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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

A. Scriptures about God’s effecting conception: Gen. 29:31 – “the Lord opened her (Leah’s) womb” Gen. 30:22 – “God opened her (Rachel's) womb” Judges 13:3-5 – “committed to God from the womb” Ruth 4:13 – “the Lord gave her conception” Luke 1:15 – “filled with Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb” B. Scriptures about God's involvement in forming unborn: Job 10:8-12 – “God knit me together with bones and sinews and granted me life” Psalm 127:3 – “the fruit of the womb is a reward” Psalm 139:13-16 – “God weaved me in my mother's womb” Eccl. 11:5 – “bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman” Isa. 49:1,5 – “the Lord called Me from the womb...formed Me from the womb” Jere. 1:5 – “before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I consecrated you” Luke 1:15 – “filled with Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb” Luke 1:39-44 – “the baby leaped in my womb for joy” Gal. 1:15 – “set me apart from my mother's womb, and called me through grace” C. Scriptures to consider about alleged “sacredness” or “sanctity” of human life: Gen. 1:26,27 – “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image’” Psalm 8:3-8 – “God made man a little lower than God” D. Scriptures to consider if abortion is murder: Gen. 9:6 – “whoever sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” Exod. 20:13 – “you shall not murder” Exod. 23:7 – “do not kill the innocent or the righteous” Prov. 6:17 – “God hates hands that kill innocent blood” Amos 1:13,14 – “God punished those who ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead” I Peter 4:15 – “do not let any of you suffer as a murderer”

James Fowler

When Paul says, “If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink,” he does not mean, “Let’s all become lechers.” He means, there is a normal, simple, comfortable, ordinary life of human delights that we may enjoy with no troubling thoughts of heaven or hell or sin or holiness or God – if there is no resurrection from the dead. And what stunned me about this train of thought is that many professing Christians seem to aim at just this, and call it Christianity. Paul did not see his relation to Christ as the key to maximizing his physical comforts and pleasures in this life. No, Paul’s relation to Christ was a call to choose suffering – a suffering that was beyond what would make atheism “meaningful” or “beautiful” or “heroic.” It was a suffering that would have been utterly foolish and pitiable to choose if there is no resurrection into the joyful presence of Christ… Judge for yourself. How many Christians do you know who could say, “The lifestyle I have chosen as a Christian would be utterly foolish and pitiable if there is no resurrection?”

John Piper

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Heavenly Chocolate Cake #1

January 23, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cake	16	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Butter or margarine
2 1/2	c	Sugar
2		Eggs
3	c	Flour
1/4	ts	Salt
3	tb	Cocoa
2	tb	Vanilla
2	c	Buttermilk
2	ts	Soda (dissolved in milk)
1		Box powdered sugar
1/2	c	Cocoa
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla
3/4		Stick butter; softened
7	tb	Boiling water

INSTRUCTIONS

ICING
Cream sugar & butter. Add eggs, one at a time & beat well. Add dry
ingredients alternately with buttermilk & soda. Add vanilla. Bake in 3
layer pans at 350 until done (this is a large cake!). For icing, mix sugar
& cocoa. Add vanilla, water & salt. Stir until smooth. Add butter. Beat 3
minutes & pour over cake. (To make Fresh Coconut Cake, leave out cocoa &
substitute 1 teaspoon baking powder for 1 of the teaspoons soda. Add 1 cup
fresh coconut to icing.)
KAPPI PILLOW
From <Simply Southern>, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, Helena-West
Helena, AR 72390.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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