Most of us think of an idol as a statue of wood, stone, or metal worshiped by pagan people. But the concept of idolatry is much broader and far more personal than that. An idol is anything apart from God that we depend on to be happy, fulfilled, or secure. In biblical terms, it is something other than God that we set our heart on that motivates us, that masters and rules us, or that we trust, fear, or serve. In short, it is something we love and pursue more than God.

Ken Sande

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Valentine’s, Desserts	3	1/2 doz.

INGREDIENTS

2	c	All-purpose flour
1	c	Pecans
1/8	ts	Salt
1	c	Butter or margarine, softened
1/2	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
3	c	Sifted confectioners sugar
1/4	c	Milk
		Pink paste food coloring
		Paper cutouts to decorate

INSTRUCTIONS

COOKIES
ICING
Process flour, pecans, and salt in a blender or food processor until
mixture is a fine powder.  In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until
fluffy.  Stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Cover and chill 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350&deg;F degrees.  On a lightly floured surface, use a floured
rolling pin to roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Use various sizes of
heart-shaped cookie cutters to cut out cookies. Transfer to a greased
baking sheet.  Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until edges are light brown.
Transfer to a wire rack with waxed paper underneath to cool completely.
For icing, stir sugar and milk together in a medium bowl until smooth. Tint
icing pink.  Ice cookies. Before icing hardens, gently press paper cutouts
on tops of cookies. Allow icing to harden. Store in an airtight container.
Remove paper cutouts before eating. Yield: about 3 1/2 dozen 2 1/2 inch
cookies. Typed in MMFormat by cjhartlin@msn.com Source: Tasty Holiday
Gifts.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #6 by "Cindy Hartlin"
<cjhartlin@email.msn.com> on Feb 11, 1999

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Many wonderful and godly saints have suggested that evangelism is the best and only hope for changing people's minds about abortion. Merely changing someone's mind about abortion (without getting them saved), they argue, does no good in the long run. "They will simply go to hell as a more moral person." While this is true as it applies to the parent, such reasoning wholly neglects the person whose life hangs in the balance, and for this reason, such logic is faulty… If we only rely on evangelism as a means of changing people's minds and behavior concerning abortion, then all those people who do not repent and believe (which is the vast majority) will continue to kill their children en masse. If, however, we also educate young people about what abortion actually is and who unborn humans actually are, then they will be far less likely to abort their children, even if they ultimately reject salvation. The external morality which results will not make a difference for their souls on the Day of Judgment, but it will make a HUGE difference in the lives of their children, children who would have otherwise been destroyed.

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