The evil in our desires often lies not in what we want but in the fact that we want it too much. Natural affections (for any good thing) become inordinate, ruling cravings. We are meant to be ruled by godly passions and desires. Natural desires for good things are meant to exist subordinate to our desire to please the Giver of gifts. Grasping that the evil lies in the ruling status of the desire, not the object, is frequently a turning point in self-understanding, in seeing the need for Christ’s mercies, and in changing.

David Powlison

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy, Grains	Viennese		1	servings

INGREDIENTS

2		16-ounce jars apple sauce
1/2	ts	Cinnamon
1/4	ts	Nutmeg
1/4	ts	Ground cloves
1/4	c	Brown sugar
6		Eggs
2	c	Small-curd cottage cheese
1/4	c	Sweet butter; melted; plus 4 pats of butter
6	tb	Flour; (T = tablespoon)
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Sugar
1/2	ts	Vanilla
		Stick free cooking spray
1	c	Walnuts; finely ground
		Confectioners sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

These are a couple of recipes for latkes that I just found in our Jewish
Newspaper this morning, they seem to be a bit different from all the other
latkes that we came across the last couple of weeks so here goes. They do
not give a source for these recipes.
Combine apple sauce, spices and brown sugar in saucepan. Boil over medium
heat, stirring often. Let cool. In large bowl, place eggs, beating until
foamy. Add cheese, 1/4 cup butter, flour, salt, sugar and vanilla, beating
well. Divide batter into eight bowls. Coat an 8", non-stick frying pan and
an 8" springform pan with cooking spray. Place frying panon medium flame,
melting half pat of butter. Pur batter from first bowl into frying pan,
spreading evenly. Brown lightly. Turn crepe, browing on other side. Move
crepe to springform pan. Coat with applesauce. Sprinkle with walnuts.
Repeat steps 6-9, layering eight crepes. Bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees
until heated through. Take from oven, place on plate and remove sides.
Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Cut into 10 wedges.
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest by Linda Shapiro <lss@coconet.com> on Dec 15,
1998, converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“We simply prepare ourselves. God fills us.”

So how does a person shut down conscience? Two ways: misinform it. Conscience is not a law; conscience is a mechanism. You can shut down pain, right? You can shut down pain; just take drugs. Mask pain. If you mask pain, you mask the reality that you’re doing some damage. You can mask conscience by misinforming it. How do you do that? You take the true law of God, which is written in Scripture and written in the human heart, and you basically eliminate it, denounce it, diminish it, remove it, and replace it with another law; and if you do this generationally you’ll eventually raise generations of people whose conscience is now informed by lies. The other thing you can do to shut down the conscience is just think you shouldn’t feel guilty. Let psychology take you off-the-hook: “You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself. You’re wonderful. You’re the best. You can be anything you want to be. You’re heroic. You’re a good person. You ought to be able to do whatever you want. You live any way you want. Don’t let anybody make you feel guilty for anything.” Just keep driving all efforts against the normal work of the conscience and misinform the conscience and you’ve turned the beast loose. This society in which we live today has been doing that damage for decades, for decades.

John MacArthur