God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
How to Turn a Disagreement into a Feud:
1. Be sure to develop and maintain a healthy fear of conflict, letting your own feelings build up so you are in an explosive frame of mind.
2. If you must state your concerns, be as vague and general as possible. Then the other person cannot do anything practical to change the situation.
3. Assume you know all the facts and you are totally right. The use of a clinching Bible verse is helpful. Speak prophetically for truth and justice; do most of the talking.
4. With a touch of defiance, announce your willingness to talk with anyone who wishes to discuss the problem with you. But do not take steps to initiate such conversation.
5. Latch tenaciously onto whatever evidence you can find that shows the other person is merely jealous of you.
6. Judge the motivation of the other party on any previous experience that showed failure or unkindness. Keep track of any angry words.
7. If the discussion should, alas, become serious, view the issue as a win/lose struggle. Avoid possible solutions and go for total victory and unconditional surrender. Don't get too many options on the table.
8. Pass the buck! If you are about to get cornered into a solution, indicate you are without power to settle; you need your partner, spouse, bank, whatever (Ron Kraybill).
[Church discipline is] vital to the spiritual health and the testimony of the church. Ignoring church discipline is the most visible and disastrous failure of the church in our time, because it conveys to the world that we’re not really serious about sin.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With an electric mixer (even the hand-held
kind), cream together butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and vanilla and mix
well. Sift flour and salt together and beat into butter mixture until well
mixed. When ready to bake use an ungreased cookie sheet and place cookies 1
inch apart. Bake for about 10 minutes, but do not brown them. Remove
cookies from cookie sheet while still warm and cool on sheets of waxed
paper. Decorate, if you like. Makes 6 to 8 dozen. Taste fabulous!
Shapes:
Candy Canes: Divide 3 cups of dough in half. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons red food
coloring to one half. Using about a tablespoon of dough, roll a 4 inch
strip of each color (no fatter than a pencil). Place the two colored rolls
side-by-side and press lightly together. Gently twist like a rope and place
on ungreased cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Curve the top like a candy cane and
bake about 10 minutes; do not brown. You can sprinkle with crushed
peppermint candy.
Rolled Cookies: Shape dough into rolls with width of a cookie. Wrap in
waxed paper and chill. Before baking, roll in chocolate shots. Slice 1/2
inch thick and bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 10
minutes; do no brown.
Stars, Hearts, Circles and Jelly-Filled: Fill a pastry bag with unchilled
dough and put through a 'star tip' (sizes 2 and 7 - 9). Squeeze onto cookie
sheet into the shapes you like. For instance, make star, then fill baked
cookie center with red jelly. Decorate these cookies with cinnamon hearts,
mini chocolate morsels, color sugar, little silver balls, or frosting from
a tube. Bake them, same as others. Do not brown.
Cookie Cutter Cookies: Chill dough. Roll out onto lightly floured board to
thickness of 1/2 inch. Cut with cookie cutters and bake as mentioned above.
Decorate your own way.
Plain Old Drop Cookies: Just drop unchilled dough by teaspoonful onto
ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Don't brown.
Remove from pans immediately.
MC Formatted by Brenda Adams <adamsfmle@sprintmail.com>; mc and
Bakery-Shoppe posted 5/16/97
Recipe by: Susan Branch; Christmas From The Heart of The Home Posted to
MC-Recipe Digest V1 #614 by Badams <adamsfmle@sprintmail.com> on May 16,
1997
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