Cinnamon-chocolate Chip Cookies

Here, then, is the crucial question which we have been leading up to. Have we ever opened our door to Christ? Have we ever invited Him in? This was exactly the question which I needed to have put to me. For, intellectually speaking, I had believed in Jesus all my life, on the other side of the door. I had regularly struggled to say my prayers through the key-hole. I had even pushed pennies under the door in a vain attempt to pacify Him. I had been baptized, yes and confirmed as well. I went to church, read my Bible, had high ideals, and tried to be good and do good. But all the time, often without realizing it, I was holding Christ at arm’s length, and keeping Him outside. I knew that to open the door might have momentous consequences. I am profoundly grateful to Him for enabling me to open the door. Looking back now over more than fifty years, I realize that that simple step has changed the entire direction, course and quality of my life.

John Stott

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Biscuits	36	Servings

INGREDIENTS

12	oz	Semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2	c	All-purpose flour
3/4	c	Pulverized oatmeal
2		Eggs
1/2	lb	Butter
3/4	c	White sugar
3/4	c	Brown sugar
1	t	Salt
1	t	Baking soda
1 1/2	t	Cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS

~soften butter -preheat oven to 375F -mix flour, oatmeal, salt,  baking
soda and cinnamon -cream together sugars and butter -mix eggs  into
butter/sugar mixture -add flour mix slowly and mix thoroughly  ~mix in
chocolate chips ~bake for about 10 minutes  makes around 3 dozen.  Your
mileage may vary.  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess. #Corrie ten Boom”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 135 Calories From Fat: 71 Total Fat: 8.3g Cholesterol: 23.9mg Sodium: 110.7mg Potassium: 21.7mg Carbohydrates: 15.5g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 4.7g Protein: 1.5g

Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia: 1. Personhood – The argument is simple: someone in an irreversible coma is no longer a person but only a biological organism. The distinction is often made between a person’s biological life, or physical existence, and one’s biographical life, or the aspects of one’s life that make it meaningful. One’s biographical life is the sum total of one's goals, desires, dreams, plans, accomplishments and relationships. Medical science has made it possible to retain one’s biological life after having lost one’s biographical life. Thus the individual exists only as a body, having lost the essence of what it is that makes him/her a person. Hence it is not murder to terminate what remains of one’s mere biological existence. 2. Quality of Life – In cases of unrelenting and unrelievable suffering where there is no reasonable hope of improvement, life ceases to be worth living. In such cases, an individual or his/her family ought to be free to say “enough is enough” and put an end to such incessant misery. No one should be compelled to live a life that they no longer regard as life worth living. 3. Mercy – We extend mercy to animals when we put them out of their misery. Why should we be less merciful to humans? 4. Utilitarian concerns – Most people cannot afford to underwrite the expense of keeping a terminally ill or comatose person alive. To do so places an unfair burden on other members of the family. Why should tax dollars and precious hospital space and technology be expended to perpetuate the life of someone who will never function in society again when there are other, potentially productive people, who cannot receive proper care?

Sam Storms