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The person characterized by a foolish heart has a propensity to make an idol of escape, pleasure, self-sufficiency, or self-gratification. They may find themselves constantly in the pursuit of certain feelings, objects or the accumulation of things. This person may find themselves making conscious and/or unconscious statements like “I want it now!” or “I just can’t help myself!” The person who chooses to not deal with a foolish heart may be characterized by consuming addictions, blame-shifting, irresponsibility, and self-destruction. Others might comment that their actions and attitude are cavalier, irresponsible, lazy, selfish or immature.

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It is the job of the church to baptize every true convert as “an outward symbol of an inward reality” and we must do that as soon as possible. But we must emphasize in the case of children and really every professing believer that it is valid converts we baptize, not just anyone who says he has believed. We find that knowing this is more difficult with children because they cannot express themselves as an adult would and because their experiences in life have not as clearly demonstrated that they have life from God. But we still cannot baptize those we only hope are Christians. So we must wait until we know, and then we will baptize as immediately as possible.

Jim Elliff

We Love God!

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

Killer Cheesecake

January 23, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Desserts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2	lb	Cream cheese,room temp
1 3/4	c	Granulated sugar
3	tb	All-purpose flour
1		Zest of 1 lemon
1		Zest of 1 orange
1/4	ts	Vanilla extract
5		Eggs
2		Additional egg yokes
1/4	c	Whipping cream

INSTRUCTIONS

Use a 9-inch springform
pan lined generously with butter and patted with graham cracker crumbs
Heat oven to 500 degrees.  Prepare springform pan. With and electric
beater, mix the cheese, sugar, flour, orange and lemon zests and vanilla
until smooth. Add the eggs and yokes, beating in one at a time, and finally
the cream.
Pour the mixture into the prepared springform pan and bake for 10 minutes
or until the top of the cake turns golden brown. Reduce oven temperature to
200-225 and bake for one hour longer.
Remove cake from oven and cool on a rack until it reaches room temperature.
Then release the sides of the pan. Do not remove the bottom of the pan.
Place cake on a platter. Top with fruit or glaze, if desired, and serve.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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