What caused this dramatic shift in the church’s views [toward birth control]? Part of the answer is found in the radical shift which took place in the culture’s views in the first half of the 20 th century. Increasing concern over population growth, loosening sexual mores, the rise of the Feminist movement, and an increasing commitment to individual autonomy and personal choice all pushed contemporary culture towards an embrace of contraception. By the 1960s and 70s, one could safely say that the contemporary cultural view of contraception was overwhelmingly positive (Ben Franks).

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Appetizers, Mine	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Coon Cheese
1	lb	Sausage, (Jimmy Dean hot)
3	c	Bisquick baking mix

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix together. Make marble size balls, and bake for 20 minutes at 350 deg.
F.
Recipe by: Carolyn Cloe Posted to bakery-shoppe digest V1 Number 031 by
Carolyn <c4@groupz.net> on Apr 16, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.”

What is the worst the opposition can do? Kill you – though doubtless that will occur, at least for now, in this country. But even if that were case, the Scripture strips away that excuse citing that death for the Christian is the greatest event possible because only death has the ability to break the seal and usher you into inexpressible glory. Could the problem be that we simply have a too great a fascination with the things going on here and not enough desire to spend eternity with Christ? If we really “prefer” to be “home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8), intimate, personal, visible communion with Christ that far exceeds our communion with Christ here (Heb. 11:10, 13), then we must be “absent from the body” (2 Cor. 5:8). In other words, we must die. Therefore death from that perspective doesn’t sound so bad. Only death can release me from “absent from the Lord” to be “home with the Lord.” So the worst the enemy can do is send me to paradise!

Randy Smith