes. There isn't much better than warm from the oven home made bread, and the smell of it baking is beyond wonderful. Thinking about today's grocery prices, and how a loaf of store bought bread runs somewhere between $2-$4. . . a slice of store bought bread that has so little flour in it, that it can be rolled up into a bread pill the size of a large marble, and has almost no flavor. I looked at our latest package of unbleached Gold Medal flour from a local Amish bulk foods store, and we paid $.79/lb. A batch of home made bread takes roughly 8 cups of flour. ...

John 3:14-16 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: (15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. By far, I'm sure this is the most often quoted passage of Scripture in the New Testament. People who know nothing about the Word of God can quote verses 15 and 16 by heart. They take comfort that their passive belief has given them salvation, but what does it mean to believe? Is belief only to recognize Jesus as the son of God? If so, then the devils believe. Matthew 8:28-29 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. (29) And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Je...

Luke 12:1-3 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (2) For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. (3) Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. I love to make homemade bread. My grandfather was the butler and my grandmother the cook for Eli Lily, the owner of Lily pharmaceutical company. One of my grandfather's daily tasks was to make fresh homemade bread for Mr. Lily. When I was a young man, my grandfather gave me the recipe that he used for his homemade bread that he brought to Mr. Lily's table and he also gave me little tips on how to make good homemade bread and how to make certain that it turned o...