Save Your Predictions And Read Your Bible!

Billboard In Sun Valley CA.....When will people ever learn not to set dates on the return of Christ? Read Mark 13:32 It is amazing what happens to our theology when we actually read the Bible.

My Almond Flour Muffins

Well it's been a long time over due but I am finally going to post my recipe for those muffins I am always snacking on....

Yield 24 medium size muffins

Dry Ingredients:

1 Pound Almond Meal/Four (from Trader Joes)

1 Heaping Tablespoon of Cinnamon

1 Teaspoon salt

1 Teaspoon baking powder

1/3 Teaspoon nutmeg

1/3 Teaspoon cloves

Wet Ingredients:

1 Cup Agave Sweetener (Trader Joes or Costco)

1/3 stick butter

2 Tablespoon Vanilla

2 Large Eggs

Added Ingredients:

1 Cup Chopped Walnuts

1 Cup Raisins

Optional Ingredients:

1 Smashed Banana (Decrease butter and Agave slightly)

1/3 Cup Pure Apple Juice (Decrease butter and Agave slightly)

1/2 Cups chopped Pecans

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix Dry Ingredients into large mixing bowl until fully combined.

Put Agave and butter into microwavable measuring cup or bowl. Heat until Agave starts to boil (depending on your microwave should take almost 2 minutes). Warning! watch the Agave as it will boil over and make a mess if you don't watch it. Take heated Agave and butter out of the microwave and stir until butter is fully melted. Add Vanilla (will bubble when added if contains alcohol - no worries).

Pour Agave, butter, and Vanilla into Dry Ingredients and mix throughly. Add in 2 Eggs. Mix in Added Ingredients (Walnuts, Raisins, and other Optional ingredients). Again Mix throughly.

Spray Muffin tins (I use two 12 cup muffin tins) with Pam or spray on oil. You can use butter which is healthier but a bit messy and harder to work with.

With two spoons (I use the larger dinner spoons) scoop out batter into tins until just under the top of the tin. Often I place one Pecan on the top of each muffin for a roasted treat in each one.

Cook for 18-22 minutes depending on how thick your muffin tins are. Watch for burning (bottom of muffin will burn before top looks golden brown so keep checking).

Take out of oven and let sit for 3 minutes. If you use an older muffin tin without good coating they will come apart when removing.

Remove onto paper towel to soak any excess oil.

Email me or comment here on how they came out!

Enjoy!

Avoiding The Christmas Blues!

I was listening to KKLA the other night and Frank Pastore was saying how he was fighting traffic and long lines earlier in the day and found himself loosing his Christmas MoJo. So he asked callers to call in with their most memorable or favorite Christmas gift.

As I listened to so many people talk about being thankful for blessings not purchased in stores my heart began to warm. Listening to testimony of God's hand of blessing in the lives of others began to do a Christmas miracle in my own heart. My MoJo was growing....

So I felt led to call and share my favorite Christmas memory. It was when we received my middle son back from a near fatal car accident. We spent 2 1/2 months in the hospital burn ward with him spending time sitting at his bedside. Then I will never forget spending that Christmas in the Arrowhead Burn Center with my family of five wearing blue gowns and being thankful for our family being together. Also, I will never forget how our church family supported us with gas money, food, prayer, time, shoulders to cry on, and anything we needed.

Come to think of it....The five of us have never spent one Christmas a part from each other...but it was that Christmas that will always come to mind when I start loosing my Christmas MoJo.

How about you? If you find yourself loosing your joy and forgetting about the Greatest Gift and the Reason for the Season...Think back on the one who gave you life and remember how He has blessed you with His Son Jesus Christ....and soon your heart will warm and you too will find your Christmas MoJo back in action....

God Is Inexhaustible By Trip Lee

Lyrics to Inexhaustible :

Verse 1:

Hey, you crazy if you think you can grasp

The eternal ruler who is first and is last

Reigns in the present, and He reigned in the past

Who is perfect and has none to learn in a class

I seen a lot of dudes I don' think they get it

Got a picture in our brain but the King can't fit it

We got a lil box but the King ain't in it

He's way too complex, don't get this thing twisted

I could learn bout Him who's on the throne

But like Badu He goes on and on/I could spit a million rhymes till the song is long

But still not have enough bars like a broken phone

To tell all about the God of Romans known

Through the scriptures that picture should blow your dome

He's amazing behold Him, appraise Him He's golden

Inexhaustible, I'm amazed just to know him

Hook:

Hey what you know about this God?

He's way too great homie, I can't grasp Him

Hey what you know about this God?

He's too complex my mind can't fathom

What you know about this God?

He's amazing behold Him appraise Him He's golden

Hey what you know about this God?

He's inexhaustible, I'm amazed just to know Him

Verse 2:

For instance I just can't get this HeIs one but eternally exists in three

That's crazy our minds can grip this we

Need to realize we men so our pictures weak

Just try to understand how he came as a man

But remained I Am, all things in His hand

Say what? The King was slain as the lamb

When He came to the land that He made with His hands

Say what? Just try to make your brain understand

He's so big man's like a grain in the sand

That picture's too big for a frame but my plan is to grow

I pray my picture of the King will expand

I could study forever and read all day

But still wouldn't understand the King all the way

I got a long way to go, but I'm pleased to say

I get to live my whole life just to seek His face

Hook

From http://www.lyricsmania.com/inexhaustible_lyrics_trip_lee.html

Verse 3:

Hey it's not enough words in my speech to proclaim His greatness

Not in the whole English language

To exhaust this King, His past is blameless

I won't stop reppin 'till His name is famous

Among all nations, He still prevails

Praise the Lord that He chose to reveal Himself

When He could have just chilled and concealed Himself

Praise the Lord that He chose to reveal Himself

Now we can share in enjoyment, see more and more

The glory, the beauty of the Lord of Lords

Through Creation, or Scripture's the door to more

Can't get it all on this Earth, there's more in store

When we get to eternity, it'll be better

We get to see more of the Lord forever

A million years later, the joy is the same

Seeing still more and exalting His name

Hook

(Thanks to Adeoye for these lyrics)

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