The Uganda Mission Team is sponsoring a chicken dinner at 12:30 for everyone who can come!  Thereafter, we’ll have a wild time bidding on items from restaurant certificates to china dolls to flowering plants to a load of gravel to babysitting to…  The list is endless!

This morning as I was baking bread for the auction, I kept thinking about the Sunday School lesson.  We’re studying David Gudgel’s book, Before You Get Engaged.  In chapter 11 David talks about waiting until after the wedding to have sex, and God’s Word says “It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;” 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (New International Version)

Since that goes against the grain of our culture, I know the question could be, “How do we know we’re sexually compatible?” 

But think about that bread that’s baking in the oven right now.  How do I know it will turn out good?  What if an ingredient is missing from the recipe?  How do I know the recipe will work for me?  Can I slice it when it comes out of the oven, just to be sure?  NO!  I can’t take bread to the auction that’s already been broken!  That’s where I have to have faith in all the cooks that have gone before me.  And we have to have faith in God’s recipe for marriage.  Others who have gone before us know that God’s recipe works.  And that’s a delicious recipe for those who bake it right!

 Sally