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[Four degrees of biblical foolishness:] The first degree is the Simple or Naive Fool, who is unthinking, gullible. He lacks the most basic understanding of moral cause and effect. The second degree is the Self-Confident Fool. He is known by his stubbornness, and by his big mouth. The third degree is the Committed Fool, who has decisively rejected wisdom, and instead pledged his allegiance to destructive ideas and behaviors. The fourth degree or terminal stage of Character Deficiency Syndrome is reached by the Scornful Fool, a mocker who is openly contemptuous of spiritual truth and moral righteousness.

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Our self-abnegation is thus not for our own sake but for the sake of others. And thus it is not to mere self-denial that Christ calls us but specifically to self-sacrifice, not to unselfing ourselves but to unselfishing ourselves. Self-denial for its own sake is in its very nature ascetic, monkish. It concentrates our whole attention on self—self-knowledge, self-control - and can therefore eventuate in nothing other than the very apotheosis of selfishness. At best it succeeds only in subjecting the outer self to the inner self or the lower self to the higher self, and only the more surely falls into the slough of self-seeking, that it partially conceals the selfishness of its goal by refining its ideal of self and excluding its grosser and more outward elements. Self-denial, then, drives to the cloister, narrows and contracts the soul, murders within us all innocent desires, dries up all the springs of sympathy, and nurses and coddles our self-importance until we grow so great in our own esteem as to be careless of the trials and sufferings, the joys and aspirations, the strivings and failures and successes of our fellow-men. Self-denial, thus understood, will make us cold, hard, unsympathetic—proud, arrogant, self-esteeming—fanatical, overbearing, cruel. It may make monks and Stoics, it cannot make Christians.

B.B. Warfield

We Love God!

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

Rum Cake Fraccaro

January 29, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy	Italian	Cakes, Italian	14	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		*cake*
6		Eggs
2/3	c	Sugar
1 1/2	c	Sugar
1 1/2	c	Flour, sifted twice
		*cherry rum syrup*
1	c	Maraschino cherry syrup
		from cherries
1/4	c	Rum
		*pastillera cream*
2	c	Milk
4		Eggs
3/4	c	Sugar
1/2		Teaspoon grated lemon peel
1		Teaspoon vanilla
1/4	c	Flour
		*whipped cream topping*
2	c	Whipping cream
2		Tablespoons sugar
1		Teaspoon vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine eggs, sugar and vanilla in the top of a double boiler. Beat
over boiling water for 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and continue to
whip with a mixer on high speed for 8 minutes until mixture becomes
thick and doubles in size. Fold in flour. Pour into 3 greased and
floured 9-inch round baking pans. Bake for 35-40 minutes at 350
degrees. Cool on a wire rack. ***CHERRY RUM SYRUP*** Mix together
cherry syrup and rum and reserve. ***PASTILLERA CREAM*** Scald milk.
Combine eggs, sugar, lemon peel, vanilla and flour in a small bowl.
Pour in the scalded milk, then transfer this mixture to the top of a
double boiler and cook over boiling water, stirring constantly, for
4-5 minutes until mixture becomes thick. Let cool. Beat whippping
cream until stiff peaks form. Fold in sugar and vanilla. Reserve.
***WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING*** Sprinkle each cake layer with cherry-rum
syrup. Spread pastillera cream between the layers. Spread whipped
cream topping on the top and sides of the cake. Press sliced roasted
almonds onto the sides of the cake. Pipe whipped cream onto the top  if
desired. Refrigerate until serving time.  From Gemini's MASSIVE
MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 309 Calories From Fat: 93 Total Fat: 10.5g Cholesterol: 159.2mg Sodium: 75mg Potassium: 120.3mg Carbohydrates: 46.6g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 43.8g Protein: 6.2g