Here is a simple test to check whether you are prone to a legalistic thinking: ask yourself, “How does God feel about me today?” If the answer is anything other than, “He is passionately in love with me,” then you are falling into the trap of thinking that God’s attitude towards us is determined by our performance rather than by his essential loving character. In other words, you're thinking as though God's favour is earned rather than freely given.

Mike Taylor

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains, Vegetables		Desserts	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	c	Plain flour
2		Eggs
1/4	c	Melted butter
1/2	c	Sugar
3	tb	Rum
3	tb	Water
10		Cardamon pods pounded seeds
		Removed and pounded again
		Vegetable oil for frying
		Icing sugar to dust

INSTRUCTIONS

Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the centre. Break the eggs in
the centre and beat lightly with a fork. Add the remaining ingredients,
except the oil and icing sugar, and gradually incorporate them into the
flour.  Knead to form a smooth dough, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate
for 1 hour. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to form a thin
even sheet and cut into the desired shapes. Quickly deep fry the pastries
in hot veg oil until pale and crisp. Do not allow to brown. Set aside to
drain and cool on paper towels.  Dredge the pastries in icing sugar and
store in a covered container until ready to serve. Typed for you by Sherree
Johansson.

A Message from our Provider:

“If we can think and feel and love, our Maker can do all that and more”

That hundreds have missed their way, and stumbled against a pulpit is sorrowfully evident from the fruitless ministries and decaying churches which surround us. It is a fearful calamity to a man to miss his calling, and to the church upon whom he imposes himself his mistake involves an affliction of the most grievous kind…(if anyone) could be content to be a newspaper editor, or a grocer, or a farmer, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or a senator, or a king, in the name of heaven and earth let him go his way; he is not the man in whom dwells the Spirit of God in its fullness, for a man so filled with God would utterly weary of any pursuit but that for which his inmost soul pants. If on the other hand, you can say that for all the wealth of both the Indies you could not and dare not espouse any other calling so as to be put aside from preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, then, depend upon it, if other things be equally satisfactory, you have the signs of this apostleship. We must feel that woe is unto us if we preach not the gospel; the Word of God must be unto us as fire in our bones, otherwise, if we undertake the ministry, we shall be unhappy in it, shall be unable to bear the self-denials incident to it, and shall be of little service to those among whom we minister.

C.H. Spurgeon