The Word of God tells us that Christ’s church is glorious... [But] today the glory of the church is thickly veiled. It is no exaggeration to assert that in the main it presents a picture of advanced decadence and extreme feebleness... Let it be said emphatically, the church is where the truth is. Sound doctrine always has been, is today, and ever will be the foremost mark of the true church. But who dares to assert that there is today in the churches a rising tide of interest in doctrine? By and large people do not go to church to learn about God from His infallible Word, but to be tranquilized. And that the glory of God is both the beginning and the end of common worship does not seem to occur to them.

R.B. Kuiper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Toppings, Diabetic	1	1/2 cups

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Fresh or frozen strawberries Unsweetened
1 1/2	ts	Cornstarch
1/4	c	Cold water
2	ts	Sugar replacement

INSTRUCTIONS

SOURCE:  The Complete Diabetic Cookbook by Mary Jane Finsand, published
1990, ISBN #0-8069-8908-4.  MM format by Ursula R. Taylor.
Place strawberries in top of double boiler.  Cook over boiling water
until soft and juicy.  Blend cornstarch and cold water. Add to
strawberries.  Cook until clear and slightly thickened. Remove from heat;
add sugar replacement.  Cool.
NOTE:  Topping can also be made with blueberries or raspberies.
Yield:  1 1/2 cups
Exchange per 1/2 cup:  1 fruit
Calories per 1/2 cup:  40
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #021 by "Robert Ellis"
<rpearson@snowcrest.net> on Jan 20, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Society’s rejects have a special place in God’s heart”

Thoughts of the glory of Christ are too high and too hard for us. We cannot delight in them for very long without becoming weary and turning away from them. We are unspiritual, our thoughts and desires being taken up with other things. If we would stir ourselves to believe “the things the angels desire to look into”, our spiritual understanding and strength would increase daily. We would then show more of the glory of Christ by the way we live and death itself would be welcome to us!

John Owen

The awareness of sin, a deep awareness of disobedience, and painful confession of sin used to be our shadow. Christians hated sin. They feared it, they fled from it, they grieved over it. Some of our [forefathers] agonized over their sins. A man who lost his temper might wonder if he could still go to holy communion. A woman who for years envied her more attractive and intelligent sister might wonder if this sin threatened her very salvation... That shadow has dimmed. Nowadays the accusation, 'You have sinned,' is often said with a grin and with a tone that signals an inside joke. At one time this accusation still had the power to jolt people.

Cornelius Plantinga